8:45

Welcome Remarks

Martin Grandes (The American University of Paris)

Jean-Eric Aubert (World Bank Institute)

9:00

UIL related policies of national governments

This session would present national level policies aimed at fostering university-industry linkages as a way to stimulate the innovative capacity of firms, and also the experience with these policies. The policies examined would include ones impinging upon the allocation of research funding, the treatment of intellectual property rights, the organization of the research infrastructure, incentives for R&D, and incentives for science parks, spin-offs and start-ups.

Moderator: Shahid Yusuf

Panelist: Alan Hughes (Cambridge University)

Panelist: Yuko Harayama (Tohoku University)

Panelist: Luc Soete (UNU Institute for New Technologies)

Panelist: Dominique Foray (École Potechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)

Discussant: Remi Barre (Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers)

Q&A

10:40

Coffee Break

11:00

UIL related policies of universities

This session would focus on policies instituted by universities to effectively engage with firms, while at the same time sustaining their academic mission. The session would explore the measures introduced by different university systems around world and indicate how university ownership, its proposed mission, the degree of autonomy, the creation of a technology licensing office, the importance given to research, the incentives offered to researchers, and other factors affect the emergence and success of university industry linkages.

Moderator: Eric Hershberg

Panelist: Weiping Wu (Virginia Commonwealth University)

Panelist: David C. Mowery (Univ. of California – Berkeley)

Panelist: Poh Kam Wong (Singapore National University)

Panelist: Rakesh Basant (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad)

Discussant: Elizabeth Garnsey (Cambridge University) / Jean-Eric Aubert (World Bank Institute)

Q&A

12:40

Lunch

14:00

UIL related policies of sub-national governments

This session would define and assess the various policies implemented by sub-national governments to promote the local/regional university and research institute based knowledge infrastructure and the impact of this, as well as other industrial development policies, on university-industry linkages.

Moderator: Martin Grandes

Panelist: Mike Wright (University of Nottingham)

Panelist: David Wolfe (University of Toronto)

Panelist: David Audretsch (Max Plank Institute for Economics)

Panelist: Phillippe Mustar (Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Paris)

Discussant: Robert Owen (University of Nantes)

Q&A

15:40

Coffee Break

16:00

Corporate Strategies of MNCs and SMEs

The purpose of this session would be to examine the different strategies adopted by multinational corporations and small and medium sized enterprises in their efforts to enhance innovation capabilities through contacts with universities and institutes. The session would review the experience from selected countries, the some of the key lessons learned and the likely future shape of linkages between the business sector and universities with reference to specific industries.

Moderator: Kaoru Nabeshima

Panelist: John Mathews (Macquarie Graduate School of Management)

Panelist: Fumio Kodama (Shibaura Institute of Technology)

Panelist: Peter Brimble (Asia Policy Research Company)

Panelist: Jean-Jacques Duby (École Supérieure d'Électricité)

Discussant: Jorge Forteza (the Board of Universidad de San Andres, Argentina)

Q&A

17:40

Closing Remarks

Shahid Yusuf (World Bank)

Eric Hershberg (Social Science Research Council)