On September 25-27, 2006, the Blue Sky II STI indicators over the past decade. The intent 2006 Forum will examine new areas for indicator of Blue Sky II is to review progress made while development and set a broad agenda for future looking towards development of policy-relevant work on science, technology and innovation STI indicators in today’s global economy. (STI) indicators. Emphasis will be placed on Statistics Canada, the OECD, the U.S. National indicators of outcomes and impacts in order to Science Foundation and Industry Canada have support monitoring, benchmarking, foresight partnered to host this landmark conference. activity, and evaluation, applied to policies and The Forum will bring public policy researchers, programs, and their economic and social impacts. economists, social scientists and statisticians, The Forum is expected to provide ideas and together with policy makers, government officials guidance for indicators work in both OECD and and other stakeholders with an interest in non OECD countries, as well as in international science, technology and innovation indicators. organizations. The Forum will include plenary sessions featuring invited guest speakers who The Forum covers four broad topics: are leading authorities in their fields. Break-out New uses of existing science, technology and sessions will discuss papers on specific themes innovation indicators; selected through a call for papers. New uses of existing non STI indicators for the Blue Sky is a synonym for thinking creatively, purpose of STI policy making; without limiting horizons, about developing new indicators to respond to changing policy and user Completely new science, technology and needs in the STI area. The first Blue Sky Forum innovation indicators and, was organised by the OECD and held in Paris A synthesis of findings leading to an agenda in 1996. It helped set the agenda for developing for the next decade of work on STI indicators. Q Overview Q Date: September 25 - 27, 2006 Language: Simultaneous interpretation will be provided in English and French Location: The Westin Ottawa for all sessions. All workshops will 11 Colonel By Drive be conducted in either English or Ottawa, Ontario, Canada French, which will be noted on the Telephone: +1 613 560-7000 conference materials. Facsimile: +1 613 234-5396 Steering Committee: Organizers: The Organisation for Economic Mr. Fred Gault, Canada Co-operation and Development Mr. Giorgio Sirilli, Italy (OECD), The U.S. National Ms. Leanne Harvey, Australia Science Foundation (NSF), Mr. Ki-Wan Kim, Korea Industry Canada and Statistics Mr. Ward Ziarko, Belgium Canada. Ms. Alessandra Colecchia, OECD Mr. Michael Bordt, Canada Secretariat: Forum Secretariat Ms. Lynda Carlson, United States of America Statistics Canada Mr. August Goetzfried, European Commission Blue Sky II 100 Tunney’s Pasture Driveway Abstracts and Proceedings: R.H. Coats Building, Louise Earl 7th floor Section A +1 613 951-2880 Ottawa, Ontario, [email protected] Canada, K1A 0T6 Registration: Telephone: (613) 951-2880 Marc Nadeau Fax: (613) 951-9920 +1 613 951-2541 E-Mail: [email protected] [email protected] Web site: http://www.statcan.ca/english/ conferences/sciencetech2005/ index.htm Monday, September 25, 2006 Q Program Q

07:45 Registration and continental breakfast Foyer Provinces

09:00 Welcome and opening remarks Provinces Ballroom Fred Gault Chair National Experts on Science and Technology Indicators (NESTI / OECD) Carole Swan Senior Associate Deputy Minister Industry Canada Enrico Giovannini Chief Statistician, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Lynda Carlson Director, Science Resource Statistics Division, U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) 09:45 Keynote address Speaker: Dr. John H. Marburger, III Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy Executive Office of the President of the United States of America

10:30 Break (15 minutes) 10:45 Plenary session — New uses of existing S&T indicators in a global context Chair: Fred Gault NESTI / OECD Discussant: Reinhilde Veugelers European Commission (BEPA), K. U. Leuven and CEPR Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Applied Economics Presentations Dominique Foray École Polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne Enriching the indicator base for the economics of knowledge Anthony Arundel Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) Innovation indicators: Any progress since 1996? 12:00 Summary of plenary session Chair: Fred Gault NESTI / OECD 12:10 Lunch Confederation Ballroom

