Organized by:
Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento (UNGS)
Universidad Nacional de Quilmes (UNQ)
Universidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM)
Comisión de Investigaciones Científicas de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (CIC)
The Global Network for Economics of Learning, Innovation, and Competence Building Systems (GLOBELICS) is an international network of scholars who apply the concept of “learning, innovation, and competence building system” (LICS) as their framework and are dedicated to the strengthening of LICS in developing countries, emerging economies and societies in transition. The research aims at locating unique systemic features as well as generic good practices to enlighten policy making relating to innovation, competence building, international competitiveness, regional development, labor market and human capital development. In an increasingly global and knowledge-based competition, management strategies need to be based upon an understanding of these framework conditions and the public policies which seek to regulate the environment.
GLOBELICS has regional chapters in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Apart from providing training for PhD scholars through the Academy at Lisbon and Tampere GLOBELICS organizes annual conferences. Until now eight GLOBELICS conferences have been organized. The first conference was held in 2003, at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, it was followed by the second conference at Beijing, China (2004), the third conference at Tshwane (Pretoria), South Africa (2005), the fourth in Trivandrum, India (2006), the fifth in Saratov, Russia (2007), the sixth in Mexico City, Mexico (2008), the seventh in Dakar, Senegal (2009) and the eighth in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2010). All eight conferences were attended by leading scholars in the field from both the developed and developing worlds.
The 9th GLOBELICS International Conference will be organized around the following topics:
- Innovation, Inequality and Sustainable Development
- Innovation, economic development and inequality: Systemic issues and specific aspects (Education, Health, Employment, Migration, Gender Equity, Income Distribution).
- What do we know about building sustainable national, regional and sectoral innovation systems? Theory and evidence.
- Inclusive innovation – social and regional perspectives.
- Productive dynamics, innovation and economic development
- The links between microeconomic learning and macroeconomic policies.
- High tech industries and development: public policies and structural change.
- The role of scientific and technological knowledge in traditional sectors: the challenge for developing countries.
- Agriculture, natural resources and innovation: implications for development outcomes.
- Knowledge demand and supply in innovation systems: interactions, institutions and policies
- Human resources, competence building and specialization pattern: how to build local capabilities in a global context.
- Universities as knowledge producers for economic development.
- Industrial policy to enhance the demand for knowledge.
- Privatization of knowledge, Intellectual Property Right (IPR) and development.
- Coping with globalisation
- MNCs and global value chains: from low to high added value.
- Innovation and economic growth: convergence vs. divergence in productivity and welfare standards.
- Innovation, SMEs and local development. Factors of attractiveness and embeddedness of the MNCs in local/regional/national systems.
- The role of FDI from developing countries in global innovation networks.
- Creativity and innovation
- Mobilising creativity in the informal sector for innovation and economic growth.
- The contributions of education systems and learning organisations to creativity.
- The role of creative cities in national systems of innovation.
- Creative responses and capacity building in complex systems: interactions and learning.
The conference will include a variety of sessions including keynote speeches, plenary and paper sessions to address the various themes of the event. A special panel for senior policy makers and scholars from Latin-America will be also included in the program.
Contact: dsuarez@ungs.edu.ar
