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CSES Seminars 2010
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UPCOMING SEMINARS
TIME:
August 11th, 1-2pm, Room 10.48, 300 Flinders Street.
PRESENTER: Dr. Alex English (and Prof. Peter Sheehan), CSES
TITLE: China's Transition to a Low Carbon Economy: Economic
Structure, Energy, Emissions and Innovation
TIME: August 18th, 1-2pm, Room 10.48, 300 Flinders Street.
PRESENTER: Dr. Brantley Liddle, CSES
TITLE: Forthcoming
TIME: August 25th, 1-2pm, Room 10.48, 300 Flinders Street.
PRESENTER: Associate Professor Danny Ben-Moshe and Dr. Joanne Pyke,
CSES
TITLE: Researching Diasporas in Australia
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28 July 2010
TITLE: Democracy and Growth
PRESENTER: Professor Tran Van Hoa
Synopsis: Democracy or political freedom and its positive impact on
economic growth or well-being are the central theme in political economy and the
foundation for wars and peace, regional security, colonisation and
globalisation. There is still no consensus on this nexus in rigorous empirical
studies. The paper introduces a new enquiry approach, and using global data, to
provide more definitive findings on this nexus for effective policy uses in a
growing globalised world where disparity in Schumpeterian developmental stages,
living standards, poverty incidence, income inequality, openness, geo-economic
influences, and political regimes is ever present.
Tran Van Hoa is Professorial Fellow at the Centre
for Strategic Economic Studies (Victoria University, Melbourne) and Director,
Vietnam and ASEAN+3 Research Program (CSES). He is also Honorary Professor,
National Advanced Training Institute (NATI), Vietnam Ministry of Trade; and
Honorary Professor, National Economics University, Hanoi, Vietnam. Tran Van Hoa
has wide experience and extensive record in research, teaching, training,
consulting and publications. His current interests cover Asian economic
development and growth, Asian economic and financial crisis and management,
trade and investment in Asian economies, international business development and
promotion in Asia, Asian transition economies, competition policy and e-commerce
in Asia, modelling and forecasting Asian economies, Vietnam, ASEAN, ASEAN+3,
ASEAN+6, APEC and WTO.
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14 July 2010
TITLE: Regional Systems of Innovation in Australia and How to
Measure Them
PRESENTER: Dr Dana Nicolau
Synopsis: Since the early literature on national systems of innovation
in the late 1980s and early 1990s the idea of applying similar conceptual
approaches to regions has been very appealing and it led to the proliferation of
similar analyses on regional systems of innovation (RIS). Generally the
rationale for a RIS stems from the existence of technological trajectories that
are based on sticky knowledge and localised learning. For a while economists
have focused on comparative advantage ignoring more or less the role of
policies. In the past decade or so the idea of constructed advantage gained in
importance and regional development is seen as the result of interfacing
developments in various directions. This seminar presents a picture of the
dynamic environment in which innovation appears and spreads and introduces a
framework for quantitative analysis of RIS in Western Australia.
Dana Nicolau has worked in CSES for 8 years. She is a specialist in S&T
policy and she has participated in projects about technological development with
a focus on high technologies such as Nanotechnology, Biotechnology and Spatial
Information. She is presently working on a project about measurement of RIS in
Australia.
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28 April 2010
TITLE: Has Medical Innovation Reduced Cancer Mortality?
PRESENTER: Professor Frank R. Lichtenberg, Courtney C. Brown
Professor of Business, Columbia University, New York
Synopsis:
Cancer mortality rates have declined significantly in both the US
and Australia in the last 15 years. Professor Lichtenberg’s
econometric analysis, which is based on extensive data on treatments
given to large numbers of patients with different types of cancer
since the early 1990s, indicates that two important types of medical
innovation—diagnostic imaging innovation and pharmaceutical
innovation—account for much of the decline in cancer mortality
rates. His estimates indicate that life expectancy at birth of the
entire US population was increased by almost three months between
1996 and 2006 by the combined effects of cancer imaging and cancer
drug innovation. This evidence contradicts the widely-held view that
“the effect of new treatments for cancer on mortality has been
largely disappointing.
Frank R. Lichtenberg is Courtney C. Brown Professor of Business at
the Columbia University Graduate School of Business, a Research
Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and Adjunct
Professor at the Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria
University. He received a BA with Honors in History from the
University of Chicago and an MA and PhD in Economics from the
University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Lichtenberg previously taught at
Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania, as well as
serving as an expert for the Federal Trade Commission, the U.S.
Dept. of Justice, and state Attorneys General. He has worked for
several U.S. government agencies, including the Department of
Justice, the Congressional Budget Office, and the Census Bureau.
Professor Lichtenberg’s research has examined how the introduction
of new technology arising from research and development affects the
productivity of companies, industries and nations. His recent
studies have focused on the impact of medical innovation on
longevity.
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