Bernard Maris UNESCO Chair

First annual public conference

Regional Innovation Policy and Regional Transition
Politiques régionales d’innovation et de transition

Place: Bernard Maris Room, CPAM, 12 place Saint-Etienne, Toulouse

November 29^th 2018

Our partners : Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, ALLISS, Région Occitanie, Conseil Départemental Haute-Garonne, Labex SMS

Program (preliminary) / Simultaneous translation available throughout the day / La conférence sera entièrement accessible en traduction simultanée en français.

Morning

8:45am: Breakfast

9:00am – 9:30am: Conference Opening

Philippe Raimbault (President de l'Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées)

Victor Denouvion, représentant Georges Méric (President, Haute-Garonne Council)

Nadia Pellefigue, représentant Carole Delga (President, Region Occitanie)

9:30 am – 10:00 am: Introduction by Gabrielle Maris, Olivier Brossard (Sciences Po Toulouse), Lionel Larqué (ALLISS), François Morin (LEREPS)

Account of Bernard Maris life and contributions, presentation of the chair (activities and functioning)

10:00am – 10:15am: Presentation of the first Chair’s MOOC : “Economics for the anthropocene”, Ulf Clerwal (ALLISS)

Why and how a MOOC on the economics for the Anthropocene in the context of the Chair UNESCO Bernard Maris?

10:15am – 10:25am: Jérôme Vicente (Prof. Sciences-Po Toulouse)

Presentation of the conference topics and speakers

10:25am – 10:40am

coffee break

10:40am – 11:35am: Inaugural keynote by Prof. Ron Boschma – Chair holder (University of Utrecht and Sciences Po Toulouse)

Innovation, cohesion and transition: new challenges for regional policy

11:35am – 12:30am: Policy debate. Peter Berkowitz (Head of Unit for Smart and Sustainable Growth in the Directorate General for Regional and Urban Policy in the European Commission)

Smart and Sustainable Growth: new challenges for regional and European policy makers

12:30am – 1:30pm

Lunch - CPAM

Afternoon

1:30pm – 2:15pm: Raquel Ortega-Argilés (Prof. Chair in Regional Economic Development at Birmingham Business School)

The Early Experience of Smart Specialisation Implementation in EU Cohesion Policy

2:15pm – 3:00pm: David Rigby (Prof. Department of Geography, UCLA)

The Economics and Geography of Technological Complexity: Lessons for Regional Policy Makers

3:00pm – 3:45pm: Lea Fuenfschilling (Researcher at CIRCLE, University of Lund)

The governance of sustainability transitions through transformative innovation policies

3:45pm – 4:00pm

Coffee Break

4:00pm – 5:30pm

Feedback and closing debate (chair: Prof. P.A Balland- Utrecht University and MIT Media Lab)