Friday the 19th of March 2004

9.00 - 9.45 Registration

9.45 -  11.00 Opening Plenary

Keynote speaker Richard Nelson (Columbia University - USA) “The roles of research at universities and public labs in innovation systems”

11.00 - 11.30 Coffee break

11.30 -12.45 Session 1: Industry relationships with universities and public laboratories

Chair and discussion leader: John Cantwell (Rutgers University – USA)

¨    Francesco Aiello (University of Calabria - Italy) “Does cooperation with universities matter in determining R&D spillovers? Evidence from Italian manufacturing microdata”

¨    Jeffrey Furman (Boston University - USA)  and Richard Hayes (University of Melbourne - Australia) “Catching up or standing still?  National innovative productivity among ‘follower’ nations, 1980-2000”

¨    Erol Taymaz and Aykut Lenger (Middle East Technical University  – Turkey) “Innovation networks and foreign firms in developing countries: the Turkish case”

12.45 - 14.00 Panel 1: The science-technology interface, and business innovation and entrepreneurship

Chair and discussion leader: Cristiano Antonelli (University of Turin - Italy)

¨    Salvatore Barbagallo (Wyeth Lederle) “Pharmaceutical industry and public research institutions: the bridge from science to drugs”

¨     John Cantwell (Rutgers University –USA) “Science-technology relationships across industries”

14.00 - 15.00 Lunch

15.00 - 16.45 Session 2: Local education and training systems

Chair and discussion leader: Giovanni Dosi (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna di Pisa - Italy)

¨    Mónica Martínez Pellitero  and Thomas Baumert (Universidad Complutense de Madrid - Spain) “Creating a regional typology of innovation capacity: the Spanish case”

¨    M. Conceição Rego (University of Evora - Portugal) “Universities and economically depressed regions: how strong is the influence of the university of Evora in the regional human capital?”

16.45 - 17.00 Coffee break

17.00 -18.15 Panel 2: The interaction between firms and other actors in the process of knowledge creation and diffusion

Chair and discussion leader: Richard Nelson (Columbia University - USA)

¨    Cristiano Antonelli  (University of Turin - Italy) “The governance of technological knowledge: strategies, processes and public policies”

¨    John Cantwell (Rutgers University – USA) “Technological strategies of the largest foreign-owned MNCs in the European regions” 

¨    Giovanni Dosi (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna di Pisa - Italy) "Toward a manifesto for “useless” science: some worried notes on the fragility of the governance of knowledge generation in contemporary societies".

20.30 Dinner

9.00-10.30 Panel 3: The linkages between university science and industrial technology - direct or indirect?

Chair and discussion leader: John Cantwell (Rutgers University – USA)

¨  Cristiano Antonelli (University of Turin -  Italy) “To sell or to use technological knowledge”

¨  Richard Nelson (Columbia University - USA) "Universities and industrial innovation in the U.S."  

¨ Carmelo Papa  (ST Microelectronics) “The role of Catania University in supporting ST's R&D development”    

10.30-11.00 Coffee break

11.00-12.15 Session 3 Local science and technology policy

Chair and discussion leader: Richard Nelson (Columbia University - USA)

¨    Mario Calderini (Polytechnic of Turin – Italy) and Chiara Franzoni (University of Bergamo - Italy) “Who is patenting in public research? And to detriment of what? An empirical analysis of the relationship between scientific careers and patent applications”

¨    Jean-Jacques Degroof (MIT - USA) “Academic spin-off policies in regions outside high tech clusters:  can university policies substitute for a weak entrepreneurial environment?”

¨    Roberto Mazzoleni (Hofstra University - USA) “The development of universities and public research institutions: an historical overview of its role in technological and economic catch up”

12.15- 13.30 Session 4: International business linkages between foreign-owned multinationals and local actors

Chair and discussion leader: John Cantwell (Rutgers University – USA)

¨    Christian Bellak (Vienna University of Economics -Austria) “Fostering local growth: is attracting foreign high-tech multinationals sufficient?”

¨     Davide Castellani and Antonello Zanfei (University of Urbino - Italy) “Multinationals, innovation and productivity. Evidence from Italian manufacturing firms”

¨      Marco Giarratana (Universidad Carlos III - Spain), Alessandro Pagano (University of Urbino - Italy) and Salvatore Torrisi (University of Camerino - Italy) “Are multinational firms a source of knowledge spillovers from domestic firms? Evidence from the software industry in India, Ireland and Israel”.

13.30- 14.30 Lunch

14.30-15.45 Session 5: Connections (or lack of them) between universities and public laboratories, and multinationals

Chair: Giovanni Dosi (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna di Pisa - Italy)

¨  Silvia Almaza (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), Rosa Luz González (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana - Azcapotzalco) and Hilda C. Hernández (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)  “Linking academic research centers with the productive sector in developing countries: a strategic  planning tool to improve absorptive capacity”

¨   Rosalia Epifanio (Università degli Studi di Palermo - Italy) “Positive forces and vicious mechanisms behind innovative activity in a backward region”

¨   Cees van Beers (Delft University of Technology – The Netherlands), Elina Bergll (VATT - Finland) and Tom Poot “Integration of multinational enterprises' R&D investment in National Innovation Systems in small countries. A comparison between Finland and The Netherlands”

15.45- 16.00 Coffee break

16.00-17.15 Keynote speaker's Closing panel Richard Nelson (Columbia University - USA)

20.30 Informal dinner