The Challenge of Regional Development in a World of Changing Hegemonies: Knowledge, Competitiveness and Austerity
ATTENTION: All parallel sessions and plenary will take place in La Comercial - Deusto Business School - Universidad de Deusto: Avenue of Universities, 24, 48007 Bilbao and the final conference and the closing ceremony will take place in the Bizkaia Aretoa - Auditorium Baroja - Avda Abandoibarra, 3-48009 BILBAO
Thursday, November 22, 2012 (Deusto Business School)
8:45-9:15 Accreditation of participants
9:15-11:00 Opening of the Congress by the Chancellor of the University of Deusto and Opening Conference - First Plenary Session:Regional Strategies in a Changing World, Dominique Foray, Professor/Chair of Economics and Management of Innovation, College of Management, Ecole Politechnique de Lausanne
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-13:00 Parallel Sessions
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:00 Parallel Sessions
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-18:00 Second Plenary Session: Universities and Regional Development, John Goddard, Emeritus Professor of Regional Development Studies, Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS), Newclasle University
18:00-19:30 Parallel Sessions and AECR Meeting
21:00 Conference Dinner - Hotel Indautxu: Plaza del Bombero Echaniz, S/N ,48010 Bilbao
Friday, November 23, 2012 (Deusto Business School)
9:00-10:30 Parallel Sessions
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Parallel Sessions
12:30-14:00 Round Table: Sustainable Regional Development and the Changing Hegemony, Clelio Campolina, Rector y Professor of Economics and Business Studies de la Universdade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brasil; Xielin Liu, Professor of Management of the Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.
14:00-15:00 Lunch
15:00-16:30 Parallel Sessions
16:30-17:00 Walk to Bizkaia Aretoa - Auditorio Baroja Avda. Abandoibarra, 3 - 48009 Bilbao
17:00-18:15 Third Plenary Session: Welfare State, Public Finance, Austerity and Regions, Núria Bosch Universidad de Barcelona. Bizkaia Aretoa - Auditorio Baroja Avda. Abandoibarra, 3 - 48009 Bilbao
18:15 Closing Ceremony by the Chancellor of the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU - Bizkaia Aretoa - Auditorio Baroja Avda. Abandoibarra, 3 - 48009 Bilbao
Guided tour of the old part of the city and tasting skewers - Time: 19 h. and venue: Auditorio Baroja Avda. Abandoibarra, 3 - 48009 Bilbao
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