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REINVENTING REGIONS IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY ACADEMIC CONFERENCE PROGRAMME 12 th – 15 th April 2003 Pisa, Italy The information below should be read in conjunction with the one page table giving the main academic programme timings which is attached to this table. The first section here deals with the ordering and timing of plenary presentations, the second section lists all workshop presentations in gateway order. To find your choices for any particular time please see the cover sheet for the titles of the workshops and look the detail up below. PLENARY PRESENTATIONS Introduction, Welcome & Plenary 1 at Congress Centre – Main Auditorium Saturday 12 th 16.45 – 19.00hrs Mike Danson (Chair, Regional Studies Association, UK) Riccardo Varaldo (Director, Scuola Superiore SantAnna, Italy) Paolo Fontanelli (Mayor of Pisa, Italy) Plenary 1 : GOVERNANCE – Main Auditorium Nicola Bellini (Scuola Superiore SantAnna, Italy) Chair Claudio Martini (President of the Region of Tuscany, Italy) Keynote: Italian Devolution from a European Perspective Robert Leonardi (London School of Economics, England) Keynote: The Governance of European Regional Policies Patrizio Bianchi (University of Ferrara, Italy) Discussant Plenary 2 : EU REGIONAL POLICY – Main Auditorium Sunday 13 th 08.45 – 10.15hrs Mark Hart (Kingston University, England) Chair Ronnie Hall (Deputy Head of Cabinet for Regional Policy and Institutional Reform, European Commission, Belgium) Keynote: EU Regional Policy: The intensifying challenge of enlargement John Bachtler (University of Strathclyde, Scotland) Discussant Enrico Lette (Secretary General, AREL, Italy) Discussant Plenary 3 : THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY – Main Auditorium Monday 14 th 08.45 – 10.15hrs Mia Gray (University of Cambridge, England) Chair Enzo Rullani (CaFoscari University, Italy) Keynote: Industrial Districts and the Knowledge Economy Giovanni Dosi (Scuola Superiore SantAnna, Italy Discussant Ed Malecki (Ohio State University, USA) Discussant Plenary 4 : THE PISA MODEL – Main Auditorium Tuesday 15 th 12.15 – 13.30hrs Mike Danson (Chair, Regional Studies Association, UK) Chair Giovanni Viale (Councillor for Economic Development, City Council of Pisa, Italy) Introduction Riccardo Varaldo (Scuola SantAnna, Italy) Keynote: High-tech and local development: a Pisa model? Phil Cooke (University of Cardiff, Wales) Discussant Anne Lorentzen (Aalborg University, Denmark) Discussant Phil Shapira (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Discussant ALL WORKSHOP SESSIONS TAKE PLACE IN THE CONGRESS CENTRE – SEE BELOW FOR ROOM NUMBERS/NAMES 1

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REINVENTING REGIONS IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY ACADEMIC CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

12th – 15th April 2003 Pisa, Italy

The information below should be read in conjunction with the one page table giving the main academic programme timings which is attached to this table. The first section here deals with the ordering and timing of plenary presentations, the second section lists all workshop presentations in gateway order. To find your choices for any particular time please see the cover sheet for the titles of the workshops and look the detail up below. PLENARY PRESENTATIONS Introduction, Welcome & Plenary 1 at Congress Centre – Main Auditorium Saturday 12th 16.45 – 19.00hrs Mike Danson (Chair, Regional Studies Association, UK) Riccardo Varaldo (Director, Scuola Superiore Sant�Anna, Italy) Paolo Fontanelli (Mayor of Pisa, Italy) Plenary 1 : GOVERNANCE – Main Auditorium Nicola Bellini (Scuola Superiore Sant�Anna, Italy) Chair Claudio Martini (President of the Region of Tuscany, Italy) Keynote: Italian Devolution from a European Perspective Robert Leonardi (London School of Economics, England) Keynote: The Governance of European Regional Policies Patrizio Bianchi (University of Ferrara, Italy) Discussant Plenary 2 : EU REGIONAL POLICY – Main Auditorium Sunday 13th 08.45 – 10.15hrs Mark Hart (Kingston University, England) Chair Ronnie Hall (Deputy Head of Cabinet for Regional Policy and Institutional Reform, European Commission, Belgium)

Keynote: EU Regional Policy: The intensifying challenge of enlargement

John Bachtler (University of Strathclyde, Scotland) Discussant Enrico Lette (Secretary General, AREL, Italy) Discussant Plenary 3 : THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY – Main Auditorium Monday 14th 08.45 – 10.15hrs Mia Gray (University of Cambridge, England) Chair Enzo Rullani (Ca�Foscari University, Italy) Keynote: Industrial Districts and the Knowledge Economy Giovanni Dosi (Scuola Superiore Sant�Anna, Italy Discussant Ed Malecki (Ohio State University, USA) Discussant Plenary 4 : THE PISA MODEL – Main Auditorium Tuesday 15th 12.15 – 13.30hrs Mike Danson (Chair, Regional Studies Association, UK) Chair Giovanni Viale (Councillor for Economic Development, City Council of Pisa, Italy)

Introduction

Riccardo Varaldo (Scuola Sant�Anna, Italy) Keynote: High-tech and local development: a Pisa model? Phil Cooke (University of Cardiff, Wales) Discussant Anne Lorentzen (Aalborg University, Denmark) Discussant Phil Shapira (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Discussant ALL WORKSHOP SESSIONS TAKE PLACE IN THE CONGRESS CENTRE – SEE BELOW FOR ROOM NUMBERS/NAMES

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GATEWAY 1:KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY 1.1 Knowledge & Clusters (I)

Room: Pacinotti Sunday 13th, 10.45 – 12.15 hrs (Workshop A) Chair: Phil Cooke Jari Tapio Kolehmainen The Anatomy of a Knowledge-Intensive Agglomeration

A Case of a Digital Media Agglomeration in Tampere, Finland Anders Malmberg & Dominic Power

(How) do clusters create Knowledge?

Harald Bathelt "In good faith? The 'distanced neighbour' phenomenon: 'over-embedded' and 'under-socialized' economic relations in Leipzig's media industry"

1.2 Knowledge & Clusters (II)

Room: Pacinotti Sunday 13th, 12.20 – 13.50 hrs (Workshop B)

Chair:Andrea Piccaluga Phil Cooke The Biosciences knowledge value chain: Theoretical & Emirical developments in the Cluster

perspective Philip Shapira, Jan Youtie & Sushant Mohaptra

Cite Location: Research Production and Regional Technology Cluster Development

Roberto Grandinetti & Raffaella Tabacco

Formation and evolution of industrial districts: a knowledge-based perspective for industrial district research

1.3 Knowledge & Clusters (III)

Room: Pacinotti Sunday 13th, 15:20 – 16:50 hrs (Workshop C)

Chair: Mark Lorenzen? Kerstin Wolter Knowledge, industrial organisation and spatial distribution of firms: Some lessons from the German

biotechnology industry Nick Henry, Mark Jenkins, Steven Pinch & Stephen Tallman

From industrial districts to knowledge clusters: a model of knowledge dissemination and competitive advantage in industrial agglomerations

Søren Kerndrup Knowledge creation and transformation in value chains clusters and intermediates. 1.4 Knowledge & Clusters (IV)

Room: Pacinotti Sunday 13th, 17.20 – 18.50 hrs (Workshop D)

