Co-ordinators: Robin Cowan; Peter Maskell

Objectives

This WP consisted of two research actions. The first one employed simulations and analytical modeling to study networks of knowledge. The second instead focused on the empirical analysis of networks.

Past Events

• Conference on: ‘Knowledge, innovation and competitiveness: dynamics of Firms, networks, regions and institutions’ was held at Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen on June 18-20 2006.
  The original call for papers can be seen at: http://www2.druid.dk/conferences/index.php?cf=8
  The workshop website is available at: http://www.druid.dk/conferences/summer2006/

Co-ordinators: Robin Cowan; Peter Maskell; Maureen McKelvey

Objectives

Provide an integrated analysis of role of networks at different stages of industry evolution in different technological as well as geographical contexts.

Description of work

Extending the theoretical and empirical analysis of the linkages between entrepreneurship, network architecture and industry evolution.

Main events

• Workshop on: 'Distributed Networks and the Knowledge-based Economy' was held at GREDEG-DEMOS, Sophia Antipolis in Nice on 10-11 May 2007.
  The original call for paper can be seen at: http://www.dime-eu.org/Distributed_Networks_and_the_Knowledge-based_Economy
  The workshop website is available at: http://www.gredeg.cnrs.fr/Colloques/Dime/
• Conference on: 'Knowledge Based Entrepreneurship: Innovation, Networks, and Systems' was held at CESPRI-Bocconi University in Milan on June 4-5, 2007.
  The original call for paper can be seen at: http://www.dime-eu.org/knowledge-based-entrepreneurship
  The conference website is available at: http://www.cespri.unibocconi.it/folder.php?vedi=3905&tbn=albero&id_folder=1918

Co-ordinator: Maureen McKelvey

Objectives

This WP provided a unified framework which combined an analysis of the entrepreneurial activity of both new firms (i.e. start-ups and spin-offs) and large established firms (i.e. corporate entrepreneurship) in industries, territorial clusters and regions. Two main research actions were pursued each one addressing a specific type of actor participating to the entrepreneurial activity. More specifically the two research lines along which this WP was articulated were:

i) Entrepreneurship and Start-ups
ii) Corporate entrepreneurship

Past Events

• Workshop on: 'Technological Knowledge and Opportunities in Competition, Entrepreneurship & Innovation' was held at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg on May 31, 2006.
  The workshop website is available at: http://www.dime-eu.org/workshop-technological-knowledge
• Conference on: ‘Entrepreneurship, knowledge, learning and the evolution of industrial/territorial clusters and regions’ was held at National Technical University, Athens on November 30 and December 1, 2006.
  The original call for papers can be seen at: http://www.dime-eu.org/entrepreneurship_knowledge_learning
  The coference website is available at: http://dime-liee.ntua.gr/

Co-ordinators: Franco Malerba and Pier Paolo Saviotti

Objectives

Investigate the role of demand in shaping the evolution of industries at both the theoretical and the empirical level.

Description of work

Study the role of consumers and users in different industrial settings.
Develop a taxonomy of the different roles of demand in innovation in industries.
Provide a systematic empirical analysis of how technology, knowledge and market structure co-evolve.

Main events

• DIME – RAL2 WP 2.2 Conference 2008 on: Demand, Innovation, and Industrial Dynamics (Milan, Italy October 23-24, 2008)
  The workshop website is available at: http://www.dime-eu.org/ral2/industrial-dynamics
• Workshop on: ‘Demand, Innovation and the Evolution of Product Characteristics’ was held at GREDEG, Sophia Antipolis, in Nice on April 26 – April 27, 2007.
  The original announcement can be seen at: http://www.dime-eu.org/node/12
  
• Conference on: ‘Demand, Product Characteristics and Innovation’ will be held in Jena, Germany, October 18-19, 2007.
  The original call for paper can be seen at: http://www.dime-eu.org/innovation_conference_2007
  The conference programme is available at: http://www.dime-eu.org/innovation_conference_2007/programme

Co-ordinator: Luigi Orsenigo

This WP was organised around two main research actions. The first action focused on the structure and working of sectoral innovation systems and to their geographical boundaries. The second analysed the dynamics of the system by employing econometric analyses as well as modelling.

