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the following to SPA members. All enquiries/queries to RSA
please, not to me!
Best wishes
Caroline Glendinning
Vice Chair SPA
REGIONAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION
ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2002
BUILDING ENTREPRENEURIAL CAPACITY IN THE
REGIONS
Friday 22nd November 2002
London Voluntary Sector Resource Centre
Holloway Road
London N7 6PA
This conference examines the new approaches to regional
development and policy which seek to encourage enterprise and
expansion in all regions as a means to boost national growth.
The meeting will review the recent emphasis on endogenous
(grown from within) forms of growth and development. These
ideas emphasise ways of identifying the leading areas of the
economy. These often seem to be based upon human rather than
physical capital (e.g. education, skills, R& D) and are typically
reliant upon entrepreneurial capacity in the private, public and
voluntary sectors both within and without organisations to
promote their development.
In this emergent “bottom up” approach to regional development
and policy, localities and regions whether prosperous or laggard
are increasingly being encouraged to help themselves and
become entrepreneurial agents of their own development.
Papers consider the marked unevenness at the local and regional
level in entrepreneurial activity as evident in new firm formation
rates, venture capital market development and so on. These
disparities challenge each of the relevant partners in the public,
private, voluntary and community sectors throughout the UK.
They represent issues for attention by all layers in the complex,
devolving and multi-layered governance system emergent in the
UK.
The conference considers these questions through a series of
invited plenary presentations and in less formal workshop
sessions of which there is a choice of six strands which run
parallel. (Conference documentation given to participants on the
day will contain summaries of the presentations made in all
strands.)
PROGRAMME
09.15 Coffee and registration
09.45 Introduction and welcome
Mike Danson, Chair, Regional Studies Association
Plenary Session
09.55 Entrepreneurial capacity and economic growth: why is
this link important?
JoeGrice, Treasury
10.25Entrepreneurship in the UK regions – the challenge
ahead
MarkHart, Kingston University
10.55Coffee/tea break
11.15From the cradle to the grave – the role of education in
raising entrepreneurial capacity
PrueHuddleston, University of Warwick
11.45Raising entrepreneurial capacity in local communities –
easier said than done!
AlisonWest, Community Development Foundation
12.15Lunch
13.00Parallel Workshops
(Continue for workshop listings)
15.15Coffee/tea Break
15.35 Final Plenary Session
Practical Ways of Helping – City Growth Strategies
Ken Poutler, SBS
16.05 Enterprise in disadvantaged areas: can it really raise the
last boats
PeterRamsden
4.35Close
ParallelWorkshop Listings (Choice of six sessions)
A/Entrepreneurial Capacity (I)
Chair:Mike Danson
Theprospect for entrepreneurial regions through social
enterprise
LeslieBudd, Open University, England
Building Entrepreneurial Capacity in the context of the
uneven development of the Objective 1 regions: the
case of Portugal
Antonio Manuel Figuerado, CEDRES, Portugal
CorporateSpin Offs: Innovation, Networks and Regional
Change
AndreasKoch, Centre of Technology Assessment, Stuttgart,
Germany
Social entrepreneurship and local economic
development
RonMcQuaid, Napier University, Scotland
The entrepreneurial coalition – knowledge-based
collaboration in a regional manufacturing network
RoelRutten and Frans Boekema, Tilburg University, The
Netherlands
B/Entrepreneurial Capacity (II)
Chair: Andy Pike, Newcastle University
TheGeography of Venture Capital Investments in the UK
Colin Mason, University of Strathclyde and Richard
Harrison, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
TheMobility of Informal Venture Capital: The Scottish
Experience
Stuart Paul, Jim B Johnston & Geoff Whittam, University
of Paisley, Scotland
Entrepreneurial climate, economic performance and
new firm policy in German Regions
RolfSternberg, University of Cologne, Germany
BuildingEntrepreneurial Capacity in Neisse Euroregion
BarbaraDespiney,ROSES/CNRS, France
C/Governance of Entrepreneurial Capacity
Chair: Geoff Whittam
Capacity Building: Reflecting on the Experience in a
local regeneration initiative
JohnDiamond, Edge Hill College, England
Building Entrepreneurial Capacity in County Durham:
Do local authorities still have an automatic and
legitimate role in acting on behalf of communities?
Joyce Liddle, University of Durham and Mark Lloyd,
Durham County Council, England
Entrepreneurial Capacity in Scotland: institutional
innovation in the encouragement of enterprise
MG Lloyd & John McCarthy, University of Dundee, Scotland
Joining up Entrepreneurship Support: Coordination and
partnership amongst start up support providers in
England
Fergus Lyon & David Smallbone, Middlesex University,
England
D/ Policy Support
Chair: Irene Hardill
Self-Employment Subsidies for the Unemployment:
survival & growth – A five year case study
BegonaCueto & Javier Mato,Universidad de Oviedo, Spain
Financing the music industry- some wider policy support
issues
NickWilson, Kingston University, England
Building regional entrepreneurial capabilities in support
of high technology start-ups: lessons from Connect
Scotland
GeoffreyGregson, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Policy views on how to create local entrepreneurship:
the case of wine making in Aragon
ArnoudLagendijk, University of Nijmegan, The Netherlands
E/Rural Entrepreneurship
Chair: Paul Benneworth
SustainableEntrepreneurial Capacity: Best practice in North
Yorkshire
Lynne Dowson, Leeds Metropolitan University and Geoff
Herbert, Hambleton
District Council, England
The Contribution of the Community cooperation of the
Highlands and Islands of Scotland to the Development
of the Social Economy
MikeGordon, Mike Gordon Consultancy and the Open
University, England
Influenceson the Entrepreneurial Capacity of Remote Rural
Areas
DavidNorth & David Smallbone, Middlesex University,
England
Developing Entrepreneurial Communities in Rural NI:
the role of partnership governance and the LEADER II
programme
Mark Scott, University College, Dublin, Ireland
F/ Univerisities and entrepreneurship
Chair:Gordon Dabinett
TheGrowth in Entrepreneurial Activities in UK Universities
DavidCharles and Cheryl Conway, University of Newcastle,
England
Universitiesand Entrepreneurship Agenda
FumiKitagawa, University of Birmingham, England
Universitiesand Entrepreneurial Agenda
Das Steyn, University of the Free State, South Africa
University research activity, private sector collaboration
and the commercialization of research in an academic
environment: Memorial University of Newfoundland as a
case study.
Wade Locke and Scott Lynch, Memorial University of
Newfoundland, Canada
APPLICATION FORM
Conference Charges
RSA Members £125.00
Non RSA Members £180.00
Students £40.00
Please contact the RSA office on Tel: +44 (0)1323 899 698 to
reserve a place, or email: [log in to unmask] or go to our
website on regional-studies-assoc.ac.uk
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Caroline Glendinning
Professor of Social Policy
National Primary Care Research and Development Centre
Williamson Building
University of Manchester
Manchester M13 9PL
Tel 0161 275 7607
Fax 0161 275 7601
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