Understanding KIBS in rural and other peripheral areas – Seminar Programme and Documents

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Programme

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14th October 2011

  • 13.30 – 13.45: Registration
  • 13.45 – 14.00: Opening Session – Helen Lawton Smith, Teresa de Noronha and Peter Wood

Session 1

Chair: Peter Wood (UCL, London)

  • 14.00 – 14.30: Keynote Speaker: Peter Nijkamp (VU University Amsterdam) – From Innovation to Commercialisation through Networks and Agglomeration
  • 14.30 – 15.00: Luísa Margarida Cagica Carvalho (University of Évora) and Sandra Carla Rodrigues Pinto (University of Évora) – The KIBS and Innovation Processes: A literature review
  • 15.00 – 15.30: Maria Jose Silva (University of Beira Interior and CIEO-Research Centre for Spatial and Organizational Dynamics, Portugal), Jorge Simões (Polytechnic Institute of Tomar and GOVCOPP-Research Unit in Governance, Competitiveness and Public Policy, Portugal), Gastão Sousa Maia (Institute of Higher Education and GOVCOPP, Portugal) and Jacinta Moreira (Polytechnic Institute of Leiria and GOVCOPP, Portugal)
  • Investment and Expenditure on Innovation Activities and Innovative Capability: Empirical evidence from services firms and KIBS
  • 15.30 – 15.45: Coffee break
  • 15.45 – 16.15: Keynote Speaker: Teresa de Noronha (University of Algarve, Portugal) and Paulo Neto (University of Évora, Portugal) – KIBS in Peripheral Regions
  • 16.15 – 16.45: Mauricio Maldonado (University of Algarve, Portugal) and Teresa de Noronha (University of Algarve, Portugal) – Knowledge Spillovers within the Algarve Tourism Region: Evidence to identify a regional innovation system
  • 16.45 – 17.15: Adrian O’Donoghue (BMW Regional Assembly) – The Development of KIBS in a Rural Regional Economy and the Development of the Knowledge Economy: Lessons and evidence from the border, midland and western (BMW) region in Ireland
  • 17.15 – 17.45: Maja Savic (Birkbeck, University of London) – KIBS’ Role as Exporters, Innovators and Knowledge Facilitators: Implications for Old Industrial Regions in the UK

15th October 2011

Session 2

Chair: Teresa de Noronha (University of Algarve, Portugal)

  • 9.30 – 10.00: Maria Jose Madeira Silva (University of Beira Interior and CIEO-Research Centre for Spatial and Organizational Dynamics, Portugal); Simão Castro Vide (University of Beira Interior, Portugal); Gastão Sousa
    • Maia (Institute of Higher Education and GOVCOPP, Portugal); Jorge Simões (Polytechnic Institute of Tomar and GOVCOPP-Research Unit in Governance, Competitiveness and Public Policy, Portugal) and Jacinta Moreira
    • (Polytechnic Institute of Leiria and GOVCOPP, Portugal)
    • Barriers to Innovation and Organizational Innovation in KIBS: Empirical evidence in the Portuguese companies
  • 10.00 – 10.30: Wouter Jacobs (Utrecht University, Netherlands) and Oedzge Atzema (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
    • Symbiosis between KIBS Startups and MNE Clients: Empirical evidence from the Amsterdam-Utrecht region
  • 10.30 – 11.00: Konstantinos Melachroinoinos (Queen Mary, University of London) and Nigel Spence (Queen Mary, University of London)
    • KIBS, Intangibles and Space: The spatial allocation of intangibles across the regions of Great Britain
  • 11.00 – 11.15: Coffee break
  • 11.15 – 11.45: Cristina Fernandes, (University of Beira Interior-UBI, Portugal), João J. Ferreira (University of Beira Interior-UBI, Portugal) and Carla S. Marques (University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro-UTAD, Portugal)
    • Knowledge Intensive Business Services Entrepreneurship and Factors Driving an Entrepreneur’s Decisions in Choosing Firm Location
  • 11.45 – 12.15: Hugo Pinto (University of Coimbra, Portugal), Manuel Fernandez-Esquinas (Institute for Social Studies of Andalusia, Higher Council for Scientific Research, Spain) and Elvira Uyarra (University of Manchester)
  • When Companies Look for Research: Knowledge Interactions in Andalusia
  • 12.15 – 13.15: Lunch Break
  • 13.15 – 13.45: Closing Session:
    • Keynote Speaker: Bjørn Asheim (Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the Learning Economy-CIRCLE, Sweden)
    • KIBS and Regional Policy Implications
  • 13.45 – 14.30: General Discussion: Peter Wood (UCL,London)

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