Session 2: REGIONAL AND POLICY DIMENSIONS OF INNOVATION AND GROW
Policy for the knowledge economies
Outline of the week
This week will explore the growing role played by Science, Technology and Innovation policies in modern economies, and to which extent their design, implementation and evaluation take into account the specificities of knowledge-based economies. Will notably be emphasized the renewed importance of science policy and the role of universities, the evolution of European policies, the role of policy towards Venture Capital and the coherence with some other policies addressing social and environmental needs and industrial issues.
Coordinators
- Laurent BACH, BETA, University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France
- Aldo GEUNA, SPRU, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
Teaching staff
- Laurent BACH, BETA, University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France;
- Aldo GEUNA, SPRU, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK;
- Georg LICHT, ZEW, Mannheim, Germany;
- Terttu LUUKKONEN, The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy, Helsinki, Finland;
- Luigi ORSENIGO, Universita degli Studi di Breschia and Cespri, Bocconi University, Italy ;
- Keith SMITH, Australian Innovation Research Center, Tasmania, Australia
- Nick VONORTAS, The George Washington University, USA
Monday, June 23rd
- 9.00 - 9.15: Introduction to the week.
- 9.15 - 10.45: Lecture 1 : Laurent BACH - STI Policy rationales. Part I : Paradigms
- 11.15 - 12.45: Lecture 2 : Aldo GEUNA - STI Policy rationales. Part II : Universities and public research
- 14.00 - 16.00: Lecture 3 : Laurent BACH - Policy for STI and Policy for Creativity: the case of the music industry
- 16.15 - 17.45: PhD presentation n°1 (Senior discussant: Aldo GEUNA)
Tuesday, June 24th
- 9.00 - 10.45: Lecture 4 : Luigi ORSENIGO - Public policies in dynamic and co-evolving industries: exercises on a model of computers and semiconductors
- 11.00 - 12.45: Lecture 5 : Georg LICHT - R&D tax credits. Rationales, design and evaluation
- 14.00 - 16.00: Lecture 6 : Luigi ORSENIGO - Is the linear model completely wrong? And is it still alive?
- 16.15 - 17.45: PhD presentation n°2 (Senior discussant: Luigi ORSENIGO)
Wednesday, June 25th
- 9.00 - 11.00: Lecture 7 : Georg LICHT - Business Angels and HighTechStartups
- 11.15 - 12.45: PhD presentation n°3 (Senior discussant: Georg LICHT)
- 14.00 - 16.00: Lecture 8 : Keith SMITH - The Technology Policy Challenges of Climate Change
- 16.15 - 17.45: PhD presentation n°4 (Senior discussant: Keith SMITH)
Thursday, June 26th
- 9.00 - 11.00: Lecture 9 : Terttu LUUKKONEN - Venture capital and the promotion of high tech clusters
- 11.15 - 12.45: Lecture 10 : Keith SMITH - Knowledge Infrastructures and Innovation Policies
- 14.00 - 17.00: Special session on evaluation of STI policies - with Laurent BACH, Aldo GEUNA, Nick VONORTAS
Friday, June 27th
- 9.00 - 11.00: Lecture 11 : Nick VONORTAS - Collaborative networks and the impact of EC FP5/FP6 : results from the InnovImpact study
- 11.15 - 12.45: PhD presentation n°5 (Senior discussant: Nick VONORTAS)
- Summary conclusion
Geography of innovation and growth : theory and empirics
Outline of the week
Technological change is the single most important drive of long run economic growth. In the recent economics literature scientists’ interests turned heavily to the regional dimension of this process that is the extent to which spatial proximity and agglomeration of the actors in innovation contribute to the effectiveness of the system both in terms of technological development and per capita growth. The focus of the first Pécs week is on the current state of affairs of this field in theory, empirical research and methodology. Leading international experts provide overviews from the theoretical perspectives of the new economic geography and evolutionary geography and summarize empirical results in entrepreneurship research and the geography of innovation. Sessions on spatial econometrics and spatial computable general equilibrium modeling are also provided to introduce students to empirical research methodology.
Coordinators
- Ron BOSCHMA, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Attila VARGA, University of Pécs, Hungary
Teaching staff
- Ron BOSCHMA, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands,
- Giulio BOTTAZZI, Scuola Superiore S. Anna, Pisa, Italy,
- Stefano BRESCHI, Bocconi University, Italy,
- Mario MAGGIONI, Catholic University of Milan, Italy,
- Frank van OORT, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands,
- Stefano USAI, University of Cagliari, Italy,
- Attila VARGA, University of Pécs, Hungary
Monday, June 30
- 9.00 - 10.45: Overview: Innovation, geography and growth – Attila VARGA
- 11:00 – 12:45: Evolutionary economic geography – Ron BOSCHMA
- 14.00 - 16.00: PhD Presentation n°1 (Senior discussant: Attila VARGA)
- 16.15 - 17.45: PhD Presentation n°2 (Senior discussant: Ron BOSCHMA)
Tuesday, July 1
- 9.00 - 11.00: Localized knowledge flows and innovation – Stefano USAI
- 11.15 - 12.45: Interregional knowledge interactions in Europe – Mario MAGGIONI
- 14.00 - 16.00: PhD Presentation n°3 (Senior discussant: Stefano USAI)
- 16.15 - 17.45: PhD Presentation n°4 (Senior discussant: Mario MAGGIONI)
Wednesday, July 2
- 9.00 - 11.00: Modeling the spatial pattern of economic activities from an evolutionary perspective – Giulio BOTTAZZI
- 11.15 - 12.45: PhD Presentation n°5 (Senior discussant: Giulio BOTTAZZI)
- 14.00 - 16.00: Related variety, labor mobility and regional development – Ron BOSCHMA
Thursday, July 3
- 9.00 - 11.00: Methodology of testing agglomeration economies – Frank van OORT
- 11.15 - 12.45: PhD Presentation n°6 (Senior discussant: Frank van OORT)
- 14.00 - 16.00: Localized academic knowledge transfers and the structure of international research networks – Attila VARGA
- 16.15 - 17:00: PhD Presentation n°7 (Senior discussant: Stefano BRESCHI)
Friday, July 4
- 9.00 - 11.00: The geography of knowledge spillovers: Patent analysis – Stefano BRESCHI
- 11.15 - 12.45: Summing up and closing – Ron BOSCHMA and Attila VARGA