Article,
Transnational cooperation and policy networks in European science policy-making
Research Policy, 28 (1): 43-61 (1999/1)
Abstract
In the last decades, a host of transnational organizations representing
national universities, research organizations and industrial research
have been established in Europe. This article gives an empirical
account of the role of transnational organizations in European science
and technology policy and of the policy networks established between
these organizations and supranational institutions. The analysis
shows that because of the strong horizontal and vertical segmentation
of transnational cooperation and interest intermediation, science,
industry and politics are only weakly linked in European S&T policy.
If institutionalized links between the major actors and institutions
from different social sub-systems are an indispensable property of
an efficient system of innovation, these missing links must be considered
a major obstacle for European S&T policy to be successful.
