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The Handbook of Global Science, Technology, and Innovation

by Daniele Archibugi, Andrea Filippetti

September 2015

Intermediate to advanced

624 pages

24h 20m

English

Wiley-Blackwell

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An Overview of the BookEfforts and AmbitionsAcknowledgementsReferences
IntroductionLiterature and Conceptual FrameworkData, Indicators and Descriptive EvidenceEmpirical AnalysisConclusionsReferences
IntroductionResearch and Innovations in UniversitiesInternational Comparison of Academic Research OutputDiscussions and ConclusionsReferences
IntroductionMeasure of Supercomputer CapacityWorld Distribution of Supercomputer CapacityHigh-Tech Output and Supercomputing CapacityA New Arms Race?Concluding RemarksReferences
IntroductionProduction of InnovationsIntellectual Property Rights (IPR)Macroeconomic Indicators of Soft InnovationMicroeconomic Indicators of Soft InnovationPolicy IssuesConclusions and ImplicationsReferences
Investment in Research and DevelopmentLeading Players in Science PublicationLeading Players in International CollaborationConclusions and DiscussionReferences

IntroductionInnovation and the Transnational CorporationsTransnationality and InnovationInternational Trade and InnovationFrom Micro to Aggregate EffectsSummary and ConclusionsReferences
IntroductionDefining Strategic Technology Partnering (STP)Theoretical Perspectives to Explain Growth of STPRelating STP to InternationalizationThe Challenges of STPPolicy Issues Associated with STPReferences
IntroductionLiberalization and International “Trade” in Services“Barriers” to Internationalization of ServicesServices MultinationalsThe Role of Services in Globalization and the International Division of LaborKnowledge IntensityWhat Are Knowledge-Intensive Business Services?Issues Affecting the Internationalization of KIBSOutsourcing and Offshoring of KIBSConclusionsReferences
Traditional Modes of Technology Acquisition in Developing CountriesLimitations of Technology Acquisition Through Licensing and FDIChanges in Modes of Technology Acquisition in the 1990sImpact of Globalization on Technology Acquisition StrategiesSummary and Policy ImplicationsReferences
IntroductionGlobal Connections: Connectedness and ConnectivityThe Decision-Making Locus within Connections: Personal Relationships vs. Organizational PipelinesThe Network Structure of Connections: Centralized vs. DecentralizedGlobal Connectivity: Archetypes and ExamplesThe Decision-Making Locus within Connections and Innovation: Emergent vs. StrategicThe Network Structure of Connections and Innovation: Appropriation vs. ParticipationConnectivity and Innovation: Breadth, Depth, and SpilloversConcluding RemarksReferences
IntroductionLiterature ReviewEmpirical BaseDiscussionImplications and Future ResearchReferences
IntroductionWhat is Crowdfunding?Crowdfunding Numbers at a GlanceThe Advantages of CrowdfundingThe Early Evidence on CrowdfundingPolicy ImplicationsThe Future of CrowdfundingReferences
IntroductionGeography as a Platform to Organize Innovative ActivityHarnessing the Natural Tendency of Innovative ClusteringEvaluation Challenges for Economic Development Policies and ProjectsA New Definition of Economic DevelopmentCluster GenesisReconsidering the Role of Government in Economic DevelopmentConclusionReferences
IntroductionClassical MNE Theories: Hymer and Vernon on Organizational and Urban StructuresThe New Context: A Fast-Changing World and the Evolving MNEInnovation, Spillovers and Spatial TypologiesMNEs and Cities in the WorldConcluding RemarksReferences
IntroductionMethodology, Data, and VariablesThe Global Creative ClassCreativity and National Economic PerformanceConclusionReferences
Introduction: The Organization of Science CollaborationHow Researchers Connect Given a Set of Potential Partners at Various DistancesExplanatory Factors: Institutions, Network Dynamics and Attributes of KnowledgeScience Collaboration: Truly Global and Better?ConclusionReferences
IntroductionDefinitional ChallengesConceptualising MobilityThe Context of Mobility: Drivers, Impacts and BarriersMeasuring MobilityLevels of Scientific MobilityPush and Pull FactorsImpacts of MobilityThe Construction of Mobility as a Policy IssueConclusionsReferences
IntroductionUnderstanding Global Connectedness in ScienceInternational Knowledge Flows and South African ScienceThe Role of Foreign PhDs in the South African Science SystemDiscussionReferences
IntroductionBrain Drain: Migration Patterns of the Highly EducatedRecent TrendsAusterity and Brain Drain in the EUConclusionsReferences
IntroductionWhat Are Intellectual Property Rights?The Rise of a Global IPR RegimeTwo Models on IPRsA Different View: How Powerful Are IPRs?Is a Global IPR Regime Possible?What Is the Future of IPRs in a Global Economy?References
IntroductionPricing New Drugs Under Monopoly ConditionsThe Extent of Differential PricingReasons for the Paucity of Differential PricingThe Ultimate Triumph of Differential PricingCompulsory Patent LicensingConsequences for Research and Development References
IntroductionGlobal Governance and the Excesses of Globalization: Preliminary ConsiderationsDefinitional Issues: Information Society, Culture, and Social InvolvementDevelopment of the Information SocietyIPRs and Intangible Cultural Heritage: Options for Protection and the Commodification of Intangible Cultural PropertyTort of Cultural Misappropriation in the Context of the Information SocietyThe Information Society Conundrum and the Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural HeritageConcluding RemarksReferences
IntroductionWhat Is a Public Good?Is Knowledge a Public Good?Governments in the Generation and Distribution of KnowledgeIntellectual Property Rights as a Tool for ExclusionKnowledge as a Global Public GoodVaccine Research as a Case of a Global Public Good ManagementThe Governance of Knowledge as Global Public GoodReferences
IntroductionGovernmental Open Innovation: “Openness” of Governments for InnovationThe Emergence of Governmental Open Innovation: A Global PerspectiveConcluding RemarksReferences
IntroductionSerendipity and ChanceImplications of Serendipity and Chance for the Individual ResearcherPolicy Implications of Serendipity and ChanceThe Effects of Globalization on ResearchConclusionsReferences
IntroductionThe Oncoming StormGetting Away from the Mouth of HellReflections on the Technologies DiscussedThe Role of Less Developed Countries in Carbon ReductionConclusionReferences
Introduction: The “Anthropogenicity” of Global Social-Environmental RisksUlrich Beck’s and Mary Douglas’s Understanding of Risks: A Critical ReviewRedefining Risks from an Epistemological Point of ViewConsequences of the Definition of Risk for Understanding the New Interactions Between Science, Technology, and SocietyRedefining Risks and Risk Society: Political Challenges of Risk ManagementReferences
IntroductionThe “First Globalization” of the Nineteenth Century, and the Emergence of National EconomiesGlobal Liberalization and Regional Integration TodayRegional ProductionRegional Economic Integration: Europe, China, and OthersWill It Be Different This Time?References