Chair:Nick Henry? Stig-Erik Jakobsen & Knut Onsager

Head Office Location-Clusters or Flow Nodes

Marjolein C.J. Caniëls & Henny A. Romijn

Opening the black box of knowledge creation in clustered firms

1.5 Round Table – Spatial Dimensions of the Knowledge Economy

Room: Pacinotti Monday 14th, 10.45 – 12.15 hrs (Workshop E)

Chair:Helen Lawton Smith? Paolo Dario, Eugenio Guglielmelli, Francesca Pasquini, Frederico Chiarugi, Catherina Deriu, & Elisabetta Mori

The LINK project: approach, actors and tools of intervention

Peter Maskell & Mark Lorenzen

Knowledge Economy - Spatial Consequences

Nicola Bellini Presentation of the Science & Technology Pole in Pontedera � Polo Sant�Anna Valdera 1.6 Knowledge & Collective Learning (I)

Room: Pacinotti Monday 14th, 12.20 – 13.50 hrs (Workshop F)

Chair: James Simmie? Goio Etxebarria Stakeholders, Knowledge and Regional Framework Helen Lawton Smith & Rupert Waters

Rates of turnover in Sectoral Agglomeration: Knowledge transfer in Oxfordshire and Cambrideshire

Mika Kautonen Innovators: Global or locally embedded, or both?

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1.7 Knowledge & Collective Learning (II)

Room: Pacinotti Monday 14th, 15.20 – 16.50 hrs (Workshop G)

Chair: Wade Locke Kimmo J Viljamaa & Carlos Martinez Vela

Regional Competence Building as a Co-development of Industry and Research. The Case of Mobile Machines Industry in Tampere Region

Marco Corsino, Anna Giunta & Francesco Trivieri

Determinants of the Adoption Information Technology: Evidence on Italian Manufacturing Small Firms

Markku Sotarauta In search of lost qualities: Leadership and power in creation of knowledge economy 1.8 Knowledge & Collective Learning (III)

Room: Saletta 10 Monday 14th, 10:45 – 12.15 hrs (Workshop E)

Chair: Markku Sotarauta Vesa Harmaakorpi, Helinä Melkas & Riika Kivelä

Knowledge Management and Information Quality in an Innovation Network of a Regional Innovation System

Francesco Quatraro An ethno-linguistic approach to services' role in knowledge transfer: the evidence of the Innovation Relay Centre of Southern Italy

1.9 Knowledge & Collective Learning (IV)

Room: Aula 7 Monday 14th, 12:20 – 13.50 hrs (Workshop F)

Chair: Phil Cooke Mario Vale & Josué Caldeira

Fashion in the Footwear Industry: Linking Consumption and Industrial Production within an open territorial system of innovation. The case of the Northern region of Portugal

Simone Strambach KIBS as drivers of the knowledge economy - concentration and specialisation in German metropolitan regions - Indicators for regional development paths and cumulative learning processes?

Suzanne Hanson The Knowledgeable Cluster: The Case of the Ceramics Cluster in Sassuolo, Italy. 1.10 Knowledge & Collective Learning (V)

Room: Saletta 13 Monday 14th, 15.20 – 16.50 hrs (Workshop G)

Chair: Mario Vale Ulf Matthiesen Learning Regions and Knowledge Milieus within the context of Post-Socialist Transformational

Pathways - Developmental Options, Obstructions and Paradoxes in three East-German City Regions Sami Kurki Creating regional knowledge networks - the case of EPANET in the South Ostrobothnia, Finland Fiorenza Belussi 1.11 Knowledge & Regions/Policy (I)

Room: Aula 6 Monday 14th, 10.45 – 12.15 hrs (Workshop E)

Chair: Andrea Piccaluga Riccardo Cappellin The relationship between needs & instruments of innovation policy in different regions: the Matrix

INT (Instruments and Needs of Technology) James Simmie Innovative regions as knowledge trading nodes in the international economy 1.12 Knowledge & Regions/Policy (II)

Room: Aula 6 Monday 14th, 12.20 – 13.50 hrs (Workshop F)

Chair: Maria Chiarvesio Marie-Claude Belis-Bergouignan & Christophe Carrincazeaux

'Knowledge economics and the grounds of infra national technological policies'

Carla De Laurentis, Phil Cooke & Glyn Williams

Barriers to the Knowledge Economy - New Media Cluster in the Periphery

1.13 Knowledge & Regions/Policy (III)

Room: Aula 6 Monday 14th, 15.20 – 16.50 hrs (Workshop G)

Chair: Margarida Fontes Giampaolo Vitali Policy instruments fostering the Knowledge Economy: The case of a small Italian region: Friuli-

Venezia Giulia Menevis Ogut & R. Funda Barbaros

The Regional imbalances in Turkey based on Human Development Indices

Lucio Poma & Silvia Sacchetti

Knowledge life cycles inside local economic systems

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1.14 Knowledge & R&D (I) Room: Aula 6 Tuesday 15th, 08:45 – 10.15 hrs (Workshop H)

Chair: Riccardo Cappellin? Fumi Kitagawa Industry-Science Relationships and Fostering Regional Knowledge Economy Scott Lynch & Wade Locke The Determinants of Research and Development Activities in Peripheral Regions Ernesto Tavoletti High education and high intellectual unemployment. Does education matter? An interpretation and

some critical perspectives 1.15 Knowledge & R&D (II)

Room: Aula 6 Tuesday 15th, 10.40 – 12:10 hrs (Workshop I)

Chair: ? Koen Frenken & Frank Van Oort

The geography of scientific knowledge production: parallel patterns of internationalisation and localisation of research collaboration?

Myriam Mariani Competencies, geography and the value of patented innovations 1.16 Knowledge & SMEs (I)

Room: Aula 6 Sunday 13th, 10:45 – 12.15 hrs (Workshop A)

Chair: Roel Rutten? Nicola Bellini, Chiara Cavallo, Alberto Di Minin, Michela Lazzeroni, Alessandra Patrono & Andrea Piccaluga

The role of high-tech companies in peripheral, knowledge intensive areas: an in-depth analysis in Pisa

Luciano Pilotti & Silvia Rita Sedita

Customised training forms increase competitiveness and adoption of ICT tools in SMEs. A building process of technology based meta-districts education

Ove Langeland & Geir Inge Orderud

The Venture Capital Innovation Model: Urban and High-tech?

1.17 Knowledge & SMEs (II)

Room: Aula 6 Sunday 13th, 12.20 – 13.50 hrs (Workshop B)

Chair: ? Paul Counts & Alberto Di Minin

Economic Growth Models: Two case studies of increasing high tech potential - Savannah (Georgia) and Pisa

Silvia Grandi Science & Technology Parks in the Romanga region. Dissemination, valorisation and marketing of knowledge.

Arne Isaksen Knowledge Economy and Regional Development. The Software Industry in Norway 1.18 Knowledge & SMEs (III)

Room: Aula 6 Sunday 13th, 15.20 – 16.50 hrs (Workshop C)

Chair: Mark White? Heidi Wiig Aslesen Knowledge intensive business services and regional innovation. Management consultants in Norway Maria Chiarvesio, Eleonara Di Maria & Stefano Micelli

Innovation and internationalization o Italian districts: Exploitation of global competencies or transfer of local knowledge?

