FORSKNINGSPOLITISK INTEGRATION GENOM INNOVATION

Research and innovation are areas that have been evolving quickly during recent years. However, it has been difficult for individual countries to make progress on their own. To solve this problem the European union have launched the most expensive research and innovation program to this day. By combining national governments throughout Europe, the EU wants to create cutting edge technology that will strenghten the region and make the union able to compete on a worldwide stage. However, trying to combine national governments has not been easy, the programs struggle with byrocracy and member states of the European union are tentative about supranational institutions. By engaging in the program national governments have been afraid of how this will affect their sovereignty. The aim of this thesis is to examine how EU promote the research and innovation program to deepen the european integration between member states, and how this affects the sovereignty of member states. By using a qualitative text analysis of policy documents published by institutions throughout the EU, the study?s focus is how the EU is trying to deepen integration by applying elaborate cooperation between members. In the study three major theories about european integration is presented. Neofunctionalism, liberal intergovernmentalism and postfunctionalism are the theories that are used to create a theoretical framework which is used to analyze the published documents. The results show that member countries are willing to sacrifice parts of their sovereignty to supranational institutions to create a sustainable research and innovation area, but it requires that institutions throughout EU can create good conditions for each involved party. The study concludes that the liberal intergovernmentalism theory is best used to understand the development in this area and how it affects member states? sovereignty.

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