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ETE Conference - Consumption, Markets and Enterprise: Vectors of Economic Change

23^rd- 24^th November 2005
University of Manchester, Manchester,
England, UK.

The ETE group (Economic Transformation in Europe) group of leading academic research centres in Europe. The group was formed in 2000 and meets on a regular biannual basis, to exchange research results and formulate research plans in this area. The Group consists of CRIC (University of Manchester), MPI (Jena), RIDE (Chalmers University), DRUID (Aalborg University), Fondazione Rosselli (Torino), CESPRI (Bocconi University), DRIC-OFCE (Nice), SIFO (Norway), Scuola Sant’Anna (Pisa) and Beta (Strasbourg). Altogether this network combines together the competence and skills of over one hundred scholars and Ph.D students. The network has a thriving tradition of publication, conference organisation and engagement with leading research groups in the USA, Australia, Latin America and Asia.

Europe, like all economies, is ‘knowledge based’ and there is general agreement that this feature of 21^st century capitalism carries very important implications for innovation policy in member states and the Community as a whole. However, this perspective is not particularly helpful for all economies are knowledge based and could not be otherwise. The programme of research by the ETE group addresses the key issue of what ‘knowledge based’ means in a modern context where the increasing importance of innovation and enterprise is a source of structural shocks that affect both supply and demand sides of economic systems. In that context where innovation is centrally at stake, a major hypothesis of that project is that our understanding of the connection between innovation and growth and Europe’s development is rather weak and is to be improved in order to know better about what kind of knowledge economy Europe is becoming. To do it in an original way, a key concern is to emphasise the distinctive features the European context is exhibiting as regard the US and Asian countries as well. A context of low growth regimes coupled to high unemployment, a strict monetary policy in a context of deeper market integration and restrictions on fiscal; policy, a still on-going diversity in national institutional infrastructures, and a high asymmetry of national initial conditions as regard nations’ entities to face the integration process are amongst the major factors that make Europe distinctive, as regard the innovation issue or, at least, the transformation of innovation into actual economic opportunities and related growth.

This is the fifth ETE conference.

For more information please contact :

Siobhan Drugan,
Email: Siobhan.Drugan@manchester.ac.uk
Tel: 0161 275 0451

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