Program of "Knowledge and Economy"
Wednesday, June 25
Thursday, June 26
Friday, June 27
Saturday, June 28
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Session 1: Geographies of Knowledge Innovation
Chair: Edward Malecki (Geography), The Ohio State University (USA)
Knowledge Creation and the Geographies of Real, Virtual, and Relational Space
Harald Bathelt (Geography), University of Toronto (Canada)
Knowledge and Development
Jan Fagerberg (Economics), University of Oslo (Norway)
Coffee Break
An Empirical Test for General Purpose Technology: An Examination of the Cohen-Boyer’s rDNA Technology
Maryann Feldman (Higher Education), University of Georgia(USA)
General Discussion
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Session 2: Global Knowledge Transfer
Chair: Harald Bathelt (Political Science), University of Toronto (Canada)
The U.S. – European Innovation Gap: Do Differences in Economic Geography Matter?
Christian Ketels (Economics), Harvard Business School (USA)
Knowledge in Economic Theory – Changing Perceptions of Knowledge and Intellectual Assets as Property
Waltraut Ritter (Information Science), Knowledge Enterprises (Hong Kong)
Coffee Break
Islands of Expertise – Analysing Global Knowledge Transfer in a Technology Service Firm
Johannes Glückler (Geography), Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (Germany)
Economics, Geography and Producing ‘Development’
Eric Stewart Sheppard (Geography), University of Minnesota (USA)
General Discussion
Friday, June 27, 2008
Session 3: Economy, Knowledge, and Governance
Chair: Eric Stewart Sheppard (Geography), University of Minnesota (USA)
Creativity: Who, When, Where?
Edward Malecki (Geography), The Ohio State University (USA)
Coffee Break
KnowledgeScapes within Governance Arenas
Ulf Matthiesen (Sociology), Humboldt-University of Berlin (Germany)
General Discussion
Lunch
Session 4: The Dynamics of Knowledge Production
Chair: Waltraut Ritter (Information Science), Knowledge Enterprises (Hong Kong)
A Microeconomic Approach of the Dynamics of the Production of New Knowledge
Patrick Cohendet (Economics), HEC Montréal (Canada)
The Neglected King: The Customer in the New Knowledge Ecology of Innovation
Gernot Grabher (Geography), University of Bonn (Germany)
Coffee Break
General Discussion
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Session 5: Commodification and Scientific Research
Chair: Johannes Glückler (Geography), Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (Germany)
Basic Research and Growth Policies
Hans Gersbach (Economics), ETH Zürich (Switzerland)
Coffee Break
Knowing ‘Mycellf’™: Exploring Personalized Medicine and Emerging Markets in Knowledge of ‘bodily fate’
Bronwyn Parry (Geography), University of London (UK)
General Discussion
Lunch
Final Discussion: Perspectives on Future Research in Knowledge, Economy & Space
