2006 PRIME Annual Conference

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Normal 0 21 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1 :*behavior:url(#ieooui) The objectives of the conference
The objective of the conference was to address three topics that are important and lasting for research and innovation policies.
The ambition of the three sessions was to identify the key questions and the research directions that require long term investments.
Session 1 : ERA Dynamics
Click here to download the PRIME position paper on ERA.
Monitoring ERA dynamics
Chair : (...)

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Devolution and regionalisation have taken place in almost all centralised European countries, driving, de facto and whatever the legal framework is, to an important development of regional research and innovation policies.
While there have been numerous studies on “regional innovation systems” and on specific components of regional R&D (industrial districts and clusters in particular), we lack both a conceptual framework and robust comparative (...)