Corporate Learning And Knowledge Flows

This chapter focuses on the economic geography of corporate learning and knowledge flows. It presents accounts of the sometimes convergent and sometimes divergent knowledge and learning pathways that informed the evolution of business knowledge and organisational learning in the corporate space economy identifies some milestones of corporate and regional learning. The chapter explores the global shift of value chains and production networks towards global innovation networks of supplier platforms in many industries. It concludes by referencing three major trends. First, the emergence of "postsocial" knowledge and learning that begins to supersede human cognition. Second, it traces the growth of the quaternary economy and its implications for economic growth, profitability and innovation. New models of "recombinant" or "crossover" exploitation of knowledge are explored. Third, the quaternary industries benefit from enormous wealth generation for a few the "elites" of populist discourse and emerge as a developmental model for rivalrous learner firms and countries.