 Monday, September 25, 2006 Q Concurrent workshops Q

13:30– Concurrent workshops: 13:30– Concurrent workshops: 13:30– Concurrent workshops: 17:00 Session A1 17:00 Session A2 17:00 Session A3 Quebec Room Provinces Ballroom Les Saisons Non technological Multidisciplinary Global knowledge innovation science, technology and flows — Human resources innovation and S&T Chair: August Goetzfried Chair: Andrew Wyckoff Chair: Evelyn Obele European Commission OECD German Federal Ministry of Education and Research Discussant: Mark Knell Discussant: Irvin Feller Discussant: Mario Cervantes Norwegian Social Science Research American Association for the OECD Institute (NIFU STEP) Advancement of Science Centre of Innovation Research, Norway

A The determinants and A A framework to measure the A International mobility of effects of non-technological impact of investments in health doctorate holders: First results innovations — research — and methodology advances — Tobias Schmidt and Alan Bernstein, Canadian Institutes Laudeline Auriol, Organisation Christian Rammer, of Health Research. Canada for Economic Co-operation and Center for European Economic B Towards a nanotechnology Development (OECD). OECD Research (ZEW) in Germany. statistical framework — B Developing indicators for the Germany Kevin Fitzgibbons, Office of the effective utilisation of HRST: The B Just how innovative are New National Science Advisor, and case of South Korea — Zealand firms? Quantifying Chuck McNiven, Statistics Canada. Ki‑Wan Kim, Korea Institute of and relating organisational Canada Science and Technology Evaluation and marketing innovation to and Planning (KISTEP). Korea traditional STI indicators — C Indicators for benchmarking biotechnology innovation C Mobility of the higher skilled in Richard Fabling, New Zealand policies — the Swedish Innovation System: Ministry of Economic Development. An indicator for knowledge New Zealand Thomas Reiss and Iciar Dominguez‑Lacasa, flows — C Design as source and enabler Department emerging technologies Patrik Sandgren and Eugenia Perez, of innovation – New and at Fraunhofer ISI. Germany VINNOVA. Sweden improved indicators — D Biotechnology impact D Linking human resources in Ray Lambert, UK Department of indicators: From measures science and technology and Trade and Industry, Office of Science of activities, linkages and scientific performance: The and Innovation. United Kingdom outcomes to impact indicators — use of existing data to develop D Better by design? Capturing the Antoine Rose, Canadian new indicators to analyze role of design in innovation — Biotechnology Strategy and the scientific base of high Meric S. Gertler and Tara Vinodrai, Chuck McNiven, Statistics Canada. and medium high technology University of Toronto. Canada Canada manufacturing industries — E Industrial reflexity: An Wendy Hansen, Maastricht Economic institutional approach to Research Institute on Innovation measure innovativeness of and Technology (UNU‑MERIT). organisations — UNU‑MERIT Manfred F. Moldaschl, Chemnitz E Indicators on researchers’ University of Technology; The career and mobility in Europe: Institute for Human Resource A modelling approach — Management, Chemnitz, and Center Philippe Moguérou, for Innovation Research, Munich. Olivier Da Costa, Germany Maria Paola di Pietrogiacomo and Patrice Laget IPTS, European Commission. IPTS / EU

 Monday, September 25, 2006 Q Afternoon Q

15:00 Break (15 minutes)

15:15 Concurrent workshops (continued) 17:00 Summary of parallel sessions and goals for day 2 Provinces Ballroom

Speakers: August Goetzfried European Commission (Eurostat) Andrew Wyckoff OECD Evelyn Obele German Federal Ministry of Education and Research Fred Gault NESTI / OECD

17:45 Adjourn 19:00 The Blue Sky II Steering Committee invites all delegates to an evening of networking with fellow Blue Sky II delegates at the: Métropolitain Brasserie Restaurant, 700 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, Ontario.

 Tuesday, September 26, 2006 Q Program Q

07:45 Networking continental breakfast Foyer Provinces

09:00 Welcome and opening remarks Provinces Ballroom Lynda Carlson Director, Science Resource Statistics Division, U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Keynote address Luc Soete Joint Director of the United Nations University Institute for New Technologies (UNU-INTECH) Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT)

09:30 Plenary session — New S&T uses of non S&T indicators Chair: Lynda Carlson NSF Discussant: Dominique Foray École Polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne Presentations Eric von Hippel Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group at MIT Sloan School of Management Indicator development required for science, technology and innovation policies in an era of democratizing innovation Reinhilde Veugelers European Commission (BEPA), K. U. Leuven and CEPR Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Applied Economics Developments in EU statistics on science, technology and innovation: Taking stock and moving forward towards evidence based policy analysis Heidi Ertl Statistics Canada Towards understanding the impacts of science, technology and innovation activities

