15 May 2006
Venue: MuseumsQuartier, Museum of Modern Art (MUMOK), Vienna

Morning Session
Chair: Ronald J Pohoryles (ICCR)

09:00 Welcome Address
Erhard Busek, Former Minister of Science and Research and Vice-Chancellor of Austria, President of the Institute for the Danube and Central Europe

09:15 Measuring Regional Innovation Policy – A Perspective from the European Commission
Agnieszka Turynska, DG Enterprise and Industry, European Commission

09:30 Introduction to the EURO-COOP project
Ronald J Pohoryles, ICCR, EURO-COOP Project Coordinator

09:45 Experiences from EURO-COOP Workshop in Paris
Danièle Auffray, Vice-Mayor, City of Paris

10:00 – 11:15
Session 1 – Regional Innovation Strategies: Experiences of the City of Vienna
Chair: Matthias Weber (ARC Systems Research)

10:00 "Regional Innovation Strategies: Conceptual and Policy Challenges"
Elvira Uyarra, PREST, University of Manchester

10:15 "Overview of the innovation policy/strategy of the City of Vienna, incl. innovation clusters"
Christian Wurm, City of Vienna, Municipal Department for EU Strategy and Economic Development

10:30 "Innovation and Business Location Policy – The View from an International, R&D-based Company"
Fredy Jäger, Siemens Austria

10:45 Discussion

11:15 – 11:30 Coffee Break

11:45 – 13:00
Session 2 – Cross-border Regional Collaboration for Innovation Policy
Chair: Agnieszka Turynska (DG Enterprise and Industry, European Commission)

11:45 "Proximities in a Cross-border Regional Innovation System: Knowledge Dynamics of Medicon Valley (DK/SE)"
Björn Asheim, Department of Social and Economic Geography, Lund University

12:00 "Euro-region 'CENTROPE': Objectives and concrete measures"
Eugen Antalovsky, Europaforum Vienna, CENTROPE

12:15 Response from the involved regions: Vienna, Bratislava, Györ, Brno (5 minutes intervention each),

• Vienna: Reinhard Troper, City of Vienna, Municipal Department for EU Strategy and Economic Development
• Bratislava: Elena Globanova, Regional Development Agency Senec
• Györ: Marta Gal, West-Pannon Regional Development Agency
• Brno: Jakub Nosek, Head of Strategy and Business Development, South Moravian Innovation Centre

12:40 Discussion

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break

Afternoon Session

14:00 – 16:00
Session 3 – Parallel Working Groups

Working Group 1 – "Innovation Strategy/Policy in Vienna: Strengths/Weaknesses, Evaluation, Future Challenges" (in German)
Facilitator: Gerald Berger, ICCR
Rapporteur: Michael Stampfer, WWTF

Working Group 2 – "Cross-border Regional Collaboration for Innovation Policy: Strengths/Weaknesses, Evaluation, Future Challenges" (in English)
Facilitator: Tatiana Kluvankova-Oravska, Slovak Academy of Sciences
Rapporteur: Eugen Antalovsky, Europaforum Vienna, CENTROPE

Working Group 3 – "Theoretical and Practical Issues of Evaluation/Impact Assessment of Regional Innovation Strategies/Policy" (in English)
Facilitator: Kieron Flanagan, PREST, University of Manchester
Rapporteur: Riccardo Cappellin, University of Rome

16:00 – 16:15 Coffee Break

16:15 – 17:30
Session 4 – Panel Discussion about Outcomes of Parallel Working Groups
Chair: Ronald J Pohoryles (ICCR)
Panelists:

• Björn Asheim, University of Lund
• Michael Stampfer, WWTF
• Riccardo Cappellin, University of Rome
• Eugen Antalovsky, Europaforum Vienna, CENTROPE
• Christian Wurm, City of Vienna

17:30 End of the Workshop

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