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ESA Conference: Ageing Societies, New Sociology
September 23-26, 2003 in Murcia, Spain
Two streams of sessions of the
Research Network 18: Sociology of Science and Technology (SSTNET)
Convenors:
Raymund Werle: Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Köln, Germany (werle@mpi-fg-koeln.mpg.de)
Marja Häyrinen Alestalo: Dept. of Sociology, University of Helsinki, Finland (marja.alestalo@helsinki.fi)
Luísa Oliveira: DINÂMIA/ISCTE, Lisboa, Portugal (luisa.oliveira@iscte.pt)
Maarten Mentzel: 38 Johan de Wittstraat, 2334 AR Leiden, The Netherlands (m.a.mentzel@planet.nl)
First Stream: Governing Science and Technology in the Era of Globalization
Thursday Sept. 25
09.00 - 11.00 session 5 (Campus de La Merced)
Chair: Marja Häyrinen-Alestalo
5.2. Author(s):Oliveira , Luísa
Institution: Dinâmia —University of Lisbon
Professional Category:
City: Lisbon
Country: Portugal
E-mail: luisa.oliveira@iscte.pt
GLOBALISATION AND LOCALISATION: THE TWO SIDES OF THE SAME COIN?
With basis on the results of empirical research in five European countries (Germany, Austria, France, United Kingdom and Portugal) in the science-based ICT sector (telecommunication and informatics), this paper discusses the notion of globalisation and the effects of scale in empirical analysis and in the (in)visibility of social processes. The paper focuses on: i) the relation between industrial firms and scientific knowledge producers institutions and ii) the types of knowledge industrial firms use in different countries.
The results show that in spite of the tendency to the globalisation of markets — including S&T market - the international division of labour (IDL) among countries remains the same. That is, each country uses predominantly one, among different categories of labour (manufacturing, products development, oriented research to problems resolutions and/or oriented research to new radical products), according with its strategy and innovation policy. That is, the ICT sector is global, but is territorialized in a very specific way in each country.
This fact may occur simultaneously with the development of national S&T systems and the increasing collaboration with international scientific networks - mainly European networks - in less developed countries, as a result of the ‘delocalisation’ of Governance from a national to a European level and the recent changes in the European innovation policy.
With basis in these results we will discuss in the conclusion two main points: the idea of globalisation as a complex and heterogeneous phenomenon and the globalisation in relation with of scales of analysis and the (in) visibility of social phenomena.
Sociology of Science and Technology NETwork - last update: April 2006