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International Conference

Globalisation and Local Development

Organized by:
University of Trento
OECD LEED Programme

Trento, Centro Congressi Panorama
9-11 October 2008

Presentation

The international conference intends to deal with the apparently antithetic relationship existing between globalisation and local development from an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective.

The world is currently experiencing a prolonged period of openness and integration, popularly labelled as “globalisation”. The standard approach explains that increasing openness, interaction, and integration of societies, economies and technologies lead inevitably to convergence of practices, standards, and structures. Particular features and distinctiveness either disappear or have to adapt and integrate into the global flow. In an alternative scenario, based on distinctive socio-economic systems (“national capitalisms”), convergence is not a necessary – and not even a likely - outcome of globalisation. Under these conditions it is impossible, inconvenient or irrational to converge to a unique model that would waste precious idiosyncrasies, impose higher costs to most of the countries and actors, or dangerously increase the risk of uniformity as against the advantage of differentiation seen as a sort of insurance mechanism against the unpredictable and the unstable.

Where does local development lie in these dominant paradigms? The relevant literature is not explicit on the issue in that it concentrates on either local development per se in fundamental isolation from broader processes, or it sees local issues as mainly the necessary declination in the territory of global processes. 

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Programme

9th October 2008

14:00 - 14:30 - Welcome introduction
Prof. Bruno Dallago
14.30 - 16.30 - First Plenary session
Chair: Steven Rosefielde
Discussant:
• Sanjeev Prakash
• Zoltan Acs
• Carlo Trigilia
• Roger Sugden
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16.30 - 16.45 - Coffee break
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16.45 - 18.30 - Parallel sessions 1
1A Parallel session - Outsourcing, Industry Clustering and Local Development
Chair:
Discussant:
• Maria Luigia Segnana, Giuseppe Vittucci Marzetti, Chiara Tomasi - Outsourcing and Local Networks
• Liviu Mantescu - How globalization hits the rural? Multinational companies in rural areas, global flows and new actors in local
development arena and natural resources management

• Roberta Rabellotti –
• Sandro Montresor - Outsourcing and firm productivity: evidence for an Italian local production system
1B Parallel session - Institutions, Business Environment and Local Development
Chair: Will Bartlett
Discussant:
• Chiara Guglielmetti - SMEs entrepreneurship, quality of institutions and local development: the World Bank Doing Business
Indicators
• Karl Birkhölzer - Local Economic Development and Its Potential
• Jinmin Wang - Globalisation, Institutions and the Local Development in China: the Case of Zhejiang Province
• Chen Ling - Globalization of Chinese Family Business
1C Parallel session - Pattern of Local Economic Development: comparative perspectives
Chair: Ichiro Iwasaki
Discussant:
• J.A. Douglas - Local Government, Economies of Scope, Governance and Challenges for Local and Community-Based Economic
Development in the Context of Globalization: A Comparative Analysis.
• Zhikai Wang - Transition and transplantation in local development models: the case study of the Yangtze River Delta
• Péter Csillik and Tamás Tarjan - Globalization and local development in the light of a leader-follower growth model
• Gopalakrishnan Karunanithi - Panchayat Raj and Globalisation
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10th October 2008
9:00 - 11.00 - Second Plenary session
Chair: Prof. Jochen Tholen
Discussant:
• Will Bartlett -
• Grzegorz Kolodko - Poland’s Great Transformation and the Lessons to Be Learnt
• Andrey Yakovlev - State-Business Relations in Russian Regions: What Has Changed in 2000s?
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11.00 - 11.15 - Coffee break
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11.15 – 13.00
Parallel sessions II
1A Parallel session - Sustainable Development, Urban and Territorial Planning
Chair: Corrado Diamantini
Discussant:
• Edward H. Ziegler - Local Urban Planning Laws and Emerging Sustainable Development Policies for Managing Growth and
Development of the Built Environment: Global, National, and Regional Perspectives on Problematic Institutional Issues of
Competence and Coordination
• Károly Kiss - Globalization, localization and the environment (Enhancing local development by internalizing social costs of
transport)
• Irena Baclija - City for citizens: Is the devolution of the city the right approach to inclusiveness?

