International Workshop: " Investigating Industrial and Innovation policies for Growth: Contrasting experts views"

Seville, 2-3 November 2011

This workshop is part of a broader research activity launched since 2010 at IPTS. Its aim is to improve our understanding of the nature and factors of ICT and ICT-enabled innovation in a Digital Economy.

The workshop, grouping selected international experts, aimed at:

1. Validating the Report prepared by BRUEGEL (FLY Report, available soon)
2. Contrasting the views of experts active as researchers, policy makers or project managers in ICT-enabled innovation for growth in Europe and beyond.

• Agenda

Workshop presentations:

DAY 1: 2 November 2011

Session 1. Lessons from ICT innovative industries (FLY)

Chair: Federico Biagi

• Lessons from ICT innovative industries: FLY - Rheinhilde Veugeleers (BRUEGEL) 

Discussant: Marc Bogdanowicz (presentation)

• Access to Finance Lessons from ICT Innovative Industries - Nicolas Veron (BRUEGEL)

Discussant: Itzhak Goldberg

• IPR regimes and Innovation in ICT - Bruno van Pottelsberghe (ULB, SBS-EM and BRUEGEL)

Discussant: Jean-Paul Simon (presentation)

• ICT ecosystem failures in Europe - Rheinhilde Veugeleers (BRUEGEL)

Discussant: Itzhak Goldberg

Session 2. Europe and beyond: insights from the World Bank and OECD

Chair: Marc Bogdanowicz

• Technology in a BRICS country – Case of south African enterprises - Smita Kuriakose (Economist, Africa Region, The World Bank, Washington DC, USA)
• The '10 billion euro question': how to most effectively support innovation in Poland - Marcin Piatkowski (Senior Economist. The World Bank office in Warsaw)
• The Search for Appropriate Policy Mixes in the EU and Southeast Asia - Ken Guy (WiseGuys Ltd, UK)

Session 3. First insights from the workshop: the view from the field

• Mr L.Pelamourgues: Executive, Networking and Telecoms R&D & IT

DAY 2: 3 November 2011

Session 4. Insights from IPTS: current studies on Innovation

Chair: Marc Bogdanowicz / Fernando Hervas

• The 2011 EU industrial R&D investment SCOREBOARD - Fernando Hervas (JRC-IPTS)
• EU-US Innovation Gap – policy and instruments - Itzhak Goldberg (Visiting Sc., JRC-IPTS; Fellow, CASE, Warsaw; Consultant, WB, USA)
• EU-US Productivity and R&D Investment Gap - Federico Biagi (JRC-IPTS)
• Case studies to showcase the US-EU Innovation Gap and policies to address it: preliminary findings - Colin Blackman (Camford Associates) / Simon Forge (SCF Associates)

Concluding comments and next steps on the study - Itzhak Goldberg (Visiting Sc., JRC-IPTS; Fellow, CASE, Warsaw; Consultant, WB, USA)

Session 5. Drawing tentative conclusions:

Chair: Fernando Hervas

Contrasting experts' views: "Investigating Industrial and Innovation policies for growth - Commonalities and divergence in theoretical frameworks, methods and results"

• Itzhak Goldberg (Visiting Sc., JRC-IPTS; Fellow, CASE, Warsaw; Consultant, WB, USA)
• Mr L.Pelamourgues (Executive, Networking and Telecoms R&D & IT)
• Rheinhilde Veugeleers (BRUEGEL)

Related Publications:

• The COMPLETE (COMPetitiveness by Leveraging Emerging Technologies Economically) series of reports on EU ICT industry competitiveness:  
• RFID: RFID: Prospects for Europe – Item-level tagging and public transportation
• Displays: OLEDs AND E-PAPER - Disruptive potential for the European display industry
• WEB2.0: Web 2.0: Where does Europe stand?
• Robotics: A Helping Hand for Europe: the Competitive Outlook for the EU Robotics Industry
• Embedded Software in Automotive: Is Europe in the driver's seat? The future Competitiveness of the European Automotive Embedded Software Industry
• Video Games Software: Born digital, Grown digital: the European Videogames industry
• Semiconductor: The Future of Semiconductor Intellectual Property Architectural Blocks in Europe
• The FLY report (available soon)

Policy-related and other links:

• Digital Agenda for European Commission
• Innovation Union
• Industrial Policy for a Globalisation Era
• World Bank

• BRUEGEL
• Camford Associates

Contact:

Federico Biagi: Federico.Biagi(at)ec.europa.eu