10:15 Break (15 minutes) 12:10 Summary of plenary session Chair: Lynda Carlson NSF 12:30 Lunch Foyer Provinces

 Tuesday, September 26, 2006 Q Concurrent workshops Q

13:30– Concurrent workshops: 13:30– Concurrent workshops: 13:30– Concurrent workshops: 17:00 Session B1 17:00 Session B2 17:00 Session B3 Provinces Ballroom Quebec Room Les Saisons The role of public sector Specialised surveys: Global knowledge actors in innovation Developing countries, flows: the diffusion and remote regions, special location of knowledge topics Chair: Giorgio Sirilli Chair: Ki-Wan Kim Chair: John Jankowski, NSF National Research Council of Italy and Korea Institute of Science and NESTI / OECD Technology Evaluation and Planning (KISTEP) Discussant: Discussant: Discussant: Francisco Moris, NSF Luis Sanz‑Menendez Ernesto Fernandez Polcuch Ministry of Education and Science, UNESCO Institute for Statistics Spain

A University research in an A Science, technology and A Measuring the globalization of innovation society — innovation for sustainable knowledge networks — Richard Hawkins, development — Caroline S. Wagner, SRI International Cooper H. Langford and Kiranpal S. Michael Bordt, Johanne Boivin and Center for Science, Technology, and Sidhu, University of Calgary. Canada Julio Miguel Rosa, Statistics Canada. Economic Development and George B Developing internationally Canada Washington University. United States of comparable indicators for B What drives productivity growth America the commercialisation of in Tanzania: Technology or B Norms-based intellectual property publicly‑funded research — institutions? — systems: The case of French Anthony Arundel and Pierre Mohnen, chefs — Catalina Bordoy, Maastricht and UNU-MERIT (Maastricht Eric von Hippel, Innovation and Economic Research Institute Economic Research on Innovation Entrepreneurship Group at MIT on Innovation and Technology and Technology); Micheline and Emmanuelle Fauchart from (UNU‑MERIT) UNU‑MERIT Goedhuys, University of Antwerp Conservatoire national des arts et C Micro-level indicators of and UNU-MERIT and; Norbert métiers. United States of America knowledge production: Janz, University of Antwerp and C The contribution of firm and The AQUAMETH project on UNU‑MERIT. UNU‑MERIT invention-specific science linkages European universities — C Specialised R&D surveys: to patent quality — Andrea Bonaccorsi, University of Pisa Design and application — Bruno Cassiman, IESE Business and Member of the High Level Expert Peter S. Mortensen and Carter Bloch, School and Katholieke Universiteit Group (HLEG) of the European University of Aarhus, Denmark Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Commission. Cinzia Daraio, IIT-CNR D Measuring SERVERD: Pie in the Applied Economics, B-3000 Leuven; (Italy) and member of the PRIME sky or substantive activity? — Reinhilde Veugelers, European working group on Public Sector Commission (BEPA), K. U. Leuven Research. Italy Michael Kahn, Human Sciences and CEPR Katholieke Universiteit Research Council (HSRC). Leuven, Faculty of Economics and D Benefits from R&D investment South Africa in the Canadian federal Applied Economics; and Pluvia Zuniga, government — Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Applied Economics, Pierre Therrien, Industry Canada. B-3000 Leuven. Spain/Belgium Canada D A proposal for developing new indicators on the internationalisation of R&D by matching micro‑data from national R&D surveys — Giulio Perani, Italian National Statistical Institute; member of the Italian delegation to NESTI; and Claudio Cozza; Italian National Statistical Institute. Italy E Ideas for new indicators on globalisation of R&D —  Mikael Åkerblom, Statistics Finland. Finland Tuesday, September 26, 2006 Q Afternoon Q

15:00 Break (15 minutes)

15:15 Concurrent workshops (continued) 17:00 Summary of parallel sessions and goals for day 3 Provinces Ballroom

Speakers: Giorgio Sirilli National Research Council of Italy and NESTI Ki-Wan Kim KISTEP John Jankowski NSF Lynda Carlson NSF

