INNOVATION POLICIES FOR A NEW ERA
Stockholm, Sweden – January 15-16 2000
10.00 / Welcoming address and introduction
Dr Jan Martisson, Vice Chairman, Swedish Acadamy of Engineering Sciences, IVA and Abb Corporate Research and Development
10.15 / Prof. dr. ir. Ruud Smits, Science and Policy Department, University Utrecht, Netherlands, and Chairman of het Steering Committee, the Six Countries Programme
First session: Lessons Learned
10.30 / State-of-knowledge: Is innovation theory yet catching up with policy practice?
Eric Arnold, Managing Director, Technopolis, Brighton, UK
11.00 / Practical application: the practitioners view - have we come to grips with innovation policy? Are we able to apply our knowledge in the way we desire?
Professor Walter Zegveld, Free University of Amsterdam, former Director of TNO, Netherlands
11.30 / Discussion
12.00-13.00 / Lunch
Second session: The new challenges and their implications for innovation policy and organisation
The innovation climate has changed - or has it? What are the driving forces today? Which factors have the greatest influence on innovation and innovation policy? And what is the outcome?
Social Challenges
13.00 / Impacts from trends in economy and society
Professor dr. ir. Ruud Smits, Science and Policy Department, University of Utrecht, Netherlands
14.00 / Intermission: activities and refreshments
Technical and economic challenges
Different modes of innovation based on life sciences and information - a comperative perspective
15.00 / Inovation and the life sciences
Claes Wilhelmsson, Vice President, Research and Development, AstraZeneca, Södertälje, Sweden
15.30 / ICT, innovation and policy implications in the "New Economy"
Thomas Andersson, Deputy Director, Science, Technology and Industry Directorate, OECD, Paris, France
16.00-17.00 / Discussion opened by Professor Rickard Stankiewicz, Research Policy Institute, University of Lund, Sweden
19.00 / Banquet dinner at IVA’s ConferenceCenter
Tuesday, 16 January 2001
Third Session: New policy arenas for inovation promotion
09.30 / An international perspective - innovation and structural growth in Asia, Europe and the US
Professor Hans G. Danielmeyer, Japanese German CenterBerlin, (former head of corporate research, Siemens), Germany
10.00 / The supranational perspective: the European Union and its role in innovation in Europe
Professor G. N. von Tunzelmann, Director of Research, Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
10.30 / Discussion
11.00 / National innovation systems ~ a multinational corporate view
Erkki Ormala, Director, Nokia, Helsinki, Finland
11.30 / Discussion
12.00 / Lunch
13.00 / National and regional dimensions m innovation policy - nations and regions in competition
Michael Peneder, Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO), Austria
Per Eriksson, Director-General, VINNOVA (the new Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems), Sweden
14.00 / Discussion
14.30 / Research on innovation and innovation policy. Distributed intelligence
Dr Stefan Kuhlmann, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Research (ISI), Karlsruhe, Germany
Fourth and final session: Impressions, summing-up and synthesis
15.00 / This introductory lecture and the subsequent discussion session will summarise and seek to interconnect conference themes and discussions. It will also focus on the dichotomy between systemic or reflexive and rationalist or linear frameworks.
16.00 / Close of conference
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