[Events] FW: Reminder: Sociology seminar, today, 1-2pm, CG053

[Lee.Monaghan]

Reminder: Presentation by ISSP-funded research at UL, today at 1pm, CG053.  


Developing the Knowledge Economy: Trends and Indicators on Regional Innovation-Based Development and Science Parks



Dr. Anthony D'Andrea

ISSP Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Dept. of Sociology

The knowledge economy has become a key concept in the development agenda and discourse across Europe and beyond. In the meantime, due to rearrangements in EU supranational politics and global economy, regions become key units of policy analysis and intervention. In the meeting of innovation and cohesion policy, science parks have reemerged as a catalyst tool for regional development, as indicated in the recent boom of science parks across the developing world. 

Based on EU policy reports and statistics, the scholarship on science parks, and ethnographic research on science parks in Ireland and continental Europe, this presentation provides an overview of the knowledge economy in Ireland vis-à-vis the EU, and summarizes several international experiences with science parks. The goal of the presentation is to identify main factors and challenges currently affecting the development of the knowledge economy at a regional level.

Associated keywords: smart economy, regional research-based clusters, regional innovation systems, technology parks, RIPI.


Seminar convenor:

Dr. Lee F. Monaghan 
Senior Lecturer 
Department of Sociology 
University of Limerick 
Ireland

tel: 00353(0)61-213346

e-mail: lee.monaghan at ul.ie

http://www.ul.ie/sociology/lee.monaghan.html