KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Path to Innovation: Clusters
Çankaya University
November 5-6 2009

Prof. Dr. Ray Oakey

The University of Manchester
Academic interests: High Technology Small Firms; Technology and Innovation Management; Business Development; Diffusion of New Products and Processes; Entrepreneurship; High Technology Industry; Innovation; Regional Industrial Development; Industrial Clustering (especially high technology)

Prof. Dr. Roger Stough

George Mason University
Academic Interests: Entrepreneurship and regional economic development policy, analysis and modeling, technology-led regional economic development and competitiveness, transportation and economic development, leadership and governance in regional economic development, institutional barriers to technology deployment in transport, and associated issues in transportation policy and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS).