3-6 pm, Thursday April 25th 2013
Institute of Bankers, 1 North Wall Quay, Dublin 1
Sponsored by NUI Maynooth (NIRSA/ Sociology) and UCD Geary Institute
Globalisation, regional economic clusters, open systems of innovation, financialisation, legal restrictions on state aid and a range of other factors appeared to have consigned industrial policy and the developmental state to history. However, as economies struggle to restore growth and seek models of sustainable prosperity, there is renewed interest in the role of public institutions in promoting industrial and regional development. Moreover, recent decades have seen significant experiments with new forms of ‘old’ institutions – ranging across the industrial development agencies of Israel and Taiwan, the state investment banks of Germany and Brazil and the diverse network of agencies promoting innovation in the US.
This workshop explores the new forms of industrial and innovation policy that have emerged in recent decades. It examines their distinctive features, limitations and potential and asks what futures there might be for a developmental role for public institutions.
3-4.20 Public Institutions, Innovation and Growth in the Knowledge Economy
Chair: Seán Ó Riain, Sociology/ NIRSA, NUI Maynooth
Danny Breznitz, College of Business, Georgia Tech
“The Diverse Paths to Rapid-Innovation-Based Growth: The Strategic Role of the State”
Shiri Breznitz, School of Public Policy, Georgia Tech
“The Fountain of Knowledge? University Technology Transfer and Economic Development”
4.45-6 Round-table Discussion
The Role of the State in Development Strategies in a Changing Economic Landscape
Chair: Niamh Hardiman, Geary Institute and SPIRe, UCD
Short contributions from the following will be followed by discussion.
Seán Ó Riain, Sociology/ NIRSA, NUI Maynooth
Philip O’Connell, Geary Institute, UCD
Aphra Kerr, Sociology/ NIRSA, NUI Maynooth
Patrick Paul Walsh, School of Politics and International Relations, UCD
The workshop is funded by the European Research Council and the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences. It is sponsored by the ‘New Deals in the New Economy’ project at NUI Maynooth (NIRSA/ Sociology) and ‘The Political Economy of the European Periphery’ at UCD Geary Institute.
Registration is free but places are limited. To register please email geary@ucd.ie with the subject line “Industrial Policy” before Monday April 22nd.
Information on Venue and Transport is available here
Ireland after NAMA 
April 10, 2013 at 7:09 pm
Enough to make a decent Corkman weep.
The lower harbour Burb mess continues…………
“City councillors have also expressed serious concerns the plan does not address the serious traffic issues already blighting the area.
City planners have insisted Mahon can take this level of development as long as there is investment in a high-quality bus-based public transport service; that the potential for non-car trips is maximised; and a more sustainable compact pattern of development is achieved to allow people to live and work in the area”
“City planners”
Now there is a oxymoron if ever there was one.
http://www.irishexaminer.com/archives/2013/0410/world/plan-to-develop-retail-hub-despite-traffic-problems-227857.html
The old city has lost critical shopping mass because of Mahon shopping center in particular and yet they want MORE JUNK.
Mahon is home to one of Ireland’s largest shopping centres………………………
April 10, 2013 at 7:32 pm
Ok Cork is not Nantes in both size and ambition but lets look at whats going on there shall we ?
A very extensive series of Tram lines.
A tram train operational to the south
The Nantes – Châteaubriant tram train line to the north (closed 1980) has been built already and will be operational in Feb 2014.
http://www.vjoncheray.fr/panoramique/exemple/rff/vr/virtualtour1.html
The second phase of upgrading the diesel line to the west of the town towards tourist coastal (the French version of Youghal…….) areas has been sanctioned – with work during the winter of 2014 /15
Cost 109 million euros
http://www.paysdelaloire.fr/no_cache/region-actu/actu-detaillee/n/nantes-saint-gilles-croix-de-viepornic-de-nouveaux-travaux-attendus-des-2014/
Ireland is going back to 1990 like car population levels of 800,000 vehicles.
We can do it the easy way or the hard way.
Creating conduit assets in Mahon (more houses or absurd ice rinks) to capture a new petro flow will not work this time,
The assets themselves must be either wealth creating or at least capable of capturing a new positive money flow in a more effective manner.
May 6, 2013 at 12:55 pm
The Euro crisis is a crisis of primary & basic secondary production.
The European entreport “value added economy ” is sinking.
check out Irish energy balance figures for 2012.
They are quite shocking.
In particular Irish Indigenous production.
Y1995 :4,105ktoe Peak (because of Kinsale gas peak and good peat production during that hot summer)
But the recent figures point to a crisis of the Irish peat industry because of both European carbon policy , the wet summer last year and a general long term attack on domestic labour value since 1980~
Y2011 :1,801
Y2012 :1,413
In particular look at peat production
Y1995 :1,697
Y2011 : 760
Y2012 : 316
Its really eat the peach time me thinks.
Extra External energy cannot now be bought.
Yet post 1980~ European governments destroyed rational (wage based) domestic demand & production so that banks would have enough energy available for their credit / asset creation games.