| Session # | Discussants | Students | Presentations |
Session 1
May 24 | B.Lundvall
D.Mowery | António Miguel Amaral | "High-technology entrepreneurship in metropolitan innovation systems: the role of regions, firms and individuals in Portugal" [presentation] |
| Watu Wamae | "Acquiring technology in a global economy: investigating the case of developing countries" [presentation] |
Session 2
May 25 | B.Lundvall
M.Vivarelli | Ali Maleki | "Applying National innovation systems approach in the context of industrializing countries: methodological unity and terminological diversity in literature" [presentation] |
| Kiriaki Tsegenidi | "The effects of product innovation on capital asset growth: preliminary results for a six-country survey in peripheral areas of the European Union" [presentation] |
| Pedro Faria | "Innovation in Portugal: what can learn from the CIS III survey?" [presentation] |
Session 3
May 26 | M. Godinho
J. Fagerberg | Mahesh Sarma | "From developmental regimes to learning networks: interrogating Indian innovation system" [presentation] |
| Marek Tiits | "Globalisation and economic development: the concept of national innovation systems as a policy tool in refining catching-up strategies in small developing countries" [presentation] |
| Tigran Arzumanyan | "Science, technology and innovation policy reformation trends in transition countries on the model of Armenia" [presentation] |
Session 4
May 26 | B.Hall
R.Baptista | Tommaso Ciarli | "Patterns of industrial development in Costa Rica: empirical validation of a firm-based growth model" [presentation] |
| Isarelis Perez Ones | The relationships between university, innovation systems and social context [presentation] |
Session 5
May 27 | B.Hall
M.Muchie
| Ana Paula Avellar | "The economic impacts of technology policy and the methodologies of evaluation" [presentation] |
| Roberto Mavilia | "Multinational enterprise and knowledge flows: a case study" [presentation] |
| Torsten Weiland | Competition in Innovation - An experimental approach [presentation] |
Session 6
May 28 | P.Conceição
R.Baptista | Fernando Santiago-Rodríguez | "Inside developing systems of innovation: The role of firms in building human resources of industrial innovation in developing countries" [presentation] |
| Janaina da Costa | "Technology policy and regional network creation in high-technology activities in developing countries" [presentation] |
| Suli Zheng | "Science, industrial technology and economic development: empirical study of China 1992-2002" [presentation] |
Session 7
May 30 | M.Goedhuys
F.Veloso | José Luis Sampedro Hernández | "Building up development and design capabilities in software through the creation of interfaces between users and producers: the case of the Mexican firms" [presentation] |
| Marion Motari | "Building biopharmaceutical innovation systems: a study of South Africa" |
| Miguel Preto | "Technology diffusion and income inequality: how augmented Kuznets hypothesis could explain ICT diffusion?" [presentation] |
Session 8
May 31 | M. Muchie
A.Djeflat | Rosileia Milagres | "Routine design in a network environment" [presentation] |
| Wu Bei | "The construction and exploration of an innovation platform" [presentation] |
Session 9
June 1 | H.Lastres
J.Cassiolato | João Paulo Pereira | Technological innovation in the development of peripheral regions: the case of telecommunications in the development of Alto Tras-os Montes [presentation] |
| Richard Nunes | "Exploring vulnerability nodes in the Norte leather-footwear cluster-upgrading process" [presentation] |
| José Luiz Moutinho | City-based semantic grids: builiding the new utility infrastructure for development [presentation] |
Session 10
June 1 | H.Lastres
G.Parayil | Erika Kraemer-Mbula | "Effectiveness of science and technology policy in South Africa: technological learning in the ICT sector and institutional capabilities" [presentation] |
| Izabela Kijenska | "National innovation systems in Poland: current situation and recommendations for the future" [presentation] |
| Stanislav Zaitchenko | "Innovation strategies of organisations in the framework of an underdeveloped national innovation system. A case of Russia" [presentation] |
Session 11
June 2 | G.Parayil
J.Cassiolato | Antonino Vaccaro | "Innovation, internal competencies and the role of information communication technologies on firms' learning capabilities: An analysis of automotive suppliers markets" [presentation] |
| Bertha Vallejo Carlos | "Learning efforts in industrial firms and their effects on economic performance. The case of the automotive sector in Mexico" |
| Umut Ekmekçi | "Exploring knowledge networks in network and system studies" [presentation] |
Session 12
June 3 | C.Pietrobelli
H.Lastres | Timothy Esemu | "Collaborative learning and the innovative behaviour of firms in Uganda's fish and cut flower export value chains" [presentation] |
| Marc Jacquinet | "The evolution of techniques, knowledge base and institutions of the Port wine industry from 1710 to 1974" [presentation] |
| Venantio Mzenda | "Analysis of technology transfer by foreign direct investors in the South" [presentation] |
