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Date: Wednesday 21st November 2001
Venue: London Voluntary Sector Resource Centre
Address: 356 Holloway Road
London N7 6PA
The Knowledge Economy is seen as being central to the development of the new economy and its productivity potential by academics, policy makers and practitioners in Europe, the United States, developed and developing Asia.
The conference seeks to examine the issues in the context of current policy debates including, a new UK White Paper, new training and business support arrangements, the 1999 Lisbon Summit which debated the "dot.com economy". It uses a mixture of plenary sessions and parallel workshops to encourage participation and ends with a final plenary to bring the day together.
There are up to 6 papers in each of 5 parallel workshops, entitled: Clusters & Innovation (I) and (II), Networks and the Limits to Virtuality, Learning Strategies and Training Infrastructure and The Governance of Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
PROGRAMME
Start time: 9.15am Finish time: 5pm
Innovation and economic development in the regions
Peter Bunn, CD Innovation, DTI
Identifying and developing clusters for the DTI
Paul Miller, Trends Business Research
Approach of the Regional Development Agencies to the knowledge economy agenda Jim Lewis, One NorthEast
Modelling the impact of training using a characteristics approach: implications for UK learning and training infrastructure
Leslie Budd, Open University Business School and Adrian Woods, Brunel University
Lessons on using the cluster approach to regional economic development
Ron Botham, Consultant
Deconstructing clusters: chaotic concept or policy panacea?
Ron Martin, University of Cambridge and Peter Sunley, University of Edinburgh
RSA Members #100.00, Non RSA Members #150.00, Students #35.00.
Included in the price is a printed copy of all papers presented.
If you wish to enroll, please contact the Regional Studies Association.
Regional Studies Association is a registered charity no 1084165 and a company limited by guarantee, registered in England no 4116288
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