Building the Knowledge Economy in Europe: New Constellations in European Research and Higher Education Governance
[Book Description]
Building the Knowledge Economy in Europe investigates the integration of emerging knowledge policy domains on the European political agenda, and the dynamics of this in relation to knowledge policies. Professors Meng-Hsuan Chou and Ase Gornitzka bring together leading experts who address the two central pillars of the 'Europe of Knowledge', research and higher education, to reveal the vertical, horizontal and sequential tensions in European knowledge governance This book is the first comparative volume on European research and higher education policies. The chapters cover topics such as the idea of the European Research Area, sustainability of the Bologna Process, institution-building for a Europe of Knowledge, domestic impact of EU-level initiatives, and the role of the crisis in the European Higher Education Area. It accounts for the creation of key institutions administering EU funding and addresses the core issues of European integration in the knowledge domains. This thought provoking book will engage academic readers interested in European integration analysed from general political science, administrative science, organization theory perspectives as well as in higher education and science studies. National policymakers, European policymakers and practitioners will also find much policy-relevant content, particularly because the European Research Area is formally scheduled to be completed by 2014.
[Table of Contents]
Contributors vii
Foreword ix
1 Building a European knowledge area: an 1 (26)
introduction to the dynamics of policy
domains on the rise
Meng-Hsuan Chou
Ase Gornitzka
2 The evolution of the European Research 27 (24)
Area as an idea in European integration
Meng-Hsuan Chou
3 Translating the `European Charter for 51 (30)
Researchers and the Code of Conduct for the
Recruitment of Researchers' in national
arenas: Norway vs Spain
Meng-Hsuan Chou
Jose Real-Dato
4 Dynamics of institution building in the 81 (30)
Europe of Knowledge: the birth of the
European Research Council
Ase Gornitzka
Julia Metz
5 European institution building under 111(20)
inhospitable conditions -- the unlikely
establishment of the European Institute of
Innovation and Technology
Ase Gornitzka
Julia Metz
6 Dynamics of voluntary coordination: 131(29)
actors and networks in the Bologna Process
Mari Elken
Martina Vukasovic
7 How strong are the European Union's soft 160(28)
modes of governance? The use of the Open
Method of Coordination in national
policy-making in the knowledge policy domain
Ase Gornitzka
8 `Quality agencies': the development of 188(31)
regulating and mediating organizations in
Scandinavian higher education
Hanne Foss Hansen
9 Economic shocks, federalism and 219(26)
redistribution: exploring the future of
Europe through a comparison of the
evolution of student financial aid in the
United States and the European Union
Cecile Hoareau
Index 245
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