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BRIE's new 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.
BRIE's Trilateral Forum brings together a senior group of public and private-sector representatives from China, Japan and the United States for the purpose of addressing issues involved in the liberalization of trade and investment in the Asia-Pacific region. This three-year project, created in 1996 with support from the US-Japan Foundation and collaboration from Japan's Dentsu Institute for Human Studies (DIHS) and China's Council of Policy and Strategy (CPS), met last year in Tokyo and Shanghai. First-year work used these meetings to develop understanding of the three national groups' perspectives on broad issues surrounding liberalization. In its second year, the Forum met in Berkeley, Nov. 11-12, 1997, to address finance and currency issues (including the current SE Asian crisis), problems of system friction (with a particular emphasis on China's mixed economy and its role in the liberalization process), and continuing US-Japan economic tensions. The following meeting in Tokyo explored policy options intended to avert or resolve conflicts in the trade liberalization process. In its final year, the Forum met in Beijing and Washington, DC, to examine sectoral implications of liberalization and test the policy recommendations developed in the first two years by applying them to specific sectors. |
