The Triple Challenge for Europe
Economic Development, Climate Change, and Governance
Edited by Jan Fagerberg, Staffan Laestadius, and Ben R. Martin
Author Information
Edited by Jan Fagerberg, Professor, University of Oslo, Aalborg University, and Lund University, Staffan Laestadius, Professor Emeritus, Sustainability and Industrial Dynamics Division, Department of Industrial Economics & Management, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, and Ben R. Martin, Professor of Science and Technology Policy Studies, SPRU, University of Sussex
Jan Fagerberg is professor at the University of Oslo, where he is affiliated with the Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, and at Ålborg University, where he is at the Department of Business and Management. He also has an affiliation with CIRCLE at Lund University. In his research Fagerberg has among other things focused on the relationship between technology (innovation and diffusion) on the one hand and competitiveness, economic growth and development on the other. He has also worked on innovation theory, innovation systems and innovation policy and has published extensively on these and other topics in books and journals
Staffan Laestadius is professor emeritus of Industrial Dynamics at Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, KTH (Royal Instutute of Technology) in Stockholm, Sweden. He is also chairing the Senior Advisory Board for Climate Change at the Swedish Think Tank Global Utmaning (Global Challenge). Recently he published a policy analysis on the conditions for combining a climate change mitigation policy with the Swedish welfare system (Laestadius, S., 2013: Klimatet och välfärden, Umeå: Borea bokförlag).
Ben Martin is Professor of Science and Technology Policy Studies in SPRU, University of Sussex. Between 1996 and 2004, he served as SPRU Director. He is also an Associate Fellow at the Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP), and Senior Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Business Research, Judge Business School, both at the University of Cambridge. His research for the last 35 years has focused on science policy. He helped pioneer techniques for evaluating scientific laboratories, research programmes, and national scientific performance, and for conducting 'technology foresight'. In recent years, he has conducted research on the benefits from government funding of basic research, the changing nature and role of the university, the impact of the UK Research Assessment Exercise, creative knowledge environments, and the evolution of the field of science policy and innovation studies. Since 2004, he has been Editor of Research Policy.
Contributors:
Iain Begg, Professorial Research Fellow at the European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science.
Jan Fagerberg, Professor at the University of Oslo and Ålborg University
Frank W. Geels, Pofessor of System Innovation and Sustainability at the Sustainable Consumption Institute, The University of Manchester
Staffan Jacobsson, Professor in Environmental System Analysis, Energy and Environment, Chalmers University of Technology
Staffan Laestadius, Professor of Industrial Dynamics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
Michael A. Landesmann, Scientific Director of wiiw and Professor of Economics at the Johannes Kepler University
Volkmar Lauber, was Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Salzburg
Rasmus Lema, Assistant Professor, Aalborg University
Ben R. Martin, Professor of Science and Technology Policy Studies in SPRU, University of Sussex
Mariana Mazzucato, Professor of Economics of Innovation at SPRU, University of Sussex.
Carlota Perez, Researcher, Professor of Technology and Development, London School of Economics and Political Science.
Hubert Schmitz, Professorial Fellow, Institute of Development Studies
Bart Verspagen, Director of UNU-MERIT and Director-Dean of the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance at Maastricht University.
