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Susana Borrás
Susana Borrás has a part-time affiliation with CIRCLE. She is also professor and head of the Department of Business and Politics at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. She studied philosophy and history before she graduated in political science at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain) in 1991. She holds a Ph.D. from the European University Institute, Florence (Italy) in political science in 1996.
Her research as political scientist concentrates on two main areas:
The governance of science and innovation, with special focus on the design and rationales of innovation policy, the theories and governance patterns of innovation systems, industrial clusters’ policies, and the legitimacy and democratic aspects of the governance of innovation, at the EU, national and regional levels.
EU governance, with special focus on the new modes of governance (new policy instruments), the governance and politics of the Lisbon strategy, and the patterns of coordination and network governance in the EU.
She is the European editor of the international peer reviewed journal Science and Public Policy [link, please, http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/beech/spp]
Susana Borrás is currently the president of the Danish society for European studies, and is board member of the association EPIP (European Policy for Intellectual Property), the council of ECPR (the European Consortium of Political Research), and Research Committee on EU at IPSA (The International Political Science Association). She has served on several committees and expert groups at the OECD, European Commission, European Patent Office and European Parliament.
Recent and ongoing research projects:
SANDERA
“The Future Impact of Security and Defence Policies on the European Research Area”
Years: 2009-2010 (18 months)
Financed by the 7th RTD Framework Program, EU
Coordinated by Andew James, Manchester University, UK.
INGINEUS
“Impact of Networks, Globalisation and their Interactions with EU strategies”
Years: 2009-2012 (3 years)
Financed by the 7th RTD Framework Program, EU
Coordinated by Alireza Naghavi, ENI foundation, Italy.
“The New Governance Instruments of the European Union”
Years: 2006-2009 (3 years)
Financial source: The Danish Social Sciences Research Council
Amount granted to the whole project: 999.000 DKK (135.000 €)
Position: Owner and coordinator of the entire project
Selected publications:
Borrás, S; Chaminade, C. and Edquist, C. (2009): "The Challenges of Globalization: Strategic Choices for Innovation Policy" Forthcoming in Göran Marklund, Niklas Vonortas and C. Wessner (eds.): The Innovation Imperative. National Innovation Strategies in the Global Economy .Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Borrás, S. and Tsagdis, D. (2008): Cluster Policies in Europe: Firms, Institutions and Governance . Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. Monograph.
Borrás, S. (2008): "Policy Innovation in Innovation Policy: Policy System and Meta-Policy System Changes in Europe" in University of Tokyo Journal of Law and Politics.Vol. 5, Spring 2008, pp. 103-119.
Borrás, S. (2008): "Innovation Policy and Institutional Competitiveness in Europe and Denmark" in Nedergaard, Peter and Campbell, John L. (eds): Institutions and Politics . Copenhagen: DJØF publishers, pp. 53-72.
Borrás, S. (2006): "The Governance of the European Patent System: Effective and Legitimate?" in Economy and Society, Volume 35, no. 4, pp. 594-610. ISSN: 0308-5147
Borrás, S. (2006): “Legitimate Governance of Risk at EU level? The Case of GMOs” in Technological Forecasting and Social Change. Volume 73, Issue 1, pages 61-75. ISSN: 0040-1625.
Borrás, S. (Editor) (2004): Special issue on a European System of Innovation in Science and Public Policy, volume 31, issue no. 6 ISSN: 0302-3427.
Borrás, S. (2003): The Innovation policy of the EU. From Government to Governance Cheltenham: Edward Elgar publishers, 256 pages. ISBN: 1 84064 993 3
Biegelbauer, P. and Borrás S. (Editors) (2003): Innovation Policies in Europe and the US: The New Agenda Aldershot: Ashgate, 325 pages. ISBN: 0 7546 09421
Lundvall, B-Å. and Borrás, S. (1998): The Globalising Learning Economy: Implications for Innovation Policy Brussels: Commission of the EU. 170 pags.
Last modified 6 Feb 2012
