Evolutionary Devices for Economic Development
(IE- UFRJ & CRIC - The University of Manchester)

Wednesday 25th September

9.00 - 10.00

Welcome, Introduction to Conference

Carlos Lessa (President - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)
Mauro Marcondes (FINEP)
Mark Baumfield (The Bristish Council)
J. Stanley Metcalfe (CRIC - University of Manchester)
Maria da Graça Derengowski Fonseca (IE-UFRJ)
João Carlos Ferraz (Principal - IE-UFRJ)

10.00 - 10.30

Coffee

10.30 - 11.30*

Sectoral Systems and Innovation and Technology Policies

Franco Malerba (CESPRI - Bocconi University, Milan)
Comments: Antônio Barros de Castro (IE-UFRJ)
Chair: Sérgio Salles (FINEP)

11.30 - 13.00

Venture Capital: Start Up Co-Evolution and the Emergence & Develmopment of Israel's New High Tech Cluster

Morris Teubal (The Hebrew University, Israel)
Comments: Jorge Ávila (FINEP)

Development Agenda and Technological Development

Fabio Erber (IE-UFRJ)
Comments: J. Stanley Metcalfe (IE-UFRJ)
Chair: Luciana Gorgulho (FINEP)

13.00 - 14.30

Lunch

14.30 - 16.00

Brazilian Genomics and Bioinformatics: Instituting Innovation
Processes in a Global Context

Mark Harvey (CRIC -University of Manchester)
Comments: José Maria Silveira (IE-UNICAMP)

Prospective Studies and the Organization of Inovative
Systems in Brazil

Sergio Salles (FINEP), Beatriz Bonacelli (IG-UNICAMP) e Mauro Zackiewicz (IG-UNICAMP)
Comments: Edmond Amman (The University of Manchester)
Chair: Terezinha Guimarães (FINEP)

16.00 - 16.15

Coffee

16.15 - 17.45

Economic Liberalisation and Changes in Corporate Control
in Latin America

João C. Ferraz (IE-UFRJ) e Germano M. de Paula (CEDEPLAR)
Comments: Ruth Rama (SCIC - Madrid)

Technological Sovereignty, Industrial Efficiency and Development

Edmond Amman (The University of Manchester)
Comments: João Furtado (UNESP)
Chair: Carlos Pacheco (Ministry of Science and Technology)

17.45

Close

Thursday 26^th September

9.30 - 10.30*

Equilibrium and Evolutionary Foundations of Competition
and Innovation Policy

Stan Metcalfe (CRIC - The University of Manchester)
Comments: Maria da Graça Derengowski (IE-UFRJ)
Chair: Fernando Ribeiro (FINEP)

10.30 - 10.45

Coffee

10.45 - 12.15

The Knowledge Base of Firms in the Biotechnology Based Sectors: Properties and Performance

Paolo Saviotti (University of Nice/University of Grenoble)
Comments: José Cassiolato (IE-UFRJ)

Brazilian Emerging Biotech Companies and Markets

Maria da Graça D. Fonseca (IE-UFRJ) e Jose M. J. da Silveira (IE-UNICAMP)
Comments: Beatriz Bonacelli (IG-UNICAMP)
Chair: Luiz Fernando Bello (FINEP)

12.15 - 13.45

Lunch

13.45 - 15.15

New Economic Agents and New Forms of Concentration in the Electronics Industries of Madrid

Ruth Rama (CSIC - Madri), Deron Ferguson and Ana Melero
Comments: Sérgio Salles (FINEP)

Productive and Innovative Systems in the Nineties: Economic
Policy Issues

José Cassiolato (IE-UFRJ) e Helena Lastres (IE-UFRJ)
Comments: Hélio Nogueira da Cruz (USP)
Chair: Maria Lucia Horta (FINEP)

15.15 - 16.45

Immature National Systems of Innovation: Introducing a Comparison Between Brazil, Mexico, India and South Africa

Eduardo Albuquerque (CEDEPLAR)
Comments: Helena Lastres (IE-UFRJ)

Intellectual Property Issues in Rapidly Developing Economies and the Implications for the Evolution of Innovation Policies

Birgitte Andersen (Birkbeck College- London)
Comments: Luís Martins (FINEPand IE-UFRJ)
Chair: Helder Queiroz (IE-UFRJ)

16.45 - 17.00

Coffee

17.00 - 18.30

Selective Efficiency: a Neo-Schumpeterian Evolutionary Perspective
on Normative Economic Issues

Mario Possas (IE/UFRJ)
Comments: Birgitte Andersen (Birkbeck College- London)

Trends in IPR and Science and Technology Policy: Recent
European Developments'

Hugh Cameron (PREST - The University of Manchester)
Comments: Maurício Mendonça (MCT)
Chair: Luís Martins (IE-UNICAMP)

18.30 - 19.00 

Final Session

Ronaldo Sardemberg (Minister of Science and Technology)

19.00 - 20.00

Cocktail

Copacabana Room Hotel Sofitel

Sessions (1:30) Guests: 30 minutes each; comments: 10 minutes; questions: 10 minutes.

* Special session (1:00) Guest (1): 30 minutes; comments: 20 minutes; questions: 10 minutes.