1B Parallel session - Firms, Business Communities and Regional Development
Chair: Giuseppe Folloni
Discussant:
• Jochen Tholen - Managers and Management: The Impact of Western Direct Investment in the new EU Member States
• Will Pyle - Organized Business, Political Competition and Property Rights: Evidence from the Activities of Regional Business
Associations in Russia
• Zoltán Szántó - Business to (Self)-Government Corruption Risks in (Local) Development. The Case of Hungary
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13.00 - 14.30 - Lunch
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14.30 – 16.15 Parallel sessions III
2A Parallel session - Multinational Firms and Local Resources: the Case of Hungary
Chair: Maria Luigia Segnana
Discussant:
• Miklos Szanyi - Cluster Development in TNC Supplier Networks
• Csaba Mako & Peter Csizmadia - Service Outsourcing in Hungary: Results of An Empirical Research
• Ichiro Iwasaki - Hungarian Managers in Multinationals: An Overlook
2B Parallel session - Local Development and Cultural Features
Chair: Massimiliano Tarozzi
Discussant:
• Steven Rosefielde - Adaptive cultural mechanisms for coping with globalization in Thailand and the Mekong Sub-region:
Entrepreneurship and competitiveness
• Patrick James Ebewo & Mziwoxolo Sirayi- Cultural planning in South Africa: implications for the mini-global village in a globalised
world
• Ayokunle Olumuyiwa Omobowale and Akinpelu Olanrewaju Olutayo - Social Capital and Local Development in The Third World:
The Case of Lalupon Community in Ibadan, Nigeria
2C Parallel session - Local Development: Institutional and Policy Solutions
Chair: Andrey Yakovlev
Discussant:
• Mario Scerri - Provincial systems of innovation and globalisation in South Africa
• Victoria Golikova - Institutional constraints to the investment in Russia regions: what should and could be improved?
• Pece Nedanovski and Sasho Kjosev - Globalization and Local Economic Development - The Case of the Republic of Macedonia
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16.15 - 16.30 - Coffee break
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16.30 - 18.15 - Parallel sessions IV
3A Parallel session - Social Enterprises, Non-profit Organizations and Local Development
Chair: Elisabetta Pederzini
Discussant: Zoltan Acs

• Carlo Borzaga and Ermanno Tortia - Social enterprises and local economic development
• Giulia Galera - Social Enterprise Contribution to Socio-Economic Development in Poland and Ukraine
• Jacques Defourny - Social Enterprise in Europe: Recent Trends and Developments
• Bruno Grancelli - Cooperation and community-based development: notes on the Hungarian case
3B parallel session - Common Resources and Planning Policies
Chair: Edward Ziegler
Discussant:
• Geremia Gios, Ilaria Goio e Alessandro Gretter - Beyond commons - new perspectives and role for common properties.
Comparison between Italy and United Kingdom;
• Nadezhda Bobcheva - Co-operation Beyond Boundaries: the case of Kalimok - Brushlen Protected Site, Bulgaria;
3C parallel session - Formal and Informal Processes for Social Sustainability
Chair: Carlo Trigilia
Discussant:
• Solava Ibrahim - Institutional failure and local development: the case of quarry workers in Upper Egypt
• Lorenz Günther - Local partnerships in Germany. An innovative way of creating jobs and of promoting social cohesion
• Peter Futo - Legal migrants in Hungary: some global and local aspects
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20.00 - Conference dinner
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11th October 2008
9.00 - 10.45 - Round Table: The role of International Organizations in Local Development
Chair:
Discussant:
Paolo Garonna, Deputy Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, Geneve;
Wim Naudé, Senior Research Fellow and Project Director, World Institute for Development Economics Research, United Nations
University, Helsinki, Finland;
Pier Carlo Padoan, Deputy Secretary-General, OECD Paris;
Claudio Tomasi, Deputy Resident Representative, UNDP Nicaragua.
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10.45 - 11.15 - Coffee break
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11.15 - 12.30 - Third plenary session
Chair:
Discussant:
• Joachim Moeller
• Mario Nuti
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12.30 - 13.00 - Conclusions

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