School of Public Policy - Georgia
Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA
Seminar on
Technology, Policy and Regions - Fall 2006
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Class assignments
Updated to November 14, 2006 . For course schedule - select here.
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Assignment | Who | Due | Notes |
| 1.1 | Read: Moulaert & Sekia, Territorial innovation models | Everyone | Week 1 | |
| 2.1 | What are reported as the leading regional technology complexes in the world outside of the United States (and why)? | Yu | Class 2 | |
| 2.2 | What are reported as the leading regional technology complexes in the United States (and why)? | Luciano | Class 2 | |
| 2.3 | Who is Annalee Saxenian? Earlier and recent work. | Avonne | Class 2 | |
| 2.4 | Identify and discuss recent Saxenian publications | Megan | Class 2 | |
| 2.5 | Read Saxenian: 1, 2, 3 | Everyone | Class 2 | |
| 2.6 | Review of Saxenian: 1 | Chin | Class 2 | |
| 2.7 | Review of Saxenian: 2 | Chris | Class 2 | |
| 2.8 | Review of Saxenian: 3 | Ann | Class 2 | |
| 3.1 | Paper topics due | Everyone | Class 3 | |
| 3.2 | Read Saxenian: 4, 5, 6, Conclusions | Everyone | Class 3 | |
| 3.3 | Review of Saxenian: 4 | Avonne | Class 3 | |
| 3.4 | Review of Saxenian: 5 | Taner | Class 3 | |
| 3.5 | Review of Saxenian: 6, Conclusions | Jessica | Class 3 | |
| 3.6 | Updated statistics (employment, business) in high tech in Silicon Valley and Route 128. | Luciano | Class 3 | |
| 3.7 | New writing (up to 3 articles) on Silicon Valley. | Meghan | Class 3 | |
| 3.8 | New writing (up to 3 articles) on Route 128 | Chin | Class 3 | |
| 4.1 | Read Florida: Chapters 1 through 9, appendix | Everyone | Class 4 | |
| 4.2 | Intellectual roots: Bell, Coming of Post Industrial Society. Review. | Taner | Class 4 | |
| 4.3 | Intellectual roots: Jacobs, Cities and the Wealth of Nations. Review. | Jessica | Class 4 | |
| 4.4 | Who is Richard Florida? Earlier and recent work | Meghan | Class 4 | |
| 4.5 | Review of Florida: 1 through 4 | Avonne | Class 4 | |
| 4.6 | Review of Florida: 5,6, & 7 | Yu | Class 4 | |
| 4.7 | Review of Florida: 8, 9 | Luciano | Class 4 | |
| 4.8 | The Appendix: Review and comparison with at least two other efforts to rank regions or cities by knowledge performance. | Chris | Class 4 | |
| 5.1 | Read Florida: Chapters 10 through 17 | Everyone | Class 5 | |
| 5.2 | Multimedia Presentation: The City Club of Cleveland - Special Forum: Richard Florida | Everyone | Class 5 | |
| 5.5 | Review of Florida: 10, 11 | Avonne | Class 5 | |
| 5.6 | Review of Florida: 12, 13, 14 | Chin | Class 5 | |
| 5.7 | Review of Florida: 15, 16, 17 | Tanner | Class 5 | |
| 5.8 | Critiques of Florida and how Florida responds. | All | Class 5 | |
| 6.1 | Economic Approaches to regions
and innovation Edgar M. Hoover and Frank Giarratani (1984), An Introduction to Regional Economics (chapters to be assigned); |
Ch. 1,2,8 - Jessica Ch 11, 12 - Chris |
Class 6 | |
| 6.2 | Krugman (1991), Increasing returns and economic geography | PDF; | Chin | Class 7 | |
| 6.3 | Audretsch & Feldman (1996), R&D Spillovers and the Geography of Innovation & Production | PDF | Yu | Class 7 | |
| 6.4 | Systems of innovation and regions. Readings: Keeble and Wilkinson (1998) | PDF; | Luciano | Class 7 | |
| 6.5 | Cooke (2003) Strategies for Regional Innovation Systems | PDF | Tanner | Class 7 | |
| 7.1 | Bergman and Feser 1, 2 | Megan | Class 7 | |
