Daniele Archibugi
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Daniele Archibugi is an Italian economic and political theorist. He works on the economics and policy of innovation
and technological change
, on the political theory of international relations
and on political and technological globalisation.
at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" with Federico Caffè
and taken his D.Phil. at SPRU, University of Sussex
, under the mentoring of Christopher Freeman
and Keith Pavitt
. He has worked and taught at the Universities of Sussex
, Naples
, Cambridge
and Rome
. In the academic year 2003-2004 he was Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics
, affiliated at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance, and in the academic year 2004-2005 Lauro de Bosis Visiting Professor at Harvard University
, affiliated at the Minda de Gunzeberg Center for European Studies. In June 2006 he was appointed Honorary Professor at the University of Sussex. He currently works at the Italian National Research Council
in Rome and at Birkbeck, University of London
.
, he has been a key figure in the development of cosmopolitanism
and of cosmopolitan democracy
in particular, namely the attept to apply some of the norms and values of democracy to global politics. He has advocated substantial reforms in international organizations, including the United Nations
and the European Union
.
He has criticized the G7, G8 and G20 summits as undemocratic and urged for more transpartent gathering for global politics. He has also taken position against a League of Democracies
arguing that the same demands will be better served by a democratic reform of the United Nations. He is among the promoters of a directly elected World Parliament.
of technology with Jonathan Michie
, where they distinguish among three main devices of transmission of know-how: international exploitation of innovations, global generation of innovation and global collaborations in science and technology.
As Chairman of an Expert Group of the European Research Area
on international collaboration in science and technology, he has pointed out that the demographic decline in Europe, combined with the lack of vocation of youngesters for hard sciences, will generate a dramatic shortage of qualified workers in less than a generation. This will jeopardize the standard of livings of Europeans in key areas such as medical research, information technologies and knowledge intensive industries. He has urged to revise substantially European immigration policy in order to accommodate in a decade at least two million of qualified students in science, engineering from developing countries.
In the field of innovation studies
Innovation
Innovation is the creation of better or more effective products, processes, technologies, or ideas that are accepted by markets, governments, and society...
and technological change
Technological change
Technological change is a term that is used to describe the overall process of invention, innovation and diffusion of technology or processes. The term is synonymous with technological development, technological achievement, and technological progress...
, on the political theory of international relations
International relations
International relations is the study of relationships between countries, including the roles of states, inter-governmental organizations , international nongovernmental organizations , non-governmental organizations and multinational corporations...
and on political and technological globalisation.
Biography
He has graduated in EconomicsEconomics
Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...
at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" with Federico Caffè
Federico Caffè
Federico Caffè was an Italian economist.- Biography :Caffè was born at Pescara.In 1936 he graduated in business sciences at the University of Rome La Sapienza. He started his career working at the Bank of Italy, later becoming a teacher at the University of Messina...
and taken his D.Phil. at SPRU, University of Sussex
University of Sussex
The University of Sussex is an English public research university situated next to the East Sussex village of Falmer, within the city of Brighton and Hove. The University received its Royal Charter in August 1961....
, under the mentoring of Christopher Freeman
Christopher Freeman
Christopher Freeman was an English economist, the founder and first director of Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Sussex, and one of the most eminent modern Kondratiev wave and business cycle theorists...
and Keith Pavitt
Keith Pavitt
Keith Pavitt was an English scholar in the field of Science and Technology Policy...
. He has worked and taught at the Universities of Sussex
University of Sussex
The University of Sussex is an English public research university situated next to the East Sussex village of Falmer, within the city of Brighton and Hove. The University received its Royal Charter in August 1961....
, Naples
Naples
Naples is a city in Southern Italy, situated on the country's west coast by the Gulf of Naples. Lying between two notable volcanic regions, Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields, it is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples...
, Cambridge
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
and Rome
Rome
Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
. In the academic year 2003-2004 he was Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics
London School of Economics
The London School of Economics and Political Science is a public research university specialised in the social sciences located in London, United Kingdom, and a constituent college of the federal University of London...
