Innovation Policy and Governance in High-Tech Industries

1High-Tech Development in Complex Innovation Systems: An Introduction.- Part I: Theories and Concepts of Innovation Policy.- 2 Theorizing Systems of Innovation.- 3 A Concept of Post-National Knowledge Creation Policies: Beyond the Dichotomy of "National" and "European" Instruments.- 4 The Mass Media as Actors in the Innovation System: Their Relevance for High-Tech Policy Decision.- Part II: National Systems of Innovation and High-Tech Policies.- 5 High-Tech Development and Industrial Policies in a Macro-comparative Perspective.- 6 High-Tech Entrepreneurship in the United States.- 7 A Different Kind of Excellence? High-Tech and Innovation Policy in Switzerland.- 8 The Politics of Innovation: Inter-organisational Networks Around German Innovation Policy Advisory Bodies.- Part III: Industry Perpsectives on Innovation Policy.- 9 Power Games in Space: The German High-Tech Initiative and the European Satnav Project Galileo.- 10 Wind Energy: Global Policies and the Institutional Drivers for Innovation.- 11 German Innovation Policy for Photovoltaics: Radical Innovation in a Coordinated Market Economy?- 12 Health Care in the Digital Age: The Implementation of the Electronic Health Card in Germany.- 13 A Strategy Change in Embryo Research Policies: How Stem Cell Research Transformed National Biotechnology Regulatory Systems.- Part IV: Conclusion.- 14 A Comparative Analysis of Innovation Systems and High-Tech Policy: The Challenges of Complexity.

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).