9.30-10.00 : Continental breakfast
10.00-10.15 : Introduction by organizers

1. Measures of Competition and Industrial Dynamics: An Overview of the Evidence

Chair: Malerba F.

• 10.15-10.50 : Bartelsman E., Haltiwanger J., Scarpetta S. “Cross Country Differences in Productivity: The Role of Allocative Efficiency'” (abstract - paper - tables - presentation)
  
• 10.50-11.25 : Bottazzi G., Dosi G. “Productivity, Profitability, and Growth” (abstract - background paper - presentation)

11.25-11.40 : coffee break

• 11.40-12.15 : Mazzucato M., Tancioni M. “Radical innovation, volatility and growth: a comparison of different industries” (abstract - paper n°1 - paper n°2 - presentation)
• 12.15-12.45 : Vivarelli M., Santarelli E. “Entrepreneurship and the Process of Firms’ Entry, Survival And Growth” (abstract - paper - presentation)

12.45-13.45 : lunch

• 13.45-14.20 : Ghemawat P., Ghadar F. “Global integration global concentration” (abstract - paper)
• 14.20-14.50 : Gort M. discussant for Session 1
• 14.50-15.15 : general discussion

2. Competition Policy in Dynamic, Innovation-Led Markets: Lessons from Industry Case Studies

Chair: Mazzucato M. 

• 15.15-15.40 : *Bosma N., Stam E., Schutjens V.. “Creative destruction and regional competitiveness” (abstract - paper - presentation)
• 15.40-16.15 : *Coad A, Rao R. “Innovation and Firm Growth in High-Tech Sectors: A Quantile Regression Approach” (abstract - paper - presentation)

16.15-16.30 coffee break

• 16.30-17.05 : Gambardella A., Giarratana M. “Innovation for products, innovation for licensing: evidence from the software security industry" (abstract - paper - presentation)
• 17.05-17.40 : Malerba F., Nelson R., Orsenigo L., Winter S. "Public policies and changing boundaries of firms in a 'history friendly' model of the co-evolution of the computer and semiconductor industries” (abstract - paper - presentation)
• 17.40-18.10 : Nelson R. discussant for Session 2
• 18.10-18.40 : general discussion
• 20.00 : DINNER at the TATE MODERN for speakers and participants (see registration form)
  

3. The Theoretical Grounds of Competition and Industrial Policies

Chair: Simonetti R.

• 10.00-10.35 : Aghion P. and Howitt, P. “Appropriate Growth Policy: A Unifying Framework” (abstract - paper)
  
• 10.35-11.10 : *Kato M., Semmler W. “Dominant firms, barriers to entry capital and anti-trust policy” (abstract - paper - presentation)

11.10-11.25 : coffee break

• 11.25-12.00 : Bloom, N., Schankerman, M. and Van Reenan, J. “Identifying technology spillovers and product market rivalry” (abstract - paper - presentation)
• 12.00-12.35 : Winter S.  “Promoting patents and penalizing progress?  The hazards of simplistic thinking about technological opportunity” (abstract - presentation)

12.35-13.45 : lunch

• 13.45-14.20 : *Zirulia L., “Policy towards R&D cooperation and industry evolution” (abstract - paper - presentation)
• 14.20-14.50 : Dosi, G. discussant for Session 3
• 14.50-15.20 : General discussion

15.20-15.40 : coffee break

4. Where Does Practice Stand Vis-à-Vis Theory? A Dialogue between Economic Theory, Corporate Management and Policy Making” 

15.40-17.00 : Roundtable discussion

Chair and Introduction: Nelson, R. Professor, Columbia University

• Beffa J.L. CEO, Saint-Gobain
• Pryce V. Chief Economic Adviser & Director General of UK Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)
• Winter S. Professor, Wharton School
• Metcalfe, S. Professor, University of Manchester

17.00-18.00 : General discussion

18.00-18.20 : Concluding remarks

*=papers by junior researchers selected via call for papers

Organisers: Mariana Mazzucato (Open Univ.), Giovanni Dosi (Sant’Anna Univ., Pisa), Franco Malerba (Bocconi Univ.), Roberto Simonetti (Open Univ.)

Sponsors: Innovation, Knowledge and Development centre (IKD, Open University), EU Framework VI ‘network of
excellence’ Dynamics of Institutions and Markets in Europe (DIME), ESRC Centre for Social and Economic Research on Innovation in Genomics (Innogen, Open University and Univ. of Edinburgh).

Sponsor’s  websites:  http://www.open.ac.uk/ikd,  http://www.dime-eu.org/, http://www.genomicsnetwork.ac.uk/innogen/