This book examines the politics of technology, and provides a detailed analysis of developments and debates within the European Union, international trade and governance.
An important empirical contribution to the literature on the relations between politics and technology, this volume contains empirical statistical studies based on a wide variety of different types of data, and includes expert contributions from different academic disciplines. With a selection of detailed case studies, this book is divided into three main sections:
The first part presents contributions on the role of domestic national policies for innovation and idea diffusion, including studies on Japan and the European Union.
The second part takes a critical look at how the international system of intellectual property rights access to knowledge, opportunities for development and health improvement, examining the TRIPS agreement and the European patent system.
The third part focuses on the role of foreign direct investment in innovation and idea diffusion, with studies on a wide range of cases using different, novel data material.
Governance and Knowledge will be of interest to students, scholars and policy-makers of European politics, political economy, international trade, governance and economics.
1. Introduction: Politics and the creation and diffusion of knowledge
Helge Hveem and Carl Henrik Knutsen Part 1: National Politics, Policies and
Innovation
2. Democracy, dictatorship and technological change Carl Henrik
Knutsen
3. Is the Economic Crisis Impairing Convergence in Innovation
Performance across Europe? Daniele Archibugi and Andrea Filippetti
4. The
Impact of Unfair Competition Laws on Innovation Activities Anamaria Maftei
Part 2: International Governance and Innovation: The Patent System
5. The
Globalisation of Intellectual Property Rights: Four Lessons Learned and Four
Theses Daniele Archibugi and Andrea Filippetti
6. Policy capture,
convergence, and challenge: EU and the Doha Amendment to the TRIPS Agreement
Helge Hveem
7. The Governance of Patents in Europe: An Improved Patent Impact
Assessment for New Technology Developments Evisa Kica and Nico Groenendijk
Part 3: Foreign Direct Investment and R&D
8. Foreign Direct Investment and
Technological Convergence Michael Hübler
9. Attract FDI! A universal
golden rule? Empirical evidence for OECD and selected non-OECD countries
Robert Stehrer and Julia Woerz
10. Multinational Firms R&D Investment in
Developing Countries: Determinants of Location Choices Viviana Maftei
11.
Does foreign ownership facilitate cooperation on innovation? Firm-level
evidence from the enlarged European Union Martin Srholec
12. Public Policies
and the Location of EU business R&D: Insights from the EC IRMA Survey Michele
Michele Cincera, Claudio Cozza and Alexander Tübke 13.Firms
Internationalisation in the Service Industries: Evidence for Norway Fulvio
Castellacci
4. Backward FDI linkages as a channel for transferring technology
and building innovation capability - the case of Slovenia Maja Bucar, Matija
Rojec and Metka Stare
Helge Hveem is Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, Norway.
Carl Henrik Knutsen is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, Norway.
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