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CREST has three inter-related pillars of strategic activities, with case studies based upon research collaborations housed within CREST (see conceptual organization, below):
1) Carbon Roadmapping. The aim is to identify crucial research needs, technology trajectories, and policy levers. It is critical to our approach that policy and technology be closely interwoven.
2) Green Growth. We explore low-carbon growth and development strategies. The specific challenge is to progress from research to deployment, confronting issues of legacy systems and technologies. Key questions to be addressed include technology transition, the stimulation of markets, and investment strategies.
3) New Partnership Models. As international research partnerships evolve, we will study and propose new IP management strategies and business models. CRESTS aims to revitalize the partnership between governmental policies and industry, business, and international economic imperatives to address pressing problems
BRIE's collaborative research, created by research and policy teams from Finland and Denmark and the San Francisco Bay Area in the United States asks how wealthy regions are able to adapt effectively to competitive challenges posed by the shifting nature of the global marketplace. The Innovation Alliance is envisioned as an ongoing set of policy and research discussions with the objective of constructing actionable policy initiatives for the three regions. Aside from policy prescriptions, the Alliance will also generate real technologies stemming from collaboration on core research clusters: learning, food/food processing and technological devices. More specifically, teams of researchers drawing on the intellectual resources of the three regions will address issues including outsourcing and off-shoring, next generation telecommunications networks, embedded and wireless technologies, the evolving role of the research university in innovation policy, and the creation of value in a digital era. The collaborators include the office of the Prime Minister of Finland and the Danish government/private sector research council.
The BRIE-ETLA project examines the development, innovation, regulation, and the changing terms of competition in wireless telecommunications. It is a collaborative research program of BRIE, the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy at the University of California at Berkeley, ETLA, the Research Institute of the Finnish Economy, and Etlatieto Oy (a subsidiary of ETLA).
BRIE is pleased to participate as member in conjunction with the University of Helsinki in the Tracking the Transformation Project under the Information Societies Technology priority of the EU 5th Framework Programme. The project studies the evolving economic and societal relationships and new organization of work and production, with a particular focus on knowledge and skills management. The objective of the project is to produce a research roadmap to better understand the economic and societal changes brought on by recent technological innovations and business dynamics in order to assure an informed policy agenda.
The ITHS project focuses on the ways in which information technology may be used to pre-empt, detect, or mitigate the damage from terrorist attacks in the United States . In addition to the purely technical challenges they entail, policies aiming to leverage IT to enhance homeland security require a sophisticated understanding of individual and organizational behavior and a consideration of potential tradeoffs between security, privacy and other civil liberties. These topics draw on the expertise of faculty and students in information management, organizational behavior, law, computer science, and international studies, as well as in public policy.
The new E-conomy Project™ is a collaborative undertaking of the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE), the College of Engineering , the Haas School of Business and the School of Information Management and Systems (SIMS), at the University of California , Berkeley , and the UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC). Participating faculty represent a broad interdisciplinary range of UC Berkeley departments as well as faculty from UC campuses at Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, and San Diego. The project fuses these academics' research agendas with the knowledge and concerns of industry leaders and policy makers, creating an intellectual resource to focus on the profound transformation being wrought by new digital technologies. The project aims to develop new metrics, historical analogs and business models, and more effective policies, legal frameworks and corporate strategies. |
