Tuesday June 23, 2009

Pre-conference: Young Researchers workshop 

Chair: Antonio Alvarez, University of Oviedo, Spain

8:30 - 8:45 Pre-registration and Registration

8:45 - 9:00 Welcome and introduction by Antonio Alvarez

9:00 - 10:30  Parallel sessions

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30 Parallel sessions

12:30 - 14:00 Light Lunch

14:00 - 16:00 Parallel sessions

16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 - 18:30  Parallel sessions

19:00 Welcome Cocktail

Wednesday June 24,  2009

Conference

9:00 - 10:00 Registration

10:00 - 10:30 Opening speeches

10:30 - 12:30 Plenary session I: Methodological Advancements in Efficiency and Productivity Analysis

Chair: Robin Sickles, Rice University, Houston, TX-USA

Measuring Efficiency in Productivity Analysis. Choosing a Model: implications and challenges

Keynote speaker: Léopold Simar, Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

Discussant: William Greene, NYU Stern School of Business, USA

Comments by Harold Fried, Union College, Schenectady, NY-USA and Paul W. Wilson, Clemson University, Clemson, SC-USA

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 15:30 Parallel sessions
(1 parallel session -  Round Table “Interfaces with Engineering Applications I”)

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 - 18:00 Parallel sessions
(1 parallel session - Round Table “Interfaces with Engineering Applications II”)

18:00 - 19:00 Meeting of the Scientific Committee

20:30 Social Dinner at Chiostro di San Francesco, Pisa

Thursday June 25, 2009

9:00 - 10:30 Parallel sessions

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30 Parallel sessions

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 15:30 Plenary session II: Frontier of frontiers applications to growth

Chair: Robert Chambers, University of Maryland, College Park, MD-USA

Economic Growth and Convergence: The Production-Frontier Approach

Keynote speaker: Robert R. Russell, University of California, Riverside, CA-USA

Discussant: Giovanni Dosi, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 - 18:00 Parallel sessions
(1 parallel session is of COST session)

20:30 Free dinner (to explore the typical Tuscany trattorie in Pisa)

Friday June 26, 2009

9:00 - 10:30 Parallel sessions (1 parallel session is of COST session)

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30 Plenary session III: The economics and productivity of Science and Higher Education

Chair: Andrea Bonaccorsi, University of Pisa, Italy

Productivity in Science and Technology

Keynote speaker: Jacques Mairesse, CREST (France) and Maastricht University (Netherlands)

Discussant : Paula Stephan, Andrew Young School of Policy studies, USA

Comments by: Maurizio Sobrero, IRIS Project Coordinator, University of Bologna, Italy

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 16:00 Parallel sessions

16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 - 17:00 Closing remarks: Andrea Bonaccorsi, Departement of Electrical Systems and Automation, University of Pisa, Italy
                                           Robin Sickels, Rice University, Houston, TX - US

18:15 Meeting point for buses in front of the Conference site

20:00 Conference Gala Dinner at the historical Villa Grabau (Lucca) with guided tour of the Villa