Metalnet2000 activities
16.10.2003:
seminar on "Competition, cooperation and innovation in a business system"
DEP - Faculty of Economics, Modena, Room 5
16.08.2003:
seminar on "Competence networks and innovation. Theoretical and empirical issues "Santa Fe Institue, NM
16.05.2003:
"Rubes Laboratory on the networks of skills in mechanics", ProMO, Modena, Officina Emilia
COFIN 2002:
financing of the project "Industrial clusters as complex systems", coordinated by D.A. Lane. Sub-project of the research unit of RE: "Networks of skills in industrial clusters: the metalworking production system", responsible for M. Russo
8-10.11.2002:
ISCOM workshop, Venice, report on "Industrial clusters"
07-10-2002:
Ca 'Foscari, Venice lecture on "Competition, cooperation and innovation in the system of metalworking companies in Modena"
10.09.2002:
"Competition, cooperation and innovation in a business system"
Meetings on local development "Local development in Sebastiano Brusco", Artimino
20-05-2002:
Relations between companies in the engineering system of the province of Modena Del Monte
Association, Modena Faculty of Economics
14.04-2002:
seminar on "Competition and cooperation in the metalworking system in the province of Modena: the results of the sample survey"
Department of Political Economy of the University of Siena
06.05.2002:
"Economics of productive sectors" seminars, La Sapienza University, Latina "Innovation processes in industrial clusters"
04.04.2002:
Research presentation conference - CCIAA Modena
15.03.2002:
First results on "competition and cooperation"
10.02.2002:
Online presentation of the first results
11.01.2002:
Presentation of the results to CCIAA, Municipality and Province of Modena and to business associations
15.12.2002:
Publication of the methodology and results of the empirical survey
05.08.2001:
First Data Processing
20.07.2001:
Completion of survey control: 163 fully completed questionnaires
15.07.2001:
First phase of the survey: 334 companies interviewed, 189 withdrawn questionnaires
26.05.2001:
200 companies already interviewed
15.02.2001:
Entering the site online and updating all the pages of the site
09.02.2001:
Sending the questionnaire to the sample companies (priority mail)
30.01.2001:
Presentation of the final version of the questionnaire and of the website
January 2001:
Design and implementation of the website, preparation of the on-line questionnaire, review of the databases produced by the CCIAA for the survey
16.11.2000:
Decision of the promoting bodies to assign to the scientific responsible the coordination of the survey and the elaboration of the data of the questionnaire
October-November 2000:
Pilot interviews on the second version of the questionnaire
05.10.2000:
Presentation of the second version of the questionnaire
September-October 2000:
Pilot interviews on the first version of the questionnaire
18.09.2000:
Presentation of the first version of the questionnaire
June-September 2000:
Extraction of the sample of the companies to be interviewed, check of the e-mail addresses, analysis of the administrative data available for the survey
25.05.2000:
Presentation of the proposal to create an educational module with credit for the students of an electronics class of the Corni high school in Modena IPS (internship to set up internet links)
May 2000:
Publication of the first report on the research project: the universe and the sample being investigated
February 2000:
Project financing
22.10.1999:
Presentation of available data and stratification criteria of the universe
March-May 1999:
Discussion with the promoting bodies and approval of the survey proposal