Luca Ferrucci & Daniele Porcheddu

The ICT in Sardinia: Start up and evolution

1.19 Knowledge & Social Partnership (I)

Room: Pacinotti Tuesday 15th, 08.45 – 10.15 hrs (Workshop H)

Chair: Paul Counts? Martin Sokol The 'knowledge Economy' a critical view Roel Rutten & Frans Boekema

Knowledge-based collaboration in a regional manufacturing network: a case study

Margarida Fontes Distant networking strategies: integrating disperse competencies and strengthening weaker regions 1.20 Knowledge & Social Partnership (II)

Room: Pacinotti Tuesday 15th, 10.45 – 12.15 hrs (Workshop I)

Chair: Andrea Piccaluga Martine Gadille The weak incidences of the knowledge based economy on the regional development of Internet uses:

case study of a French region Seamus Grimes & Mark White

The sustainability of Ireland's knowledge economy

Mia Gray & Sarah Damery Women and the 'new economy': The Cambridge case

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GATEWAY 2: REGIONAL RESTRUCTURING 2.1 Clusters in Regional Development Policy Room: Auletta B Sunday 13th, 10.45 – 12.15 hrs (Workshop A) Chair: Annaflavia Bianchi Nese Kumral and Cagacan Deger

An Industrial Cluster Study: As a basis for the Aegean Region's Development Policy

Nigel Berkeley A stitch in time? Institutional support for the clothing industry in the West Midlands region of the UK Dagmar Grote Westrick and Dieter Rehfeld

Clusters and cluster policies in regions of structural change - comparing three regions in Northrhine-Westfalia

2.2 Foreign Investment and Transnational Firms; Studying Embeddedness Room: Auletta B Sunday 13th, 12.20 – 13.50 hrs (Workshop B) Chair: David Worrall? Daniel Coq Foreign investment, embeddedness and specialisation in Southern peripheral regions: The Andalusian

case Alessandro Pagano and Salvatore Torrisi

Links between multinational firms and domestic firms. A comparison of software in India, Ireland and Israel

Mario Vale and Rui Dias Foreign direct (dis) investment in Portugal in the context of a European integration process

2.3 Restructuring for Regional Sustainability Room: Auletta B Sunday 13th, 15.20 – 16.50 hrs (Workshop C) Chair: Pauline Deutz and David Gibbs

Eco-industrial development and regional restructuring: industrial ecology or marketing tool

Amy Proctor Regional restructuring for sustainable development: the potential role of ecosites Anna Segre The Local Territorial Systems and their environmental sustainability 2.4 Evolutionary Perspectives on Regional Change Room: Auletta B Sunday 13th, 17.20 – 18.50 hrs (Workshop D) Chair: Adam Swain? Ron Boschma Spatial evolution of industries Luciana Lazzeretti Density Dependent Dynamics (Founding) in Arezzo Jewellery District (1947-2001) Wim Vanhaverbeke and Peter Cabus

The historical path dependent development of regions: The evolution of urbanised economic concentration areas in Belgium. How and why?

2.5 Central and Eastern Europe in Transition Room: Main Auditorium Monday 14th, 10.45 – 12.15 hrs (Workshop E) Chair: Anne Lorentzen Jane Hardy Rebuilding local governance in post-communist economies: a radical institutionalist analysis György Kocziszky and István Bakos

The experiences of the restructuring of the North-Eastern region of Hungary from the late 80s to the present day

Hans Van Zon Clan politics in Donetsk 2.6 Studies of High-Technology Regions Room: Auletta B Monday 14th, 12.20 – 13.50 hrs (Workshop F) Chair: Ed Malecki Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen and Aubrey S. Balcom

A Study of research, product development and internationalisation in the United States biotechnology sector

Andy Jonas, Aiden While, and David Gibbs

When consensus is not enough: The Cambridge (UK) high-tech economy and its regional and national context

2.7 Industrial Districts Room: Main Auditorium Monday 14th, 15.20 – 16.50 hrs (Workshop G) Chair: Rosario Asian Chaves? Gerhard Fuchs The rise of the new or restructuring of the old-Baden-Württemberg's economy from crisis to new

glory? Gioacchino Garofoli The restructuring of local productive systems and industrial districts in Italy Roberta Rabellotti The effect of globalisation on industrial districts in Italy: the case of Brenta

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2.8 Studies of Industries Room: Riunioni Tuesday 15th, 08.45 – 10.15 hrs (Workshop H) Chair: Roberta Rabellotti Suzanne Reimer Furniture design and regional economic development Jan Vang Organisation of urgent production: messages from the News Industry 2.9 Knowledge Systems and Networks Room: Aula 7 Tuesday 15th, 10.45 – 12.15 hrs (Workshop I) Chair: Dagmar Grote Westrick? Rosario Asian Chaves The role of knowledge systems, as the innovation on ICTs, in regional development: analysis of the

Andalusian Region Karl-Johan Lundquist and Lars Winther

Between Sweden and Denmark: The industrial dynamics of the Öresund Region

Anne Lorentzen Local and global knowledge sourcing in the learning process of Polish companies 2.10 Labour in Regional Restructuring Room: Main Auditorium Sunday 13th, 10.45 – 12.15 hrs (Workshop A) Chair: John Shutt? David Sadler, Jane Hardy, Boleslaw Domanski, and Adam Swain

Driving east: Models, management theory and the changing divisions of labour in the East European automobile industry

David Worrall, Tom Donnelly, and David Morris

Industrial restructuring: the role of FDI, strategic alliances and technology transfer in Central Europe's automotive industry

2.11 Restructuring Traditional Industries and Their Regions (I) Room: Main Auditorium Sunday 13th, 12.20 – 13.50 hrs (Workshop B) Chair: Giampaolo Vitali? Jacques Fache Old industries versus high technology activities in France? Tom Donnelly Restructuring the automotive industry in the English Midlands region Asbjørn Karlsen Increasing regional specialisation and divide - industrial trajectories of shipyards and related

industries in two Norwegian regions 2.12 Restructuring Traditional Industries and Their Regions (II) Room: Main Auditorium Sunday 13th, 15.20 – 16.50 hrs (Workshop C) Chair: David Sadler? Laurence Moyart and F. Leloup

The regional restructuring of old industrial regions: the case of the Hainaut in Belgium

John Shutt, Roger Henderson, and Felix Kumi-Ampofo

Responding to a regional economic crisis: an impact and regeneration assessment of the Selby coalfield closure on the Yorkshire & Humber region

Knut Onsager Restructuring and renewal in old manufacturing regions � the case of Ostfold county (Norway) 2.13 Restructuring Traditional Industries and Their Regions (III) Room: Main Auditorium Sunday 13th, 17.20 – 18.50 hrs (Workshop D) Chair: Hans Van Zon Kerstin Zimmer Kerstin Zimmer: The old industrial region paradigm re-visited: Donetsk Oblast' (Ukraine) throughout

the 1990s Olga Mrinska Traditional industrial regions of Ukraine - any chance to become leaders in the process of transition

to market economy? Case study of Lugansk Region Giampaolo Vitali A declining Italian region: the case of Piedmont 2.14 Regional Policies Room: Auletta B Monday 14th, 10.45 – 12.15 hrs (Workshop E) Chair: Jim Harvey Jim Harvey and Brian Cheers

Intra-regional cooperation in regional development: a case study from Outback Australia

Edward J. Malecki Jockeying for Position: What it means and why it matters to regional development policy when places compete

