How 19th-century legacies shape today’s knowledge economies
In the current issue of Governance, Darius Ornston of the University of Georgia examines how two ostensibly similar countries — Denmark and Finland — have followed different paths to development of a knowledge economy. In Denmark, the emphasis is on investment in training; in Finland, on research. Why the difference? Divergent responses to the “nineteen century challenges of industrialization and nation building,” Ornston argues, have led the two countries “to react to twenty-first century challenges in very different ways.” Read the article.
