Innovation Policy and Governance in High-Tech Industries

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. Innovation Policy and High-Tech Development: An Introduction

   • Johannes M. Bauer, Achim Lang, Volker Schneider

   Pages 1-19

3. Theories and Concepts of Innovation Policy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21

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   2. Institutions and Systems: Analysing Technical Innovation Processes from an Institutional Perspective

      • Raymund Werle

      Pages 23-47

   3. Ecologies of Games Shaping Large Technical Systems: Cases from Telecommunications to the Internet

      • William H. Dutton, Volker Schneider, Thierry Vedel

      Pages 49-75

   4. The Mass Media as Actors in Innovation Systems

      • Annie Waldherr

      Pages 77-100

4. National Systems of Innovation and High-Tech Policies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101

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5. National Systems of Innovation and High-tech Policies

   1. Entrepreneurship and Government in U.S. High-Tech Policy

      • Johannes M. Bauer

      Pages 103-125

   2. Innovation Switzerland: A Particular Kind of Excellence

      • Beat Hotz-Hart

      Pages 127-154

   3. The Politics of Innovation: Analysing Inter-organisational Networks Around German Innovation Policy Advisory Bodies

      • Matthias Orlowski

      Pages 155-173

6. Sectoral Perspectives on Innovation Policy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 175-175

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   2. Power Games in Space: The German High-Tech Strategy and European Space Policy

      • Johannes Weyer, Volker Schneider

      Pages 177-200

   3. Global Strategies and Policy Arrangements: Institutional Drivers for Innovation in the Wind Turbine Industry

      • Karsten Ronit

      Pages 201-217

   4. From Niche to Mass Markets in High Technology: The Case of Photovoltaics in Germany

      • Gerhard Fuchs, Sandra Wassermann

      Pages 219-244

   5. Governance of Large Innovation Projects: The Implementation of the Electronic Health Card in Germany

      • Achim Lang, Alexander Mertes

      Pages 245-260

   6. A Paradigm Change in Innovation Policies? Assessing the Causes and Consequences of Embryo Research Laws

      • Simon Fink

      Pages 261-284

7. Conclusions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 285-285

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   2. Innovation Policy and High-Tech Development: Conclusions

      • Achim Lang, Volker Schneider, Johannes M. Bauer

      Pages 287-299

8. Back Matter

   Pages 301-304

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The book examines the conditions for successful high-technology policy from theoretical and empirical perspectives. It enhances the predominant national systems of innovation approach to innovation policy with concepts based on new developments in the governance of complex systems and processes. The conceptual framework of complex networks and systems is used to examine national policy approaches in countries that have created environments conducive to high-technology industries as well as individual high-technology sectors, such as biotechnology, alternative energy, and aerospace. Theoretical and empirical contributions are synthesised into lessons for high-tech policy and further research.

• Complex Adaptive Systems
• High-Technology
• High-Technology Policy
• Research Policy

• , Quello Center for Telecommunication, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA

  Johannes Bauer

• , Department of Politics and Management, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

  Achim Lang, Volker Schneider

Johannes M. Bauer is a Professor in the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media at Michigan State Univesity. He is also the Co-Director of the Quello Center for Telecommunication Management and Law at Michigan State University. Dr. Bauer joined Michigan State University in 1990 after receiving his doctorate in economics from the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna, Austria. From 1993 until 1998, he directed the Institute of Public Utilities and Network Industries at the Eli Broad Graduate School of Management at Michigan State University. He taught and researched as a visiting professor at the Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands (2000-2001) and the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing, China (2002). His work was published in the leading journals in the field, including Telecommunications Policy, Information Economics and Policy, Communications & Strategies, Telematics & Informatics, and Info.

Volker Schneider is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Konstanz (Germany), where he holds the Chair of Empirical Theory of the State. He received a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence (Italy), and he was research fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne (Germany) between 1986 and 1997. He has written on policy networks, politics and policy of technology, government-business relations and the evolution of governance structures. In a long term perspective he is work complexity, governance and network theory. He edited several books. Among them are Organized Business Interests in Changing Environments (with J. Grote and A. Lang), Governing Interests: Business Associations Facing Internationalization (with W. Streeck, J. Grote, and J. Visser), and Private Organisation in Global Politics (with K. Ronit).

Achim Lang isAssistant Professor at the University of Konstanz (Germany). He studied public policy and management at the University of Konstanz and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain). He holds a doctoral degree in political science for his study on the evolution of sectoral business associations. Achim Lang held research positions at the University of Konstanz, the University of Cologne and the Darmstadt University of Technology. He authored Die Evolution sektoraler Wirtschaftsverbände und Informations- und Kommunikationsverbände in Deutschland, Großbritannien und Spanien. He edited Organized Business Interests in Changing Environments (with J. Grote and A. Lang).

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