会议简介:
http://www.druid.dk/会议主题:innovation,strategy and knowledge
会议时间:June 17-19,2009
会议地点:Copenhagen Business School(CBS), Denmark
“DRUID”是当前全球创新、产业动态问题最为重要的研究团体,每年的年会论文和工作论文的应用率比诸多期刊文章的都要。会议组织者和主要参与者是创新、演化、制度、公司战略管理等杂志的编委。
17日上午,Anita McGahan的开场演说是关于人口、能源、气候变迁等长期问题对人类和学界的挑战(个人兴趣不大)。
‘Industry Dynamics and Resource Advantage’ 包括三篇新论文。Michael Lenox的论文要点是:In low interdependency industries, average profitability increases with greater search effort, vice versa.模型是NK模型,这点受到Michael Jacobides的质疑。所用方法是computational experiments,这种放在在现实中的可操作性也受到啦挑战。
Daniel Snow关心的是新的主导技术出先后,“旧”技术如何反应,要点是:New technology may reveal or reframe hidden consumer preference(比如异质性),这可能为旧技术提供新的存活激励。Thorbjorn Knudsen的论文主题:who do different rates of scale adjustment affect industry.
下午上半场辩论会(非常精彩)
Motion:Let it be resolved that this conference believes that the notion of prediction has high value as a criterion for research in social sciences.
正方:Will Mitchell(DUKE) & Anne Knot (WASHINGTON Uni at St. Louis)
反方:Geoffery Hodgson(Uni. Hertfordshire) & Paul Nightingale (SPRU)
(正方来自美国,方正来自英国,所以是“英美大战”)
一句话总结他们的观点:
Anne Knot:description without prediction is not a theory; prediction allows the theory to be falsified.
Will Mitchell: just 'explaining' the past makes us lazy and dangerous, it is our responsibility to think about the implication our work for the future.
v.s.
Geoffery Hodgson: Successful predictions are rare; science is about casual explanation;
Paul Nightingale: Prefect prediction adds nothing; metaphysics is religion
点评:正方援引物理学,反方原因生物学或者现代物理学。其实这个问题都是老问题,事关演化、创新经济学的方法论基础。因为按照Hogdson对演化经济学的“NEAR”标准,预测是推理方法(deduction)。辩论前现场投票差不多一半对一半,辩论后反方取得了绝对性的支持率(Paul Nightingale的发言和slices的贡献不小)
下半场主题 University Strategies and the Knowledge Economy,包括清华大学公管学院
常务副院长薛澜教授在内的三位学者将发言,近期期待。。。