In several projects, ZSI researches and promotes internationalisation of research and innovation as well as techno-globalisation.
Techno-globalization denotes a global pervasion in generating technological knowledge and exploiting innovations with a technological content. It also claims that globalization that has been shaped and advanced with the help of technology. With regard to R&D and innovation, the term in its most modest form is shorthand for the fact that generation, transmission, and diffusion of technologies is increasingly international in scope. A fundamental typology (Archibugi and Michie, 1995) differentiates between:
- global technology exploitation
- global technological cooperation
- global generation of technology
For more than 15 years, ZSI has actively contributed to researching such techno-globalization phenomena and related foresight and dialogue activities. Moreover, ZSI is engaged in conceptualising and designing strategies and instruments for governments and research systems, how to maximise the benefits of techno-globalisation, and how to minimise its negative sides. Among the clients for such advisory services are the European Commission, ERAC (formerly CREST), the Austrian government, the Austrian Council for Research and Technology Development and many others.
Another concept in this context is the one of "science diplomacy" where ZSI also takes a leading role by coordinating one of the research and innovation actions funded under Horizon 2020 on this topic: S4D4C.
ZSI is also active partner in key support facilities of the European Commission:
- the Horizon 2020 Policy Support Facility and the
- Service Facility in Support of the Strategic Development of International Cooperation in Research and Innovation
Ansprechperson: Mag. Dr. Klaus Schuch
Relevante Artikel:
Projekte
- GSF-25 - Enhancing Research Security in the EU
- GSF-22 - European Framework for Science Diplomacy
- Sustainable Higher Education and Research in Kosovo
- Support to the EU-Eastern Partnership (EaP) research and innovation cooperation
- AU-EU High Level Policy Dialogue on Science Technology and Innovation - Phase II
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Publikationen
- Strengthening Science Diplomacy in and for Europe through Horizon Europe
- How globalisation, technology and demographic change are transforming companies and industries: Lessons from case studies
- Offshoring, technological change and the quality of work in the EU: On the mediating role of trade unions
- Futures of Social Confrontations and Effects on European Democracies 2040
- Austrian Research and Technology Report 2023
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Veranstaltungen
- 2025 MCAA Annual Conference and General Assembly
- Smart Specialisation in EU Enlargement Countries
- Meeting of the Western Balkans Steering Platform on Research and Innovation
- Multilateral dialogue on principles and values for international cooperation in research & innovation
- Embedding RRI into the Green Agenda in Western Balkans
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