Building The Knowledge Economy In Europe

Building the Knowledge Economy in Europe investigates the dynamics of emerging knowledge policy domains on the European political agenda, and the dynamics of this in relation to knowledge policies. This volume brings together leading experts who address the two central pillars of the ‘Europe of Knowledge’, research and higher education, to reveal the vertical, horizontal and sequential tensions in European knowledge governance

This book is the first comparative volume on European research and higher education policies. The chapters cover topics such as the idea of the European Research Area, sustainability of the Bologna Process, institution building for a Europe of Knowledge, domestic impact of EU level initiatives, and the role of the crisis in the European Higher Education Area. It accounts for the creation of key institutions administering EU funding and addresses the core issues of European integration in the knowledge domains.

This book will engage academic readers interested in European integration analysed from general political science, administrative science, organisation theory perspectives as well as in higher education and science studies. National policy-makers, European policy-makers and practitioners will also find much policy-relevant content, particularly because the European Research Area is formally scheduled to be completed by 2014.

Table of contents:
1. Building a European Knowledge Area: An Introduction to the Dynamics of Policy Domains on the Rise by Meng-Hsuan Chou and Åse Gornitzka

2. The Evolution of the European Research Area as an Idea in European Integration by Meng-Hsuan Chou

3. Translating the ‘European Charter for Researchers and the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers’ in National Arenas: Norway vs. Spain by Meng-Hsuan Chou and José Real-Dato

4. Dynamics of Institution Building in the Europe of Knowledge: The Birth of the European Research Council by Åse Gornitzka and Julia Metz

5. European Institution Building under Inhospitable Conditions – the Unlikely Establishment of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology by Åse Gornitzka and Julia Metz

6. Dynamics of Voluntary Coordination: Actors and Networks in the Bologna Process by Mari Elken and Martina Vukasovic

7. How Strong are the EU’s Soft Modes of Governance? The Use of the Open Method of Coordination in National Policymaking in the Knowledge Policy Domain by Åse Gornitzka

8. ‘Quality Agencies’: The Development of Regulating and Mediating Organizations in Scandinavian Higher Education by Hanne Foss Hansen

9. Economic Shocks, Federalism and Redistribution: Exploring the Future of Europe through a Comparison of the Evolution of Student Financial Aid in the United States and the European Union by Cecile Hoareau