Competition for technological leadership: EU policy for high technology

Book abstract:

Technology is at the centre of the EU's strategy for economic development. This book aims to specify conditions under which the EU, and particularly the European Commission, makes policy choices to support large-scale high technology infrastructures and to explain why EU support for seemingly similar high technology projects varies.

The work is organised in three parts. Part 1 deals with the overall scope and analytical framework of the book. The empirical chapters are in Part II, which deals with early satellite development, Gallileo and mobile cellular communications, wireless and Internet, and digital radio. Part III concludes with a comparative political-economic analysis of the technology-intensive infrastructure projects informed by the analytical perspectives.

The book will interest students, scholars, researchers and policy makers in the fields of international political economy, international affairs and political science.

Johan Lembke is at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies in the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University, USA