This chapter will examine an initiative led and organized by a Palestinianknowledge and policy entrepreneur based in Sweden to promote a biomedicallaboratory in Palestine as well as the larger mechanisms supportingrelated Swedish-Palestinian science exchanges. I argue that this and related initiativesare a potential model for EU science policy in the digital era. Such projectscan support diverse aims including economic aid support, health security,peacebuilding and alliance development. Key enabling mechanisms includeactions by academic entrepreneurs, state foreign and aid policy, and diasporicnetworks. Future EU policy could learn from and replicate the initiatives discussed.

This article discusses different ways in which “economic conversion” is deployed to describe the shift from a military to civilian economy. It analyzes how this shift is possible if certain political and economic barriers are overcome. Conversion is most relevant for understanding the political and economic problems generated by a core of highly specialized military firms. Studies of individual firm efforts illustrate how conversion is possible and, despite barriers to replicating such success, the original motivation for conversion in advancing disarmament and civilian needs still remains highly relevant.

This study examines the Metroliner passenger rail trains manufactured by the Budd Company in the 1960s and 1970s. I show that while transportation companies and the government facilitated the development of a high(er) speed rail line and trains, this procurement process was not sufficient for sustaining Budd as a national rail producer. This case study is based on government documents, interviews, news reports, published studies and archival work. The limits to the Metroliner program as industrial policy were based on: (a) company innovative lags; (b) weakness in Budd's industrial profile and endogenous capacities; (c) failures in systems integration and (d) the contradictions of an indirect industrial policy, where companies gain capacities from the state indirectly or insufficiently.

This paper investigates how one could envision a discursive mobilization process to transform protest movements into agents that help reconstruct the universities as agentssupporting material mobilizations leading to ecological reconstruction. After reviewing universities' ecological footprints, the author shows how theories of mobilization and conjunctures could contribute to understanding how this transformation could occur. Discursive mobilizations advance values or ideas but stop short of innovation and produc-tion system changes. Material mobilizations affect deployment of human, technological, industrial and financial resources. Conjunctures involve linkages of political activity tospaces implicated in both kinds of mobilizations in a given historical time frame. The study shows many nations having both extensive climate activism and concentrations of university students creating a possibility for greening education centers based onvarious models for doing so. Yet, two key problems emerge. First, some nations lag inclimate activism. Second, interest in a Green Deal or Green New Deal does not always match the level of attention to leading activist Greta Thunberg. The paper illustrates how such problems can be addressed by university-based campaigns linking activist cohorts, mobilization supporting green conversion of higher education and solidaristic,mutual aid exchanges among regions. 

This article compares three Marx-inspired views about the relationship between technology and sustainable outcomes.