Europe is confronted by an intimidating triple challenge: economic stagnation, climate change, and a governance crisis. This book demonstrates how these challenges are inter-related, and discusses how they can be dealt with more effectively in order to arrive at a more economically secure, environmentally sustainable and well governed Europe.

1. Introduction: The Triple Challenge for Europe ; 2. One Europe or Several? Causes and Consequences of the European Stagnation ; 3. The new North-South Divide in Europe - Can the European Convergence Model be Resuscitated? ; 4. The Arduous Transition to Low-carbon Energy: A Multi-level Analysis of Renewable Electricity Niches and Resilient Regimes ; 5. The Global Green Economy: Competition or Cooperation between Europe and China? ; 6. Transition Paths: Assessing Conditions and Alternatives ; 7. Lessons from Germany's Energiewende ; 8. EU Policy and Governance: Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution? ; 9. Innovation as Growth Policy: the Challenge for Europe

Addresses the key challenges facing Europe - growth, climate change, and innovation Accessible writing style, of interest to range of non-academic audiences Multidisciplinary Written by leading innovation scholars

Jan Fagerberg is professor at the University of Oslo, where he is affiliated with the Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, and at Ålborg University, where he is at the Department of Business and Management. He also has an affiliation with CIRCLE at Lund University. In his research Fagerberg has among other things focused on the relationship between technology (innovation and diffusion) on the one hand and competitiveness, economic growth and development on the other. He has also worked on innovation theory, innovation systems and innovation policy and has published extensively on these and other topics in books and journals Staffan Laestadius is professor emeritus of Industrial Dynamics at Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, KTH (Royal Instutute of Technology) in Stockholm, Sweden. He is also chairing the Senior Advisory Board for Climate Change at the Swedish Think Tank Global Utmaning (Global Challenge). Recently he published a policy analysis on the conditions for combining a climate change mitigation policy with the Swedish welfare system (Laestadius, S., 2013: Klimatet och välfärden, Umeå: Borea bokförlag). Ben Martin is Professor of Science and Technology Policy Studies in SPRU, University of Sussex. Between 1996 and 2004, he served as SPRU Director. He is also an Associate Fellow at the Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP), and Senior Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Business Research, Judge Business School, both at the University of Cambridge. His research for the last 35 years has focused on science policy. He helped pioneer techniques for evaluating scientific laboratories, research programmes, and national scientific performance, and for conducting 'technology foresight'. In recent years, he has conducted research on the benefits from government funding of basic research, the changing nature and role of the university, the impact of the UK Research Assessment Exercise, creative knowledge environments, and the evolution of the field of science policy and innovation studies. Since 2004, he has been Editor of Research Policy.

Addresses the key challenges facing Europe - growth, climate change, and innovation Accessible writing style, of interest to range of non-academic audiences Multidisciplinary Written by leading innovation scholars