ABSTRACT
Introduction The age of techno-nationalism in Europe is over. On the verge of the twenty-first century, urgent social problems such as the improvement of industrial competitiveness, the elimination and prevention of ecological damage, structural long-term unemployment and the economic exclusion of entire groups of people cannot be solved solely at a national level. Thus, international co-operation has become an indispensable part of technology policy which in most European countries today is embedded in a variable geometry of international agreements and organisations —France and Germany are no exception to this.
