Overview

The workshop explored the role of networks and universities as components of regional innovation systems.

The workshop included presentations that addressed questions of:

1. sustainability over time;
2. the character of interaction within networks;
3. the emergence of non-local, global networks and their implications;
4. mechanisms for inter-organizational learning (and their limits); and
5. the role of labour in the innovation process.

Presentations

InnovationXchange – a new approach to connecting for business growth
Mike Hield, IXC UK

Creative Models for University Technology Transfer
Anthony Warren, Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship

The Role of Social Capital in venture Creation in Cambridge
Yupar Myint, Judge Business School

Open Innovation: Leveraging External Sources of Innovation
Linus Dahlander, Imperial College London

Regional Growth and Innovation
Christine Oughton, Birkbeck, University of London and Jonathan Michie, Birmingham Business School

Absorptive Capacity and Regional Patterns of Innovation
Maria Abreu, Vadim Grinevich, Michael Kitson and Maria Savona, Programme on Regional Innovation, The Cambridge-MIT Institute

Buzz Without Being There? Communities of Practice in Context
Meric Gertler, University of Toronto

The contribution of universities to innovation and economic development: in what sense a regional problem?
Dominic Power & Anders Malmberg, Uppsala University

Intermediaries and Enterprising Places: Examples from the UK and US
Christie Baxter, MIT and Peter Tyler, University of Cambridge

‘Doing’ knowledge exchange: the experience of creating the North East knowledge economy
Janet Tully, Durham University

Rethinking Regional Innovation: The Role of Power in Firm Networks
Susan Christopherson, Cornell University

From Grand Science to the Hard Sell: ‘Engineering’ University- Industry Networks in Southern Ontario Automotive Industry Clusters
Tod Rutherford, Syracuse University