European Union Research Policy : Contested Origins / / by Veera Mitzner

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910407721903321
• Autore: Mitzner Veera
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020
• ISBN: 3-030-41395-0
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2020.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (282 pages)
• Collana: Europe in Transition: The NYU European Studies Series
• Disciplina: 338.9406; 320
• Soggetti: Europe - Politics and government; Political planning; International organization; World politics; International economic relations; European Politics; Public Policy; International Organization; Political History; International Political Economy’
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Introduction -- Part I -- 2. Research for Growth: The Ideational Foundations of Research Policy in Postwar Europe -- 3. A Common Research Policy? Launching the Debate -- 4. Euratom: The Troubled Forerunner of Community Research Policy -- Part II -- 5. The Years of Questioning -- 6. COST: Distraction or Progress? -- 7. Contrasting Visions and Continuing Struggle -- Part III -- 8. The Return of the Gap -- 9. Research Policy: A Trailblazer for Institutional Change -- 10. Conclusion and Further Thoughts.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 the EU), which initially had very ; limited legal competence in the field, progressively developed a solid policy framework presenting science and research as indispensable tools for European economic competitiveness and growth. This book conveys the contested history of one of the EU’s most successful policies. It is a story of struggle and frustration but also of a great institutional and intellectual continuity. The ideational edifice for the EC/EU research policy that was put in place during the 1960s and 1970s proved remarkably robust. Its durability enabled the rapid take-off of the European Commission’s initiatives in the more favorable political atmosphere of the early 1980s and the subsequent expansion of the EU research funding instruments and programs that permanently transformed the European research landscape. Veera Mitzner is the Future Earth Network Lead at the Sustainability Innovation Lab at Colorado, the University of Colorado Boulder, USA.