Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

International industrial R&D—policy challenges: introduction to the special issue

  • Editorial
  • Published:
The Journal of Technology Transfer Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Notes

  1. The Six Countries Programme is an international network of experts, policy makers and practitioners engaged in research and policy making on innovation, which has been established in 1975 and meanwhile has 11 member countries. This network has organized two conferences on the issue, one in 2004, and one in 2006, the latter in cooperation with the EU (for more details see http://www.6cp.net/, “workshops”). One major event of the OECD has been organized in Paris in 2005:http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/52/37/34589547.pdf

  2. See http://www.oecdsti-china.net/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1

  3. See http://www.technology.gov/Speeches/RC_070420.htm

  4. The workshop was led by Jakob Edler (Fraunhofer ISI, now Manchester University, PREST) and Wolfgang Polt (Joanneum). For more details on the Network of Excellence PRIME see http://www.prime-noe.org/

References

  • Narula, R. (2003). Technology and globalization. Interdependence, innovation systems and industrial policy. Cambridge: Polity Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • OECD. (2006). Science, Technology and Industry Outlook 2006, Paris.

  • Patel, P., & Pavitt, K. (1991). Large firms in the production of the world’s technology: An important case of “Non-Globalisation”. Journal of International Business Studies, 22(1), 1–21.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Salmi, H. (2006). Globalisation and knowledge-based economies: European perspectives, presentation at the “Going Global” Conference, Helsinki.

  • UNCTAD. (2005). World investment report 2005: Transnational corporations and the internationalization of R&D. New York and Geneva: United Nations Publication.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Acknowledgements

All the papers of this special issue have been discussed in the workshop on the issue of ‘Globalisation of R&D: The Policy Dimension’ (“GlobPol” held in Vienna, May 2005) financed by the European Network of Excellence PRIME (Policies for Research and Innovation in the Move towards the European Research Area, www.prime-noe.org).Footnote 4 The authors are grateful for the financial support and the broad discussion of the issue within the general framework of the PRIME network and for the valuable comments of all the discussants at the Vienna workshop.

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. The Manchester Institute of Innovation Research, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, Harold Hankins Building, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK

    Jakob Edler

  2. Joanneum Research Ltd., Institute of Technology and Regional Policy, Sensengasse 1, Vienna, 1090, Austria

    Wolfgang Polt

Authors
  1. Jakob Edler
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Wolfgang Polt
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Jakob Edler.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Edler, J., Polt, W. International industrial R&D—policy challenges: introduction to the special issue. J Technol Transfer 33, 331–336 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10961-007-9052-0

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10961-007-9052-0

Keywords

JEL Classification

Search

Navigation