PROGRAM

Conference Programme
3-6 November Rio de Janeiro
BNDES

Monday 3 November - Auditorium Arino Ramos Ferreira

9h - 10h30min - WELCOME

• Authorities: 30 minutes
• Bengt-Åke Lundvall, Why Globelics?
• Jose Cassiolato, Globelics: a Southern perspective

10h30min - Coffee Break

11h - 13h - Plenary Opening Session

• Message from Chris Freeman: What role for innovation in social and economic development?
• Richard Nelson: Economic catch-up. Institutions and national innovation systems
• Lars Mjøset: Innovation systems and Interactionist Social Theory
• Luciano Coutinho: Innovation, nation states and development

Discussant: Giovanni
DosiModerator: Shulin Gu

13h - Lunch

14h-16h - Plenary Session 1: The challenges of the third millennium

• Luc Soete, No exit: a voice for Globelics? Reflections on research on global governance
• João Caraça, The transformations of technology by science: implications and interrogations
• Frieder Meyer-Krahmer and Rainer Walz, Innovation and sustainability in economic development

Discussant: Martin Fransman
Moderator: Adilson de Oliveira

16h - Coffee Break

16h30min-18h30min Plenary Session 2: The role of government and policy

• José Luiz Fiori, National states, economies, empires and globalisation
• Carlota Perez, Rethinking globalization after the collapse of the financial bubble
• Erik Reinert, Modern nation-states in a historical perspective - is there a role for the national developmental state?

Discussant: Björn
JohnsonModerator: Jan Fagerberg

Tuesday 4 November

9h - 10h30min - Room Reginaldo Treiger
Plenary Session 3: National innovation systems and development

• Björn Johnson, Charles Edquist and Bengt-Åke Lundvall, Economic Development and National System of innovation Approach
• Rodrigo Arocena and Judith Sutz, Understanding underdevelopment today: new perspectives on NSI
• Helena Lastres, National systems of innovation and development

Discussant: Olman
SeguraModerator: Tania Bacelar

10h30min - Coffee Break

11h - 12h30min - Room Reginaldo Treiger
Theme G: Measuring knowledge and other intangibles

• Danielle Archibugi and Alberto Coco, A new indicator of technological capabilities for developed and developing countries
• Gustavo Lugones and Fernando Peirano, The innovation surveys in Latin America: results and methodological novelties
• Manuel Godinho, S. Mendonça and T. Pereira, Mapping innovation systems: a framework based on innovation surveys data

Discussant: Jan Fagerberg
Moderator: Mariana Rebouças

11h - 12h30min - Room 7
Theme A: The challenges of the third millennium

• Birgitte Andersen, Intellectual property right or intellectual monopoly privilege: which one should patent analyses focus on?
• Olmann Segura and Birgitte Gregersen, A learning and innovation capability approach to social and ecological sustainability
• Peter Gammeltoft, Globalisation and Regulation in the Information Economy

Discussant: Andrew Tylecote
Moderator: Paulo Alvim

11h - 12h30min - Room 13
Theme C: The transformation of innovation systems:

• Pekka Ylæ Antilla and Tarmo Lemola, Transformation of innovation system in a small country - elements of success in Finland
• Arlindo Villaschi, The 1990s - a lost decade for the Brazilian NSI?
• Pun-arj Chairatana and Bach Tan Sihn, Strategising ASEAN agro-innovation system: the case of Thailand and Vietnam

Discussant: Mammo
MuchieModerator: Abdelkader Djeflat

11h - 12h30min - Room 14
RedeSist Presentation

12h30min - Lunch

14h - 16h - Room Reginaldo Treiger
Theme E: Building development on a base of local and regional innovation systems

• Guisheng WU, Jun TU and Shulin GU, Innovation system and transformation of the agricultural sector in China, with the case of Shouguang City
• Roberto Bisang, Diffusion process in networks: the case of transgenic soybean in Argentina
• Nilson de Paula and Victor Pelaez, Competence building on technology regulation: the Monsanto's experience on GMOs

Discussant and Moderator: Judith Sutz

14h - 16h - Room 7
Theme D: Investment and innovation systems

• Andrew Tylecote, Finance and corporate governance in the Chinese national system of innovation: macro and micro, national and international implications
• Yun-Chung Chen, Dancing with the wolves: localization of multinational corporations' R&D centers in Shangai
• Cristina Lemos, Ana Arroio and Helena Lastres, The Brazilian experience in support of small firms: promoting local productive systems

Discussant: Morris Teubal
Moderator: Rosalba Casas

14h - 16h - Room 13
Theme C: The transformation of innovation systems:

• Carlo Pietrobelli and Sanjaya Lall, National technology systems in developing African countries: the nature and deficiencies of technological effort
• Angathevar Baskraran and Mammo Muchie, Indian national system of innovation and globalisation: some lessons for African national system of innovation
• Renato Campos and Marco Vargas, Forms of governance, learning mechanisms and localized innovation: a comparative analysis in local productive systems in Brazil

Discussant: Paulo
TigreModerator: Marilene Carvalho

14h - 16h - Room 14
IBGE Presentation

Wednesday 5 November 9h-10h30min - Room Reginaldo Treiger
Theme F: Social capital and competence building in the learning society

• Rosalba Casas, Networks and interactive learning between firms and academic institutions: social capital for local development
• Abdelkader Djeflat, Local innovations systems, learning institutions and social capital in low knowledge-based economy: the case of Maghreb countries
• Rodrigo Arocena and Judith Sutz, Learning divides, social capital and the roles of universities

