Susana Borra
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3822192 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Susana Borra |
| PRENOMES | Susana |
| SOBRENOME | Borra |
| ASSINATURA | BORRA S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Copenhagen Business School |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3785-9893 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 315 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1998 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Reimagining diffusion
The transformative capacity of local administrations in sustainability transitions
The uptake of green innovation is crucial for local sustainability transitions but is far from a traditional task for local administrations. It is therefore important to study how they build transformative capacity to implement directionality. This paper compares three Danish cases of local administrations implementing the rollout of solar energy. Using a novel conceptual framework, we examine how they interpret mandates, mobilise resources and d…
Technology transfer offices in the diffusion of transformative innovation
Technology Transfer Offices (TTOs) serve as intermediaries supporting the commercialization of new technologies in the market, with the aim of enhancing economic competitiveness. Recently, there has been a growing recognition of innovation's role in addressing societal challenges, referred to as transformative innovation. In this context, TTOs are expanding their scope and mission, tasked with acting as intermediaries aligning societal needs—beyo…
The transformative capacity of public sector organisations in sustainability transitions
City-wide scale-up of smart city pilot projects
The roles of the state in the governance of socio-technical systems’ transformation
The transformative turn of innovation policy has resulted in calls for a more entrepreneurial and directional role of the state. However, the multiple roles that the state might play remains underexplored. This paper studies the embedded role of the state in four distinct modes of governance of socio-technical systems. Using a three-pillar analytical model, the paper examines four illustrative cases: cryptocurrencies, smart cities, automated vehi…
Colonizing the atmosphere
In the new 'Age of the Anthropocene', the Earth's atmosphere, like other elements of Nature, is rapidly being colonized by a minority of the world's population, at no cost, threatening the security of all humanity and the stability of the planet. The development processes of the great emitters of greenhouse gases have transferred social and environmental costs to all the world population, especially the most impoverished ones. This article is a c…
Measuring environmental injustice
This paper takes ecological debt as a measure of environmental injustice, and appraises this idea as a driving force for change in the international legal system. Environmental justice is understood here as a fair distribution of charges and benefits derived from using natural resources, in order to provide minimal welfare standards to all human beings, including future generations. Ecological debt measures this injustice, as an unfair and illegi…
Open method of co-ordination fordemoi-cracy? Standards and purposes
Under which conditions does the open method of co-ordination match the standards for demoi-cracy? To answer this question, we need some explicit standards about demoi-cracy. In fact, open co-ordination serves three different but interrelated purposes in European Union policy: to facilitate convergence; to support learning processes; and to encourage exploration of policy innovation. By intersecting standards and purposes, we find open co-ordinati…
Evaluation and policy learning
This article examines how evaluation induces policy learning – a question largely neglected by the scholarly literature on evaluation and policy learning. Following a learner's perspective, the article attempts to ascertain who the learners are, and what, and how, learners actually learn from evaluations. In so doing, it focuses on what different types of learners actually learn within the context of the evaluation framework (the set of administr…
The choice of innovation policy instruments
The politics of governance architectures
Governance architectures are strategic and long-term institutional arrangements of international organizations exhibiting three features; namely, they address strategic and long-term problems in a holistic manner, they set substantive output-oriented goals, and they are implemented through combinations of old and new organizational structures within the international organization in question. The Lisbon Strategy is the most high-profile initiativ…
The Lisbon Strategy's empowerment of core executives
This paper studies the effects of the Lisbon Strategy on the way in which national executives co-ordinate EU policy at the domestic level. Comparing seven countries (Denmark, the United Kingdom [UK], Austria, Slovenia, Spain, France and Poland) it finds evidence that the Lisbon Strategy has been advancing (further) centralization and politicization in national patterns of EU policy co-ordination, empowering core executives. The Lisbon Strategy's …
The legitimacy of new modes of governance in the EU
The literature on new modes of governance suffers from a gap between the normative and the positive approaches to legitimacy. This article addresses this gap by studying the patterns of national stakeholders’ support for the Open Method of Coordination (OMC). The results of our survey demonstrate that the OMC receives greater support than previously assumed and that the support of national stakeholders is largely associated with their involvement…
Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy
This article is about what governments have done and could do to promote the production, diffusion, and use of scientific and technical knowledge in order to realize national objectives. This article begins with “story-telling” based on sketchy historical facts. The aim of the two stories is to illustrate that innovation policy covers a wide set of issues that have been on the agenda far back in history while still remaining important today. Furt…
The Politics of the Lisbon Strategy
