Global value chains workshop
“Industrial Upgrading, Offshore Production, and Labor”
November 9-10, 2006
Social Science Research Institute, Duke University
Erwin Mill Building, A103
Agenda
Thursday – November 9, 2006
Panel #1: 9 – 10:45 am
Moderator~ John Pickles
Welcome –John Pickles
Tim Sturgeon (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Industrial Performance Center) – “The governance of global value chains; implications for industrial upgrading”
Presentation 
Coffee Break
Panel #2: 11 am – 12:45 pm
Moderator~ Tim Sturgeon
Stefano Micelli (Dean of Venice International University and Director of TeDIS) and Eleonora di Maria (University of Padua, Economics) – “District leaders as open networks: Emerging business strategies in Italian industrial districts”
Presentation
Giancarlo Corò and Mario Volpe (University of Venice Ca’ Foscari, Department of Economics) – “Local production systems in global value chains: The case of Italian industrial districts”
Presentation
Lunch
Panel #3: 2:15 – 4:00 pm
Moderator~ Stefano Micelli
Stuart Rosenfeld (Regional Technology Strategies, Carrboro, NC) – “The changing face of clusters ”
Presentation
Marco Bettiol (University of Padua and TeDIS/VIU) – “The role of design in the competitiveness of the Italian industrial system”
Presentation
Refreshment Break
Open Discussion: 4:15 – 5:15 pm
Moderator~ Marco Bettiol
Stacey Frederick (North Carolina State University, Textile & Apparel Technology & Management) – “North Carolina Textile Industry"
Presentation
Reception – 5:30 – 7:00 pm
Friday – November 10, 2006
Panel #4: 9 – 10:30 am
Moderator~ Meenu Tewari
Patrick Conway (University of North Carolina, Department of Economics) – “Global implications of unraveling textile and apparel quotas”
Presentation
Evgeni Evgeniev (Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, Political Science Department) – “Upgrading in the European periphery: Bulgarian and Turkish textile and apparel exports to the European Union market”
Presentation
Coffee Break
Panel #5 – 10:45 am – 12:45 pm
Moderator~ Mary Hovsepian
Tina Mangieri (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Department of Geography)- "Kenyan apparel beyond AGOA"
Presentation
Dennis Arnold (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Department of Geography) – "Challenges and opportunities for labor in post-MFA Cambodia"
Presentation
Christian Sellar (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Department of Geography) – "Relationship between the processes of outsourcing of Italian textile and clothing firms and the emergence of 'Industrial Districts' in Eastern Europe"
Presentation
Gu Qiang (Duke University, Department of Sociology) –"Promoting the upgrading of China industrial clusters up the global value chain"
Presentation
Lunch
Panel #6 – 2:00 – 3:45 pm
Moderator~ Tim Sturgeon
Gary Gereffi (Duke) and Ryan Ong (Duke, Center on Globalization, Governance & Competitiveness) – “Upgrading in the global knowledge economy – Insights from China and India”
Presentation
Meenu Tewari (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) – “Global outsourcing and trade in services: A review of issues.”
Presentation
Refreshment Break
Panel #7 – 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Moderator~ Stefano Micelli
Tim Sturgeon (MIT) – “The changing role of the Guadalajara, Mexico electronics cluster in global value chains”
Presentation
Peter Dannenberg (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Geographisches Institut) – “The importance of agrarian clusters and chains in rural areas"
Presentation
John Pickles (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Geography Department) – “The role of the state and competitiveness policies for upgrading and labor issues"
Presentation
Reception- 8:00 pm
Papers
From Cheap Labor to High-Tech Leadership: Will China's Investment in Nanotechnology Pay Off?
Richard P. Appelbaum, Gary Gereffi, Rachel Parker, Ryan Ong
June 27, 2006 | Paper
Industrial Districts and Commodity Chains: The Garage Firms of Emilia-Romagna (Italy) and Haskovo (Bulgaria)
Robert Begg, Poli Roukova, John Pickles, and Adrain Smith
2005 | Paper
The Strategic Role of Design for the Competitiveness of the Italian Industrial System
Marco Bettiol and Stefano Micelli
2006 | Paper
Global Implications of Unraveling Textiles and Apparel Quotas
Patrick Conway
May 30, 2006 | Paper
Local Production Systems in Global Value Chains: the Case of Italian Industrial Districts
Giancarlo Corò and Mario Volpe
October 2006 | Paper
District Leaders as Open Networks: Emerging Business Strategies in Italian Industrial Districts
Eleonora Di Maria and Stefano Micelli
October 2006 | Paper
Upgrading in the European periphery
Bulgarian and Turkish textile and apparel exports to the European Union market
Evgeni Evgeniev
November 9-10, 2006 | Paper
The New Offshoring of Jobs and Global Development
Gary Gereffi
December 2005 | Book
The Governance of Global Value Chains
Gary Gereffi, John Humphrey, and
Timothy Sturgeon
February 2005 | Paper
Upgrading in the global knowledge economy – Insights from China and India
Gary Gereffi and Ryan Ong
November 9-10, 2006 | Paper
Framing the Engineering Outsourcing Debate: Comparing the Quantity and Quality of Engineering Graduates in the United States, India and China
Gary Gereffi, Vivek Wadhwa,
Ben Rissing
June 27, 2006 | Paper
African Cloth, Export Production, and Secondhand Clothing in Kenya
Tina Mangieri
January, 2006 (revised) | Paper
Upgrading, Changing Competitive Pressures and Diverse Practices in the East European Apparel Industry
John Pickles, Adrian Smith, Milan Bu!ek, Poli Roukova, and Robert Begg
Paper
Beyond Clusters: Current Practices & Future Strategies
Stuart Rosenfeld
June 2005 (revised October 2005) | Paper
Outward Processing, EU Enlargement and Regional Relocation in the European Textiles and Clothing Industry: Reflections on the European Commission's Communication on 'The Future of the Textiles and Clothing Sector in the Enlarged European Union
Adrian Smith, John Pickles, Robert Begg, Poli Roukova, and Milan Buček
2005 | Paper
Services Offshoring Working Group Final Report
Timothy J. Sturgeon, Frank Levy, Clair Brown, J. Bradford Jensen, and David Weil
September 10, 2006 | Paper
Global Outsourcing & Trade in Services: A Review of Issues
Meenu Tewari
Paper