, affiliated at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance, and in the academic year 2004-2005 Lauro de Bosis Visiting Professor at Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
, affiliated at the Minda de Gunzeberg Center for European Studies. In June 2006 he was appointed Honorary Professor at the University of Sussex. He currently works at the Italian National Research Council
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
The Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche or National Research Council, is an Italian public organization set up to support scientific and technological research. Its headquarters are in Rome.-History:The institution was founded in 1923...
in Rome and at Birkbeck, University of London
Birkbeck, University of London
Birkbeck, University of London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London. It offers many Master's and Bachelor's degree programmes that can be studied either part-time or full-time, though nearly all teaching is...
.
Cosmopolitan democracy
Together with David HeldDavid Held
David Held is a British political theorist active in the field of international relations. He will be chair of politics and international relations at Durham University from January 2012 and is currently Graham Wallas Professor of Political Science and co-director of the Centre for the Study of...
, he has been a key figure in the development of cosmopolitanism
Cosmopolitanism
Cosmopolitanism is the ideology that all human ethnic groups belong to a single community based on a shared morality. This is contrasted with communitarian and particularistic theories, especially the ideas of patriotism and nationalism...
and of cosmopolitan democracy
Cosmopolitan democracy
Cosmopolitan democracy is a political theory which explores the application of norms and values of democracy at different levels, from global to local. It is about what global governance of the people, by the people, to the people can mean...
in particular, namely the attept to apply some of the norms and values of democracy to global politics. He has advocated substantial reforms in international organizations, including the United Nations
United Nations
The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...
and the European Union
European Union
The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 independent member states which are located primarily in Europe. The EU traces its origins from the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Economic Community , formed by six countries in 1958...
.
He has criticized the G7, G8 and G20 summits as undemocratic and urged for more transpartent gathering for global politics. He has also taken position against a League of Democracies
Concert of Democracies
A Concert of Democracies or League of Democracies is an alternative international organization proposed by Ivo Daalder and James Lindsay in a May 2004 Washington Post op-ed...
arguing that the same demands will be better served by a democratic reform of the United Nations. He is among the promoters of a directly elected World Parliament.
Globalization of innovation
Archibugi developed a taxonomy of the globalizationGlobalization
Globalization refers to the increasingly global relationships of culture, people and economic activity. Most often, it refers to economics: the global distribution of the production of goods and services, through reduction of barriers to international trade such as tariffs, export fees, and import...
of technology with Jonathan Michie
Jonathan Michie
Professor Jonathan Michie is a British economist and holds the joint post of Director of the Department for Continuing Education, and President of Kellogg College, University of Oxford, where he is Professor of Innovation & Knowledge Exchange...
, where they distinguish among three main devices of transmission of know-how: international exploitation of innovations, global generation of innovation and global collaborations in science and technology.
As Chairman of an Expert Group of the European Research Area
European Research Area
The European Research Area is a system of scientific research programmes integrating the scientific resources of the European Union . Since its inception in 2000, the structure has been concentrated on multi-national co-operation in the fields of medical, environmental, industrial and...
on international collaboration in science and technology, he has pointed out that the demographic decline in Europe, combined with the lack of vocation of youngesters for hard sciences, will generate a dramatic shortage of qualified workers in less than a generation. This will jeopardize the standard of livings of Europeans in key areas such as medical research, information technologies and knowledge intensive industries. He has urged to revise substantially European immigration policy in order to accommodate in a decade at least two million of qualified students in science, engineering from developing countries.
Main works
In the field of international relationsInternational relations
International relations is the study of relationships between countries, including the roles of states, inter-governmental organizations , international nongovernmental organizations , non-governmental organizations and multinational corporations...
- (with David HeldDavid HeldDavid Held is a British political theorist active in the field of international relations. He will be chair of politics and international relations at Durham University from January 2012 and is currently Graham Wallas Professor of Political Science and co-director of the Centre for the Study of...
) Cosmopolitan Democracy. An Agenda for a New World Order (Polity Press, 1995) - (with David HeldDavid HeldDavid Held is a British political theorist active in the field of international relations. He will be chair of politics and international relations at Durham University from January 2012 and is currently Graham Wallas Professor of Political Science and co-director of the Centre for the Study of...
and Martin Koehler), Reimagining Political Community. Studies in Cosmopolitan Democracy (Polity Press, 1998) - Debating Cosmopolitics, (Verso, 2003)
- The Global Commonwealth of Citizens. Toward Cosmopolitan Democracy (Princeton University PressPrinceton University Press-Further reading:* "". Artforum International, 2005.-External links:* * * * *...
