V Winter Workshop (2005)

Science, democracy and economics| Schedule

April 11 | 12 | 13

APRIL 11TH {Monday}

Chair: Javier Echeverría (CSIC+FECYT)

11:30 Opening Session: Steve Fuller (Warwick U.)
12:30 J. Vega (UAM) & F. J. Gil (Northwestern U.)
- Science as public sphere 13:00
13:00 J. Reiss (UCM)
- Problems of Evidence and Well-Ordered Science in Economics

Chair: Emilio Muñoz (CSIC)

16:00 Nils Roll-Hansen (U. Oslo)
- Economic myopia in the politics of science? On the dangers of neglecting differences between basic and applied scientific research
17:00 COFFEE BREAK
17:30 Merle Jacob (Copenhagen Business School)
- Commodification: A new form of governance for science? 

APRIL 12TH {Tuesday}

Chair: David Teira (UNED)

10:00 Daniel Salpak (G. School of Economics. Kobe)
- The Fair Committee Game
10:30 Rob Waddle (U. Carlos III)
- A pure strategy solution to the Bertrand model
11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:30 Michele Boldrin (U. Minnesota)
- Against intellectual property
12:30 Mauro Sylos Labini (Sta. Ana School. Pisa)
- Science-technology-industry links and the European paradox
13:00 Tiago Santos Pereira (U. Coimbra)
- Between Commercialisation of Research and Social Responsibility of Scientists
13:30 Alexander V. Romanishyn (N. university Kiev-Mohyla Academy)
- Financing Innovation Enterprises Under Conditions of Transitive Economy: Ukraine Case Study

Chair: J. Francisco Álvarez (UNED)

16:00 Jakob Vestergaard (Copenhagen Business School)
- Mobilising universities. Barriers to University Entrepreneurship - and How to Overcome Them
16:30 A. López Peláez & J. A. Díaz Martínez (UNED)
- Science, Technology and Democracy: perspectives about the complex relation between the scientific community, the scientific journalist and public opinion
17:00 COFFEE BREAK
17:30 J.A. López Cerezo (U. Oviedo)
- Scientific culture and democratic participation

APRIL 13TH {Wednesday}

Chair: Eulalia Pérez Sedeño (CSIC)

10:00 B.Urevbu & D. Osaghae (Delta State U.) - Differences, Science and the Social Contract
10:30 Rozita Moayedfar (Sheikh Bahaee University; Izfahan)
- The Comparative Study of Social Capital and Economic Performance in Iranian Provinces
11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:30 Esther Mirjam-Sent (U. Nijmegen)
- The Commercialization of Science, and the Response of STS (with P. Mirowski)
12:30 Eduardo Prieto Escudero (UAH)
- Implications of the theory of human needs on the concept and use of Sustainable Development
13:00 Juan Vicente Mayoral (UNED)
- Communities, republicanism, and the scientific public

Chair: Fernando Broncano (UC3M)

16:00 Justin Biddle (Notre Dame U)
- The Epistemic Significance of the Institutional Context of Science: The Case of Vioxx
16:30 Roberto Feltrero (UNED)
- Open Licenses: opening science to the public in the digital world
17:00 COFFEE BREAK
17:30 Closing session: Salvador Barberá (UAB & Secretario General de Política Científica y Tecnológica, Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia. Spain)

 

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