The special issue is introduced and contextualised. “Technological paradigms” emerged as “science push” models of innovation were being displaced by “demand pull” models that justified a more international, market-focussed political economy. Technological paradigms help explain the...

Taking a theoretical and normative stance, this article critically examines the inconsistency of the European Union's technological and economic goals for 2010 and the recent eastern enlargement, proposing a wider application of the notion of sustainability. Defining policies that tackle...

This article focuses on endogeneity between technological change and orientation toward foreign markets of the Global R&D leader (RDL) firms. Building on our econometric results, we develop an idiosyncratic Demand Pull and Technology Push operational mode of the RDL firms. In this framework, the...