Technology Transfer and Industrial Change in Europe

HELEN LAWTON SMITH is Research Fellow in the Centre for Local Economic Development (CLED) at Coventry University. She is also Director of Science Policy Studies of the Regulatory Policy Research Centre (RPRC) at Hertford College, Oxford University. She is the co-editor (with Nick Woodward) of Energy and the Environment. ERIK SWYNGEDOUW is University Reader in Economic Geography at Oxford University and Fellow of St Peter's College. His research interests are political-economy and political-ecology and the dynamics of socio-economic change.

'...highly topical...provides a genuine insight into the practicalities of technology transfer and the implications for industrial change within Europe.' - Geoff Whittam, Department of Economics and Enterprise, Paisley Business School, University of Paisley 'The author should be commended for undertaking an important piece of work that has provided an advanced understanding of technology transfer and industrial change...a scholarly piece of work, will be useful as a supplemental reading for advanced economic geography and related courses.' - S.L. Brian Ceh, Economic Geography

• List of Tables List of Figures Preface List of Abbreviations Introduction PART ONE: BACKGROUND Territories of Innovation: The Collectivation of Innovation and the Globalisation of Competition; E.Swyngedouw The Regulatory Context: International, National and Regional Components Industry, University and National Laboratory Links PART TWO: INDUSTRIAL CHANGE The Organisation of Industry Filieres in the Flow Measurement and Electronic Component Industries PART THREE: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS Externalisation Patterns in the Flow Measuring Industry The Views of Universities and National Laboratories: The Flow Measurement Industry Externalisation Patterns in the Electronic Component Industry The View of Universities and National Laboratories: The Electronic Component Industry PART FOUR: CONCLUSIONS Innovation Filieres and the Geography of Innovation References Index