The Triple Challenge for Europe Economic Development, Climate Change, and Governance

by Fagerberg, Jan; Laestadius, Steffan; Martin, Ben R.

• ISBN13: 9780198747413
• ISBN10: 0198747411
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-12-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Jan Fagerberg, Professor, University of Oslo, Aalborg University, and Lund University,Steffan Laestadius, Professor Emeritus, Sustainability and Industrial Dynamics Division, Department of Industrial Economics & Management, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm,Ben R. Martin, Professor of Science and Technology Policy Studies, SPRU, University of Sussex

Jan Fagerberg is professor at the University of Oslo, where he is affiliated with the Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, and at Alborg University, where he is at the Department of Business and Management. He also has an affiliation with CIRCLE at Lund University. In his research Fagerberg has among other things focused on the relationship between technology (innovation and diffusion) on the one hand and competitiveness, economic growth and development on the other. He has also worked on innovation theory, innovation systems and innovation policy and has published extensively on these and other topics in books and journals


Staffan Laestadius is professor emeritus of Industrial Dynamics at Kungliga Tekniska Hogskolan, KTH (Royal Instutute of Technology) in Stockholm, Sweden. He is also chairing the Senior Advisory Board for Climate Change at the Swedish Think Tank Global Utmaning (Global Challenge). Recently he published a policy analysis on the conditions for combining a climate change mitigation policy with the Swedish welfare system (Laestadius, S., 2013: Klimatet och valfarden, Umea: Borea bokforlag).

Ben Martin is Professor of Science and Technology Policy Studies in SPRU, University of Sussex. Between 1996 and 2004, he served as SPRU Director. He is also an Associate Fellow at the Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP), and Senior Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Business Research, Judge Business School, both at the University of Cambridge. His research for the last 35 years has focused on science policy. He helped pioneer techniques for evaluating scientific laboratories, research programmes, and national scientific performance, and for conducting 'technology foresight'. In recent years, he has conducted research on the benefits from government funding of basic research, the changing nature and role of the university, the impact of the UK Research Assessment Exercise, creative knowledge environments, and the evolution of the field of science policy and innovation studies. Since 2004, he has been Editor of Research Policy.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: The Triple Challenge for Europe, Jan Fagerberg, Staffan Laestadius and Ben R. Martin
2. One Europe or Several? Causes and Consequences of the European Stagnation, Jan Fagerberg and Bart Verspagen
3. The new North-South Divide in Europe - Can the European Convergence Model be Resuscitated?, Michael A. Landesmann
4. The Arduous Transition to Low-carbon Energy: A Multi-level Analysis of Renewable Electricity Niches and Resilient Regimes, Frank W. Geels
5. The Global Green Economy: Competition or Cooperation between Europe and China?, Hubert Schmitz and Rasmus Lema
6. Transition Paths: Assessing Conditions and Alternatives, Staffan Laestadius
7. Lessons from Germany's Energiewende, Volkmar Lauber and Staffan Jacobsson
8. EU Policy and Governance: Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution?, Iain Begg
9. Innovation as Growth Policy: the Challenge for Europe, ariana Mazzucato and Carlota Perez