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Agglomeration and Growth In Knowledge-based Societies
Workshop
Kiel, Germany, April 20-21, 2007
Organizers: Dirk Dohse, Rüdiger Soltwedel, Renate Schramm
Sponsors
DIME – Dynamics of Institutions and Markets In Europe. Network of Excellence Funded Within the 6th Framework Program of the European Union
Deutsche Bundesbank in der freien und Hansestadt Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern und Schleswig-Holstein
Industrie- und Handelskammer zu Kiel
Industrie- und Handelskammer zu Lübeck
Photos from the Conference
Objective
The world’s economic landscape of innovation and growth is undergoing a fundamental change: Important knowledge-intensive activities such as research & development, finance, or headquarter functions show an increasing tendency towards clustering in metropolitan areas. As these agglomerations tend to gain importance as principal engines of innovation and growth there is growing concern that existing regional and international disparities in knowledge potentials, income and growth may widen. Peripheral locations or even whole countries without an outstanding centre may lose competitiveness in knowledge-intensive activities and fall back in economic strength and welfare. Hence, tensions may arise between knowledge-based growth and regional and social cohesion, which would entail major challenges for regional, national, and supra-national policymakers. Against this background, the main purpose of the workshop is to improve the understanding of the micro- and macroeconomic causes and consequences of the ongoing spatial concentration of knowledge-intensive activities from a theoretical, empirical and political perspective.
Keynote Speakers
Zoltan Acs, George Mason University
Philippe Aghion, Harvard University
David Audretsch, MPI Jena and Indiana University, Bloomington
Vernon Henderson, Brown University, Providence
Bart Verspagen, ECIS Eindhoven
Scientific Committee
Iain Begg, LSE London
Börje Johansson, Jönköping International Business School
Johannes Bröcker, Kiel University
Dirk Dohse, Kiel Institute
Gilles Duranton, University of Toronto
Henry Overman, LSE London
Javier Revilla Diez, Hannover University
Rüdiger Soltwedel, Kiel Institute
Michael Storper, LSE London
Program
Program with Papers (for Participants only)
Conference Venue
Conference Fee
The conference fee for active participants, who are not members of the DIME Network of Excellence, is € 100 (including the welcome reception, lunches and the conference dinner). Please make sure that your payment arrives until April 13, 2007, at the latest. The details of the account are:
Deutsche Bundesbank Kiel
Account no.: 210 015 05
Bank code: 210 000 00
IBAN: DE 21210000000021001505
BIC: MARKDEF 1210
Ref.no : 04006196815800
Guests
Guests are welcome! The conference fee is € 300 (including the welcome reception, lunches and the conference dinner). Please make sure that your payment arrives until April 13, 2007, at the latest. The details of the account are:
Deutsche Bundesbank Kiel
Account no.: 210 015 05
Bank code: 210 000 00
IBAN: DE 21210000000021001505
BIC: MARKDEF 1210
Ref.no : 04006196815800
For more information, please contact Dirk Dohse or Rüdiger Soltwedel. For technical and travel questions please contact Renate Schramm.
For more information on the DIME Network of Excellence see http://www.dime-eu.org/.