New Methods of Technological Cooperation in Europe

Abstract

This article is founded on the basic assumption that Europe taken as a whole possesses all the necessary resources to combat successfully any non-European competitor in the fields of technology, provided that it solves the management problem of organizing the coordination of those resources. At present, the author argues, they are dispersed and so underexploited. To contribute to the solution of this core problem, he sets out a new approach to research collaboration, using the example of the German–French Institute for Automation and Robotics to show ways in which HEIs can cooperate internationally to provide industry with what it needs to be truly competitive.