A message from Adam Holbroook:

Everyone:

We now have our website up and operating, and will soon have the registration page completed. I would like to get graduate students thinking about their presentations. We will vet all of the abstract submissions and try to have a good cross-section for the podium presentations. But we also want to have a lot of poster presentations and will make specific time available for people to go and discuss the presentations with the presenters.

We are still planning on three workshops for the last day: innovation systems, networks, and carbon sequestration. In each case I am building up a panel of both faculty and post-docs to act as discussants, but I would like to see paper submissions for the panels from grad students as I would like the students to have an opportunity to present their material in surroundings where there will be room for debate and interaction between the students and other practitioners in the specific fields. In all of these, as well as the first two days of TMP, we will of course be wanting to focus on the social and economic policy implications of the specific studies.

The subject areas can be defined as:

• innovation systems: national, regional and local; what are the interactions that make some systems of innovation robust and others weak?
• networks: in particular we are interested in the operation of research networks, although I would also like to see discussion of how research networks may (or may not) be a subset of more generalized network theory?
• carbon sequestration: what are the social and policy implications of carbon sequestration technologies?

The page can be found at: http://fas.sfu.ca/leonardo/technology-and-policy-program/index_html. We will update it as more information becomes available.

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Please contact me with comments, questions, etc.

Cheers Adam

J.Adam Holbrook, P.Eng.,
Associate Director and Adjunct Professor,
Centre for Policy Research on Science and Technology,
Simon Fraser University,
515 West Hastings Street,
Vancouver, BC, V6B 5K3
Canada

Phone: +1-778-782-5192

Fax: +1-778-782-5239
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