Birkbeck Centre for Innovation Management Research (CIMR)
Birkbeck University of London
July 4, 2014, 9.45am to 6 pm
Room MAL417
The workshop aims at discussing new contributions on the following research questions:
- Which skills? High skills vs. intermediate skills, general skills vs. industry-, technology or firm-specific skills, and university vs. other post-secondary education systems; who bears the risk on investments in specific skills?
- Skills where? Spatial differences: do different patterns of skills matching emerge in different regions? Spatial mobility: whether and how the migratory behaviour of skills influences education-job match.
- Skills for what? The university focus and intellectual property bias (e.g. making patents, or making things?), or appropriability bias more generally.
- How much skill? Skill shortages and skill surpluses (job-education mis-matching) as problems of economic development.
- What policy for skills? Upgrading/retraining: comparative systems, mechanisms and incentives; roles of educational institutions, of employers, and of government policy in comparative perspective.
The invited presentations will be followed by a general discussion on:
- Data bottlenecks
- Possible methodologies and issues around them
- Policy issues
- Future research directions
Workshop Programme
- 9.45-10.15 Coffee and welcome: Prof. Helen Lawton-Smith
- 10.15- 10.45 Dr. Stefano H. Baruffaldi, Dr Paolo Landoni, Dr. Sabrina Romeri and Dr Marta Valsecchi
International mobility: foreign researchers productivity and motivations behind the creation of collaboration networks - 10.45- 11.15 Dr. Riccardo Crescenzi, Dr. Luisa Gagliardi and Enrico Orru
Mobility grants and the quality of skills matching in the labour market. The case of the Master and Back Programme - 11.15- 11.30 Coffee break
- 11.30-12.00 Dr. Emiliano Mandrone and Dr. David D’angelo
Youth Guarantee and the Italian PES: insights from ISFOL PLUS Survey data - 12.00-12.30 Dr. Andrea Filippetti
Training quality and return to training in the Italian regions - 12.30-13.00 Dr. Fumi Kitagawa
Geography of collaborative doctoral graduates: Scientific labour markets, innovation systems and the roles of higher education institutions - 13.00- 14.30 Lunch break
- 14.30 – 15.00 Prof. Valentina Meliciani
Informal networks, spatial mobility and overeducation in the Italian labour market - 15.00- 15.30 Dr. Alessandra Faggian
Evaluating the effects of Australian policy changes on human capital: The role of a graduate visa scheme - 15.30-15.45 Coffee break
- 15.45-16.15 Prof. Ulrich Hilpert
Networking Regionalised Innovative Labour Markets - 16.15-16.45 Prof. Helen Lawton Smith and Rupert Waters
Universities and their local labour markets: the cases of Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire - 16.45-17.45 General debate and future agenda.
Chair: Prof. Valentina Meliciani
