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WORKSHOP Jun.02
III
26 June, 2002
Instituto Superior
Tecnico, Lisboa
Mechanical Engineering Department
Organization/Sponsor: FLAD – Luso-American Development Foundation
Audience: Pre-defined group of foreign and Portuguese experts
Structure: 1 full day; total of two sessions with an initial presentation about current challenges for innovation for Portugal, followed by a series of presentations by foreign experts, which are to be discussed and comment by Portuguese experts.
Objective: To discuss main challenges and opportunities for innovation for Portugal, looking at current knowledge and trends on partnerships for innovation and industry-science relationships. The ultimate goal is to help FLAD designing a program to foster innovation for Portugal.
Expected Outcome: The workshop is expected to yield specific pragmatic orientations for the development of a program that, within the possibilities of the partners involved, can lead to a meaningful and lasting improvement of the innovation performance of the Portuguese economy.
Program
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| 9:00 am |
Registration |
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| 9:30 am |
Introduction
Rui Machete, Charles Buchanan, FLAD
Ricardo Bayão Horta, Instituto Superior Técnico
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| 9:45 am |
Session 1: Does Portugal Need Innovation? Growth, Technological Change and Partnerships for Innovation: learning by comparing experiences
Why is innovation important? Can a country grow in a sustainable manner over the long run without innovation? Is there a lack of innovation in Portugal? What have other countries/regions done to harness the power of innovation to grow? This session will focus on the different patterns of industry-science relationships and on their relative impact on economic growth. Different experiences in Europe and US will be analyzed and the discussion will focus on the type of diversified actions to be implemented in terms of the specificities of actors and of the institutional framework.
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| 9:45 am |
Part 1: Analysis for Portugal
Manuel Heitor: Innovation and technological Change: perspectives for Portugal [download]
Pedro Conceição and Francisco Veloso: Innovation and Productivity [download]
Paulo Ferrão: Innovation and Environment [download]
10:30 am: Debate (see list of discussants below)
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| 11:00 am |
Part 2: Perspectives for Change - views from external experts
Jean-Pierre Contzen [download]
11:30 am – Debate (see list of discussants below)
Bob Hodgson [download]
12:20 am – Debate (see list of discussants below)
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| 1:00 pm |
Lunch |
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| 2:00 pm |
Session 2: Promoting the demand for partnerships for Innovation
What should the balance between predominantly “push” and predominantly “pull” measures to promote innovation be? What can be done to stimulate action on the “pull” side? This session will focus on the analysis of the demand for promoting industry-science relationships, learning by comparing specific case studies and industrial practice. The impact of the structure of local and national economies on the type and success of partnerships will be particularly discussed.
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| 2:00 pm |
Part 1: The NSF experience on Partnerships for Innovation
John Hurt
2:30 pm – Debate (see list of discussants below)
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| 3:00 pm |
Part 2: views from large MNF´s
Charles Bienfait; SOLVAY
Manuel Cruz, Lamy Figueiras; Bombardier
3:45 pm – Debate (see list of discussants below)
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| 4:00 pm |
Part 3: views from external experts
Richard J. Ash
Ramani Narayan
Jan Diehl
4:45 pm: - Debate (see list of discussants below)
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| 5:45 pm |
Concluding Comments and Closure
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| 8:00 pm |
Dinner
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Foreign experts:
US:
EU:
Portuguese Invited Discussants (Portuguese Experts in alphabetic order; to be confirmed):
- Eduardo Beira, Universidade do Minho
- João Bento, IST / BRISA
- Vasco Branco, Universidade de Aveiro
- João Carreira, Critical Software
- Paulo Tavares de Castro, FEUP
- Paulo Conde, SOLVAY Portugal
- António Sousa Correia, CTCV
- António Cunha, Universidade do Minho/ PIEP
- Rui Dias Alves, INNOVAGENCY
- José Rui Felizardo, INTELI
- Lino Fernandes, AdI
- Raul Galamba, McKinsey Co.
- Jorge Salles Gomes, BRISA
- Elsa Henriques, IST - AGILTEC
- Luis Magalhães, FCT
- Leandro de Melo, APPICAPS/ CTCalçado
- José Manuel Mendonça, Fundação Ilídio Pinho
- Henrique Neto, Iberomoldes
- Pedro Guedes de Oliveira, INESC-Porto
- Luis Palma Féria, CEIIA
- Pedro Pissarra, Biotecnol
- Agostinho da Silva, CEI
- Leonardo Silva, A. I. Minho
- Rui Tocha, CENTIMFE
- António Valente, Incompol
- Vasco Varela, Taguspark
- Diogo Vasconcelos, Ideias & Negócios
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