Knowledge Economy and Sociospacial Polarisation

As you know, we're preparing our workshop here in Recife. The two groups of students are preparing their papers that will be presented during the workshop to key persons from popular production groups, both urban and rural.
Please finda a preliminary programme attached to our bog as a document.
Ana

Today Recife's groups will get together once again to discuss the construction of their papers. We will focus on each group's paper summary and main discussion points.
In paralell, Pia and I have worked on the little conference within which these papers will be presented. We've invited 5 groups of "popular production" to present their experiences and comment on the students' papers.
I want to tell you that this is a rich opportunity to bring together two dimensions of social and economic life that hardly have benefitted from scientific dialog between different fields and researchers. Hopefully, in the course of the present experience we can come across a theory - a good one - that can resemble to real life, especially concerning to Recife.
As you will see from the students' papers, Recife is a 1,5 million people, particularly polarised, city regarding income, education, life quality and, as expected, access to knowledge and innovation. In this way, how can we talk about a knowledge economy in such an unequal society in which knowledge and learning seem to be a matter for rather few people?
Hope you can help us to find answers to these questions.
Best regards,
Ana C

The research paper written by each group should cover 15 to 25 pages (without annex, like statistics etc.).

The structure of the research paper should cover:

1. Introduction
2. Literature overview (using joint literature and integrating furhter key references and documents)
3. field research (with key persons and institutions; inviting one key person to the joint discussion on june 19th)
4. linking theory and field research
5. comparative analysis (together with transatlantic group)
6. summary

Annex:
1 page each group member: What did I learn in this seminar? What did I not learn (but would have liked to learn)?