Monday April 7th, 2008

14.30 : Welcome address (Amphitheater n°4 - Lower Ground Floor)

15.00 – 16.30: Plenary Keynotes

• Giovanni Dosi (SSSUP, Pisa): “Missing Elements, 'Heroic' Simplifications: Urgent Challenges for Evolutionary Theory”
• Michael Storper (LSE, London): “The Economics of Context, Location and Trade: another great Transformation?”

16.45 – 18.45: Parallel sessions 1 (dedicated and open call) Ground Floor

• Session 1A: Science, technology and Knowledge creation (STRIKE – Jacques Mairesse/Michele Cincera) (Room 020)
• Session 1B: Communities and incentives for Knowledge creation (Helena Lopes) (Room 021)
• Session 1C: Structure and Dynamics of Innovation networks (Uwe Cantner) (Room 022)
• Session 1D: Innovation and Environment (Lubomir Lizal) (Room 024)

Tuesday April 8th, 2008

9.00 -11.00: Parallel sessions 2 (dedicated and open call) Ground Floor

• Session 2A: Science, technology and Knowledge creation (STRIKE – Jacques Mairesse/Michele Cincera) (Room 020)
• Session 2B Strategy, Quality and Organisation (Maureen McKelvey) (Room 021)
• Session 2C: Industry and Transfer of Knowledge: Modelling an Identification (Francis Munier) (Room 022)
• Session 2D: Emergent Sectors: Relevant and Specific Aspects (Julien Penin) (Room 024)

11.15 – 12.45: Plenary Keynotes (Amphitheater n°4 - Lower Ground Floor)

• Paula Stephan (Georgia University, Atlanta): “Science and the University: Challenges for Research”
• Kristine Bruland (University of Geneva): “Innovation, Technology and Time: a Historical Perspective”

14.00 – 15.30: Stakeholder plenary session organised by Iain Begg (LSE, London) (Amphitheater n°4 - Lower ground floor)

• Pier Carlo Padoan (Deputy Secretary General, OECD, Paris): “Science policy in the framework of the OECD Innovation Strategy”
• Jean-Claude Burgelman (Advisor of the Bureau of European Policy Advisors of the European Commission - BEPA, EC, Brussels): topic tbc

15.45 - 16.30: Plenary Keynote (Amphitheater n°4 - Lower Ground Floor)

• Stan Metcalfe (University of Manchester): “Marshall, Schumpeter and the Foundations of Evolutionary Economics”

16.45 - 18.45 pm: Parallel sessions 3 (open call) Ground Floor

• Session 3A: University-Industry Interfaces (Patrick Llerena) (Room 020)
• Session 3B: Sectoral Dimensions: Service, Environment and Trade (Franco Malerba) (Room 021)

20.00: Gala dinner at Maison Kammerzell, Place de la Cathédrale

Wednesday April 9th, 2008

8.30 – 10.00: Parallel sessions on DIME Work Packages

• Toward an open software environment for econometrics and economic analysis (organised by Giulio Bottazzi, SSSUP, Pisa) (Amphi 1 – Lower G)round Floor)
• Training and Long Distance Learning Tools in DIME (organised by Patrick Llerena, BETA, Strasbourg) (Amphi 4 Lower Ground Floor)

10.15 – 11.45: Plenary session on ‘Finance and Innovation ‘ organised by Mariana Mazzucato (OU, London) Amphitheater n°4 - Lower Ground Floor)

• William Lazonick (University of Massachusetts): “Why Corporate Finance and the Stock Market Matter to Innovation Strategy, Policy, and Outcomes”
• Mariana Mazzucato (Open University): "Innovation, Market Value and Stock Price Volatility: incorporating stock market dynamics into the industry life-cycle"

12.15 – 13.00: Plenary Keynotes Amphitheater n°4 - Lower Ground Floor)

• Frieder Meyer-Krahmer (Secretary of State, Federal Ministry for Education and Research – BMBF): “Perspective of the German and the European Research Landscape”
• Bernard Belloc (Adviser for Higher Education and Research to the President of the French Republic): The New French Policy for Higher Education, Research and Innovation in an European Perspective

14.00 – 16.00: Parallel sessions 4 (open call)

• Session 4A: Patents and Patenting: What do we Learn about Innovation? (Birgitte Andersen) (Room 020)
• Session 4B: Markets and Demand: Explorations (Mariana Mazzucato) (Room 021)
• Session 4C: Labour and Macro-economic Approaches (Bart Verspagen) (Room 023)

16.15 – 16.45: Final plenary session Amphitheater n°4 - Lower Ground Floor)

• DIME 4th work programme: Bart Verspagen (ECIS, Eindhoven), Patrick Llerena (BETA, Strasbourg)
• Concluding remarks: Peter Maskell (DRUID-CBS, Copenhagen)