Seventh session of the Team of Specialists on Innovation and Competitiveness Policies
16 - 17 October 2014
Salle XII, Palais des Nations Geneva Switzerland
Introduction
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The substantive segment of the session will be on:
Smart Specialization - Strategies for Sustainable Development
Smart specialization is a – relatively new – approach to innovation policy and to economic development. It is a strategy in which governments design and deploy their policy instruments on the basis of market signals in order to leverage existing capabilities, assets and competences in the enterprise sector to promote innovation and to generate new comparative advantages.
The seminar will bring together leading policy makers, and representatives of civil society, the business community and academics.
Presentations
| Speaker (as shown on the Programme) |
Presentation | ||
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| Session 1: Smart Specialization Strategies – Why, What and How? | |||
| Walter Deffaa, Director-General, DG Regio, European Commission | |||
| Dominique Foray, Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland | |||
| Charles Wessner, Georgetown University, former Director, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program, National Academy of Sciences, United States | |||
| Slavo Radosevic, University College London, United Kingdom | |||
| Session 2: Smart Specialization and Economic Development – Filling the Policy Gaps | |||
| Philip McCann, University of Groningen, Netherlands | |||
| Paolo Casalino, Head of Regione Puglia to Bruxelles, Puglia Region, Italy | |||
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Hannes Leo, CEO, cbased, Austria |
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| Carmen Sillero Illanes, Head of Division for Strategy and Programmes, Agency for Innovation and Development, Andalucía Region, Spain | |||
| Alexander Kobenko, Vice-premier, Samara region, Russian Federation | |||
| Pavel Dvorak, Principal Economist, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development | |||
| Zhumatay Salimov, Deputy Chairman, National Agency for Technological Development, Kazakhstan | |||
| Eli Anavi, Director, SME & Innovations Directorate, Ministry of Economics & Energy, Bulgaria | |||
| Session 3: Smart Government for Smart Specialization - Building Capacity for Policy Design and Implementation | |||
| Kevin Morgan, Cardiff University, United Kingdom | |||
| Beata Lubos, Head of Unit of Innovation Policy, Ministry of Economy, Poland | |||
| Lena Tsipouri, University of Athens, Greece | |||
| Session 4: Above and Beyond – Policy Coordination and Cooperation Across Regions | |||
| Ruslan Rakhmatullin, Smart Specialization Platform, Joint Research Center, European Commission | |||
| Annalisa Primi, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development | |||
| José Carlos Caldeira, President, National Innovation Agency Portugal, and Vanguard Initiative | |||
Documents
| Document's Title | Eng | Fre | Rus |
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| Informational flyer about the event | - | - | |
| Agenda ECE/CECI/ICP/2014/1 |
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| Report of sixth session ECE/CECI/ICP/2013/2 |
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| TOS - ICP sixth session's page | here | ||
| Report of seventh session ECE/CECI/ICP/2014/2 |
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| Innovation in the public sector ECE/CECI/2014/3 |
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| Good Practices and Policy Recommendations on Aligning Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policies ECE/CECI/2014/9 |
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| Options for creating working groups, task forces and editorial boards to facilitate the implementation of the work plan (Item 4 of the provisional agenda - Conference Room Paper 1) | - | - | |
| Innovation for Development at ESCWA | - | - | |
Speakers
| Name and Biography | Title |
|---|---|
| Adriana Agrimi | Head of the Industrial Research and Innovation Department, Puglia Region, Italy |
| Eli Anavi | Director, SME & Innovations Directorate, Ministry of Economics & Energy, Bulgaria |
| Ivan Bortnik | Chairman, Association of Innovative Regions, Russian Federation |
| José Carlos Caldeira | Director, INESC, Portugal and Vanguard Initiative |
| Mario Cervantes | Principal Administrator, Science & Technology Policy Division, OECD |
| Walter Deffaa | Director General, DG Regional Policy, European Commission |
| Pavel Dvorak | Principal Economist, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development |
| Dominique Foray | Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland |
| Carmen Sillero Illanes | Head of Division for Strategy and Programmes, Agency for Innovation and Development, Andalucía Region, Spain |
| Alexander Kobenko | Vice-premier, Samara region, Russian Federation |
| Hannes Leo | CEO, cbased, and Harald Gohm, Standortagentur Tirol, Austria |
| Beata Lubos | Head of Unit of Innovation Policy, Ministry of Economy, Poland |
| Philip McCann | University of Groningen, Netherlands |
| Kevin Morgan | University of Cardiff, United Kingdom |
| Annalisa Primi | Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development |
| Slavo Radosevic | University College London, United Kingdom |
| Ruslan Rakhmatullin | S3 Platform Team, Joint Research Centre, European Commission |
| Zhumatay Salimov | Deputy Chairman, National Agency for Technological Development, Kazakhstan |
| Lena Tsipouri | University of Athens, Greece |
| Charles Wessner | Georgetown University, former Director, Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, U.S. National Academy of Sciences |