| 7.2 | Berman and Feser 3, Appendices 1, 2 | Avonne | Class 7 | |
| 7.3 | Bergman and Feser 4 | Carolina | Class 7 | |
| 8.1 | Presentation of Seminar Paper Outlines | Everyone | Class 8 | Please email to instructor by 10/10/06 |
| 8.2 | Porter, M. Clusters and the new economics of competition, Harvard Business Review, 1998 (76,7) [PDF] |
Jessica | ||
| 8.3 | Porter, M. Location, competition, and economic development: Local clusters in a global economy, Econ Dev Quarterly, 2000 (14,1). [PDF] | Chris | ||
| 8.4 | Development of cluster policies in the US | Avonne | ||
| 8.5 | Development of cluster policies outside the US | Megan | ||
| 8.6 | Martin. Deconstructing Clusters, 2002. [PDF]. | Tanner | ||
| 8.7 | Critiques: Glasmeier, A., Harrison, B., Response: Why Businesses Along Won't Redevelop the Inner City, Econ. Dev Quarterly, 1997 (11:1); [DOC] | Yu | ||
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| 10.1 | What is path dependency? Which scholars are associated with this theory? What do they argue? | Tanner | ||
| 10.2 | Provide 3 examples of path dependency in technology. | Chin | ||
| 10.3 | What are the critiques of path dependency theory? | Avonne | ||
| 11.1 | F&S chapter 1 | Megan | ||
| 11.2 | F&S Chapter 2 | Chris | ||
| 11.3 | F&S Chapter 3 | Yu | ||
| 11.4 | F&S Chapter 6 | Jessica | ||
| 11.5 | F&S Chapter 13 | Chin | ||
| 12.1 | Regions and emerging technologies. Boschma, R, Lambooy, Evolutionary economics and economic geography, Journal of Evolutionary Economics; 1999, Vol. 9 Issue 4, p411. Download from EBSCO @ GT Library. | Everyone, please read. | ||
| Individual Assignments | Task: Review key reference and place in context of 2 other references that probe relationships of this technology to regional economic development | |||
| 12.2 | Biotechnology and Regional Development 1: Key reference: Brookings Institute - Signs of Life | Luciano | [HTML} | |
| 12.3 | Biotechnology and Regional Development 2: Star Scientists. Key reference: Intellectual human capital and the birth of US biotechnology enterprises, Zucker LG, Darby MR, Brewer MB, AER 1998. Download from JSTOR or EBSCO | Yu | ||
| 12.4 | Nanotechnology and Regional Development. Key reference: undertake search | Tanner | ||
| 12.5 | New sustainable technologies and regional development. Key reference: undertake search. | Jessica | ||
| 13.0 | Current literature review (all journals are accessible via GT library). | Assignment: Categorize articles published in past three years in selected journal - what are the (a) most frequent topics; (b) unusual article topics (hint, Web of Science and VantagePoint can be used for quick analysis). Summarize and briefly present in class. Then, select one article that you find most interesting and relevant to themes of TRP. Circulate PDF of article in advance (by Monday Nov 13, 2006, noon) to all class members and instructor, and review and critique this article in class. | ||
| 13.1 | Economic Development Quarterly | Avonne (Increasingly Rank) | [PDF] | |
| 13.2 | Regional Studies | Chin (Creating a Cluster While Building a Firm) | [PDF] | |
| 13.3 | European Planning Studies (1 year lag) | Chris (Specialized Towns in Guangdong, China) | [PDF] | |
| 13.4 | International Journal of Technology Management & Sustainable Development | Meghan (Appropriate Technology) | [PDF] | |
| 13.5 | Read 4 articles circulated in advance | Everyone |
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