Date:
Event location: Bologna
Type: Magna Charta Anniversaries
University of Bologna Rectorate
Via Zamboni 33
14-16 September 2003
PRESENTATION
In the series of conferences dedicated by the Magna Charta Observatory to the universities’ capacity for autonomous decision-making (as it reflects in their institutional responsibilities), each yearly meeting is exploring aspects of management, curricula development, staff renewal, collective decision-making or, in 2003, research, basic or applied. The topic was referred to by Claude Allègre, the former French Minister of Education, when he addressed the launch event of the Magna Charta in September 2001, and referred to his experience at MIT:
“Publication in the American system does not pre-empt patenting but this has unwanted consequences as ideas for patenting become “precious” all along the research development line. Therefore, in some departments, the students are forbidden to give any seminar linked to their research. As a result, students are completely blocked, marginalised in the academic community; indeed, should they give a seminar, they could pass on information to competitors, often colleagues of their own lab, if not of a neighbouring institute. Worse still, some time in the same laboratory, you have one student working for one firm, a pharmaceutical company, for instance, and another student working for another: they are not allowed to discuss their work, even if (especially if) their research has important areas of commonality. How can the university survive such a forced fragmentation of knowledge ?”
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The Program
Managing University Autonomy in terms of Research
University of Bologna Rectorate
Via Zamboni 33
14-16 September 2003
Sunday 14 September 2003
Afternoon : Arrival of participants
Registration at the hotel
Free Dinner
Monday 15 September 2003
The Conference on University Autonomy & Research
Aula Absidale di Santa Lucia
Università di Bologna
Via Castiglione 36
Welcome and opening remarks
(Fabio Roversi-Monaco – Ulrike Felt)
The expectations and support of Government
(Lucio Stanca – Minister for Innovation & Technologies)
Coffee break
The Expectations & Support of Private Funders
(Corrado Passera – CEO Banca Intesa BCI)
The Expectations & Support of Private Industry
(Klaus Müller – Head of Science & Technology Relations - Hoffmann – La Roche, Basel)
Panel with press representatives
Lunch
Partners in research: balancing creativity and responsibility. Case studies on Microsoft, Intel and startups
(Ian Leslie – Head of the Department of Computer Science - Cambridge University)
Young people and research (university point of view, by those who are doing the research work, post-graduates or postdocs, and who have to define themselves vis-à-vis those proposing research topics of their own interest, be they public authorities or economical powers)
Panel facilitated by Ulrike Felt – Institute for the Sociology of Science – University of Vienna
Coffee break
Concluding panel with members of the Observatory
Gala dinner
Tuesday 16 September 2003
The Ceremony for the Magna Charta day
Aula Magna, Santa Lucia - Via Castiglione 36
Welcome and introductory remarks
(Ken Edwards & Pier Ugo Calzolari)
Research and Autonomy – the academies’ point of view
(Allea)
Signing the Magna Charta
Presentation of the Carmine Romanzi Prize on University Fundamental Values
(Eric Froment)
Closing remarks
(Fabio Roversi-Monaco)
Closing lunch
Afternoon : Departure of participants
