Events organized by CICADIT

Between July 12 and July 18 2009 there took place in Bucharest and Sinaia the ninth international seminar on the issue "Entrepreneurial Initiatives and Regional Development. International Comparisons".
The organisers of this event were the University of Bucharest - The Interdisciplinary Center for Advanced Researches on Territorial Dynamics and the University of Angers, France.
This scientific conference is part of a series of ten seminars. The first one took place in February 2001 in Angers, France, and the subsequent ones in turn in Germany, Spain, Italy and Romania.

The basic principle, established in the first seminar, consists in reuniting a few universities from different countries, some Romanian and foreign entrepreneurs, as well as some agents of economic and political life, who have some of the most relevant experiences in the field.
In Romania, such a seminar was organised in 2002, as a consequence of which the relations between the universities in this consortium were consolidated and cooperative activities developed among various agents in our country and in the above-mentioned countries.
At this year's edition, thirty foreign researchers from different countries participated (France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Moldavia, Iran) and twenty Romanian researchers who represented various domains of research.
The final aim is the consolidation of cooperation relations among the universities in the consortium (The European Research Consortium 2H2S was founded three years ago following the cooperation instituted within these international seminars), aiming, on the one hand, to the validation of some theoretical concepts launched in the academic world regarding local and regional development, by means of entrepreneurial initiative, and on the other hand the creation of a connecting bridge between the economic sector and the decision-making one.
The fruitful exchange of ideas in the academic area regarding the method of inserting entrepreneurial initiatives in the complex process of regional development can lead to the creation of models connected to territorial development on a small and medium level.
The new theories regarding economic development reconsidered distance, networks and territorial clusters by rediscovering economic geography. Even the Nobel Prize awarded last year for economics rewarded research done in this area. Thus was demonstrated the viability of this new kind of geography and its capacity to answer current new challenges.
At the same time, in the current context, universities and research do not constitute the cause that heightens the current crisis, but they rather constitute the solution for coming out of it. Combining fundamental research and aspects of real life is the only way to connect scientists and the business sector, as well as the national, regional and/or local authorities responsible for managing the spaces wherein human communities have their activities.

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