Trilateral Summer Institute on Innovation, Competitiveness and Sustainability in the North American Region

虽然“创新”、“竞争力”和“可持续性”都已成为社会和经济发展分析中的基本主题，但直到最近，人们才注意到它们之间潜在的协同作用和内在的紧张关系。例如，鉴于各国政治、经济和法律制度的差异，在多国范围内协调这三个主题是一项更加艰巨的任务。然而，《北美自由贸易协定》所设想的北美区域连贯、互利的发展将严重依赖于这种协调。这个项目由国家科学基金会、加拿大社会科学和人文科学研究理事会和墨西哥国家科学和技术理事会联合支持，将在1994年8月的10天内，把来自美国、加拿大、在北美地区背景下，为理解和协调创新、竞争力和可持续性问题之间的关系，需要解决的问题进行批判性审查。主要目标是制定一项长期议程，为北美各地的学者提供指导，以进一步详细探索这三个关键主题及其关系。一个直接的结果将是一个由对该问题的各个方面感兴趣和有专门知识的学者组成的网络，以及一个扩大和维持该网络的计划。该研究所还将发表一篇论文集。该项目的规划和后续工作由一个由加拿大首席研究员担任主席的国家指导小组指导，美国和墨西哥的代表分别是由NSF和CONACyT提名的杰出社会科学家。＊＊＊

INT-9416308 ANDERSON Although "innovation," "competitiveness," and "sustainability" have all emerged as essential themes in analyses of social and economic development, until recently little attention had been paid to the underlying synergies and inherent tensions among them. Harmonizing the three themes in a multinational context is an even more daunting proposition, in view of differences in national political, economic and legal systems, for example. Yet the coherent, mutually-beneficial development of the North American region envisioned by the NAFTA agreement will depend critically upon such harmonization. This project, which is being supported jointly by the National Science Foundation, the Canadian Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), and the Mexican National Science and Technology Council (CONACyT), will bring together for 10 days in August 1994, scholars and policy makers from the United States, Canada, and Mexico for a critical examination of the issues that need to be addressed in understanding and harmonizing the relationships among the problems of innovation, competitiveness, and sustainability in a North American regional context. The principal objective will be to develop a long-term agenda that will provide scholars throughout North America with guidance toward further, detailed exploration of these three critical themes and their relationships. An immediate outcome will be a network of scholars with interest and expertise in various aspects of the problem, and a plan to expand and sustain that network. A published proceedings will also result from the institute. Planning and follow-up for the project are under the direction of a trinational steering group chaired by the Canadian Principal Investigator, with U.S. and Mexican representatives being distinguished social scientists nominated, respectively, by NSF and CONACyT. ***