Intra-European S&T coauthorships doubled in the last decade, but the collaborative network was surprisingly unaffected. The strongly voluntarist process in the European Union seems far from making collaboration unavoidable or homogeneous. We address the role of frontier regions in the...

This article depicts the evolution of Japanese science and technology policy after the Second World War, shedding light on the ‘reactive’ method applied in formulating S&T policy for nearly 50 years. It argues that this method has attained its limits and that there is constant incoherence...