Local to Global, Global to Local
Innovation Systems and Public Policy in a Global Economy

CSTP/CESIS Joint Workshop on Innovation, Policy, and Growth

Friday, November 13 & 14 - Arlington Original Building, Room 245

Directions

With CSTP's partners from the Center for Excellence in Science and Innovation Studies at the Royal Institute of Technology and Jonkoping Business School in Stockholm, this workshop will explore the linkages between local, national, and global innovation systems and the role of public policy in shaping the performance of these systems and linkages.  The event is free and open to all interested members of the research and policy communities. The full agenda is found below the registration box on this page. Advance registration is greatly appreciated for planning purposes. For further information, please contact Kadri Kallas at kkallas@gmu.edu. Major funding for the workshop is provided by the Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems (VINNOVA).

DRIVING DIRECTIONS

 

Local to Global, Global to Local
Innovation Systems and Public Policy in a Global Economy
Nov. 13-14, 2009

A one and a half day research workshop
open to the policy and academic communities.

Venue
George Mason University – Arlington Campus
Arlington Original Building, Room 245
3401 Fairfax Dr., Arlington VA

Organizers
Center for Science and Technology Policy,
School of Public Policy, George Mason University

Center of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies
Jonkoping International Business School and Royal Institute of Technology
Stockholm, Sweden

Agenda:  Friday, November 13

9:00 a.m.  Keynote Address: Marc Berejka, Senior Policy Advisor, Office of Policy and Strategic Planning, U.S. Department of Commerce

10:00 a.m.  Coffee

10:15 a.m.  Introduction to panels, CESIS book project:  Martin Andersson, CESIS

10:30 a.m.  Panel:  Returns to R&D and Spillovers

Chair:  Christopher Hill, GMU

a.  Martin Andersson and Börje Johansson, CESIS:   Heterogeneity Distributions of Profit, Productivity and R&D Inputs
b.  Zoltan Acs, GMU:  Intellectual Property Rights and the Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship
c.  Edward Wolff, New York University:  Spillovers, Linkages, and Productivity Growth in the US Economy, 1947 to 2005

12:00 p.m.  Lunch

1:00 p.m.  Panel:  Local Impacts of Global Innovation Networks

Chair:  Martin Andersson, CESIS

a.  Hans Lööf, CESIS:  Multinational Enterprises and Innovation: Firm-level Evidence on Spillovers via R&D Collaboration.
b.  Juan Julio Gutierrez, GMU:  Globalization of Production and Innovation Patterns: Sectoral Heterogeneity and Distance to the Technological Frontier
c.  Borje Johansson, CESIS:  the Global-Local Interplay of MNE and non-MNE Firms

2:30 p.m.  Coffee

3:00 p.m.  Roundtable:  U.S. and European High-Skill International Migration Policies
Chair:  David Hart, GMU
Lindsay Lowell, Georgetown
Connie McNeely, GMU
Madeleine Sumption, Migration Policy Institute

4:30 p.m.  Adjourn

Evening reception (by invitation only) at House of Sweden (Washington DC)

Agenda: Saturday, November 14

9:00 a.m.  Panel:  Multinational R&D

Chair:  Borje Johansson, CESIS

a.  Ivo Zander, Uppsala University:   Foreign Technological Capabilities as Growth Engines of the MNC
b.  John Cantwell, Rutgers:  Knowledge Accession Strategies and the Spatial Organization of R&D
c.  Paul Almeida, Georgetown:  Creating Knowledge Advantages through Global Alliance Networks

10:30 a.m.  Coffee

10:45 a.m.  Panel:  Global/Local Science Networks
a.  Andreas Stephan, CESIS: Evidence for Research and Company Spin-Offs.
b.  Ryan Zelnio, GMU:  Exploring International Scientific Cooperation Using Social Network Analysis.
c.  Jeffrey Alexander, SRI: Corporate Support for Non-Private Research:  Global and Local Sourcing of Competences and Expertise

12:15 p.m.  Lunch

1:30 p.m.  Roundtable:  New Directions for Innovation Policy
Chair:  Kingsley Haynes, GMU
Pontus Braunerhjelm, CESIS
Christopher Hill, GMU
Roger Stough, GMU

3:00 p.m.  Adjourn