This article examines the politics of the Lisbon strategy before and after its major watershed reform in 2005, with particular attention to the role of the European Commission. Operating in an ambiguous partial delegation of power, the Commission changed from performing a strong administrative role in the 2000–04 period to performing a political role after 2005. The institutional analysis of this article combines contextual factors and internal f…
Democracy, Legitimacy and Soft Modes of Governance in the EU
During the past few years, the European Union (EU) has made increasing use of the so‐called soft modes of governance (SMG), modes based on voluntary and non‐sanctioning forms of public action, where state and non‐state actors interact in extensive networks to solve complex social problems. This article deals with the issue of the democratic credentials of soft modes of governance at the EU level. Starting by recognizing that they entail an author…
European Agencies and Input Legitimacy
Udgivelsesdato: december
The governance of the European patent system
This article argues that effectiveness and legitimacy are two inseparable issues for the success of economic governance systems. Moving beyond the conventional market failure and state failure approaches, the article develops the notion of network governance success, a notion that looks at the formal and informal dimensions of interactions in economic systems. This is further developed into an analytical framework which is then used in the assess…
The `Learning' Economy in Contemporary Societies
The open method of co-ordination and new governance patterns in the EU
The aim of this article is to establish an analytical framework for studying the impact of the open method of co-ordination (OMC) on three levels of political action within the EU, namely the policy, politics and polity. First, the article examines the novelties of the OMC vis-à-vis the soft law tradition in the EU, and looks at how the three dominant logics of co-ordination are linked to diverse modes of the OMC. The subsequent sections focus on…
Concluding remarks
Some years after its formal launch, the open method of co-ordination (OMC) continues to pose more questions than it seems to answer. Conceived politically as a fresh mode of dealing with old political issues in the European Union (EU) (Scott and Trubek 2002; Armstrong 2003; Ekengren 2002), the truth is that the OMC is still surrounded by much uncertainty; uncertainty as to what extent the open method might provide effective solutions to thorny co…
Public Action and Innovation-Support Institutions in New Technological Agglomerations
In all industrial and technological agglomerations several types of public and semi-public actors coexist. The same happens with the levels of government. Consequently, the daily reality of agglomerations is characterized by a wide diversity of innovation-support institutions more or less actively engaged in enhancing the technological capabilities and knowledge flow of the territory. Taking this consideration as a starting point, the article pre…
Cohesion Policy in the Political Economy of the European Union
Compared to the larger projects of the Single Market and Economic and Monetary Union, cohesion policy has often been ascribed a secondary role. Considered as a side payment from the richer to the poorer member states, it has been reduced to the political margins of European integration. In this paper, we set out to question this interpretation by placing the `cohesion issue' in a broader socio-economic and political context. It is the main claim …
Technology in the European construction
The open method of co-ordination and new governance patterns in the EU
The aim of this article is to establish an analytical framework for studying the impact of the open method of co-ordination (OMC) on three levels of political action within the EU, namely the policy, politics and polity. First, the article examines the novelties of the OMC vis-à-vis the soft law tradition in the EU, and looks at how the three dominant logics of co-ordination are linked to diverse modes of the OMC. The subsequent sections focus on…
The politics of governance architectures
Governance architectures are strategic and long-term institutional arrangements of international organizations exhibiting three features; namely, they address strategic and long-term problems in a holistic manner, they set substantive output-oriented goals, and they are implemented through combinations of old and new organizational structures within the international organization in question. The Lisbon Strategy is the most high-profile initiativ…
European Agencies and Input Legitimacy
Udgivelsesdato: december
Democracy, Legitimacy and Soft Modes of Governance in the EU
During the past few years, the European Union (EU) has made increasing use of the so‐called soft modes of governance (SMG), modes based on voluntary and non‐sanctioning forms of public action, where state and non‐state actors interact in extensive networks to solve complex social problems. This article deals with the issue of the democratic credentials of soft modes of governance at the EU level. Starting by recognizing that they entail an author…
Concluding remarks
Some years after its formal launch, the open method of co-ordination (OMC) continues to pose more questions than it seems to answer. Conceived politically as a fresh mode of dealing with old political issues in the European Union (EU) (Scott and Trubek 2002; Armstrong 2003; Ekengren 2002), the truth is that the OMC is still surrounded by much uncertainty; uncertainty as to what extent the open method might provide effective solutions to thorny co…
The Lisbon Strategy's empowerment of core executives
This paper studies the effects of the Lisbon Strategy on the way in which national executives co-ordinate EU policy at the domestic level. Comparing seven countries (Denmark, the United Kingdom [UK], Austria, Slovenia, Spain, France and Poland) it finds evidence that the Lisbon Strategy has been advancing (further) centralization and politicization in national patterns of EU policy co-ordination, empowering core executives. The Lisbon Strategy's …
Evaluation and policy learning
This article examines how evaluation induces policy learning – a question largely neglected by the scholarly literature on evaluation and policy learning. Following a learner's perspective, the article attempts to ascertain who the learners are, and what, and how, learners actually learn from evaluations. In so doing, it focuses on what different types of learners actually learn within the context of the evaluation framework (the set of administr…
