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Issue #22 July 16, 2001
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ANNOUNCEMENTS [Table of Contents]
Canadian
universities to receive $14.6 million for new research infrastructure
The Canada Foundation for
Innovation (CFI) will invest $14.6 million to support the development of
advanced research facilities at 29 Canadian universities. The investments
are being awarded through two funds, the New Opportunities Fund and the
University Research Development Fund, which together will support some
77 infrastructure projects in the sciences, engineering, humanities and
social sciences.
EDITOR'S PICK [Table of Contents]
INNOVATION & RELATED POLICY [Table of Contents]
Knowledge
Transfer and the Services Sector in the Context of the New Economy
R. Cowan, L. Soete and
O. Tchervonnaya, MERIT
This paper examines the
processes of knowledge transfer in the services sector in the economic
reality, increasingly affected by the use of information and communication
technologies. Particular focus is given to whether the knowledge
transfer channels, traditionally used in manufacturing, can also be made
use of in services. To this end, the authors examine the specificity of
services with respect to the nature of their output, degree of customer
participation in the production process, degree of simultaneity of production
and consumption, and study its effect on knowledge transfer. It turns
out that in services the following transfer channels are highly important:
foreign direct investment, training and producer-consumer two-way knowledge
transfer, whereas for manufacturing links with academy and patents are
very significant.
Human
Capital Investment: An international Comparison
OECD
This report aims to clarify
what is now known about human capital and how it can be measured, contributing
to the debate on how to promote economic prosperity, fuller employment,
and social cohesion through investment in human capital. It responds
to a request by governments represented in the OECD Council "to develop
an initial set of indicators of human capital investment based on existing
data, analyse areas where significant gaps remain in internationally comparable
data, identify the cost of development of data collection for new measures
and performance indicators, and report to Ministers in 1998".
E-COMMERCE [Table of Contents]
EVENTS [Table of Contents]
Governing
Knowledge-Processes
Copenhagen, 7-8 September
2001
This workshop, organized
by the "Learning, Incentives, and Knowledge" (LINK) program at the Copenhagen
Business School, will focus on understanding the governance of knowledge-creation,
sharing and exploitation. The organizers currently seek papers in
one of three areas: the governance of knowledge creation, the governance
of knowledge sharing, and the possible trade-offs between governance of
knowledge creation and knowledge exploitation.
The
Future of Innovation Studies
Eindhoven , September
20-23, 2001
The Center for Innovation
Studies (ECIS) at Eindhoven University has organized a conference on 'The
Future of Innovation Studies' which will host a number of plenary sessions
featuring some of the key contributors to the field of innovation studies.
Invited speakers include Giovanni Dosi, Ranjay Gulati and Bengt-Åke
Lundvall. The conference will include topics in all areas of the
social sciences perspective on the innovation process. Special emphasis
will be placed on contributions in the area of the economics of technological
change, innovation management, and sociology of innovation processes.
Innovations
for an e-Society- Challenges for Technology Assessment
Berlin, October 17-20,
2001
This conference, organized
by the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis at the
Research Centre Karlsruhe, is concerned with all aspects of society making
better and increased use of information and communication technologies,
with special emphasis on the roles of knowledge and information. There
will be sessions on the following topics: e-Commerce, New Media and Culture,
Electronic Governance, e-Health Services and New Approaches of Technology
Assessment and Forecasting.
5th
Annual 'European Network on Industrial Policy' (EUNIP) Conference
Vienna, November 29th
- December 1st, 2001
This EUNIP Conference will
focus on the cutting edge topics in industrial and structural policy, including
policies promoting growth, competitiveness and employment. Topics include
industrial economics and policy, innovation policy and theory and, regulatory
issues in network industries. A special session will focus on industrial
policy in a knowledge based economy.
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