Wednesday 27 January 2010

Convenors: Muriel Le Roux, SeniorResearch Fellow at the CNRS, Maison Française d'Oxford, Marc Ventresca,University Lecturer in Strategy and Innovation, Oxford.

MaisonFrançaise d'Oxford 9 a.m. - 12.30 p.m.

9 a.m. Welcome coffee

9.15 a.m. Welcome, Prof. LucBorot, Director of the Maison Française d'Oxford

9.20 a.m. Session 1: Chair YvesFarge, National Academy of Technologies of France, Paris

9.25 a.m. Valérie Schafer (info),Lecturer IUFM of Paris, "French Contributions to Data Networks from the 1970sto the end of the 1980s" 

9.40 a.m. Yves Bouvier (info),Lecturer, University of Chambéry, "FromPublic Laboratories to World Markets: CIT-Alcatel and Collaborative Innovationin French Telecommunications (1960s-1980s)" 

9.55 a.m. Léonard Laborie (info),Research Centre for History of Innovation (CRHI Paris-Sorbonne), "French Engineers and theConstruction of a Pan-European Telephone Network in the Interwar Years: fromTechnical to Organisational Innovation" (slides)

10.10 a.m. Comments (see slides): MarcVentresca (info), University Lecturer in Strategy and Innovation, Oxford, Ray Loveridge (info)

10.20 a.m. Questions

10.30 a.m. Break

10.45 a.m. Session 2: Chair Prof.Pascal Griset (info), Paris-Sorbonne University

10.50 a.m. Latchez Hristov (info), Senior Lecturer atSheffield Business School and Associate Member of the Oxford Institute ofRetail Management, University of Oxford, "Oxford and Sheffield, models ofretail innovation" (slides)

11.05 a.m. Tomas Farchi (info), DPhil Candidate in Management Studies, Saïd Business School,University of Oxford, "Oxford, Innovationsin Biotech Research" 

11.20 a.m. Yasser Bhatti (info), DPhil Candidate in Management Studies, Saïd BusinessSchool, University of Oxford, "Establishingthe effect of regional clusters on entrepreneurship -- Evidence from the UK." 

11.45 a.m. Comments: Muriel Le Roux (info), Senior Research Fellowat the CNRS, Maison Française d'Oxford

11.55 - 12.05 Questions

12.05- 12.20 General discussionfollowed by lunch

Saïd Business School of Oxford University 2 - 6.30pm

2 p.m. Welcome coffee

2.30 p.m. Welcome, Prof. Pietro Corsi, Faculty of History,University of Oxford

2.35 p.m. Session 1: Chair MarcVentresca, University Lecturer in Strategy and Innovation, Oxford

2.40 p.m. Jean-Pierre Williot (info), Professor, University of Tours, "Faster than the Wind: the High-Speed Train in France, from Mistral to TGV" 

3 p.m. Alain Beltran (info), SeniorResearch Fellow at the CNRS (IRICE Paris I - Paris IV), "French Nuclear Energy: Technological Realism and Political Continuation" 

3.20 p.m. Hervé Moulin (info),Research Centre for the History of Innovation (CRHI Paris-Sorbonne), "The French Space Policy and the Origins of theEuropean Launcher Ariane" 

3.40 p.m. Mathieu Flonneau (info),Lecturer, University of Panthéon-Sorbonne, "Innovation by Renault in the 1970s - The roots of the automobile's ‘civicturn'" (slides)

4 p.m. Eric Jolivet (info), LudovicCailluet (info), Lecturers, University of Toulouse, Muriel Le Roux,Senior Research Fellow at the CNRS, "Pharmaceutical Innovation and IndustrialStrategy, Laboratoires Pierre Fabre" 

4.20-4.40 p.m. Comments: Prof.Robert Fox, Faculty of History, University of Oxford

4.40-4.55 p.m. Break

4.55 p.m. Session 2: Chair JavierLezaun, James Martin Lecturer inScience and Technology Governance, University of Oxford

5 p.m. Eve Chiapello,Professor, HEC, Eric Godelier (info),Professor, Ecole polytechnique,"CombiningManagement and Anthropology, Polytechnique - HEC - Renault Professorship" 

5.20 p.m. Award-winners of the Polytechnique - HEC - RenaultProfessorship: Arnauld Marrou(Polytechnique), Amine Esmili  (info) (HEC), and GiridharPanga (info) IIMA, "Pacified Delegation between theFrench and Indian Renault Technocentres. Description andanalysis of the processes involved in a collaborative relationship betweenengineering teams" 

5.40-5.50 p.m. Comments: MarcVentresca, University Lecturer in Strategy and Innovation, Oxford

6 p.m. Conclusions: Prof. PascalGriset, University of Paris-Sorbonne

6.10-6.30 p.m. General discussion

Thursday 28January 2010

The Residenceof the French Ambassador

(By invitation only)

4.15 p.m. Arrival

Convenors: Muriel LeRoux and Serge Plattard

4.30 p.m. Welcome by His ExcellencyMr Maurice Goudault-Montagne, Ambassador of France

Chair: Prof. Robert Fox, Facultyof History, University of Oxford

4.40 p.m. Prof. Pascal Griset, Universityof Paris-Sorbonne, "A French Way for Innovation?Some evidence from the past"

4.55 - 6.30p.m.      "Innovation: the French Experience"

Bertrand Barré Scientific Advisor of Areva; Pierre-LouisViolet R&D Deputy Director of EDF

François de Charentenay, Former Director of PeugeotR&D, ITAC & NATF; Pierre-Etienne Gautier,Scientific Director of theSNCF, Gérard Brachet, President of the Air andSpace Academy, former CEO of the French Space Agency

Yves Ledieu (info), Director of Marketing, Pierre Fabre Oncologie

Denis Randet, Chief Representative of the ANRT

6.40 - 7.10p.m. Debates chaired by Prof. Robert Foxand Prof. Eric Godelier

7.10 p.m.Conclusion JonathanKestenbaum, Chief Executive of NESTA (National Endowmentfor Science, Technology and the Arts)

7.30 p.m. ClosingSpeech by the French Ambassador