The Innovation Alliance: Succeeding in an Evolving Global Economy

August 24, 2004

Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE)

University of California, Berkeley

Table of Contents

 Conference Agenda

 Biographies of Participants  

Morning Session:  Studies by Regions

• Downturn and Recovery: Restoring Prosperity  (Bay Area Economic Forum, January 2004)  

• The Future of Bay Area Jobs: The Impact of Offshoring and Other Key Trends  (Bay Area Economic Forum, Silicon Valley Joint Venture, SPRIE, A.T. Kearney, July 2004)  

• Strengthening Competence and Openness: Finland in the Global Economy (Prime Minister's Office, August 2004)

• Innovation Monitor: An Assessment of Denmark's Innovation Capacity (Ministry of Economic and Business Affairs, August 2004)   

• Denmark in the Global Knowledge Economy (Innovation Council, August 2004)  

  Note:  Hereby the first draft to a strategic paper for Denmark - Denmark in the Global Knowledge Economy. It will be discussed in the Danish Innovation Council August 30th and has at this moment no formal status. The purpose is to structure a discussion about Denmark's role in the knowledge economy. 

Background Papers:

• Political Renegotiation, Institutional Recombination and Economic Restructuring: Finnish Technology Policy in Comparative Perspective  (Darius Ornston, University of California - Berkeley, August 2004)   

• Little Finland’s Transformation to a Wireless Giant  (Petri Rouvinen and Pekka Yla-Anttila, ETLA, from “The Global Information Technology Report,” 2003)

• Small is Resilient - The Impact of Globalization on Denmark  (Klaus Nielson and Stefan Kesting, September 2003)  

      Afternoon Session: The Challenges for Innovative Regions

• Our Outsourced Future  (Brad Delong and Steve Cohen, August 2004)  

• Went for Cost, Stayed for Quality? Moving the Back Office to India  (Martin Kenney and Rafiq Dosani, August 2003)  

• The Risks of Straight Extrapolation, the Challenge to See Ahead  (Jim McGroddy, August 2004)  

• The US University Role Threatened  (Jay Stowsky, August 2004)    

• Chapter 8: The Code That Changed the World  (from Steve Weber’s “The Success of Open Source”, 2004)  

• Strategic Asset or Vulnerable Commodity? Manufacturing in a Digital Area  (John Zysman, March 2003)

• Outsourcing, Offshoring, and Service Automation: Are Capacities for Innovation at Risk?  (John Zysman, March 2004)

List of Participants

Bay Area Contingent

Coleman, Lew                                    President, Moore Foundation

Cowhey, Peter                                    Dean of the Graduate School of International Relations, Professor, University of California San Diego, Former Head of International Policy and         

                                                            Regulation for the Federal Communications Commission (Clinton Administration)

Darling, Bruce                                   Senior Vice-President of University Affairs, University of California

Davidow, Bill                                     Partner, Mohr Davidow Ventures

Feldman, Stuart                                 Vice President, On Demand Business Transformation Research Strategy, IBM

Hatano, Daryl                                    Vice President of Public Policy, Semiconductor Industry Association

Huttner, Susanne                               Associate Vice Provost for Research, Executive Director, IUCRP 

Kelly, Regis                                       Executive Director, The California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research (QB3), University of California San Francisco

Kenney, Martin                                 Professor, University of California Davis

McGroddy, Jim                                  Formerly Senior Vice President of Research, IBM

Randolph, Sean                                  President, Bay Area Economic Forum

Sigur, Chris                                        President, Japan Society of Northern California

Danish Contingent

Kyng, Morten                                    Director of Centre for Pervasive Computing, Professor, University of Aarhus, 

Nielsen, Niels Christian                    CEO, Q Networks Inc.

Rasmussen, Erik                               CEO and Editor in Chief, House of Monday Morning

Rosted, Jorgen                                  Director, FORA, Danish Ministry of Commerce Research Unit

Stokholm, Frank                                Journalist, House of Monday Morning

Finnish Contingent

Heiskanen, Kaarlo                             Head of Silicon Valley Office, VTT - Technical Research Centre of Finland

Iivonen, Veijo                                     Senior Consultant, Finpro, Silicon Valley

Joensuu, Antti                                    Deputy Director General, Technology Department, Ministry of Trade and Industry, Finland

Karppinen, Sakari                              Program Manager, National Technology Agency of Finland, TEKES, San Jose office

Makela, Riku                                     Program Manager, National Technology Agency of Finland, TEKES, San Jose office

Peltonen, Petri                                    Executive Director, National Technology Agency of Finland, TEKES

Vihriälä, Vesa                                     State Undersecretary, Economic Affairs, Prime Minister’s Office, Finland

University of California, Berkeley 

Cohen, Steve                                      Co-Director of Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE), Professor, University of California Berkeley  

DeLong, Brad                                    Professor of Economics, University of California Berkeley

Eklund, Mike                                     Post Doctorate in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California Berkeley

Kalil, Thomas A.                                Special Assistant to the Chancellor for Science and Technology, University of California Berkeley, Former Deputy Director of the White House National Economic Council (Clinton Administration)

Sastry, Shankar                                 NEC Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and Bioengineering, University of California Berkeley

Shelanski, Howard                             Director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, Professor, University of California Berkeley

Sprinkle, Jonathan                            Post Doctorate in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California Berkeley

Stowsky, Jay                                      Executive Director, UCB Project on IT and Homeland Security

Weber, Steve                                     Director of the Institute of International Studies, BRIE, Professor, University of California Berkeley

Zysman, John                                     Co-Director of Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE), Professor, University of California Berkeley  

BRIE Researchers

Chang, Crystal                                   Graduate Student Researcher, University of California Berkeley

DiMinin, Alberto                                Graduate Student Researcher, University of California Berkeley

Kushida, Kenji                                   Graduate Student Researcher, University of California Berkeley

Newman, Abe                                     Graduate Student Researcher, University of California Berkeley

Schulze-Cleven, Toby                        Graduate Student Researcher, University of California Berkeley