DIMETIC October 10th-21st, 2005

MERIT, Maastricht (The Netherlands)

 

 

PROGRAMME

(30/09/2005)

 

 

Week 1: History, Theory and Empirics

 

Teaching staff 

Robin COWAN, MERIT/BETA (Coordinator), The Netherlands/France

Paola GIURI, Sant'Anna School, Pisa, Italy

Roger LEE, Queen Mary University of London, UK

Pierre MOHNEN, MERIT, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Alessandro NUVOLARI, ECIS, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Bart VERSPAGEN, ECIS, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

 

Monday, October 10th

10.00 – 10.30: Welcome by the coordinator of the week

 

10.30-12.30 Paola GIURI

Lecture 1: Introductory lecture: Theory and reality: using history, theory and empirical analysis to understand economic phenomena and to inform policy debates

 

14.00-16.00: Roger LEE

Lecture 2: Rethinking economy and the social construction of value

1 Principles

16.15 - 17.45: PhD Presentation n° 1: Sandra VINCIGUERRA. Junior discussant: Roderik PONDS. Senior discussant: Roger LEE

 

Tuesday, October 11th

9.00-11.00: Roger LEE

Lecture 3: Rethinking economy and the social construction of value

2 Two case studies: community and knowledge

11.15 - 12.45: PhD presentation n°2:  Benoît CHALVIGNAC. Junior discussant: Michiel PIETERS. Senior discussant: Roger LEE

 

14.00-16.00: Bart VERSPAGEN

Lecture 4: The making of Innovation Studies as an emerging academic discipline. A network-theoretic view

16.15 - 17.45: PhD Presentation n° 3: Moritz MÜLLER. Junior discussant: Rekha RAO. Senior discussant: Bart VERSPAGEN.

 

Wednesday, October 12th

9.00-11.00: Robin COWAN

Lecture 5: Networks and Knowledge Flows

11.15 - 12.45: PhD presentation n°4:  Rekha RAO. Junior discussant: Charlotta GUSTAFSSON. Senior discussant: Robin COWAN

 

14.00-16.00: Pierre MOHNEN

Lecture 6: The returns to R&D: R&D and productivity data

 

Thursday, October 13th

9.00-11.00: Pierre MOHNEN

Lecture 7: The returns to R&D: R&D, innovation and productivity data

11.15 - 12.45: PhD presentation n°5:  Charlotta GUSTAFSSON. Junior discussant: Anne ter WAL. Senior discussant: Pierre MOHNEN

 

14.00-16.00: Paola GIURI

Lecture 8: Economics of patents and intellectual property rights: theory, institutional changes and empirics

16.15 - 17.45: PhD Presentation n° 6: Roderik PONDS. Junior discussant: Judith KAROLY BEDONE. Senior discussant: Paola GIURI

 

Friday, October 14th

9.00-11.00: Alessandro NUVOLARI

Lecture 9: Historical examinations of innovation: The steam Engine

11.15 - 12.45: PhD presentation n°7:Michiel PIETERS. Junior discussant: Benoît CHALVIGNAC . Senior discussant: Alessandro NUVOLARI

 

14.00-16.00: Robin COWAN 

Lecture 10: Networks – a summary discussion

 

 

READINGS

 

Lecture 1: Paola Giuri

Theory and reality: using history, theory and empirical analysis to understand economic phenomena and to inform policy debates

 

Rosenberg N. (1976), „Technological change in the machine tool industry, 1840-1919, in Perspectives on Technology, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Bresnahan T. F. e Trajtenberg, M. (1995), „General Purpose Technologies “Engines of Growth”, Journal of Econometrics, 65:83-108.

Arora, A., Fosfuri, A., and Gambardella, A. (2001) Specialized Technology Suppliers, International Spillovers and Investment: Evidence from the Chemical Industry, Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 65 (1), pp. 31-54.

 

Lecture 6: Pierre Mohnen

 

Griliches, Zvi (1995), "R&D and productivity: Econometric results and measurement issues", in P. Stoneman (ed.), Handbook of the Economics of Innovation and Technical Change. Blackwell Handbooks of Economics

 

Mairesse, J. and M. Sassenou (1991), "R&D and productivity: a survey of econometric studies at the firm level", STI Review, OECD, 8, 9-46.

