ABSTRACT
Structure of the chapter This chapter is organized into five parts. It begins with an elaboration of learning and especially learning in an organizational context. Learning is central to the creation of new organizations and their growth. The process of organization learning contributes to the creation of adaptive, flexible, changing and learning organizations. These organizations work with different types of individual, collective, situated, endogenous and exogenous learning which can be managed within an organization to achieve innovative growth. The Part II makes the connection between organizations and learning on the one hand and opportunity identification and realization on the other, looking critically at some of the tools such as education and training, and the different stages or cycles of entrepreneurship that depend on different tools and instruments for them to take effect. It also examines the link between learning and innovation and how that connection helps to secure competitive advantage for firms. Finally, the chapter explores how innovation is enabled within the wider context of learning, often in clusters of industries or in regions involving the interplay of different stakeholders.
