Advancing Knowledge and the Knowledge Economy
10-11 January 2005 at the National Academies, Washington, DC
Note: Presentation slides are available by clicking each presenter's name.
Monday, January 10
8:00 - 8:55 |
Registration/Coffee |
8:55 - 9:15 |
Welcome/Conference GoalsWilliam Wulf, National Academy of Engineering |
9:15 - 10:30 |
Knowledge communities and networks of knowledgeChair: David Nelson, Interagency Working Group on IT R&D |
10:45 - 12:00 |
Emerging infrastructure for distributed learning and innovation Chair: Michael Marron,
NIH/NCRR |
12:00 - 12:55 |
Lunch |
12:55 - 1:15 |
KeynoteBerglind Ásgeirsdóttir, Deputy Secretary General, OECD |
1:15 - 2:45 |
Knowledge and place: proximity, mobility, clusters, and institutionsChair: Rob Atkinson, Progressive Policy Institute |
3:00 - 4:15 |
Measuring knowledge and its economic effects Chair: Barbara Fraumeni, Bureau of Economic Analysis |
4:30 - 5:45 |
Learning by doing, interacting, and experimenting: users as innovatorsChair: Richard Lempert, National Science Foundation |
Tuesday, January 11
8:00 - 8:55 |
Registration/Coffee |
8:55 - 9:15 |
KeynoteThe Honorable David M. Walker, Comptroller General of the United States |
9:15 - 10:30 |
Channeling knowledge: the changing role of research institutionsChair: Daniel Malkin, OECD |
10:45 - 12:15 |
Mixed models of cooperation and controlChair: Deborah Wince-Smith, Council on Competitiveness |
12:15 - 1:15 |
Lunch |
1:15 - 2:30 |
Architecting knowledge: platforms, modularity, and coordinationChair: Andrew Sors, DG Research |
2:45 - 4:00 |
Fences and thickets: benefits and costs of private controls Chair: Susan DeSanti, Federal Trade Commission |
4:15 - 5:30 |
Policy Roundtable: Advancing Knowledge in the Public SectorChair: Laurence Prusak, Babson College |
Conference Chairs:
Dominique Foray, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)
Brian Kahin, University of Michigan
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