The Politics of the Lisbon Strategy
This article examines the politics of the Lisbon strategy before and after its major watershed reform in 2005, with particular attention to the role of the European Commission. Operating in an ambiguous partial delegation of power, the Commission changed from performing a strong administrative role in the 2000–04 period to performing a political role after 2005. The institutional analysis of this article combines contextual factors and internal f…
The transformative capacity of public sector organisations in sustainability transitions
Open method of co-ordination fordemoi-cracy? Standards and purposes
Under which conditions does the open method of co-ordination match the standards for demoi-cracy? To answer this question, we need some explicit standards about demoi-cracy. In fact, open co-ordination serves three different but interrelated purposes in European Union policy: to facilitate convergence; to support learning processes; and to encourage exploration of policy innovation. By intersecting standards and purposes, we find open co-ordinati…
The legitimacy of new modes of governance in the EU
The literature on new modes of governance suffers from a gap between the normative and the positive approaches to legitimacy. This article addresses this gap by studying the patterns of national stakeholders’ support for the Open Method of Coordination (OMC). The results of our survey demonstrate that the OMC receives greater support than previously assumed and that the support of national stakeholders is largely associated with their involvement…
Public Action and Innovation-Support Institutions in New Technological Agglomerations
In all industrial and technological agglomerations several types of public and semi-public actors coexist. The same happens with the levels of government. Consequently, the daily reality of agglomerations is characterized by a wide diversity of innovation-support institutions more or less actively engaged in enhancing the technological capabilities and knowledge flow of the territory. Taking this consideration as a starting point, the article pre…
The Europeanization of National Policies in Comparison
Europeanization is a relatively new concept which is used in the study of national political and policy transformation in relation to the dynamics of EU integration. Reviewing the relevant literature, the authors contend that the construction of the analytical framework concerning Europeanization is still incomplete, basically because there has been a tendency to disregard structural differences between various public policies. Assuming that the …
The governance of the European patent system
This article argues that effectiveness and legitimacy are two inseparable issues for the success of economic governance systems. Moving beyond the conventional market failure and state failure approaches, the article develops the notion of network governance success, a notion that looks at the formal and informal dimensions of interactions in economic systems. This is further developed into an analytical framework which is then used in the assess…
Technology in the European construction
The Europeanization of National Policies in Comparison
Europeanization is a relatively new concept which is used in the study of national political and policy transformation in relation to the dynamics of EU integration. Reviewing the relevant literature, the authors contend that the construction of the analytical framework concerning Europeanization is still incomplete, basically because there has been a tendency to disregard structural differences between various public policies. Assuming that the …
Technology in the European construction
Cohesion Policy in the Political Economy of the European Union
Compared to the larger projects of the Single Market and Economic and Monetary Union, cohesion policy has often been ascribed a secondary role. Considered as a side payment from the richer to the poorer member states, it has been reduced to the political margins of European integration. In this paper, we set out to question this interpretation by placing the `cohesion issue' in a broader socio-economic and political context. It is the main claim …
Public Action and Innovation-Support Institutions in New Technological Agglomerations
In all industrial and technological agglomerations several types of public and semi-public actors coexist. The same happens with the levels of government. Consequently, the daily reality of agglomerations is characterized by a wide diversity of innovation-support institutions more or less actively engaged in enhancing the technological capabilities and knowledge flow of the territory. Taking this consideration as a starting point, the article pre…
The `Learning' Economy in Contemporary Societies
The open method of co-ordination and new governance patterns in the EU
The aim of this article is to establish an analytical framework for studying the impact of the open method of co-ordination (OMC) on three levels of political action within the EU, namely the policy, politics and polity. First, the article examines the novelties of the OMC vis-à-vis the soft law tradition in the EU, and looks at how the three dominant logics of co-ordination are linked to diverse modes of the OMC. The subsequent sections focus on…
Concluding remarks
Some years after its formal launch, the open method of co-ordination (OMC) continues to pose more questions than it seems to answer. Conceived politically as a fresh mode of dealing with old political issues in the European Union (EU) (Scott and Trubek 2002; Armstrong 2003; Ekengren 2002), the truth is that the OMC is still surrounded by much uncertainty; uncertainty as to what extent the open method might provide effective solutions to thorny co…
The governance of the European patent system
This article argues that effectiveness and legitimacy are two inseparable issues for the success of economic governance systems. Moving beyond the conventional market failure and state failure approaches, the article develops the notion of network governance success, a notion that looks at the formal and informal dimensions of interactions in economic systems. This is further developed into an analytical framework which is then used in the assess…
Democracy, Legitimacy and Soft Modes of Governance in the EU