 

Mohnen, P. (2001), "International R&D spillovers and economic growth", in Information Technology, Productivity, and Economic Growth: International Evidence and Implications for Economic Development. Matti Pohjola (ed.), Oxford University Press.

 

 

Lecture 7: Pierre Mohnen

 

Guellec, D. and B. Pattinson (2001), "Innovation surveys: A few lessons from OECD countries experience", STI Review, 27

 

Crépon, B., E. Duguet and J. Mairesse (1998), Research and development, innovation and productivity: An econometric analysis at the firm level", Economics of Innovation and New Technologies, 7(2), 115-158

 

Lecture 8: Paola Giuri

 

Kortum, S., and Lerner, J. (1999) “What is Behind the Recent Surge in Patenting”, Research Policy 28, 1-22.

Gallini N.T. (2002), The economics of patents: Lessons from Recent US Patent Reform, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 16, 131-154.

Hall B.H., Ziedonis R.H. (2001), The patent paradox revisited: an empirical study of patenting in the U.S. semiconductor industry, 1979-1995, Rand Journal of Economics, 32, 101-128.

Gans, J.S., D.H. Hsu, S. Stern, (2003), “When does start-up innovation spur the gale of creative destruction?”, Rand Journal of Economics, 33 (4), pp. 571-586

 

Further  readings

Mazzoleni, R. Nelson, R. (1998) “The benefits and costs of strong patent protection: a contribution to the current debate”, Research Policy 27, 273-284.

Cohen W.M., Nelson R.R., Walsh J.P (2000), Protecting their intellectual assets: Appropriability conditions and why U.S. manufacturing firms patent (or not), NBER Working Papers 7552.

Giuri P., Mariani M. and all partners of the PatValEU project (2005),  “Everything you always wanted to know about inventors (but never asked): Evidence from the PatVal-EU survey”, LEM Working Paper No. 2005/20, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa

Arora, A. and M. Ceccagnoli, (2004), Profiting from licensing: The role of patent protection and commercialisation capabilities, Working Paper Carnegie Mellon University.

 

 

 


 

Week 2: Systems of Innovation and Technology Policy

 

Teaching staff

Laurent BACH, BETA, University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France

Bent DALUM, DRUID/IKE, Aalborg University, Denmark (coord.)

Patrick LLERENA, BETA, University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France

Frieder MEYER-KRAHMER, ISI, Karlsruhe, Germany

Ed STEINMUELLER, SPRU, University of Sussex, UK.

 

 

Monday, 17 October

Ed STEINMUELLER

Lecture 1: The Systems of Innovation Approach.

11.15 - 12.45: PhD presentation n°1:  Kari KRISTINSSON. Junior discussant: Sjoerd van de WAL. Senior discussant: Ed STEINMUELLER.

 

14.00 - 16.00: Bent DALUM

Lecture 2: Sectoral and Regional Systems of Innovation.

16.15 - 17.45: PhD presentation n°2: Rime AL-SAYED. Junior discussant: Fernando SANTIAGO RODRIGUEZ. Senior discussant: Bent DALUM.

 

 

Tuesday, 18 October

9.00 - 11.00:  Ed STEINMUELLER

Lecture 3: Social Network Analysis and Science and Technology Policy

11.15 - 12.45: PhD presentation n°3: Sjoerd van de WAL. Junior discussant:  Kari KRISTINSSON. Senior discussant: Ed STEINMUELLER

 

14.00 - 16.00:  Ed STEINMUELLER

Lecture 4: Technological Systems and Innovation

16.15 - 17.45: PhD Presentation n° 4: Anne ter WAL. Junior discussant: Moritz MÜLLER. Senior discussant: Ed STEINMUELLER

 

 

Wednesday, 19 October

9.00 - 11.00:  Bent DALUM

Lecture 5: Regional Clusters and the Policy Dimension: The Case of the Wireless Communications Cluster in North Jutland, Denmark

11.15 - 12.45: PhD presentation n°5: Judith KAROLY BEDONE. Junior discussant: Rime AL-SAYED. Senior discussant: Bent DALUM.

