Arrival of shuttle bus from Prague: 15:00
Conference Check-In: starting at 15:00 in Třešť Castle Hotel
Welcome: 16:00-17:05
16:00-16:20 Christian Seidl, Kiel, Germany: Opening Address
16:20-16:35 Katerina Podzimkova, Třešť and Prague: Jan Podzimek – A Schumpeterian Entrepreneur
16:35-16:45 Miroslav Tůma,Vice President of the Czech Academy of Sciences: Welcome Address
16:45-16:55 Jiří Běhounek, Governor of Vysočina County: Welcome Address
16:55-17:05 Vladislav Nechvatál, Mayor of Třešť: Welcome Address
Keynote Address: 17:30-18:45; Chair: Heinz Kurz, Graz, Austria
Horst Hanusch, Augsburg, Germany: Public Sector Governance in a Neo-Schumpeterian System
Dinner: 19:00-20:15
Get-Together-Cocktail in Schumpeter’s Birth House: 20:15-22:00
Innovation: 9:00-10:30; Chair: Christian Seidl, Kiel. Germany
Thomas Bolli, Zurich, Switzerland: A Comparison of Firm-Level Innovation Cooperation in Five European Countries
Michael Peneder, Vienna, Austria: The Impact of Venture Capital on Innovation Behaviour and Firm Growth
Kanak Patel, Cambridge, UK: Revisiting Schumpeter on Queen Elizabeth’s Stockings and Innovation: A Real Options Approach
Coffee Break: 10:30-10:45
Business Cycles and Growth: 10:45-12:15; Chair: John E. Roemer, New Haven, USA Witold Kwasnicki, Wroclaw, Poland: Are Business Cycles Inevitable?
Harry Bloch, Perth, Australia: Trend and Cycle in Primary Commodity Prices: A Neo-Schumpeterian Interpretation
Harald Hagemann, Stuttgart, Germany: Capitalist Development, Innovations, Business Cycles and Unemployment: Joseph Alois Schumpeter and Emil Hans Lederer
Lunch: 12:15-13:30
Knowledge: 13:30-15:00; Chair: Horst Hanusch, Augsburg, Germany
Leonardo Burlamaqui, New York, USA: Governing Finance and Knowledge - An Evolutionary Perspective
Peter Flaschel, Bielefeld, Germany: Neo-Schumpeterian Flexicurity Capitalism, Heterogeneous Skills and Education
John Foster, Brisbane, Australia: The Co-Evolution of Knowledge and Energy Use in Complex Economic Systems
Coffee Break: 15:00-15:30
Keynote Address: 15:30-17:00; Chair: Richard Lipsey, Bowen Island, Canada
John E. Roemer, New Haven, USA: Thoughts on Socialism Seventy Years after Schumpeter
Evolution: 17:00-18:30; Chair: Christian Seidl, Kiel, Germany
Richard Lipsey, Bowen Island, Canada: Evolutionary Economics and the Vanishing NAIRU and Phillips Curve
Mario Coccia, Moncalieri, Italy: Democratization is the Driving Force for Technological and Economic Change
Mariano Alierta, Zaragoza, Spain: Technical Change and Wages in an (Evolutionary) General System
Press Conference: 18:30-19:00
Gala Dinner: 19:30-22:00
Competition and Transaction: 8:30-10:00; Chair: Riccardo Faucci, Pisa, Italy
Ondřej Krčál, Brno, Czech Republic: An Alternative Explanation of the Inverted-U Relationship between Competition and Innovation
Evgeny Vasilievich Popov, Ekaterinburg, Russian Federation: Schumpeterian Model of Transaction Cost Dynamics
Martin Woerter, Zurich, Switzerland: Technology Diversification, Product Innovations, and Technology Transfer
Coffee Break: 10:00-10:15
Schumpeterian Solutions: 10:15-11:45; Chair: Horst Hanusch, Augsburg, Germany
John Donohue, Charlottesville, USA: Beyond the Third Pillar: Neo-Schumpeterian Economics and Stakeholder Theory
Riccardo Faucci, Pisa, Italy: Schumpeter’s Echo in Italy
Gerhard Mensch, Tutzing, Germany: Schumpeterian Solutions to the Current Crisis
Lunch: 11:45-13:00
Keynote Address [Life Video Presentation]: 13:00-14:30; Chair: Heinz Kurz, Graz, Austria
Philippe Aghion, Cambridge MA, USA: Schumpeterian Growth Theory and Growth Policy DesignShuttle Bus to Prague Airport and to Prague 14:45 [Arrival at Prague Airport at 17:00 at the latest].