01239pab a2200145 454500008004000000100002000040245005300060260000900113300001300122362000800135520086100143650002801004650002601032773003501058180718b1999   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aNooteboom, Bart  aInnovation, learning and industrial organisation  c1999  ap.127-50  aMar  aInnovation, learning and organisation are analysed from a perspective which seeks to integrate evolutionary economics, the resource/competence view of the firm, an extended theory of transaction costs and insights derived from cognitive science. Firms are subject to selection by competitive forces, but they also adapt by organisational learning. Uncertainty is crucial in this, and to deal with it we need a `logic of abduction': a heuristic to move from present competence to novel competence, while surviving in the process. Such a heuristic is specified and some features are clarified by means of the notion of a script, taken from cognitive science. The heuristic is applied in an analysis of changes of industrial structure, the complementarity of large and small firms, the roles of multinational enterprises and industrial districts. - Reproduced  aIndustrial organization  aIndustrial management  aCambridge Journal of Economics