April 25, 2007

5:30-7:30pm | Registration and cocktail reception

April 26, 2007

7:00-8:30am | Registration & continental breakfast

8:30-8:45am | Introduction and welcome

8:45-10:00am| Plenary I: Globalization and China/India

Chair | Clair Brown, Competitive Semiconductor Manufacturing Program, University of California at Berkeley
Topic | Using Industry Studies to Study Globalization | Slides (PDF)

Speaker | Suzanne Berger, Industrial Performance Center, MIT
Topic | Globalization: A View from the Bottom Up | Slides (PDF)

10:00-10:30am | Coffee Break

10:30-12:00pm | Globalization Topical Sessions (click for more information)

(1) Is globalization hurting the U.S. workers and innovation?

(2) How did India and China create their competitive advantage?

(3) What approaches to globalization (especially government policies) are developed countries taking?

(4) What research and data collection strategies can be used to study globalization?

10:30-12:00pm | Research Roundtable with Dale Jorgenson, Harvard University | Topic: The Industry Origins of the American Productivity Resurgence | (By Invitation Only)

12:00-1:00pm | Lunch

1:15-2:45pm | Parallel Sessions – Part I (click for more information)

(1) Innovation Diffusion

(2) Global Sourcing I

(3) New Perspectives on Organizational Form and Boundary of the Firm

(4) New Insights on Work Organization

2:45-3:15pm | Tea Break

3:15-4:45pm | Parallel Sessions – Part II (click for more information)

(1) On-line/Off-line: Improving the Nature of Information Exchange

(2) New Strategic Perspectives

(3) Global Sourcing II

(4) Pathways to Operational Advantage

3:15-4:45pm | Research Roundtable with Alan S. Blinder, Princeton University | Topic: Fear of Offshoring | (By Invitation Only)

5:00- 6:30pm | Interactive Sessions and Cocktail Reception (click for more information)

6:30 - 9:00pm | Dinner/Award Ceremony | Remarks by Ralph Gomory

April 27, 2007

7:00-8:30am | Continental breakfast

8:30-10:00am | Plenary II: Industries, Regions and Innovation

Chair | John Zysman, University of California at Berkeley

Speaker | Richard K. Lester, Industrial Performance Center, MIT
Topic | Regions, Industries, and the University Role in Economic Development | Slides (PDF)

Speaker | John Paul MacDuffie, International Motor Vehicle Program, University of Pennsylvania
Topic | Modularity and the Geography of Innovation
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10:00-10:15am | Coffee Break

10:15-11:45am | Innovation Topical Sessions (click here for more information)

(1) Organizational and Product Architecture

(2) The Diffusion of "Process" Innovations

(3) Regions and Innovation

11:45-1:15pm | Informal lunch