Discussant: Manuel Heitor
Moderator: Vinicius Lages

9h - 10h30min - Room 7
Theme B: National innovation systems and development

• Eduardo Viotti, Technological learning systems, competitiveness and development
• Daniel Chudnovsky and Andrés Lopez, Structural reforms and innovation activities: the case of Argentina
• Eduardo da Motta e Albuquerque, Immature national systems of innovation: introducing a comparison between Brazil, Mexico, India and South Africa

Discussant: Danielle Archibugi
Moderator: Gabriela Dutrenit

9h - 10h30min - Room 13
Theme C: The transformation of innovation systems

• Patarapong Intarakumnerd and Pun-arj Chairatana, Shifting S&T policy paradigm: an experience of an RTO in Thailand
• Roberto Mazzoleni, The role of universities and public research in the catching-up process

Discussant: Pekka Ylæ Antilla
Moderator: Ana Célia Castro

9h - 10h30min - Room 14
IBGE Presentation

10h30min - Coffee Break

11h - 12h30min - Room Reginaldo Treiger
Theme H: Innovation systems and frontier technologies

• Martin Fransman, Knowledge and sectoral innovation systems: the mobile communications industry evolved largely by getting things wrong
• Gabriel Yoguel, Marta Novick, Dario Milesi, Sonia Roitter and José Borello, Knowledge and information. The diffusion of ICT in the Argentinean manufacturing industry
• Marina Szapiro and José Cassiolato, The telecom innovation system in Brazil: development and recent challenges

Discussant: Birgitte Andersen
Moderator: Clélia Piragibe

11h - 12h30min - Room 7
Theme D: Investment and innovation systems

• Anthony D. Heher, Return on investment in innovation: implications for institutions and national agencies
• Jorge Niosi, Regional systems of innovation as evolving complex systems
• Maria Graça Derengowski Fonseca, Institutional and financial requirements for the emergence of biotechnology in Brazil

Discussant: Peter Gammeltoft
Moderator: Alexandre Vera Cruz

11h - 12h30min - Room 13
Theme E: Building development on a base of local and regional innovation systems

• Gabriela Dutrenit and Alexandre Vera Cruz, Clustering SME with maquilas in a local context: benefiting from knowledge spillover
• Santiago Roca, Immisering innovation and structural change: a hypotheses for the Mexican manufacturing sector
• Mauro Borges Lemos, Automotive MNCs location strategies in LDCs and articulation with national systems of innovation

Discussant: Gustavo Lugones
Moderator: Charles Edquist

11h - 12h30min - Room 14
RedeSist Presentation

12h30min - Lunch

14h - 16h - Room Reginaldo Treiger
Theme D: Investment and innovation systems

• Gil Avnimelech and Morris Teubal, Government promotion of learning and innovation in SMEs of industrializing economies: subsidies, venture capital and private equity
• Daniel Chudnovsky and Andrés Lopez, Foreign direct investment and national innovation system: a case study of Argentina in the '90s
• Luiz Martins Melo, , financing and local systems of production

Discussant: Rishikesha
KrishnanModerator: Björn Johnson

14h - 16h - Room 7
Theme B: National innovation systems and development

• Jan Fagerberg and Bart Verspagen, Innovation, growth and economic development
• João Lizardo Araújo and Adilson de Oliveira, Brazilian Electricity Supply Industry: a new technological trajectory?
• Gabriel Porcile, M. Dutra and A. Meirelles, Real wages, technology and economic growth

Discussant: Leonik Gokhberg
Moderator: Rodrigo Arocena

14h - 16h - Room 13
Theme G: Measuring knowledge and other intangibles

• Facundo Albornoz, Dario Milesi and Gabriel Yoguel,Production networks in old sectors: methodology and evidence from Argentina
• Ana Lúcia Tatsch, Rodolfo Torres and Sérgio Almeida, Learning and cooperation for innovation at local level: conceptual aspects and indicators of RedeSist
• Jorge Britto, Luisa La Chroix, Márcia Rapini and Anthony Santiago, Measuring knowledge flows in Brazilian productive arrangements

Discussant: Manuel Godinho
Moderator: João Saboia

14h - 16h - Room 14
IBGE Presentation 16h - Coffee Break

16h30min - 18h30min - Room Reginaldo Treiger
Round table: Organising the research on innovation and competence building at the global level

• Birgitte Andersen
• Mammo Muchie
• Judith Sutz
• Martin Fransman
• Helena Lastres

Moderator: Richard Nelson

Thrusday 6 November

9h - 10h30min - Room Reginaldo Treiger
Plenary Session 4: Building development on a base of regional innovation systems

• Stan Metcalfe, Economic development and the competitive process
• Manuel Heitor, Richard Nunes and Pedro Conceição, Technological change and the challenges for regional development, building social capital in less favoured regions

Discussant: Shulin Gu
Moderator: Carlos Gadelha

10h30min - Coffee Break

11h - 12h30min - Room Reginaldo Treiger
Plenary Session 5: The transformation of major innovation systems

• Shulin Gu, Transformation and recombination learning in the NIS of China
• Rishikesha Krishnan, The evolution of a developing country innovation system during economic liberalization: the case of India
• Leonid Gokhberg, Russia: a new innovation system for the new economy
• José Cassiolato, The Brazilian innovation system: old questions, new illusions, real challenges

Discussant: Richard Nelson
Moderator: Luc Soete

12h30min - 13h30min - Room Reginaldo Treiger
Closing session: Next steps in building Globelics

• Bengt-Åke Lundvall
• Jose Cassiolato Guisheng Wu
• Manuel Godinho
• Luc Soete