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First phase of the survey: 334 companies interviewed, 189 withdrawn questionnaires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