Eleventh session of the Team of Specialists on Innovation and Competitiveness Policies
01 November (10:00) - 02 November (18:00) 2018
Salle XI, Palais des Nations Geneva Switzerland
Introduction
The substantive segment of the team of Specialists session will be dedicated to “The Fourth Industrial Revolution – reshaping innovation policies for sustainable and inclusive growth”. It gathers policy makers, business, civil society and academia to share experiences from the ECE region on how to harness the benefits of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and on the role that innovation policies can play for the Sustainable Development Goals. It will discuss and assess the public policies needed to manage the effects of Industry 4.0 to the benefit of the achievement of agenda 2030.
The second day of the Team of Specialists session will feature an in depth discussion of potential high-level innovation policy principles for sustainable development and an initiative to pilot a sub-regional innovation policy index.
Documents
| Document's Title | Eng | Fre | Rus |
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| Programme | - | ||
| Provisional agenda for the meeting ECE/CECI/ICP/2018/1 |
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| Report ECE/CECI/ICP/2018/2 |
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| Report of the twelfth session of CICPPP ECE/CECI/2018/2 |
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| Towards the Circular Economy - Innovation Policies for Sustainable Production and Consumption ECE/CECI/2018/3 |
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| Concept note on updating the methodology of the ECE Innovation for Sustainable Development Reviews ECE/CECI/2018/INF.1 |
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| Towards a sub-regional Innovation Policy Index ECE/CECI/2018/INF.2 |
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| Concept note on potential high-level principles for innovation policies ECE/CECI/2018/INF.3 |
Speakers
| Name and Biography | Title |
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| Robert Wade | Professor, London School of Economics |
| Ludovico Alcorta | Director, United Nations Industrial Development Organization |
| Samuel Holmes | Accenture |
| Carl Hickson | Accenture |
| Nicholas Davis | Head of Society and Innovation, World Economic Forum |
| Göran Marklund | Deputy Director General, Vinnova – Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems |
| Yelena Kalyuzhnova | Director, The Centre for Euro-Asian Studies, The University of Reading, United Kingdom |
| Brendan Edgerton | Acting Director for Circular Economy, World Business Council for Sustainable Development |
| Greg Falconer | Deputy Director, Innovation Policy, Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, United Kingdom |
| Stefano Firpo | Director General for Industrial Policy, Competitiveness and SMEs, Ministry of Economic Development, Italy |
| Magnus P. Karlsson | Professor, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden |
| Jörg Mayer | Senior Economic Affairs Officer, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development |
| Irmgard Nübler | Senior Economist, International Labour Organization |
| Pedro Ginjeira do Nascimento | Head of External Affairs Strategy, External Affairs, Vodafone Group |
| Matthieu Méaulle | Senior Advisor, International Trade Union Confederation |
Presentations
| Speaker (as shown on the Programme) |
Presentation | ||
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| Substantive segment: “The Fourth Industrial Revolution – reshaping innovation policies for sustainable and inclusive growth” | |||
| Session 1: The Fourth Industrial Revolution: perils and opportunities Moderator: Angel González Sanz, Chief, Science, Technology and ICT Branch, Division on Technology and Logistics, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development |
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| Nicholas Davis, Head of Society and Innovation, World Economic Forum | |||
| Ludovico Alcorta, Director, United Nations Industrial Development Organization | |||
| Göran Marklund, Deputy Director General, Vinnova – Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems | |||
| Yelena Kalyuzhnova, Director, The Centre for Euro-Asian Studies, The University of Reading, United Kingdom | |||
| Session 2: Industrial Policy and Innovation policies for sustainable growth Moderator: Ivonne Higuero, Director, Economic Cooperation and Trade Division, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe |
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| Brendan Edgerton, Acting Director for Circular Economy, World Business Council for Sustainable Development | |||
| Greg Falconer, Deputy Director, Innovation Policy, Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, United Kingdom | |||
| Stefano Firpo, Director General for industrial policy, competitiveness and SMEs, Ministry of Economic Development, Italy | |||
| Magnus P. Karlsson, Professor, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden | |||
| Session 3: Innovation Policies for inclusive growth Moderator: Ani Vashakmadze, Donor Relations and Resource Mobilization Coordinator, Innovation and Technology Agency, Georgia |
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| Jörg Mayer, Senior Economic Affairs Officer, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development | |||
| Irmgard Nübler, Senior Economist, International Labour Organization | |||
| Pedro Ginjeira do Nascimento, Head of External Affairs Strategy, External Affairs, Vodafone Group | |||
| Matthieu Méaulle, Senior Advisor, International Trade Union Confederation | |||