Vesa Harmaakorpi and Satu Pekkarinen

Defining a core process in a regional innovation system. The case of Lahti Age Business Core Process

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2.15 SMEs in Regional Restructing Room: Main Auditorium Monday 14th, 12.20 – 13.50 hrs (Workshop F) Chair: Doug Watts? Mark Hart Small firms, local economies and business performance: some evidence from the UK, France and

Germany Carla A. Silva Azevedo Lobo

New firm formation: An empirical study for Portugal

2.16 Networking, Networks and Clusters Room: Auletta B Monday 14th, 15.20 – 16.50 hrs (Workshop G) Chair: Gioacchino Garofoli? Martti Hyry, Harri Haapasalo, and Tom Donnelly

The role of social networking in developing regional business. The case of Oulu

H D Watts, Andy Wood, and Perry Wardle

Extroverts or introverts? Industrial clusters and the dynamic firm

Song Wang and Hiro Izushi Evolution of knowledge networks: comparison of two sectors in West Midlands 2.17 Peripheral Regions Room: Auletta B Tuesday 15th, 08.45 – 10.15 hrs (Workshop H) Chair: Daniel Coq? Kati-Jasmin Kosonen Building Innovation Capacity in the Less Favoured Regions-New Technologies and University

Networks Ugo Rossi New regionalism encounters uneven development: the case of the Mezzogiorno of Italy Age Mariussen and Seija Virkkala

National innovation systems and peripheral regions: development of exclusion?

2.18 Policies Under Crisis Room: Auletta B Tuesday 15th, 10.45 – 12.15 hrs (Workshop I) Chair: Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen Valerio Lintner and Segio Sacchi

Economic, social and political governance in Southern Europe: the case of Umbria

Myung-Rae Cho Neo-liberal urbanism: relections on the post-crises metropolitan restructuring of Seoul, Korea Christian Jensen, Svante Leijon, and Bjorn Trägårdn

Restructuring regions - the role of social scientists

GATEWAY 3: ENLARGEMENT VERSUS INTEGRATION 3.1 Impacts of Expansion on Countries and Regions (I) Room: Saletta 13 Sunday 13th, 10.45 – 12.15 hrs (Workshop A) Chair: Frank Giarratani Martin Myant EU accession and Czeh regional differences Iva Miranda Pires EU Trade with CEEC'S in the new context of enlargement: winners and losers Jiøi Bla�ek Regional Impacts of the Accession of the Czech Republic into the EU 3.2 Impacts of Expansion on Countries and Regions (II) Room: Saletta 13 Sunday 13th, 12.20 – 13.50 hrs (Workshop B) Chair: Sarah Davies Alessandro Maffioli Regional Adjustment To Economic Integration In Hungary Laura Resmini European intergration and adjustment in border regions in accession countries 3.3 Impacts of Expansion on Countries and Regions (III) Room: Saletta 13 Sunday 13th, 15.20 – 16.50 hrs (Workshop C) Chair: Pete Tyler Maria P Terrasi The Macrospatial Dimension of European Integration on the Threshold of the New Enlargement Andràs Nagy & Géza Salamin

Planning for Regional Development in the Light of EU Integration: case study of Hungary

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3.4 European Disparities and Convergence Room: Saletta 13 Sunday 13th, 17.20 – 18.50 hrs (Workshop D) Chair: Ida J Terluin, Siemen Van Berkum & Jaap H Post

Shifts in Regional Income Disparities in the EU25 as a result of the Implementation of the Cap in the New Member States

Enrico Marelli Regional employment dynamics in the EU Sara Davies How can EU Cohesion policy contribute to catching up strategies in the Accession countries of

Central Europe? 3.5 Growth Factors and Institutions in the Context of EU Expansion (I) Room: Saletta 13 Monday 14th, 10.45 – 12.15 hrs (Workshop E) Chair: Frank Giarratani Károly Fazekas & Éva Ozvald

The effects of foreign direct investment on the performance of local labour markets: The case of Hungary

Guntram B. Wolff Enlargement, Industry Structure and Convergence in Transition Countries Jonathan Perraton & Peter Wells

Multi-Level Governance and Economic Cohesion: Applications to European Integration

3.6 Growth Factors and Institutions in the Context of EU Expansion (II) Room: Saletta 13 Monday 14th, 12.20 – 13.50 hrs (Workshop F) Chair: Peter Wells Gál Zoltán Challenges of the EMU: Expanding European Integration of the Hungarian Banking System in the

light of the Accession Harald Badinger, Gabriele Tondl & Goran Vuksic

What determins region growth in Eastern Europe? The role of structural change, human resources and geography

GATEWAY 4: RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND THE NEW ECONOMY 4.1 Regional and Rural Development Room: Galilei Sunday 13th, 10.45 – 12.15 hrs (Workshop A) Chair: Jonathan Murdoch Philip Lowe & Jeremy Phillipson

The Second Pillar and the Challenge of Rural Development in an Enlarged European Union

Francesco Mantino The role of rural development in regional policy Ida J Terluin, Siemen Van Berkum & Jaap H Post

Shifts in Regional Income Disparities in the EU25 as a result of the Implementation of the Cap in the New Member States

4.2 Peripheries and Rural Development Room: Galilei Sunday 13th, 12.20 – 13.50 hrs (Workshop B) Chair: Helena Valve Iva Miranda Pires & Jose Afonso Teixeira

Portuguese border regions: will they be able to adapt to a global economy?

Peter Townroe & Barry Moore

Vulnerable local agriculture in a remote region but in a global economy: the case of Scottish salmon farming

Katy Bennett Identifing farmers' wives: Women, work and rural economies 4.3 Farm Diversification Strategies Room: Saletta 12 Sunday 13th, 12.20 – 13.50 hrs (Workshop B) Chair:Andrea Pardini Professor Alajos Fehér & Dr. Edith Szepesy

Role of farm diversification in the rural economy of the Northern Great Plain in Hungary

Antonella Ivona Farm tourism as a way to promote rural development. An application in Apulia Greta Barnicoat & Mr. Mark Chapman

Farm diversification and a marketing philosophy

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4.4 Enterprising Communities & Localisation of the Food Chain Room: Galilei Sunday 13th, 15.20 – 16:50 hrs (Workshop C) Chair: Philip Lowe Mara Miele & Jonathan Murdoch

Regions on the menu: 'authenticity' and 'reinvention' in European regional cuisines

Margaret Clark, Richard Turl & David Atkinson

Enterprising rural communities: the role and potential of rural community and social enterprise

4.5 Rural Development and the Global Economy Room: Galilei Sunday 13th, 17.20 – 18.50 hrs (Workshop D) Chair:Peter Townroe Maciej Pietrzykowski Polish rural economy in the new economic condition Maria O Neill A legal critical analysis of the current and future impact of WTO membership on the EC's regulation

of the import and export of foodstuffs into and out of the EC Andrea Pardini Integration of pastoral communities in the global economy 4.6 Food Chains and Clusters Room: Aula 6 Sunday 13th, 17.20 – 18.50 hrs (Workshop D) Chair: Jane Atterton Elisa Giuliani Beyond localisation: 'Knowledge communities' in wine clusters Kathryn Burnett & Mike Danson

Adding or Subtracting Value?: rural enterprise, quality food promotion and Scotland's cluster strategy.

