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Dear colleagues,


There are still places available at the following event. For details on how
to register please see the body of the text below.


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The Science Policy Support Group is pleased to announce our latest user
workshop, "Collaboration and Networking in European Science and Technology"
under the ESRC European Context of UK Science Policy Programme", the core of
which is set out below.

We hope you will agree that the issues the research team are discussing are
central to the current state of science, technology and innovation policy
and offers much to our understanding of this increasingly important subject.

For further information, or to request a registration form, please contact:

   Tim Rogers
   Science Policy Support Group
   1 Birdcage Walk
   Westminster
   London SW1

    T.    +44 171 799 3335
    F.    +44 171 799 3336

Or go to the website:

www.spsg.org/eurocon where you can find full programme details and an
on-line registration form.

Registration costs 18 pounds and includes lunch
and refreshments.

Places are strictly limited so early booking is advised.

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Collaboration and Networking in European Science and Technology
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A User Workshop of the ESRC European Context
of  UK Science Policy Programme

Monday June 28 1999

Science Policy Support Group
1 Birdcage Walk
London
SW1H 9JJ

Much has been discussed about increased scientific and technological
collaboration, but what does it actually mean in a European policy context?
Are patterns of innovation collaboration and networking changing over time?
What new forms of collaboration in technological innovation are emerging?
How can the European Commission and member states intervene more effectively
in fostering scientific and technological collaboration? These are some of
the questions being addressed in this workshop which has been organised to
disseminate the results of the ESRC Research Programme The European Context
of UK Science Policy.


10.50 - 11.10 Registration and Coffee

11.10 - 11.20 Introduction and Welcome:  Peter Healey, Programme Director,
SPSG and Jeremy Howells, Workshop Chair, PREST/CRIC, University of
Manchester

11.20 - 11.50 Small Firms, Social Capital and the Enhancement of Business
Performance through Innovation Programmes Phil Cooke, Cardiff Centre for
Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, University of Wales, Cardiff.

11.50 -12.20 Linking the Framework Programme into Regional Development
Objectives: The Role of the Structural Funds. David Charles, CURDS,
University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

12.20 - 12.50 Governing European Science. Andrew Barry, Department of
Sociology, Goldsmiths College, University of London.

12.50 - 13.10 Discussion
13.10 - 14.00 Lunch

14.00 - 14.30 Inter-firm Collaboration for Innovation: Learning Experiences
and Adaptive Behaviour. Helen Lawton Smith, Centre for Local Economic
Development, University of Coventry

14.30 - 15.00 Collaboration and Informal information Flows in ESPRI. Stuart
Macdonald, Sheffield University Management School, University of Sheffield

15.00 - 15.30 Transnational Research Facilities. Kate Barker, PREST,
University of Manchester

15.30 - 16.30 Implications for Policy and Future Research: Discussion

16.30 - Tea and Departure



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