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