Social Networks, Innovation and Learning: Can Policies for Social Capital Promote Both Economic Dynamism and Social Justice?

This paper reviews the nature of the relationship between innovation, learning and social capital, and then goes on to consider some of the implications for policy and practice. It starts by examining some of the problems in translating research into practice. Having looked at the difficulties, it then assesses what we know about the relations between social capital and learning, and between social capital and innovation.