An interdisciplinary research team used
multiple methods of data collection and analysis, including an examination of public opinion polls; a media scan; observations and interviews with a broad
range of
actors.
The technology innovation process is complex and nonlinear; complex because it involves a
range of
actors and factors and nonlinear because technology innovation occurs through
multiple dynamic feedbacks between the stages of the process.
In this context, it must be emphasised that one of the finest features of this book is its balanced analysis,
ranging from institutional arrangements, the prior involvement procedure and the EU's autonomy (part I), over the allocation of responsibilities and the co-respondent mechanism (part II), the accommodation of
multiple actors in the future multi-level protection system of human rights (part III), the issue of legal pluralism within post-accession Europe (part IV), to the future common espace juridique and its potential expansion in areas of economic activity (part V).