 

14.00 - 16.00:  Bent DALUM

Lecture 6: National Systems and Science, Technology and Innovation Policy

 

 

Thursday, 20 October

9.00 - 11.00: Frieder MEYER-KRAHMER

Lecture 7: European Research Area-Perspectives and Policy Dilemmas.

11.15 - 12.45: PhD presentation n°6: Fernando SANTIAGO RODRIGUEZ .  Junior discussant: Andrea PARAG. Senior discussant: Laurent BACH.

 

14.00 - 16.00: Laurent BACH

Lecture 8: How Do We Evaluate Policy Performance?

16.15 - 17.45: PhD Presentation n°7: Andrea PARAG. Junior discussant: Sandra VINCIGUERRA. Senior discussant: Frieder MEYER KRAHMER

 

 

Friday, 21 October

9.00 - 11.00: Patrick LLERENA

Lecture 9: Science, Technology, Industry Links: Misinterpretation and Consequence.

11.15 - 12.45: Faculty Roundtable: The DIME Network of Excellence: Opportunities and Coming Attractions. Patrick LLERENA and Bent DALUM. Evaluation of the two weeks.

 

 

 

READINGS

 

Lecture 1/ Steinmueller

To build the broadest foundation for understanding this week, it is helpful to read all four of these references.  They are, however, arranged in priority. 

B-A. Lundvall, B. Johnson, E.S. Andersen, and B. Dalum (2002) “National Systems of Production, Innovation and Competence Building”, Research Policy 39(2), pp. 213-231.

Freeman, C. (2002) “Continental, National and Sub-National Innovation Systems:
Complementarity and Economic growth” Research Policy 39(2), pp. 191-211.

Also to be considered in the lecture:

M. Abramovitz (1989), ‘Thinking About Growth’ in Thinking About Growth, Cambridge University Press, pp. 3-79.

Bo Carlsson, Staffan Jacobsson, Magnus Holmén, Annika Rickne (2002) “Innovation systems: analytical and methodological issues,” Research Policy 39(2), pp. 233–245.

 

Lecture 2/Dalum

Malerba, F. (2005) “Sectoral Systems: How and Why Innovation Differs across sectors” in Fagerberg, Mowery and Nelson (eds.) TheOxford Handbook of Innovation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Asheim, B. and Gertler, M. (2005) “The Geography of Innovation: Regional Innovation Systems” in Fagerberg, Mowery and Nelson (eds.) TheOxford Handbook of Innovation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

 

Lecture 3/Steinmueller

These are both background readings illustrating the types of applications being made of Social Network Analysis rather than an explication of the methodology (which requires book length treatement).  Our aim is to introduce the area…

M. Riccaboni, W.W. Powell, F. Pammolli, and B Owen-Smith, “Public Research and Industrial Innovation: A comparison of US and European Innovations Systems in the Life Sciences” in A. Geuna, A. Salter, and W. E. Steinmueller, Science and Innovation: Rethinking the Rationales for Funding and Governance, pp.  169-201.

Foresight Programme, “The Foresight Cognitive-Systems Project: New Methods for Scientific Research Co-ordination?”  20 April 2004.

 

Lecture 4/Steinmueller

The following two readings are about both the international division of knowledge labour and the specific role of technological systems in this division and specialisation:

 

Boy Lüthje, Global Production Networks and Industrial Upgrading in China: The Case of Electronics Contract Manufacturing, East-West Center Working Papers, Economic Series, No. 74, October 2004, (Desktop Access: http://www.eastwestcenter.org/stored/pdfs/ECONwp074.pdf )

 

Allan M. Williams, Vladimir Balá, and Claire Wallace (2004), “International Labour Mobility and Uneven Regional Development in Europe,” European Urban and Regional Studies, Vol. 11, No. 1, 27-46.  ( Desktop access: http://eur.sagepub.com/cgi/content/refs/11/1/27 )

 

The following readings extend and develop further questions about the international division of knowledge labour:

 

