School of Public Policy - Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA
Seminar on Technology, Policy and Regions - Fall 2006
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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

 


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