Giovanni Balestrieri Consumers attitudes towards some regoinal food products of Tuscany 4.7 Territorial Approaches to Rural Development Room: Galilei Monday 14th, 10.45 – 12.15 hrs (Workshop E) Chair: Francesco Mantino Christopher Ray The idea of a pan-European system of rural development territories and the search for an analytical

framework Helena Valve Evaluating learning potentials generated by EU rural policy 4.8 Territorial Approaches: Endogenous Development Room: Galilei Monday 14th, 12.20 – 13.50 hrs (Workshop F) Chair: Christopher Ray Davide Gualerzi Identity, local development and regional analysis Peter Cabus & Wim Vanhaverbeke

Towards a neo-endogenous rural development model for the Flemish countryside

Luigi Doria, Matelda Reho & Luciano Vettoretto

Opportunitites and tensions of endogenous rural development. Indications from the implementation of LEADER in Italy

4.9 Networks and Rural Development Room: Galilei Monday 14th, 15.20 – 16.50 hrs (Workshop G) Chair: Jeremy Phillipson Jane Atterton Entrepreneurial Networking in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland and the Implications for

Economic and Social Development Nina Mustikkamäki Distribution of Work in the Network Society -

Intra-organisational networks and regional development in Finland Oeyvind Glosvik Networks and learning in a rural development program 4.10 Territorial Approaches: Regional Perspectives Room: Galilei Tuesday 15th, 08.45 – 10.15 hrs (Workshop H) Chair: Ida Terluin Birgit Kopainsky, Peter Rieder & Simon Buchli

How peripheral and agrarian communities work and how their viability can be improved - insights from a System Dynamics approach

Claudio Marciano, Tommaso Calabro & Anna Irene De Luca

Achieving a common strategy for an integrated rural development plan in South Italy using analytic hierarchy process (AHP)

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4.11 Labour Markets and Human Capital Room: Galilei Tuesday 15th, 10.45 – 12.15 hrs (Workshop I) Chair: Kathryn Burnett? Ronald W. McQuaid, Colin Lindsay & Martin McCracken

Alternative job search strategies in remote rural labour markets: The role of ICT

Ornella Wanda Maietta Human capital and growth: a case study for the Italian agriculture Lilia Infelise ALLIANCE - an alliance for the development of business and employment in rural areas: a

community learning model GATEWAY 5: NEW FORMS OF REGIONAL GOVERNANCE 5.1 Regional Policy and Questions of Regionalisation Room: Fermi Sunday 13th, 10.45 – 12.15 hrs (Workshop A) Chair: Henrik Halkier Discourse, Regional Policy and Regional Governance: Theory, methods - and a Scottish case study Martin Jones & Gordon MacLeod

The Political Geography of Regional Governance: Contesting England�s South-West

John McDonagh Integrated Regional Development in Ireland - Myth or Method? 5.2 Multi-Level Governance Room: Fermi Sunday 13th, 12.20 – 13.50 hrs (Workshop B) Chair:Seija Virkala Alan Townsend The New Multi-Level Governance at Work in England Harvey Armstrong, P. Wells, J.L. Woolford

Multi Level Governance, Regional Policy and the Role of the Third Sector: the Emergence of New Policy Networks

Lynne Humphrey, John Tomaney & Keith Shaw

Regional Governance and Democratic Innovation: Evidence from the UK

5.3 Innovation Systems and Development Strategies Room: Fermi Sunday 13th, 15.20 – 16.50 hrs (Workshop C) Chair: Oddbjørn Bukve? Mikel Landabaso, Benedicte Mouton & Jean-Marie Rousseau

Regional Innovation Strategies as tools to improve social capital and institutional thickness for innovation promotion in the regions: lessons from the European Regional Development Fund innovative actions?

Ola Jonsson Regional Innovation systems - promoting inclusion or exclusion in the regional system? Ilkka Marjomaa Parents in Queue for the Prodigy: How was the Oulu Phenomenon Conceived? 5.4 Innovation Systems and Business Development Room: Fermi Sunday 13th, 17.20 – 18.50 hrs (Workshop D) Chair: John Shutt? Carlo Pietrobelli & Roberta Rabellotti

Business Development Service Centres in Italy: an empirical analysis of three notable regional experiences � Emilia Romagna, Lombardia and Veneto

Dafydd Williams Targeting Business Support Services Liz Dixon Regional Business Associations, Representation and Regional governance 5.5 Collaborative Regionalism (I) Room: Fermi Monday 14th, 10.45 – 12.15 hrs (Workshop E) Chair: Alan Townsend Joseph Leibovitz Learning to collaborate? Institution-building and collaborative regionalism in the governance of

"Canada's Technology Triangle' Bernhard Kohle, Mike Geddes & Jonathan Davies

Evaluating Subregional Economic Regeneration Partnerships

Seija Virkkala Regional Governance in Finland:- Case Study on Structural Fund Partnership vs. Other Partnership in Three Regions In Finland

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5.6 Collaborative Regionalism (II) Room: Fermi Monday 14th, 12.20 – 13.50 hrs (Workshop F) Chair: Martin Jones? Timo Lakso Collaborative Characteristics of Regional Governance: Case Program and Project Based Regional

Development Planning Peter Cabus Subregional Platforms in Flanders as Economic Coalitions? 5.7 Competitive Regionalism Room: Fermi Monday 14th, 15.20 – 16.50 hrs (Workshop G) Chair: Stephen Syrett? Nico Groenendijk, Gert-Jan Hospers

Regional Competitiveness, Competitive Federalism and Multi-level Governance: Competing or Complimentary Concepts?

Tone Haraldsen Trans-national value systems and territorial competition Lidia Greco & Benito Giordano

Economic policies, institutions and regional performances: an analysis of the Italian regional policy

5.8 Territoriality and Urban-Rural Relations Room: Fermi Tuesday 15th, 08.45 – 10.15 hrs (Workshop H) Chair: Panos Getimis? Stella Kyvelou Regions and Territorial Cohesion: Public Policies for the Anticipation of Vulnerable Territories Antti Saartenoja Can regime-theory help to understand urban-rural relations in the regional context Trevor Hart & Tim Shaw Rural Governance: Some Implications of the Changing Framework for Regeneration and Renewal in

England 5.9 New Global Order and City Regions (I) Room: Aula 7 Sunday 13th, 10.45 – 12.15 hrs (Workshop A) Chair: Liz Dixon? Tassilo Herrschel & Peter Newman

Globalisation and City Regional Governance: A North American-European Perspective

Carlos Nunes Silva & Stephen Syrett

Governing Lisbon: Internationalisation, state power and the city-region

Iwona Sagan & Magdalena Szmytkowska

The Policy of Entrepreneurialism and the Transformation of Post-Socialist City. A case of Gdynia.

