Technology Culture And Competitiveness

Technology is a fundamental component of national competitiveness, and policy should be in line with this. There is a relationship between technological innovation and global political and economic change.

The first volume in the series, this text should be of interest to all those who need to deal with the causes and consequences of rapid technological change in an increasingly globalized world, whether they be government policy-makers, managers of multi-national corporations, commentators on the international scene or specialists in and students of international politics, economics and business studies. The authors discuss three related areas: how do we think about technology and international relations/international political economy?; how does technology relate to competitiveness?; and how does it inlfuence our culture and how is it influenced by it? In what sense is technology a fundamental component of national competitive advantage and what ought national, local and corporate policy to be in the light of this? What is the relationship between technological innovation and global political and economic change? Technology is discussed not just in an instrumental sense - as a tool of power and an object of policy - but equally in a trascendental sense - as a key to shaping and sructuring how we understand and interpret reality.