Department of Theories and
Department of Economic
Policies for Social Development
and Social Analyses
Department of Law and
Political Sciences
Department of Economics,
Finance and Statistics
International Workshop on
“The Role of Business Services for Innovation, Internationalisation and Growth”
University of Rome La Sapienza, Faculty of Statistics, Aula Magna, 2-3 December 2010
THURSDAY 2/12/2010
09:30-11:00 THE RESULTS OF THE PRIN PROJECT
Evangelista, Lucchese
Business services, innovation and sectoral growth
and Meliciani
Castellani, De
Import of intermediates or outsourcing: what really drives the
Benedictis and Horgos offshoring indices
Maggi
A continuous time model for services, innovation and growth in
Europe
11:00-11:15 Coffee break
11:15-13:00 INNOVATION AND PERFORMANCE
Love and Roper
Knowledge, openness, innovation and growth in UK business
services
Archibugi and Filippetti Financial crisis and investments in innovation: differences
between manufacturing and services
Bogliacino, Lucchese
Innovation, Growth and Job Creation in Services
and Pianta
Antonelli
Pecuniary knowledge externalities and total factor productivity
growth. The role of KIBS in the governance of technological
knowledge
Chair: Antonelli. Discussants: Daniele Archibugi, Marisa Saggini, Francesco Crespi
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:45 KNOWLEDGE CREATION AND INNOVATION
Gallouj
Public private innovation networks (PPIN) are not innovation
networks (IN) like others: what implications for theory and
policy?
Musulesi and Savona
Do services benefit from public knowledge?
Patterns of cooperation and innovation performance in services
Gotsch and Hipp
Knowledge Intensive Business Services:
Suitability of Trademarks as additional Innovation Indicator
Doroscenko
15:45-16:00
16:00-17:45
Knowledge intensive business services as generators of
innovation: evidence from Russia
Chair: Gallouj. Discussants: Alessandro Strerlacchini, Marcella Corsi, Nazende Coskun
Coffee break
SERVICE/MANUFACTURING LINKAGES
Bottini and Tavoli
Does the interaction between service and manufacturing explain
the recent trends in export specialization? A look at the evidence
from the EU
Armenise, Giovannetti Attracting FDI in Business Services to improve manufacturing
and Santoni
performance: evidence from the Italian provinces
Conti, Lo Turco and
Backward linkages and the export performance of business
Maggioni
services. Evidence from a sample of Italian firms
Mariotti, Nicolini and
Vertical linkages between foreign MNEs in service sectors and
Piscitello
17:45-18:15
21:00
local manufacturing firms: the role of pecuniary and
technological spillovers
Chair: Giovannetti. Discussants: Luigi Benfratello, Antonello Zanfei
BOOK PRESENTATION
Giovannetti, Guerrieri
Business services: the new frontier of competitiveness
and Quintieri
Discussants: tba
DINNER
FRIDAY 3/12/2010
09:00-10:45 INTERNATIONALIZATION
Temouri, Vogel and
Self-Selection into Export Markets by Business Services Firms:
Wagner
Evidence from France, Germany and the United Kingdom
Li, Tether, Mina,
The Interplay of Diversification and Internationalisation amongst
Wennberg
Professional Service Firms: Insights from a Longitudinal Study of
Engineering Consultancies
Castellacci
Firm heterogeneity, international cooperations and export
participation
Filippetti, Frenz and
The role of internationalisation as a determinant of innovation
Ietto-Gillies
performance. An analysis of 42 countries and their service intensity
Chair: Castellacci. Discussants: Marco Grazzi, Fabrizio Pompei
10:45-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:45 OUTSOURCING AND OFFSHORING
Jona-Lasinio
Off-shoring and Productivity Growth
Karpaty, Widell and
Service offshoring and institutions
Gustavvson
Massini and Mozzo
Outsourcing and offshoring of business services: challenges to
theory, management and geography of innovation
Burker and Minerva
Social Capital, Firm Size and Purchased Service Intensity in Italy
Chair: Mozzo. Discussants: Francesco Venturini, Stefano Federico
12:45-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:15 REGIONAL DIMENSION
Ferreira and Godinho
Determinants of regional innovation: evidence from European Nuts
2 regions
Rodriguez, Camacho and Business services as actors of regional innovation: a spatial
Chica
approach
D'Agostino, Laursen and The impact of R&D offshoring on the home knowledge production
Santangelo
of OECD investing regions
Chair: Godinho. Discussants: Roberto Basile, Fabio Pieri
15:15-15:30 Coffee break
15:30-16:45 PRODUCTIVITY & GROWTH
Wymer
Ict and productivity
Sahadevan
Services as engine of India's sustainable and inclusive growth
Kox, van Leeuwen and Small firms captive in a box like lobsters. Causes of poor
van der Wiel
productivity performance in European
business services
Chair: Kox. Discussants: Annarosa Pesole, Luca De Benedictis
16:45-17:00 CLOSING REMARKS
This workshop is the final event of a two-year project on “The Role of Business Services for Innovation,
Internationalisation and Growth”, funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (PRIN 2007)