HOME ETLA (The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy) and BRIE, started a new round of collaborative research in 2008 to examine digital networks, ICT enhanced services and changing patterns of global digital service provision. The research team includes economists and political scientists both from Europe (ETLA, University of Jyväskylä (Finland), Imperial College (UK), and Scuola Superiore Sant Anna at the University of Pisa (Italy)), as well as from the U.S. (BRIE, the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy at the University of California at Berkeley,  and University of California at Davis). The project builds on the earlier research conducted during the earlier rounds of BRIE-ETLA collaborative research: The key findings of the first round were published in a collective volume by Stanford University Press (Zysman & Newman, 2006); some key findings of the research conducted in the second and partly in the third round were published in two special issues of the Review of Policy Research. The work is increasingly integrated to the work of CITRIS, The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (spanning over numerous departments at four UC campuses at Berkeley, Davis, Merced, and Santa Cruz). Research plan for 2009-10 The overall research program consists of three main research themes: –    Services –    Regulation –    Value chains The themes cover in an overlapping fashion the various aspects of digitalization of services, emerging new global division of labor in service provision (the “second unbundling”), as well as guiding principals of regulatory framework. As climate change is a key aspect of both globalization and innovation, ecological aspects of these themes will also be considered.