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The Second Brisbane Club Meeting,
"Organisational and Technological Transformation in Complex Adaptive Systems"

5-7 July, 2002

Venue: Chancellors Conference Centre,
The University of Manchester

CRIC sponsored this workshop which is the second in the series of Brisbane Club workshops. The first was held at the University of Queensland, in July 1999 and the proceedings, "Frontiers of Evolutionary Economics" were published recently by Edward Elgar. In this second workshop we look at the problem of economic and technological transformation, whether it be at the level of productive activities, firms, instituted market relationships, sectors or indeed if necessary, whole economies. What we mean by economic transformation is a question worth answering and one which fits naturally within a broad evolutionary agenda in relation to growth competition and innovation, and the instituted foundations of these dynamic processes.

Our first Brisbane Club workshop took stock of the conceptual foundations of evolutionary analysis. In this workshop we take the argument further by focussing upon questions of method and empirical evidence appropriate to an evolutionary research programme. The unit of analysis is a free variable for these purposes, but the focus on the dynamics of transformation in relation to theory and empirical evidence is not.

Workshop Participants

Professor Peter Allen, IERC Cranfield Institute of Technology, UK
Professor Esben Sloth Andersen, University of Aalborg, Denmark
Professor Kurt Dopfer, University of St Gallen, Switzerland
Professor John Foster, University of Queensland, Australia
Professor Peter Hall, Australian Defence Force Academy, Australia
Professor Horst Hanusch, Universitat Augsburg, Germany
Dr Jens Krueger, Jena University, Germany
Professor Francisco Louca, ISEG, Portugal
Professor Stan Metcalfe, University of Manchester, UK
Dr Paul Ormerod, Volterra Consulting, UK
Professor Luigi Orsenigo, Università Bocconi, Italy
Dr Jason Potts, University of Queensland, Australia
Dr Paolo Ramazzotti, University of Macerata, Italy
Dr Ronnie Ramlogan, University of Manchester, UK
Mrs Bridget Rosewell, Volterra Consulting, UK
Professor Pier Paolo Saviotti, INRA, France

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The Second Brisbane Club Meeting, "Organisational and Technological Transformation in Complex Adaptive Systems"

The Second Brisbane Club Meeting,
"Organisational and Technological Transformation in Complex Adaptive Systems"