17:45 Adjourn

 Wednesday, September 2 7 , 2 0 0 6 Q Program Q

07:45 Networking continental breakfast Foyer Provinces

09:00 Welcome and opening remarks Provinces Ballroom John Dryden Deputy Director, Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry, OECD

Plenary session — STI Indicators at the OECD: Lessons learned Chair: John Dryden OECD Speakers: Benoit Godin INRS Urbanisation, Culture et Société, Canada Giorgio Sirilli National Research Council of Italy and NESTI / OECD Luis Sanz-Menendez Ministry of Education & Science, Spain Ward Ziarko Belgian Science Policy Andrew Wyckoff OECD

10:30 Break (15 minutes)

10 Wednesday, September 2 7 , 2 0 0 6 Q Concurrent workshops Q

10:45– Concurrent workshops: 10:45– Concurrent workshops: 10:45– Concurrent workshops: 12:45 Session C1 12:45 Session C2 12:45 Session C3 Provinces Ballroom Les Saisons Quebec Room Understanding the New indicators for S&T Global knowledge flows impacts of innovation policies – the spatial dimension Chair: Dirk Pilat Chair: Michael Kahn Chair:Yoshiaki Tojo OECD Human Sciences Research Council OECD (HSRC). South Africa Discussant:Tobias Schmidt Discussant: Pierre Mohnen Discussant: Dominique Guellec ZEW, Germany UNU-MERIT OECD

A New directions for A Indicator for complex A What are policy-relevant understanding innovation — innovation systems: A scale- indicators to measure the Frances Anderson, Susan Schaan, independent view — performance of innovation Statistics Canada and Ingrid Schenk, J. Sylvan Katz, SPRU, University of clusters? — Industry Canada. Canada Sussex. United Kingdom Charles Davis, Hickling Arthurs Low B Organisational forms and B Constructing a multi-level (HAL) Corporation and Ryerson innovative performance — Scientometric Indicators University; David Arthurs, Hickling System — Arthurs Low (HAL) Corporation; Anthony Arundel, Maastricht David Wolfe, Hickling Arthurs Low Economic Research Institute Hiroyuki Tomizawa, National (HAL) Corporation and University of on Innovation and Technology Institute of Science and Technology Toronto and; Erin Cassidy, National (UNU-MERIT) and Edward Lorenz, Policy (NISTEP) and Ministry Research Council. Canada University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, of Education, Culture, Sports, France. UNU-MERIT and France Science and Technology [MEXT]. B Cross-regional and intra- sectoral analysis of clusters — C What is missing in the analysis Takayuki Hayashi, National Institute of input-output relationships of of Science and Technology Policy Anne Plunket, University Paris Sud innovation processes? — [NISTEP], and National Institution for 11. France Academic Degrees and University C Of triple helixes, classification Svein Olav Nås , NIFU STEP, Evaluation [NIAD]. Japan Mark Knell and Johan Hauknes, schemes and knowledge value Norwegian Social Science Research C Innovation systems’ based chains — Institute NIFU STEP Centre of indicators: Relationships Brian Wixted, CPROST at Innovation Research. Norway between innovation, human Simon Fraser University, and capital, and information and Susan E. Cozzens, Georgia Institute D Where science, technology and communication technologies — innovation indicators hit the of Technology. Canada and United road and roadblocks — Monica Salazar, Simon Fraser States of America University. Colombia-Canada Susan McDaniel, University of D Innovation at regional level: Windsor. Canada What we can learn from the CIS4 two-tiered survey in Italy — Giorgio Sirilli, National Research Council of Italy and NESTI delegate; Giulio Perani, Italian National Statistical Institute; NESTI delegate and Valeria Mastrostefano, Italian National Statistical Institute. Italy

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12:45 Lunch Confederation Ballroom

13:30 Summary of parallel sessions Provinces Ballroom

Speakers: Dirk Pilat OECD Michael Kahn Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC). South Africa Yoshiaki Tojo OECD

14:00 Panel Discussion: What has been learned and what happens next?

Chair: Fred Gault NESTI / OECD Speakers: Luc Soete UNU-INTECH and MERIT Enrico Giovannini OECD Jan van Steen Ministry of Education, Culture and Science,

16:00 Adjourn — Blue Sky II

The Blue Sky II Steering Committee would like to thank our sponsors for making this Forum a success — see you in ten years!

Supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation, Grant No SRS-0544653

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