Dear NIE members,
Now is still a good time to register for the NIE conference "Challenges
of Asian Technological Development" on Saturday, 31 May at the LSE. The
conference has a great line-up of speakers and addresses one of the most
important issues faced by industry today. How can firms and economies
spur new technology and increased efficiency, so that they become (or
remain) internationally competitive? There is a lot to be learned from
Asian experience, for industries in general and for national policy in
the UK and elsewhere.
To register, contact Barry Kavanagh at the LSE. There is a registration
form on the conference web site:
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/INDECON/conf.html
Registration has been subsidized to only £25 (£20 if by Monday) for
academics or £40 (£35 if by Monday) for general participants. Contact
Barry Kavanagh by email ( [log in to unmask] ) or phone ( 020 7955
7560 ) if you are sending a form in the week before the conference, as
seats may have to be limited.
Program:
9:30-10:00 Registration reception
10:00-11:15 Session I
Chair, Kenneth L. Simons (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen (State University of New York at Buffalo)
Barriers to Commercialization: Biotechnology in India
Alexander Ebner (University of Erfurt)
R&D Cooperation and Absorption Capability in the Singaporean System of
Innovation
Li Qi (University of Pittsburgh)
Technological Transformation and its Impact on China's Economic and
Financial Systems
11:15 - 11:45 Coffee
11:45 - 1:00 Session II
Chair, Gautam Sen (London School of Economics)
V. N. Balasubramanyam (University of Lancaster)
Diaspora, FDI and Development in the Indian Software Industry
Paul Kattuman (University of Cambridge)
Software in India: Development Implications of Globalization and the
International Division of Labor
Florian Taube (Johann Wolfgang Goethe University)
Spatial and Social Clustering in the Indian Software Industry
1:00 - 2:15 Lunch
2:15 - 4:00 Session III
Chair, Nigel Driffield (University of Birmingham)
Kunal Sen (University of East Anglia)
Technological Capabilities and The Decision to Export: An Analysis of
Indian Manufacturing Firms
Chengqi Wang (University of Leeds)
Is the Relationship between Inward FDI and Spillovers Linear? An
Empirical Examination of the Case of China
Ashish Kumar (University of Waginingen)
Dynamics of Building Technological Capability in India: The Case of the
CNC Machine Tool Industry
Sunil Mani (INTECH, UNU)
Deregulation, Entry of MNCs, Public Technology Procurement and
Innovation Capability in India's Telecommunications Equipment Industry
4:00 - 4:20 Tea
4:00 - 5:45 Session IV
Chair, Premen Addy (Oxford)
Sumit Majumdar (University of Texas at Dallas)
Designing a Revolution: Canon and the Japanese Art of Long Term Industry
Disruption
Shyamal Sanyal (Jadavpur University)
Challenges in Managing the Industry and University Technology Transfer
Interface in India
Martin Bell (SPRU, University of Sussex)
Emerging Industry Innovation Systems in the Long Run: The Cassava
Processing Industry in Thailand, 1960-2000 - A Case of Truncated
Evolution and Retrogression
5:45 - 7:00 Reception
The conference web site has directions to get to the conference:
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/INDECON/conf.html
Best Regards,
Ken Simons
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Senior Lecturer; Chairman, Network of Industrial Economists
Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University
of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, UK
Phone: +44 1784 443909 Fax: +44 1784 439534
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Web: http://www2.rhul.ac.uk/~uhss021/
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