Workshop September 2005
Agenda for the first workshop of the project
Peripheral localities and innovation policies (PLIP)
September 8-9, 2005
Location: Nordregio office, Stockholm, Sweden
Location address: Holmamiralens väg 10, Skeppsholmen, Stockholm
Telephone numbers to the PLIP-team members at Nordregio:
Erik Gløersen, +46-8-4635401
Riikka Ikonen, +46-8-4635444
Participants:
Seija Virkkala and Kristiina Niemi from Chydenius Institute, Finland
Elin Aradottir and Hjalti Jóhannesson from University of Akureyri Research Institute, Iceland
Åge Mariussen and Trond Einar Pedersen from NIFU STEP, Norway
Katarina Larsen, Malin Mobjörk and Folke Snickars from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
Hanne Tanvig and Klaus Lindegaard from the Danish Centre for Rural Research and Development, Denmark
Eric Gløersen, Riikka Ikonen and Åsa Petterson from Nordregio
DAY 1, THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 8
13:00 Introductions (new members in the group)
13:30 Sustainable Development and Economic Growth - socio-cultural conditions in regional programming work
Tuija Hiding-Rydevik, Nordregio
Discussion
14:00 ISP project – experiences and lessons learnt from the project (Elin)
Coffee Break
15:00 PLIP project plan, research design and methods (Seija)
Initial discussion
Coffee Break
17:00 Comparative analysis: Case study areas
Short overviews on the case study areas in the PLIP context (10-15 minutes)
Danish team
Finnish team
Icelandic team
Norwegian team
Swedish team
Coffee break
18:30 Guidelines for comparison (Seija)
Discussion
20:00 Dinner
At Restaurant Fem små hus
DAY 2, FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 9
8:30 Good practices of local innovation and innovation policies in case study regions
Short presentation of good practices found in the ISP project by each country team (in ISP report and others), possible other good practices, need for new data, presentation of 15-20 minutes
Danish team
Finnish team
Icelandic team
Norwegian team
Swedish team
10:00 Coffee break
Discussion
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Preliminary guidelines for analysis of good practices
Discussion
14:00 Role of stakeholders and the principles for the regional-national workshops
Discussion
14:30 Coffee break
Discussion
15:00 Administrative procedures and practical matters (Seija)
Agreements, signing, payments and reporting
Work plan, dates of the seminars
Other practicalities
Conclusion of the workshop by 16:00