OPENING CEREMONY

Marco Pacetti, Rector, Università Politecnica delle Marche

Gian Mario Spacca, President, Marche Region

Fabio Sturani, Mayor, Municipality of Ancona

Patrizia Esposto Casagrande, President, Ancona Province

Claudio Spinedi, Vice Director, General Directorate for Economic Cooperation and Multilateral Financial Institutions, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Ambassador Alessandro Grafini, Secretary,
Ionic-Adriatic Initiative

Theodore O. Alhers, Operations Director, 
ECA Region, World Bank

Itzhak Goldberg, Advisor, Policy and Strategy,
Private and Financial Sector, ECA Region, World Bank

Moderator: Fernando Montes-Negret, Director, Private and Financial Sector, ECA Region, World Bank

                                         

PLENARY SESSION I
Globalization & Technology Absorption

Andrew Burns, Lead Economist, Development Prospects Group, World Bank
PPT: Technology Diffusion in the Developing World

Giorgio Barba Navaretti, Professor of Economics, University of Milan
PPT: Understanding North South Technological Flows from Macro to Micro


Alessandro Sterlacchini, Professor of Applied Economics, Università Politecnica delle Marche
PPT:Knowledge Creation and Absorption: The Regional Dimension


Salvatore Rossi, Managing Director, Economic Research and International Relations, Bank of Italy
PPT: Technology Adoption, Productivity, and Firm size: The case of Italy

Moderator: Giuliano Conti, Professor of International Economics, Università Politecnica delle Marche
PPT:Globalization & Technology Absorption

PLENARY SESSION II
Technology Absorption Channels

Lee Branstetter, Associate Professor, Economics and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
PPT: ECA Technology Absorption and Technological Development: what can we learn from Patent Data?


Lucio Picci,  European Comission - DG JRC- Institute for ProspectiveTechnological Studies and Department of Economics, University of Bologna
PPT: National Inventions, diverging peripheries: The not yet accomplished European Innovation Space


Albert Hu , Professor, Economics, University of Singapore
PPT: Technological Change in East Asia


Moderator: Itzhak Goldberg, Advisor, Policy and Strategy,Private and Financial Sector, ECA Region, World Bank
PPT: Policy Implication for Knowledge Absorption

PLENARY SESSION III
Clusters & Integrating SMEs  in Global Supply Chains

Roberta Rabellotti, Professor, Economics, Università del Piemonte Orientale
PPT:  Upgrading to compete Global Value Chains, clusters and SMEs in Latin America


Aleksei Prazdnitchnykh, Partner, Bauman Innovation
PPT: SMEs and Clusters in Russian Regions: Cases and Lessons for SME Policy


John Roelofs,Vice President, PAC Group
PPT: Effective Strategies to achieve Sustainable Improvement for SMEs


Patrizio Bianchi, Rector, University of Ferrara
PPT: Clusters and Integrating SMEs in Global Supply Chains

Moderator:  Lalit Raina, Sector Manager, Private and Financial Sector, ECA Region, World Bank