In an era of globalized and highly mobile financial capital, multinational corporations can essentially 'arbitrage' across national borders to find the best organizations to integrate into their mode of production. The increased velocity of commerce and competition demands multi-faceted expertise from a firm. Only through the judicious and experienced application of knowledge can firms hope to outperform their counterparts and achieve sustained competitive advantage. Strategic research partnerships involving government, university and industry participants serve as a focusing device to ensure that innovations can be generated by society with more efficiency and effectiveness.
Global/local networks coupling together different national innovation systems, and trans-nationally linking networks of knowledge producers, carriers and users, are becoming crucial components of the global, real and virtual, knowledge architectures and infrastructures. Global and Local Knowledge is a journey of insight and discovery in the emerging global 'knowledge village'. Perspectives from different parts of the world are presented to produce a new world view on how specialized knowledge can serve as the unit of reference for stocks and flows of a hybrid public/private, tacit/codified, tangible/virtual good that represents the building block of the knowledge economy.
Author(s): Elias G. Carayannis (Ed.), Jeffrey M. Alexander (Ed.)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 240
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Tables and Figures......Page 10
Preface......Page 11
Introduction......Page 14
1 Introduction and General Concepts......Page 16
I Creativity, innovation, and competitiveness......Page 17
II Key perspectives on science policy for government–university–industry (GUI) partnerships......Page 26
III Literature on strategy, innovation, and collaboration......Page 37
IV Measuring innovation: a continuing challenge to calculate competitiveness......Page 48
2 The Research and Technology Development Public–Private Partnership Ecosystem in the United States......Page 51
I GUI collaboration in the United States semiconductor industry......Page 54
II United States agency efforts to promote collaborations......Page 63
3 The Research and Technology Development Public–Private Partnership Ecosystem in the European Union......Page 76
I European Union R&D overview......Page 77
II National activities to support basic research......Page 84
4 Analyzing Transatlantic Public–Private Research Collaborations......Page 92
I Explanation of study method......Page 95
II Concepts and definitions......Page 97
III Model development for transatlantic public–private research collaboration......Page 100
IV Research model and hypotheses......Page 110
V Methodology......Page 113
VI Results of analysis......Page 119
5 Glocalized Knowledge Structures through Transnational Public–Private Research and Technology Development Partnerships......Page 141
I Research directions and future research......Page 143
II Lessons learned and recommendations for policy and practice in public–private partnerships for research and technology development (PPPRTDs)......Page 144
Bibliography......Page 148
I......Page 162
R......Page 163
V......Page 164