, 2008, ISBN 978-0691134901 - (with Mathias Koenig-Archibugi and Raffaele Marchetti) Global Democracy: Normative and Empirical Perspectives (Cambridge University PressCambridge University PressCambridge University Press is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge. Granted letters patent by Henry VIII in 1534, it is the world's oldest publishing house, and the second largest university press in the world...
, 2011) ISBN 978-0-521-17498-5
In the field of innovation studies
- (with Mario Pianta), The Technological Specialization of Advanced Countries, preface by Jacques DelorsJacques DelorsJacques Lucien Jean Delors is a French economist and politician, the eighth President of the European Commission and the first person to serve three terms in that office .-French Politics:...
(Kluwer, 1992) - (with Jonathan MichieJonathan MichieProfessor Jonathan Michie is a British economist and holds the joint post of Director of the Department for Continuing Education, and President of Kellogg College, University of Oxford, where he is Professor of Innovation & Knowledge Exchange...
), Technology, Globalisation and Economic Performance, preface by Richard R. NelsonRichard R. Nelson (economist)Richard R. Nelson is an American professor of economics at Columbia University. He is one of the leading figures in the revival of evolutionary economics thanks to his seminal book An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change written jointly with Sidney G. Winter...
(Cambridge University Press, 1997) - (with Jonathan MichieJonathan MichieProfessor Jonathan Michie is a British economist and holds the joint post of Director of the Department for Continuing Education, and President of Kellogg College, University of Oxford, where he is Professor of Innovation & Knowledge Exchange...
), Trade, Growth and Technical Change, preface by Nathan RosenbergNathan RosenbergNathan Rosenberg is an American economist specializing in the history of technology. He earned his PhD from the University of Wisconsin in 1955, and has taught at Indiana University , the University of Pennsylvania , Purdue University , Harvard University , the University of...
(Cambridge University Press, 1998); - (with Jonathan MichieJonathan MichieProfessor Jonathan Michie is a British economist and holds the joint post of Director of the Department for Continuing Education, and President of Kellogg College, University of Oxford, where he is Professor of Innovation & Knowledge Exchange...
), Innovation Policy in a Global Economy, preface by Christopher FreemanChristopher FreemanChristopher Freeman was an English economist, the founder and first director of Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Sussex, and one of the most eminent modern Kondratiev wave and business cycle theorists...
(Cambridge University Press, 1999); - (with Bengt-Åke LundvallBengt-Åke LundvallBengt-Åke Lundvall is professor at the Department of Business Studies at Aalborg University and at Sciences-Po in Paris, France, since 2007. He was also a visiting professor at the Tsinghua University in Beijing in 2004-06...
), The Globalising Learning Economy (Oxford University Press, 2001) - (with Andrea Filippetti), Innovation and Economic Crises. Lessons and Prospects from the Economic Downturn (RoutledgeRoutledgeRoutledge is a British publishing house which has operated under a succession of company names and latterly as an academic imprint. Its origins may be traced back to the 19th-century London bookseller George Routledge...
, 2011). ISBN 978-0-415-60228-0
External links
- Personal web site http://www.danielearchibugi.org/
- University of LondonUniversity of London-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...
, Birkbeck, University of LondonBirkbeck, University of LondonBirkbeck, University of London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London. It offers many Master's and Bachelor's degree programmes that can be studied either part-time or full-time, though nearly all teaching is...
, home page http://www.bbk.ac.uk/manop/management/staff/archibugi.shtml - University of LondonUniversity of London-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...
, Birkbeck, University of LondonBirkbeck, University of LondonBirkbeck, University of London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London. It offers many Master's and Bachelor's degree programmes that can be studied either part-time or full-time, though nearly all teaching is...
Double interview, on the EU's necessity of qualified scientists and talents from developing countries and on "The Global Commonwealth of Citizens" (video) http://www.bbk.ac.uk/manop/our-research/interviews-with-staff - Debate at the London School of EconomicsLondon School of EconomicsThe London School of Economics and Political Science is a public research university specialised in the social sciences located in London, United Kingdom, and a constituent college of the federal University of London...
"Is Global Democracy Possible?" (video): http://globaldemo.org/film/1255