5.10 New Global Order and City Regions (II) Room: Aula 7 Sunday 13th, 12.20 – 13.50 hrs (Workshop B) Chair: Irene McMaster? Rolf Prigge The City States of Germany as a Special Type of Region Gwyn Williams Regional agendas and the governance of city regions: The Manchester conurbation Serap Kayasu, Suna Senem Yasar

The Implications of Business and Institutional Networks for Emerging Forms of Governance: The Case of Istanbul

5.11 Round Table - Sustainable Development in Regions (sponsored by Ambient) Room: Aula 7 Sunday 13th, 15.20 – 16.50 hrs (Workshop C) Chair: Tone Haraldsen? David Gibbs, Andy Jonas, & Aidan While

Sustainable Development and Regional Governance: The Implications for Economic Development

Margarida Vilar Queirós Regional pathways to sustainable development: some lessons from Vale do Ave, Portugal 5.12 Regional Planning and the Development Process Room: Aula 7 Sunday 13th, 17.20 – 18.50 hrs (Workshop D) Chair: Peter Cabus Artur da Rosa Pires, Carlos Rodrigues

Introducing regional governance through local strategic planning

Roar Amdam Regional planning as a legitimating development process Simin Davoudi, Neil Evans The development of new forms of regional governance in strategic waste planning 5.13 New Regionalism and European Integration Room: Aula 7 Monday 14th, 10.45 – 12.15 hrs (Workshop E)

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Chair: Henrik Halkier Panayiotis Getimis & Leeda Demetropoulou

Europeanisation Towards New Forms of Regional Governance in Greece: Lessons in View of an Eastern Enlargement

Oddbjørn Bukve Towards a New Regionalism? Jesús Hernández The other Europe: the outer Europe. The Ultraperipheral Regions of the EU in the new European

scenario: problems and strategies 5.14 New Patterns in Regional Development (I) Room: Aula 7 Tueday 15th, 08.45 – 10.15 hrs (Workshop H) Chair: Ilkka Marjomaa Crispian Fuller, Robert J. Bennett & Mark Ramsden

Organised for inward investment? Development Agencies, Local Government and Firms in the inward investment process

John Shutt, Stratis Koutsoukos & Roger Henderson

The future of local economic development - establishing a new sub-regional development agency: the case of 'first Wakefield'

Vesa Harmaakorpi, Harri Niukkanen & Ilkka Kauranen

Network Leadership in Regional Development. Case: Developing a Regional Expertise Concept

5.15 New Patterns in Regional Development (II) Room: Fermi Tuesday 15th, 10.45 – 12.15 hrs (Workshop I) Chair: Lidia Greco? Alan Patterson & Phil Pinch The New Regional Governance and the Emergence of a 'Not For Profit' Utilities Sector in the UK:

the Case of Glas Cymru Martin Ferry & Irene McMaster

Regional Governance in Industrial Regions in Central and Eastern Europe: A Polish-Czech Comparison

Maria Filippa Patterns of governance and spatial organisation of production GATEWAY 6: DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE, EDUCATION & SKILLS 6.1 Education, Skills and Mobility Room: Riunioni Sunday 13th, 10.45 – 12.15 hrs (Workshop A) Chair: Irene Hardill Irene Hardill & Lionel Guillemot

A tale of two countries: British retirement migration to France

Muriel Lheritier & Luc Tardieu

Heterogeneity of educational processes and migration choices in Europe

6.2 Demographic Change Room: Riunioni Sunday 13th, 12.20 – 13.50 hrs (Workshop B) Chair: Pooran Wynarczyk? Richard Baker & Peter Lloyd

Ageing, older people and regions: Understanding ageing and harnessing the potential of older people at regional level

Tony Gore Joblessness, Employment Growth and Local Labour Market Change in Britain 6.3 Eduction and Skills Room: Riunioni Sunday 13th, 15.20 – 16.50 hrs (Workshop C) Chair: Lionel Guillemot David Charles City-region learning Gisella Cortesi, Maria Francesca Romono, Michela Lazzeroni & Paola Cappellini

Spatial and gender differentiation in access to higher education in Italy

Pooran Wynarczyk, Elizabeth Robson & Lalith Welamedage

Providing Female Entrepreneurs of Tomorrow: the Role of Further Education Colleges in the North East of England

6.4 Mobility and Skills Room: Riunioni Sunday 13th, 17.20 – 18.50 hrs (Workshop D) Chair:Tony Gore? Dr. Anne-Mette Hjalager Yuppies Revisited - the importance of geography for the pursuing of Careers John Houston, Anne Earnings, Returns to Further Education in Scotland, 1991-2000

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Gasteen, Carolyn Davidson & John Anderson Mika Raunio Attractiveness of Finland in the Global Field of Choices of Foreign IT-professionals 6.5 Labour Market Advantages/Disadvantages Room: Riunioni Monday 14th, 10.45 – 12.15 hrs (Workshop E) Chair: Irene Hardill Guido de Blasio & Sabrina Di Addario

Labour Market Pooling: Evidence from Italian Industrial Districts

Ranji Devadason I'm not doing that - here's your McJob mate! Young adults, opportunities and skills in two urban labour markets, Bristol and Gothenburg

Ian Gordon & Vassilis Monastiriotis

Skills Shortages, Skills Mismatch and Regional Labour Market Processes: What do they mean? And how do they matter?

6.6 Regional Dynamics and Labour Markets (I) Room: Riunioni Monday 14th, 12.20 – 13.50 hrs (Workshop F) Chair: Jeanine Cohen Frédéric Piantoni The impact of Surinamese migration on the regional development of the Maroni region Massimiliano Riggi The Determinants of Interregional Labour Mobility in Germany 6.7 Regional Dynamics and Labour Markets (II) Room: Riunioni Monday 14th, 15.20 – 16.50 hrs (Workshop G) Chair: Ranji Devadason Robert Geisler On the way to Developed Region - Upper Silesian Trajectory to Richness Jeanine Cohen Demographic change, education and skills: New high tech Area and Regional Development in the

Paris Metropolitan Region Frode Ohr & Mette Rye The Measure Zone of Northern-Troms and Finnmark - analysis and evaluation of a set of measures GATEWAY 7: REGIONAL COMPETITIVENESS 7.1 Regional Competitiveness: Concepts and Measurement (I) Room: Aula 8 Sunday 13th, 10.45 – 12.15 hrs (Workshop A) Chair: Les Budd Ron Martin & Pete Tyler Regional Competitiveness: An elusive concept Ben Gardiner Regional Competitiveness Indicators for Europe.

Audit, Database Construction and Analysis Martha K Bakkevig & Associate Professor Erik W Jakobsen

The facilitator of regional competitiveness

7.2 Regional Competitiveness: Concepts and Measurement (II) Room: Aula 8 Sunday 13th, 12.20 – 13.50 hrs (Workshop B) Chair: Ron Martin Leslie Budd The feasibility of benchmarking indicators of regional competitiveness Grzegorz Gorzelak The wealth and poverty of Regions 7.3 Regional Competitiveness: Concepts and Measurement (III) Room: Aula 8 Sunday 13th, 15.20 – 16.50 hrs (Workshop C) Chair: Ron Martin Leïla Kebir From the object to the resource: The dynamics of territorial production system Ilario Favaretto Factors of regional competitiveness 7.4 Innovation, the Knowledge Economy and Regional Competitiveness (I) Room: Aula 8 Monday 14th, 10.45 – 12.15 hrs (Workshop E) Chair:David Charles?

