Programme : Demand, Product Characteristics and Innovation
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Jena, Germany, October 18-19, 2007
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2007
8:30 – 9:00 Registration and Coffee
Room: Rosensaele ‘Large’
9:00 – 9:15 Welcome: U. Cantner
Plenary Session 1:
Room: Rosensaele ‘Large’
Chair: A. Chai
9:15 – 10:00 P.P. Saviotti: “Structural change and economic development: the role of demand”
10:00 – 10:45 H. Grupp and I. Haller: “Product characteristics: measurements by metric re-scaling”
10:45 – 11:00 Q&As
11:00 – 11:30 COFFEE BREAK
Parallel Session 1a:
Product characteristics and innovation: historical studies
Room: Rosensaele ‘Large’
Chair: J. S. Worsdorfer
11:30 – 11:50 S. Mendonça: “Steam ships as a high tech capital good of the past. An analysis of market segment heterogeneity and changing product characteristics”
11:50 – 12:10 S. van der Wal: “Evolutionary change in automotive technology: long term developments, artefacts, producers and consumers”
12:10 – 12:30 C. Castaldi, R. Fontana, A. Nuvolari: “Chariots of fire. The evolution of tank technology 1915-1945”
12:30 – 12:45 Discussant: K. Frenken
12:45 – 13:00 Q&As
Parallel Session 1b:
Learning and the emergence of product niches
Room: Rosensaele ‘Small’
Chair: N. Corrocher
11:30 – 11:50 C. Castaldi, F. J. van Rijnsoever: “A knowledge based model for learning about innovation”
11:50 – 12:10 L. Magazzini, F. Pammolli, R. Riccaboni: “Who's doing what in pharmaceutical R&D?”
12:10 – 12:30 M. Guerzoni: “Product variety in the US automobile industry: a niche market analysis”
12:30 – 12:45 Discussant: A. Coad
12:45 – 13:00 Q&As
13:00 – 14:00 LUNCH BREAK
Parallel Session 2a:
The co-evolution of demand and innovation
Room: Rosensaele ‘Large’
Chair: E. Brouillat
14:00 – 14:20 K. Safarzynska, J. van den Bergh: “Policy for system transitions. Demand supply co-evolution with multiple increasing returns”
14:20 – 14:40 J. S. Worsdorfer: “The demand for 'cleanliness' and energy conservation policies: the case of clothes washing”
14:40 – 15:00 C. Castaldi, F. J. van Rijnsoever: “Perceived interrelations and patterns in ownership among technologies”
15:00 – 15:15 Discussant: C. Castaldi
15:15 – 15:30 Q&As
Parallel Session 2b:
Demand and innovation in services
Room: Rosensaele ‘Small’
Chair: A. Lorentz
14:00 – 14:20 N. Corrocher, L. Zirulia: “Demand and innovation in services: the case of mobile communications”
14:20 – 14:40 E. Iversen, R. Tee: “Competing for centrality – a nested hierarchy approach for the establishment of core components in the smartphone market”
14:40 – 15:00 A. Chai, M. Guerzoni: “When differentiation does not pay: A note on the development of hotel characteristics in the Majorcan accommodation sector, 1971-1998”
15:00 – 15:15 Discussant: R. Fontana
15:15 – 15:30 Q&As
15:30 – 16:00 COFFEE BREAK
Plenary Session 2:
Room: Rosensaele ‘Large’
Chair: M. Guerzoni
16:00 – 16:45 F. Gallouj: “Innovation in services: a characteristics-based approach”
16:45 – 17:30 A. Stirling: “A novel framework for analysing diversity in innovation systems”
17:30 – 17:45 Q&As
Room: Rosensaele ‘Large’
17:45 – 18:30 P. Saviotti: “Presentation DIME – ‘XY’ Product Characteristics Dataset Project”
20:00 CONFERENCE DINNER
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2007
8:45 – 9:15 Coffee
Plenary Session 3:
Room: Rosensaele ‘Large’
Chair: A. Nuvolari
9:15 – 10:00 K. Frenken: “A complex systems methodology to transition management”
10:00 – 10:45 G. Silverberg: “Complexity approaches to innovation and product lifecycles”
10:45 – 11:00 Q&As
11:00 – 11:30 COFFEE BREAK
Parallel Session 3a:
Product differentiation and innovation
Room: Rosensaele ‘Large’
Chair: S. van der Wal
11:30 – 11:50 A. Frenzel Baudisch: “These boots are not made for walking: a demand-based analysis of the evolution of the US footwear industry”
11:50 – 12:10 N. Corrocher, M. Guerzoni: “Variety generation and price evolution in the ski manufacturing industry”
12:10 – 12:30 A. Coad: “Exploring the distribution of product quality”
12:30 – 12:45 Discussant: A. Nuvolari
12:45 – 13:00 Q&As
Parallel Session 3b:
The dynamics of innovation and demand: modelling approaches
Room: Rosensaele ‘Small’
Chair: K. Safarzynska
11:30 – 11:50 A. Cuntz: “Sequential innovation, heterogeneous demand and gravity on the technological path”
11:50 – 12:10 E. Brouillat: “Innovation strategies and end of life products: an evolutionary modelling”
12:10 – 12:30 T. Ciarli, A. Lorentz, M. Savona, M. Valente: “Structural Change of Production and Consumption: A Micro to Macro Approach to Growth”
12:30 – 12:45 Discussant: L. Marengo
12:45 – 13:00 Q&As
13:00 – 14:30 LUNCH BREAK
Final Round Table on:
Innovation product characteristics and demand
Room: Rosensaele ‘Large’
Chair: F. Malerba
14:30 – 15:15 Introductory remarks by participants
P. P. Saviotti
K. Frenken
G. Silverberg
15:15 – 16:00 General discussion
16:00 – 16:15 Concluding remarks
20:00 DINNER
Format:
Plenary sessions: 45 minutes each presentation + Q&As
Parallel sessions: 20 minutes each presentation + 1 discussants (15 minutes) + Q&As