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“Catchup Network”: Advance Notice of Second Discussion Workshop in Manchester

11-13^th May 2006,
University of Manchester, UK

Jointly organised by CRIC and CRC

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The "Catchup Network"

The "Catchup Network" is dedicated to understanding the complexity linkages between economic developments of new knowledge. Innovation plays a central role in its thinking because economic development is a process of transformation where new activities and new forms of organisation play a central role in raising per capita income. Innovation is to be treated in the broad to encompass technological innovation as well as innovation in organisations and institutions of economy. Consequentially the processes by which human capability is enhanced and applied to the solution of economic problems through education and research and development processes are important aspects of our agenda.

"Catchup Network" Discussion Workshops

The first and second meetings of the "Catchup Network" have been held in New York (May 2005) and Manchester (May 2006). The style of the workshops is to encourage discussion and the exchange of ideas to firm up our thinking on the on the interrelated elements of the Catchup programme. The aim of each workshop will be to further design and develop the various group projects around the different elements in the Catchup programme, to the degree necessary for us to conceive of and produce a book(s) on catching up and related phenomena. The workshops will focus on different sets of Catchup themes but of course we should respect the fact that there is considerable overlap to be exploited between them.

The Manchester Meeting

The Manchester meeting was jointly organised by ESRC Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition (CRIC) and Centre on Regulation and Competition (CRC) and the Earth Institute at Columbia University. The Manchester meeting was focused upon the following themes:

Capabilities and Catching up: Building Firm Competences in Developing Economies (leaders Ed Amann and John Cantwell);
Metrics for innovation capability in the innovation system and the innovating firm (leaders Patarapong Intarakumnerd and Eduardo Viotti);
Capability formation and economic inequality in developing economies (leaders Nick von Tunzelmann, Jorge Katz and Susan Cozzens).

Any queries about the meeting may be addressed to Siobhan Drugan.

The Milan Meeting

The next meeting of the "Catchup Network" will be held in Milan, Boconni University, 7-9 September 2006.

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