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Bjørn T Asheim & Sverre J Herstad

Regional innovation systems, varieties of capitalism and non-local relations: Challenges from the globalising economy

Karsten Gareis Regional Competitiveness in the Information Society: The BISER indicators Matteo Caroli & Lucca Pirolo

Empirical trends in regional competitiveness: the case of ICT district in urban area of Rome

7.5 Innovation, the Knowledge Economy and Regional Competitiveness (II) Room: Aula 8 Monday, 12.20 – 13.50 hrs (Workshop F) Chair: Les Budd Lydia Greunz Innovation in European Regions: Specialization, diversity and competition Grete Rusten, James Cornford, David Charles & Rusten Holmefjord

Web-site strategies and performance in SME's: Performance indicators and regional challenges

7.6 Case Studies in Regional Competitiveness and Development (I) Room: Saletta 11 Sunday 13th, 10.45 – 12.15 hrs (Workshop A) Chair: Professor Imre Lengyel Economic Growth and Competitiveness of Hungarian Regions Paolo Guerrieri & Simona Iammarino

Export competitiveness in vulnerable Regions: Cumulativeness and change in the Provinces of the Italian Mezzogiorno

7.7 Case Studies in Regional Competitiveness and Development (II) Room: Saletta 11 Sunday 13th, 12.20 – 13.50 hrs (Workshop B) Chair: Grzegorz Gorzelak? Theodoros Metaxas & Dimitris Kallioras

Medium cities economic development and regional competitiveness: The case of Larissa - Volos dipole in Thessaly region of Greece

Luca Bianchi & Ilaria Mariotti

The relocation of Italian firms to the South Eastern European countries and to the Mezzogiorno. Two systems in comparison

Ida Musialkowska Regional Business Cycles in the European Union countries 7.8 Case Studies in Regional Competitiveness and Development (III) Room: Saletta 11 Sunday 13th, 15.20 – 16.50 hrs (Workshop C) Chair: James Cornford Zoltan Raffay The role of business services in the economic restructuring of the Hungarian regions Sedef Akgungor Exploring Regional Specializations in Turkey's Maunfacturing Industry 7.9 Policies for Regional Competitiveness (I) Room: Aula 8 Tuesday 15th, 08.45 – 10.15 hrs (Workshop H) Chair: Sedef Akgungor Michele Limosani & Ferdinando Ofria

Widening unemployment differentials in Italy: The role of competitiveness and Regional Policy

Christian Bellak Mind the gap: How performance gaps between domestic and foreign firms matter for regional policy Tomi Lähteenmäki Analysis of competitiveness as a part of Strategic Planning Process - some practical considerations 7.10 Policies for Regional Competitiveness (II) Room: Aula 8 Tuesday 15th, 10.45 – 12.15 hrs (Workshop I) Chair: Bjørn T Asheim Philip Raines & Ruth Downes

Reinventing Regional Policy in a Global Economy? Innovation strategies and economic development in Öberosterreich

Riccardo Lanzara, Michela Lazzeroni & Sabina Nuti

The development of networks for regional competitiveness and innovation. An experimental project in the area of Pisa

GATEWAY 8: CULTURAL FOUNDATIONS OF REGIONS 8.1 Issues in the Cultural Foundations of Regions Room: Saletta 9 Sunday 13th, 10.45 – 12.15 hrs (Workshop A) Chair: Arnoud Lagendijk

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Hermann Voesgen & Sue Kay

Barking up a better tree: the management of difference in network regions

Carsten Yndigegn Regional identity among young people in the era of globalisation 8.2 Culture and Regional Identity Room: Saletta 9 Sunday 13th, 12.20 – 13.50 hrs (Workshop B) Chair: Brian Graham István Süli-Zakar, Károly Teperics & Klára Czimre

The Restoration of Regional Identities in the Carpathian Euroregion

Mark Sandford Cornwall: ethnic regionalism in a world of development Renate Bornberg When people create the spaces they need: Achieving identity in primitive and historic cultures 8.3 Culture and Regional Economies (I) Room: Saletta 9 Monday 14th, 10.45 – 12.15 hrs (Workshop E) Chair: Arnoud Lagendijk Sandrine Stervinou Cultural assets and regional competitiveness: the case of a group of industrialists in Brittany (Western

France) Al James Unpacking the cultural foundations of innovative regional economies: Lessons from High Tech Zion,

Utah Ove Bjarnar & Hallgeir Gammelsaeter

The existence and character of regional entepreneurial cultures

8.4 Culture and Regional Economies (II) Room: Saletta 9 Monday 14th, 12.20 – 13.50 hrs (Workshop F) Chair: Arnoud Lagendijk Janet Tully & Gordon MacLeod

Reinventing Teeside: 'Cultural' Strategies for a De-Industrialised Landscape

Enrica Lemmi & Berardo Cori

Tuscany: a 'natural region' or a 'bioregion'?

8.5 Culture and Regional Economies (III) Room: Saletta 9 Monday 14th, 15.20 – 16.50 hrs (Workshop G) Chair: Brian Graham Florian Arun Taeube Structural change and economic development in South India:

The impact of Culture on the Software Industry Joezsef Benedek TBA Arnoud Lagendijk 'Global lifeworlds' versus 'local systemworlds': how flying winemakers produce global wines in

interconnected locals GATEWAY 9: NEW DEVELOPMENT IN REGIONAL THEORY 9.1 Regional Dynamics: sector, clusters and firms (I) Room: Saletta 1 Sunday 13th, 10.45 – 12.15 hrs (Workshop A) Chair: Paul Benneworth Giulio Bottazzi, Giorgio Fagiolo & Dosi Giovanni

Mapping sectoral patterns of technological accumulation into the geography of corporate locations. A simple model and some promising evidence.

Maurice Baslé, Christophe Cariou & Raphael Suire

Constrained convergence and regional growth: An explanation based on microeconomics behaviours

Ugo Fratesi Innovation diffusion and the evolution of regional disparities 9.2 Regional Dynamics: sector, clusters and firms (II) Room: Saletta 1 Sunday 13th, 12.20 – 13.50 hrs (Workshop B) Chair: Anca Carrington Hiro Izushi Empirics of R&D-based economic growth: case of European regions Bernt Aarset & Stig-Erik Jakobsen

Cooperation and competition in the seafood sector in Western Norway

Jérôme Vicente New Sequential and Cumulative Approaches of Location Process Based on Non-Market Interactions

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9.3 Regional Dynamics: divergence and disparity Room: Saletta 1 Monday 14th, 10.45 – 12.15 hrs (Workshop E) Chair: J.Andrés Faíña Paul Benneworth Towards a periphery-centred theory of Regional Economic Development Alberto Bramanti ICTs and Regional Disparities in Europe: how to define and measure their impact 9.4 Regional Dynamics: convergence and equilibrium Room: Saletta 1 Monday 14th, 12.20 – 13.50 hrs (Workshop F) Chair: Stig-Erik Jakobsen Anca Carrington Regional convergence in the European Union. A stochastic dominance approach Riccardo Leoncini, Sandro Montresor & Giovanna Vertova

Dynamic capabilities: evolving organisations in evolving (technological) systems

J.Andrés Faíña & Jésus López-Rodriguez

Population potentials and development levels: Empirical findings in the European Union

GATEWAY 10: INFRASTRUCTURE AND PLANNING 10.1 Infrastructure and Regional Economic Development Room: Saletta 12 Sunday 13th, 15.20 – 16.50 (Workshop C) Chair: Mark Baker Lajos Veres Analysis of the Transport Infrastructure in the regions of Europe Metin Karadağ, Ertuğrul Deliktaş & A.Özlem Önder

The Effects of public infrastructure on Private Sector Performances in Regions of Turkey

10.2 Planning for Regional Infrastructure Room: Saletta 12 Sunday 13th, 17.20 – 18.50 hrs (Workshop D) Chair: Mark Baker Myriam Le Goff Pronst & Virginie Lethiais

Planning Medical Supply between two areas and the use of Telemedicine

Svein Bråthen The viability of regional airports in Norway - are the regional development issues adequately addressed?

