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John Barber Conference

2^nd December 2005
University of Manchester, Manchester,
England, UK.

CRIC is holding a 1-day conference in Manchester on the 2nd December 2005 to celebrate John Barber's contribution to Innovation Policy in his long career at the Department of Trade and Industry.

The conference will begin at 9.30am and is expected to finish at 4pm. This will give time for 2 sessions with 2 papers per session and a round table discussion.

Friday 2^nd December 2005
09.30 - 11.00	Session 1 Paper 1: Peter Swann “John Barber’s Pioneering Work on the Economics of Measurement Standards” [Paper - 160Kb pdf format] Paper 2: Paul Stoneman “Creative Destruction and Underinvestment in R&D: Did Arrow Point the Wrong Way?” [Paper - 114Kb pdf format]
11.00 - 11.30	Tea/Coffee
11.30 - 13.00	Session 2 Paper 3: Mike Hobday “Latecomer Entrepreneurship: A Policy Perspective.” [Paper - 170Kb pdf format] Paper 4: Luke Georghiou “Evolution of Innovation Policy-The Barber Years” [Paper - 92Kb pdf format]
13.00 - 14.00	Lunch
14.00 - 15.30	Round Table Panel “The Future of Innovation Policy Research” Derek L. Bosworth "Innovation and Performance: a Selective Review of the Evolution of one Area of Research – the Market Valuation Literature" [Paper - 109Kb pdf format]
15.30 - 16.00	Tea/Coffee & Close of Conference

For more information please contact :

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

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