The EU's expanding technology policy role can be justified by both competitive challenges and advantages which are more or less shared by all its member states.

This book describes the emergence of research policy as a key competence of the European Union (EU). It shows how the European Community (EC, the predecessor of

This collection analyses and comments on the development of the ERA, which seeks to co-ordinate national research and advance European wide projects. The contri

With a strong inter-disciplinary approach, this book analyses the politics and economics of the new innovation policy of the EU in chapters about research and k

First published in 1969, European Advanced Technology expounds a programme of action for Europe to tackle the challenge posed by American technology in the 1960