Competition for Technological Leadership: EU Policy for High TechnologyEdward Elgar Publishing, 2002 M11 27 - 311 pages "This study of EU political intervention in support of advanced technology will be a fascinating read for advanced students and academic researchers of international political economy, international affairs and political science. Competition for Tech |
Contents
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3 EU strategy for satellite navigation | 55 |
Europes response | 99 |
5 The EU strategy for wireless Internet | 139 |
6 Globalization strategy and technology | 181 |
7 Digital radio in Europe | 212 |
8 Concluding evaluation | 241 |
References | 283 |
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Page 18 - Anderson emphasises that the focus of policy analysis should be on what actually is done instead of what is proposed or intended. That is to say policy has more to do with action than rhetoric. According to Hewlett and Ramesh, policy is a set of interrelated decisions taken by a political actor or group concerning the selection of goals and the means of achieving them within a specified situation (Hewlett and Ramesh, 1995: 5).
Page 300 - Directive 95/47/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the use of Standards for the Transmission of Television Signals...
Page 16 - The European Parliament may, acting by a majority of its Members, request the Commission to submit any appropriate proposal on matters on which it considers that a Community act is required for the purpose of implementing this Treaty.
Page 37 - A public entrepreneur may be defined as a person who creates or profoundly elaborates a public organization so as to alter greatly the existing pattern of resource allocation of scarce public resources" (Public Entrepreneurship, 9).
Page 38 - ... what needs to be done, why it needs to be done and how it may be achieved.
Page 241 - the most competitive and dynamic knowledgebased economy in the world capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and social cohesion by 2010'.
Page 299 - December 1998 on the coordinated introduction of a third generation mobile and wireless communications system (UMTS) in the Community (OJ L 17/1.22.1.1999).
Page 57 - GPS has three parts: the space segment, the user segment, and the control segment. The space segment consists of the 24 satellites, each in its own orbit 11,000 nautical miles above the Earth.
Page 62 - The Commission shall [...] pursue its work with a view to setting up a radio-navigation plan which takes into account the development of satellite navigation systems, of existing terrestrial systems and of the radionavigation plans of the Member States
Page 58 - Created in 1 944, it sets international standards and regulations necessary for the safety, security, efficiency and regularity of air transport, and serves as the medium for cooperation in all fields of civil aviation among its 185 Contracting States.