The Programme on Regional Innovation (PRI) organised a 2-day workshop for graduate students and young researchers working on, or with an interest in, theoretical, applied and policy research on the topic of Regional Innovation.

The workshop was being organised by the newly established Programme on Regional Innovation of CMI, a strategic partnership between the University of Cambridge and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in support of its mission to promote knowledge-based growth.

The aim was to bring together young scholars in an interdisciplinary environment to discuss recent developments in the field and identify areas for future research. The workshop combined formal lectures on the state of the art of research with presentations by participants and discussion sessions. Topics for discussion were space and regional development, clusters and agglomeration, evolutionary perspectives, regional innovation systems, knowledge diffusion, university-industry linkages, regional innovative capability and social capital.

Presentations

University Industry Linkages and UK Science and Innovation Policy: Some Regional Implications 
Alan Hughes, Centre for Business Research (CBR)

Implications of geography on the diffusion of scientific knowledge, explained by article citations: the Dutch biotechnology and microbiology case
Friso de Vor, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Knowledge Diffusion and Economic Convergence
Montserrat Vilalta-Bufí, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

The Geography of Innovation: Fifteen Years Later 
Maryann Feldman, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

Some new estimates of returns to scale for EU regional manufacturing, 1986-2002
Mark Roberts, University of Cambridge

Inheriting knowledge in the region
Anet Weterings, Netherlands Institute for Spatial Research

Measuring regional systems of innovation 
Simona Iammarino, Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), University of Sussex

Innovation and Economic Activity: Understanding the Role of Clusters in Industralizing Economies
Saeed Parto, University of Waterloo

Universities and Regional Innovation Systems: Academic Typologies and Topologies
Tim Vorley, University of Leicester

The geography of knowledge production: social network methodologies
Koen Frenken, Economic Geography, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University

Two Cheers for the 'New' Economic Geography
Harry Garretsen, International Economics, Utrecht University

Alternative New Economic Geographies: Competing or Complementary Paradigms?
Ron Martin, Economic Geography, University of Cambridge

The limits of theory: witnessing the creative destruction of the New Economic Geography
Bernard Fingleton, Land Economy, University of Cambridge

Some Economic Paradoxes: Implications for Regional Growth and Policy 
Michael Kitson, University of Cambridge

Economic growth, innovation systems, and institutional change: a trilogy in five parts
Tommaso Ciarli, University of Bologna

Public Policy Towards Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Insights for Regions
Eren Inci, Boston College and visiting ZEW