Inaugural Annual Research Programme: Knowledge-Based Economy, 2005-06

Please note, this research programme has now concluded and these pages are maintained here as a record of the activities of the Institute for Advanced Studies.

The Research Programme

knowledge-based economy The programme on The Knowledge Based Economy was the first Annual Research Programme of IAS, dedicated to providing distinguished scholars and practitioners from UK and overseas with ‘time to think’ on crucial contemporary issues in a rich and supportive interdisciplinary environment.

The programme began with a colloquium in October 2005 and concluded with an international conference in late August 2006. The intervening period was filled with a series of two-day workshops, seminars and public lectures bringing together local scholars with colleagues from Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Germany, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and USA.

Programme overview

The term 'Knowledge-Based Economy' (KBE) conjures a world of smart people, in smart jobs, doing smart things, in smart ways, for smart money, increasingly open to all rather than a few. It has become the dominant economic strategy for many countries, regions, and cities and is endorsed by many economic, political, and social forces. It has also been criticized for creating a digital divide, new forms of social exclusion, and restricting access to the intellectual commons.

Through the following workshops, seminars, lectures and concluding conference, the programme considered the KBE as a leading economic and social paradigm. It examined the KBE's widespread adoption by firms, cities, regions, states, and international organizations as the basis for economic and political strategies, its dynamics, its costs and benefits, and its repercussions on wider social and cultural relations.

Dates	Events
19-20 October 2005	Initial Colloquium: The Knowledge Based Economy More»
21 October 2005	Workshop: Radical Geography of the Knowledge-Based Economy Steve Fleetwood More»
4-6 November 2005	Academic-Activist Workshop: Knowledge Laboratory on Globalisation from Above and Below Contact: Martin Pedersen More»
30 November - 1 December 2005	Workshop: Discourses of the KBE Contact: Bob Jessop; Ruth Wodak; Norman Fairclough More»
19-20 January 2006	Workshop: Education in the KBE Steve Fleetwood More»
23-24 January 2006	Workshop: Corporations in the Knowledge-Based Economy Contact: Stephen Ackroyd More»
2 February 2006	Transforming or Transacting the Back Office? The Role of Outsourcing in the Knowledge Based Organisations Contact: Dr Anthony Hesketh More»
3-5 February 2006	Knowledgelab Weekend Contact: Martin Pedersen More »
7 February 2006	Seminar: Navigating the Knowledge Economy Leif Edvinsson, Professor of Intellectual Capital at Lund University, Sweden More»
16-17 March 2006	Workshop: Gendering the Knowledge Economy Contact: Sylvia Walby More»
5-6 April 2006	Workshop: Creation of Value in a KBE Steve Fleetwood More»
20-21 April 2006	Workshop: Consumers in a Knowledge-Based Economy Contact: Geraint Howells More»
27-28 April 2006	Workshop: Mapping the bioeconomy: the KBE and the biosciences Contact: Bronislaw Szerszynski; Brian Wynne More»
4-5 May 2006	Workshop: Changing literacies in the Knowledge-Based Economy? Contact: David Barton More»
1-2 June 2006	Workshop: The Knowledge Based Economy and the Re-Invention of Regions Contact: Ramon Ribera Fumaz More»
16 June 2006	Stewart Clegg lecture: Joint IAS/LUMS Research Seminar 'The Futures of Power and their implications for organisations' More»
28-29 June 2006	Workshop: Trade unions in the "Information Age" Contact: John Hogan, University of Hertfordshire More»
4 July 2006	Science, Intellectual Property and Openness Contact: Chris May More»
5-6 July 2006	Metatheorising the KBE Steve Fleetwood More»
11 July 2006	Roy Bhaskar lecture 3-5pm, MR1, IAS Building "Marx's Critique of the Hegelian Dialectic and the Fate of Actually Existing Socialism"
12-13 July 2006	Workshop: Work in a KBE Steve Fleetwood More»
19-20 July 2006	Knowledge Work and the Organisation Contact: Mike Reed More»
31 August - 2 September 2006	International conference: Debating the Knowledge-based Economy Steve Fleetwood More»
20-21 September 2006	Workshop: Professions, Knowledge Workers and the KBE Contact: Daniel Muzio More»

Visiting Fellows

Over the course of the Annual Programme, the IAS welcomed the following Visiting Scholars:

Eric Haas (University of Connecticut, USA)
Gustavo Fischman (Arizona State University, USA)
Ann Bergman (University of Karstad, Sweden)
Dong-Min Rieu (Chungnam National University, South Korea)
Makoto Nishibe (University of Hokkaido, Japan)
Per Brodhscoll (Agder University College, Norway)
Tony Burch (Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia)
Judy Nagy (Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia)
Mohan Thite (Griffiths University, Brisbane, Australia)
Sandra Jones( Melbourne School of Management, Australia)
David Cooper(University of Alberta, Canada)
Melissa Fisher(Georgetown University, USA)
Roy Bhaskar (University of Uppsala, Sweden)

Further Information

Further information about the programme can still be obtained by contacting:

Prof Bob Jessop
IAS Director
Institute for Advanced Studies
County College South
Lancaster University
Lancaster LA1 4YD
United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0)1524 510812/510816

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