School of Public Policy - Georgia
Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA
Seminar on
Technology, Policy and Regions - Fall 2006
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Schedule
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| Week | 2006 | Seminar |
| 1. | Aug 23 | Introduction to
Seminar - opening discussion of seminar themes Reading: Moulaert & Sekia (2003), Territorial innovation models [PDF] |
| 2. | Aug 30 | High Technology Regions: Saxenian [Intro, 1, 2, 3]; + Silicon Valley; 128. |
| 3. | Sep 6 | Saxenian [4, 5, 6, Conclusion] + knowledge, networking Paper topics due |
| 4. | Sep 13 | Technology + Talent + Tolerance = Regional Drivers? Florida [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,7, 8, 9, Appendix] |
| 5. | Sep 20 | Florida [10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17] |
| 6. | Sep 27 | Economic Approaches to Regions and
Innovation Systems of Innovation and Regions |
| 7. | Oct 4 | Regional Clusters: Bergman and Feser; Porter; Critiques. |
| 8. | Oct 11 | Review of Progress on Seminar Papers Policy issues |
| 9. | Oct 18 | Directed Reading - No class |
| 10. | Oct 25 | Path Dependency I: (Fuchs and Shapira) |
| 11. | Nov 1 | Path Dependency II: |
| 12. | Nov 8 | Regions and Emerging Technologies |
| 13. | Nov 15 | Open Topic (TBA) |
| 14. | Nov 22 | No Class (Thanksgiving) |
| 15. | Nov 29 | Paper Presentations I |
| 16. | Dec 6 | Paper Presentations II (continued); review of course; final open discussion |
| Note: | Dec 8 | Final papers due |