Gary S. Becker and Kevin M. Murphy (1992), "The Division of Labor, Coordination Costs, and Knowledge," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, MIT Press, Vol. 107(4), pages 1137-60. (For those with JSTOR access desktop access: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0033-5533%28199211%29107%3A4%3C1137%3ATDOLCC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-8 )  [Ideas- repec cross-references (for interest) http://ideas.repec.org/p/fth/chicer/92-5.html]

 

Nagesh Kumar, “Developing countries in international division of labour in software and service industry: Lessons from Indian experience,” ILO World Employment Report 2001,.  (Desktop access: http://www.bib.ulb.ac.be/cdrom/wer_lawitie/back/ind_toc.htm )

 

Ursula Huws, A New Virtual Global Division of Labour? Some lessons from the EMERGENCE project (Desktop access: http://www.itas.fzk.de/tatup/033/huws03a.htm )

 

 

Lecture 5/Dalum

Dalum, B., Pedersen, C. and Villumsen, G. (2005) “Technological Life-Cycles: Lessons From a Cluster Facing Disruption”, European Urban and Regional Studies. Vol. 12, No. 3.

M. S. Dahl, C. Pedersen, Christian and B. Dalum, Bent (2003) ”Entry by Spinoff in a High-tech Cluster”. DRUID Working Paper  No. 11-2003.

 

Lecture 6/Dalum

Lundvall, B-A and Borras, S. (2005) “Science, technology and Innovation Policy” in Fagerberg, Mowery and Nelson (eds.) TheOxford Handbook of Innovation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Pavitt, K (1998) “The Inevitable Limits of EU R&D Funding”, Research Policy, Vol. 27, No. 6.

A web based tour through of the EU Information Society Technologies (IST) programmes within the 6th Framework Programme with special emphasis on the wireless communications field.

http://europa.eu.int/information_society/research/index_en.htm

 

 Lecture 7/ Meyer-Krahmer

Jakob Edler, Stefan Kuhlmann, Maria Behrens (2004): Changing Governance of Research and Technology Polica: The European Resaearch Area, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.

 

Lecture 8/ Laurent Bach

L. Bach et al. (1995), “Evaluation of the economic effects of BRITE-EURAM programmes on the European industry”, Scientometrics, Vol. 34, n°3, pp. 325-349.

L. Bach and L. Georghiou (1998) “The Nature and Scope of RTD Impact Measurement”, International Workshop on Measurement of RTD Results/Impact, Brussels, May.

L. Georghiou L. and D. Roessner (2000) “Evaluating technology programs: tools and methods”, Research Policy, Vol. 29, pp. 657-678.

 

Lecture 9/Llerena

P. Cohendet and F. Meyer-Krahmer (2001) “The Theoretical and Policy Implications of Knowledge Codification”, Research Policy, Vol. 30, No. 9.

 

Dosi G., Llerena P., Sylos-Labini M., (2005a): “Science-Technology-Industry Links and the ”European Paradox”: Some Notes on the Dynamics of Scientific and Technological Research in Europe, WP BETA, 2005-11

(http://cournot2.u- strasbg.fr/users/beta/publications/WP/article.php?SELECTWP=2005-11)

 

Dosi G., Llerena P., Sylos-Labini M., (2005b): “Evaluating and Comparing the innovation performance of the United States and the European Union“, May 2005, repoort for the TrendChart ‘Innovation Policy in Europe’, EU

(http://trendchart.cordis.lu/scoreboards/scoreboard2005/scoreboard_papers.cfm)

 

Geuna, A., A. Salter and W.E. Steinmuller (2003). Science and Innovation: Re­thinking the Rationale for Funding and Governance. Cheltenham, Edward Elgar.

 

Kline, S.J. and N. Rosenberg (1986). ”An Overview of Innovation.” In The Positive Sum Strategy: Harnessing Technology for Economic Growth, Washington DC, National Academy Press.

 

Nelson, R.R. (2004) ”The Market Economy, and the Scientific Commons.” Re­search Policy, 33(3), 455-471.

 

Pavitt, K. (2001). ”Public Policies to Support Basic Research: What Can the Rest of the World Learn from US Theory and Practice? (And What they Should not Learn).” Industrial and Corporate Change, 10(3), 761­-779.