Past Events

• Workshop on: 'Industrial innovation dynamics and knowledge characteristics: exploring the differences, commonalities and synergies of the sectoral, national and regional innovation systems approaches' was held in Lund, Sweden, on April 26 - April 27, 2006.
  The original call for papers can be seen at: http://www.dime-eu.org/calls/circle-tik-2006
  The workshop website is available at: http://www.dime-eu.org/node/148
• Conference on: 'Normative Policy Implications from Recent Advances in the Economics of Innovation and Industrial Dynamics' was held in London, UK, on December 15 - December 16, 2006
  The original call for papers can be seen at: http://www.dime-eu.org/Economics-of-Innovation-and-Industrial-Dynamics
  The conference programme is available at: http://www.dime-eu.org/ou_conference_programme

Co-ordinator: Uwe Cantner

Objectives

Analyse the emergence, development, structure, performance of research interactions at the local/regional level.

Description of work

(a) To investigate the incentives to engage in interactive research activity at the local/regional level.
(b) To identify the types of interactions (i.e. formal vs. informal) by the actors involved in research activity.
(c) To provide benchmarks and develop indicators to use for the purpose of evaluating the performance of local or regional research interactions.

Main Events

• Workshop on: 'Interdependencies of interactions in local and sectoral innovation systems' was held in Jena, Germany, on March 23-24, 2007.
  The original call for paper can be seen at: http://www.dime-eu.org/local-and-sectoral-innovation-systems
  The workshop website is available at: http://www.wiwi.uni-jena.de/Mikro/dime_ws/ws-main.html
• Workshop on: 'Network dynamics and the performance of local innovation systems' will be hedd in Jena, Germany, on October 25-27, 2007.
  The original call for paper can be seen at: http://www.dime-eu.org/local-innovation-systems
  The workshop website is available at: http://www.wiwi.uni-jena.de/Mikro/dime_ws-10-2007/ws-main.html

Co-ordinator: Stan Metcalfe

This WP aimed at gaining a better understanding of: how new markets emerge, how new products and services enter into market mechanisms. Among others, it addressed issues concerning the institutional conditions (what kind of shaping of the “legal system”) required to promote the emergence of new markets, the process of selection that leads to the emergence of new agents, and the extent to what regulations influence the behavior of agents and shapes the trajectories.

Past Events

• Workshop on: 'The Emergence of Markets and their Architecture' was held in Paris on 4-5th May, 2006
  The original call for papers can be seen at: http://www.dime-eu.org/markets_architecture
  The workshop website is available at: http://www.cric.ac.uk/cric/events/dime/default.htm
• Workshop on: 'Instituting the Market Process: Innovation, Market Architectures and Market Dynamics' was held in Manchester, 7-8th December 2006.
  The original call for papers can be seen at: http://www.dime-eu.org/Instituting-the-Market-Process
  The workshop website is available at: http://www.cric.ac.uk/cric/events/dime-manchester/default.htm

Co-ordinator: Mariana Mazzucato

Objectives

Study the empirical relationship between innovation and stock market dynamics.

Description of work

The aim is to:

1. Empirically investigate the relationship between innovation and stock price dynamics at the firm and industry level.
2. Contribute to a (theoretical) Schumpetarian analysis of risk and uncertainty, useful to market valuation models. (including a consideration of historical role of the State in bearing innovation related risk, e.g. pharmaceutical industry, internet etc.).
3. Consider the degree to which the market valuation process adequately identifies the difference between innovation related activities and aggressive cost-cutting activities (e.g. Walmart). Ask whether evolutionary models tend to ignore the latter.

Main Events

Workshop on: Finance, Innovation and Inequality
The original call for papers can be seen at: http://www.dime-eu.org/finance-innovation-inequality

• Co-ordinator: Vanessa OLTRA, GREThA, University Montesquieu Bordeaux IV
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