PROGRAMME
I part
9H00 > Opening
ISEG, João Duque
SOCIUS, José Maria Carvalho Ferreira
CGD, Humberto Casanova
Diplomatic Institute, Manuela Franco
AIP Foundation, Jorge Rocha de Matos
AICEP, Pedro Pessoa e Costa
9H30 > Opening Speech
Renata Ramalhosa, Director UK Trade and Investment Portugal, Embassy of the United Kingdom
10H00 > Coffee Break
10H30 > Strategic Cooperation and Economic Diplomacy Actors
Moderator: Manuela Franco, Diplomatic Institute
The financial system
Humberto Casanova, Director of the Strategy and Commercial Offer/Business Intelligence Area in CGD's International Business Department
The business vision
José Dias Miranda, Institute of Welding and Quality (ISQ)
Universities
Joaquim Ramos Silva, SOCIUS/ISEG
The state and the new model of economic diplomacy
Pedro Pessoa e Costa, Executive Director of AICEP Portugal Global
Network dynamics and the economic value of the Portuguese language
José Paulo Esperança, ISCTE and Instituto Camões da Cooperação e da Língua
Debate
Part II
14H30 > Economic Diplomacy and Business and Competitive Intelligence
Moderator: Joaquim Ramos Silva, SOCIUS/ISEG
Economic intelligence: Challenges for companies and the State André Magrinho, AIP Foundation
Portugal-Germany economic relations and economic diplomacy networks Mathias Fischer, Economic Counselor at the German Embassy in Lisbon
Business and competitive intelligence toolbox Ruben Eiras, GALP Energia
The importance of the Business Intelligence Unit (BIU) in Knowledge Management Joana Neves, AICEP
Debate
16H15 > Coffee Break
16H45 > The University in the face of Economic Diplomacy Research
Moderator: Sónia Sousa, George Mason University, Washington, DC
Contemporary economic diplomacy
Manuel Farto, Autonomous University of Lisbon
Export Promotion Agencies - Ireland and Portugal
Aurora Teixeira, Faculty of Economics, University of Porto
The experience of economic diplomacy in Africa
Manuel Ennes Ferreira, SOCIUS/ISEG
Advantages and disadvantages of economic diplomacy
Maria Sousa Galito, PhD in Political Science and International Relations (IEP-UCP)
Debate
18H30 > Conclusion
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INTELLIGENCE AND ECONOMIC DIPLOMACY:
A reflection on the subject of "economic intelligence and diplomacy" is necessary for two reasons. Firstly, because these are instruments with great potential for meeting the Portuguese economy's growth and internationalization objectives, such as promoting exports and attracting foreign direct investment (FDI). Secondly, because it emphasizes the importance of good management of information resources, which are often dispersed among various organizations (companies, the state, research centers, among others), including knowledge networks and influence mechanisms, in order to make external action proactive. The operationalization of economic diplomacy involves various actors, requiring forms of coordination, information sharing and the dynamization of knowledge networks with a view to its effectiveness and strategic scope. There is a need to create spaces for strategic cooperation at the level of
business and competitive intelligence
(or economic intelligence) between the business community, universities (and other centers of knowledge associated with R&D) and the state (government and its institutions) in order to optimize the knowledge available when connecting to foreign markets in the most varied forms. When it comes to the effectiveness and strategic dimension of economic diplomacy, it is important not only to consider the role of each of the actors, but above all the result of the interactions between the different stakeholders. It is therefore essential that economic diplomacy is based on networks of knowledge, influence and intervention, associating the diplomatic apparatus, whose importance in recent decades has grown enormously from this perspective, with companies and their reference associative structures, as well as universities and research centers. In Portugal's case, the economic value of the Portuguese language within a logic of network dynamics is obviously a valuable part of this equation, which is a potential that has been little explored from the point of view of internationalization.
For these reasons, this seminar is intended to be an up-to-date expression of the points of view of three key players in economic diplomacy and the
business intelligence companies, universities and the state. What's more, at the academic level, there is still little research and few consistent, in-depth approaches to the subject. This is also why ISEG, through SOCIUS, and with the collaboration of the institutions promoting the Economic Diplomacy Conference, is proposing to organize an electronic edition of the speakers' speeches, and also to include a set of papers
and research work on diplomacy and economic intelligence from academia.