Science Technology and Global Governance

Science technology and innovation have long been key factors in the competitive advantage of nations. Today however the new international political economy is being increasingly driven by science and technology in new ways. Integration globalization and internationalization have all become watchwords for a series of dynamic processes in which science and technology are deeply implicated. As a result not only are the policies of national governments being exposed in terms of the limits of their sovereignty but science and technology are being increasingly implicated in a wide array of public issues - ranging from security privacy development and economic growth to employment environment foreign policy and geopolitics. Clearly in today's emerging world the ways in which governments organize their science and technology policy their science and technology intelligence and their research advisory structures and resources matter more today than ever before. In turn the contract between science and democracy is being rapidly redefined. This book is the first to comprehensively discuss these critical issues.