During the past few years, the European Union (EU) has made increasing use of the so‐called soft modes of governance (SMG), modes based on voluntary and non‐sanctioning forms of public action, where state and non‐state actors interact in extensive networks to solve complex social problems. This article deals with the issue of the democratic credentials of soft modes of governance at the EU level. Starting by recognizing that they entail an author…
European Agencies and Input Legitimacy
Udgivelsesdato: december
Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy
This article is about what governments have done and could do to promote the production, diffusion, and use of scientific and technical knowledge in order to realize national objectives. This article begins with “story-telling” based on sketchy historical facts. The aim of the two stories is to illustrate that innovation policy covers a wide set of issues that have been on the agenda far back in history while still remaining important today. Furt…
The Politics of the Lisbon Strategy
This article examines the politics of the Lisbon strategy before and after its major watershed reform in 2005, with particular attention to the role of the European Commission. Operating in an ambiguous partial delegation of power, the Commission changed from performing a strong administrative role in the 2000–04 period to performing a political role after 2005. The institutional analysis of this article combines contextual factors and internal f…
The politics of governance architectures
Governance architectures are strategic and long-term institutional arrangements of international organizations exhibiting three features; namely, they address strategic and long-term problems in a holistic manner, they set substantive output-oriented goals, and they are implemented through combinations of old and new organizational structures within the international organization in question. The Lisbon Strategy is the most high-profile initiativ…
The Lisbon Strategy's empowerment of core executives
This paper studies the effects of the Lisbon Strategy on the way in which national executives co-ordinate EU policy at the domestic level. Comparing seven countries (Denmark, the United Kingdom [UK], Austria, Slovenia, Spain, France and Poland) it finds evidence that the Lisbon Strategy has been advancing (further) centralization and politicization in national patterns of EU policy co-ordination, empowering core executives. The Lisbon Strategy's …
The legitimacy of new modes of governance in the EU
The literature on new modes of governance suffers from a gap between the normative and the positive approaches to legitimacy. This article addresses this gap by studying the patterns of national stakeholders’ support for the Open Method of Coordination (OMC). The results of our survey demonstrate that the OMC receives greater support than previously assumed and that the support of national stakeholders is largely associated with their involvement…
The choice of innovation policy instruments
Open method of co-ordination fordemoi-cracy? Standards and purposes
Under which conditions does the open method of co-ordination match the standards for demoi-cracy? To answer this question, we need some explicit standards about demoi-cracy. In fact, open co-ordination serves three different but interrelated purposes in European Union policy: to facilitate convergence; to support learning processes; and to encourage exploration of policy innovation. By intersecting standards and purposes, we find open co-ordinati…
Evaluation and policy learning
This article examines how evaluation induces policy learning – a question largely neglected by the scholarly literature on evaluation and policy learning. Following a learner's perspective, the article attempts to ascertain who the learners are, and what, and how, learners actually learn from evaluations. In so doing, it focuses on what different types of learners actually learn within the context of the evaluation framework (the set of administr…
Measuring environmental injustice
This paper takes ecological debt as a measure of environmental injustice, and appraises this idea as a driving force for change in the international legal system. Environmental justice is understood here as a fair distribution of charges and benefits derived from using natural resources, in order to provide minimal welfare standards to all human beings, including future generations. Ecological debt measures this injustice, as an unfair and illegi…
Colonizing the atmosphere
In the new 'Age of the Anthropocene', the Earth's atmosphere, like other elements of Nature, is rapidly being colonized by a minority of the world's population, at no cost, threatening the security of all humanity and the stability of the planet. The development processes of the great emitters of greenhouse gases have transferred social and environmental costs to all the world population, especially the most impoverished ones. This article is a c…
The roles of the state in the governance of socio-technical systems’ transformation
The transformative turn of innovation policy has resulted in calls for a more entrepreneurial and directional role of the state. However, the multiple roles that the state might play remains underexplored. This paper studies the embedded role of the state in four distinct modes of governance of socio-technical systems. Using a three-pillar analytical model, the paper examines four illustrative cases: cryptocurrencies, smart cities, automated vehi…
City-wide scale-up of smart city pilot projects
Technology transfer offices in the diffusion of transformative innovation
Technology Transfer Offices (TTOs) serve as intermediaries supporting the commercialization of new technologies in the market, with the aim of enhancing economic competitiveness. Recently, there has been a growing recognition of innovation's role in addressing societal challenges, referred to as transformative innovation. In this context, TTOs are expanding their scope and mission, tasked with acting as intermediaries aligning societal needs—beyo…
The transformative capacity of public sector organisations in sustainability transitions
Reimagining diffusion
Political science (20 obras) · Economics (19 obras) · Business (14 obras) · Sociology (13 obras) · European Union Policy and Governance (11 obras) · Law (11 obras) · Politics (11 obras) · Economic system (10 obras) · Computer Science (9 obras) · Corporate governance (9 obras)