Paris, France; 4-5 December 2006
Venue: Hotel de Ville (Mairie de Paris);
5, rue de Lobau (Paris)
Programme English 
Programme French
Day 1: Innovation: Economy, Ecology, Society – The responsibilities of Regions and Metropolitan Areas
Session 1: The governance of innovation: What role for public intervention?
Chair: Pierre Rival (Ville de Paris, France)
09:30 - 10:00 Welcome coffee & registration
10:00 - 10:15 Welcome Address
Danièle Auffray (Vice-Mayor of the City of Paris in charge of research, innovation and new technologies)
10:15 - 10:45 Sustainable Regional Innovation Policy and the Lisbon Agenda - A Perspective
from the European Commission
Pierre Vigier (European Commission, DG Enterprise and Industry)
10:45 - 11:00 Introduction to the EURO-COOP project
Ronald J. Pohoryles (ICCR, EURO-COOP Project Co-ordinator, Austria)
11:00 - 11:30 Nordic Clusters, Knowledge Bases and Regional Innovation Systems
Björn Asheim (Lund University, Department of Social and Economic Geography, Sweden)
11:30 - 11:45 Discussion
Moderator: Ronald J. Pohoryles (ICCR, EURO-COOP Project Co-ordinator, Austria)
11:45 - 12:00 Coffee Break
Session 2: The challenges for regional assessment
Chair: Tadeusz Zoltowski (FEWN, Poland)
12:00 - 12:30 Measuring 'Flows' not 'Stocks – Innovation Systems as Dynamic Processes
Riccardo Cappellin (University of Rome, Italy)
12:30 - 13:00 Activating evaluation methods: the case of deprived areas around a capital city
Raban Daniel Fuhrmann (ReformAgentur, Konstanz, Germany)
13:00 - 13:30 General Discussion
13:30 Lunch Break
Session 3: Assessment and evaluation in practice: The experience of the City of Paris and of the EURO-COOP Project
Chair: Marek Tiits (IBS)
15:00 - 15:30 Approaches of the City of Paris
Pierre Papon (Professor of Physics and Scientific Advisor of Danièle Auffray, Paris, France)
15:30 - 16:30 EURO-COOP: Preliminary Experiences with Regional Assessment Strategies
Selected Presentations by EURO-COOP partners:
and public debate moderated by David Alcaud (CIR, Paris)
16:30 - 16:45 Coffee Break
Session 4: Innovation, democracy and experience
Chair: Ronald Pohoryles (ICCR, EURO-COOP roject Co-ordinator, Austria)
16:45 - 18:00 Innovation, democracy and experience
Selected Presentations:
18:00 End of Day 1
Day 2: Innovation and local development: Does the sectoral and geographical concentration of innovative activities promote growth, competitiveness and attractiveness?
Session 1: Innovation and sustainable regional development
Chair: Joe Ravetz (University of Manchester)
10:00 - 10:30 Some Reflections on Regional Innovation Policy
Ron Boschma (Utrecht University, Department of Economic Geography, The Netherlands)
10:30 - 11:15 Decision making and evaluation tools for research and innovation regional policy
Philippe Larrue et Yann Cadiou (Technopolis France)
11:15 - 11:45 Coffee Break
Session 2: Innovation, Competitiveness and the « Pôles » : Understanding regional dynamics
Chair: David Alcaud (CIR, Paris)
11:45 - 12:15 Regional strategies and regional competitiveness policies
Patrick Dubarle (Department of territorial evaluations and governance, OECD, France)
(This presentation reflects the views of the author and not necessarily those of the OECD)
12:15 - 12:45 A View from the French research community on innovation policies
Jean-Claude Arditti (Président de l’ Association de Valorisation des Relations Internationales Scientifiques
et Techniques (AVRIST), Directeur des relations internationales ISMEP-/Supmeca)
12:45 - 13:15 When is a system not a system? Seeking the smart and flexible in the Manchester city-region
Joe Ravetz with Elvira Uyarra & Sally Randles (University of Manchester)
13:15 - 13:45 General Discussion
Moderator: David Alcaud (CIR, Paris)
13:45 Lunch Break
Session 3: Round Table: Towards a New Understanding of Innovation and Democracy : Reactions of the Political Players
Chair : Danièle Auffray (Vice-Mayor of the City of Paris in charge of research, innovation and new technologies)
15:15 - 15:45 Innovation and political participation: the role of citizens in the innovation process
Carlo Sessa (ISIS, Rome, Italy; Co-ordinator of the RAISE project)
15:45 - 17:15 Round Table Discussion
Moderator: Danièle Auffray (Vice-Mayor of the City of Paris)
17:15 - 18:00 General Discussion
18:00 Cocktail: Grand Prix de l’Innovation, award ceremony by the City of Paris
(City Hall)
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