Economic Challenge for Europe

Edited by Jan Fagerberg, Professor, Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture (TIK), University of Oslo, Norway, Paolo Guerrieri, Visiting Professor, Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA), Sciences Po, France and Bart Verspagen, Professor of Macroeconomics of Innovation and New Technologies and Researcher at UNU-MERIT, a joint institute of the United Nations University and Maastricht University, the Netherlands

• Contents: Preface 1. Europe – A Long View 2. The Impact of Specialization in Europe 3. European Competitiveness: Quality Rather than Price 4. Employment Dynamics and Structural Change in Europe 5. Europe and the Information and Communication Technologies Revolution 6. Lack of Regional Convergence 7. Europe: One or Several Systems of Innovation? An Analysis Based on Patent Citations 8. Changing the Regional System of Innovation 9. The Implications of Eastward Enlargement for EU Integration, Convergence and Competitiveness 10. Conclusions and Policy Implications Index

'The book is a collection of ten articles that focus on broad comparative analysis of innovation and growth, information technology, and regional technical progress. The editors are to be commended for their efforts in producing this book. Studies of long-run technical change and competitiveness are rarely undertaken in our short-run world, and such studies are of great importance for Europe in the global economy. . . . a very useful and valuable book. . . . I recommend this work to any library or professor's bookshelf where technological change and Europe are of interest.'