Maria Laura Pappalardo Realities and potentialities of the tourism structures and flows of Desenzano of Garda 10.3 Integrated Planning and Development Room: Saletta 12 Monday 14th, 10.45 – 12.15 hrs (Workshop E) Chair: John Parr Angela Hull Transport infrastructure and planning: the institutional frameworks for sub-regional planning Professor Alison Todes Regional Planning and Sustainability: Reshaping Development through Integrated Development

Plans in the Ugu District of South Africa Mark Baker & Peter Roberts

Planning a fundamental change: the future of sub-regional planning in England

10.4 Theoretical Approaches to Urban and Regional Development Room: Saletta 12 Monday 14th, 12.20 – 13.50 hrs (Workshop F) Chair: Angela Hull? Terje Skjeggedal Theory and practice in Norwegian regional planning John B Parr Reinventing Regions? The case of the polycentric urban region Muhittin Acar & Hüseyin Özgür

The Diffusion of Public-Private Partnerships as a New Form of Regional Governance: An Institutional Pespective

10.5 Partnerships, Planning and Regional Development Room: Saletta 12 Monday 14th, 15.20 – 16.50 hrs (Workshop G) Chair: Gordon MacLeod? Margareta Dahlström Urban-Rural interdependencies: Partnerships, Planning and Policies Bernard Fritsch Infrastructure and regional cohesion in European Union Julian P Hick Regional institutions and policy tackling sub-regional development - the case of socio-economic

regeneration on the North West coast of England 10.6 Indicators, Sustainability and Regional Development

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Room: Saletta 12 Tuesday 15th, 08.45 – 10.15 hrs (Workshop H) Chair: Julian Hick? Graham. F. Haughton & Dave Counsell

Planning Knowledge: legitimacy, techniques and sustainable development in English regional planning

Silvio Angelini, Angelo Martino & Silvia Maffii

A policy evaluation framework for transport and urban sustainable development

Cecilia Wong Indicators at the crossroads: ideas, methods and applications 10.7 European Spatial Development Room: Saletta 12 Tuesday 15th, 10.45 – 12.15 hrs (Workshop I) Chair: Cecilia Wong Gordon Dabinett Reinventing the South Yorkshire Sub-region through polycentric urban development: A new local

politics for global space or new local spaces for EU politics? Gordon MacLeod Privatizing the City? Planning and Governance in the 'Postmetropolis' GATEWAY 11: COMMUNITY REGENERATION AND SOCIAL INCLUSION 11.1 Trust and Social Capital Room: Saletta 11 Monday 14th, 10.45 – 12.15 hrs (Workshop E) Chair: Mike Raco? Gabi Dei Ottati Trust and economic development: The evolution of business relations in an Italian district Melvyn Evans & Stephen Syrett

Generating Social Capital? The Social Economy and Local Regeneration

Michael Murray Exploring equity, diversity and interdependence through dialogue and understanding in rural Northern Ireland

11.2 Communities and Partnership (I) Room: Saletta 11 Monday 14th, 12.20 – 13.50 hrs (Workshop F) Chair: Alan Townsend Mike Rowe Communities Beyond Regeneration: sustaining capacity once the money runs out Luca Petruzzellis Place regeneration towards a customer-based approach 11.3 Communities and Partnership (II) Room: Saletta 11 Monday 14th, 15.20 – 16.50 hrs (Workshop G) Chair: Michael Murray Özlem Dundar Community involvement in local regeneration projects in Turkey Maria Rosaria Garofaloá & Maria Rosaria Supino

Social inclusion through local partnership and fair cooperation. A microanalysis on the implementation of local welfare reform in an area of Mezzogiorno

Gerry Mooney, Usha Brown & Gill Scott

Tackling Poverty and Social Inclusion Post-Devolution: The Case of Scotland

11.4 Social Inclusion Room: Saletta 11 Tuesday 15th, 08.45 – 10.15 hrs (Workshop H) Chair: Graham Haughton Charlie Johnstone, Chris McWilliams & Gerry Mooney

Urban Social Policy in the 'New' Scotland: A New Beginning or Old Hat?

Mike Raco An urban renaissance? new labour, community and urban policy in the United Kingdom Matthew Green & Anne Green

Challenges of partnership working in local regeneration: reflections on the Walsall NDC experience

11.5 Evaluation Room: Saletta 11 Tuesday 15th, 10.45 – 12.15 hrs (Workshop I) Chair: Charlie Johnstone? Alan Townsend Collaboration within Regeneratin Partnerships? Tripartite experience under New Labour Michael Burns To be advised Joyce Liddle The UK Business Broker Pilot Initiative. Engaging the business community in neighbourhood

renewal and social inclusion. Early findings on the North East of England

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GATEWAY 12: EVALUATION AND REGIONAL POLICY 12.1 Evaluating Regional Policy: Involving Stakeholders Room: Saletta 10 Sunday 13th, 10.45 – 12.15 hrs (Workshop A) Chair: Steve Hill? Jari Ritsilä & Jukka Haukka The role of ESF in developing the learning regions Geoffrey Gregson Regional Networks for Supporting High Technology Entrepreneurship: A Constituency-building

Approach to Evaluation Paola Martini, Cristina Lion & Stefano Volpi

Evaluation and governance: the Italian experience

12.2 Evaluating Business Start-up and SME Policies Room: Saletta 10 Sunday 13th, 12.20 – 13.50 hrs (Workshop B) Chair: David Bailey? Pooran Wynarczyk & Peter Wilson

The Impact of the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) Objective 2 Programme on the North East of England Economy

Giuseppe Calabrese, Secondo Rolfo & Elisa Salvador

SMES & Innovation: The Role of the Regional Industrial Policy in Italy

Peter S. Johnson Firm birth and regional policy in a lagging region. The case of the North East of England 12.3 Regional Policy: Evaluation on Impact Room: Saletta 10 Sunday 13th, 15.20 – 16.50 hrs (Workshop C) Chair: Attila Korompai Sarah Batterbury & Steve Hill

Assessing the impact of higher education on regional development

Raffaele Brancati The methodological approach for Regional Programs evaluation: The intermediate evaluation of EU Structural Funds in Campania

Renato Lanzetti & Giampaolo Vitali

Science and technology parks in a declining region: the case of Piedmont

12.4 Cohesion and Capacity Building – What Evaluation Adds Room: Saletta 10 Sunday 13th, 17.20 – 18.50 hrs (Workshop D) Chair: Geoffrey Gregson? Attila Korompai & Sonja Mueller

On Perspectives of Cohesion in an enlarged Europe

David Bailey & Lisa De Propris

A Bridge Too Phare? EU Pre-Accession Aid and Capacity Building for Regional Policy in the Candidate Countries

Thiemo W. Eser Evaluation and Quality Management - Demands and Implications for the EU Structural Policy 12.5 Round Table / Symposium on Evaluation and Regional Policy: Future Directions Room Main Auditorium Tuesday 15th, 10.45 – 12.15 hrs (Workshop I) Chair: Sarah Batterbury Henrik Halkier Mike Danson Mark Hart Steve Hill

Round Table / Symposium on Evaluation and Regional Policy: Future Directions