Washington, D.C. - February 18, 2004

Video connection to: Turkey, India, UK, Tunisia.

9:00 – 9:30	Presentation of Agenda	Vinod K. Goel, ECSPF
	Knowledge & Innovation Projects in the Bank	Anil Sood, Acting Director, ECSPF >>
9:30 – 10:15	Competitiveness in Public R&D Institutions	R. A. Mashelkar, Director General,
	Protection and Commercialization of R&D Case Study – India, Indonesia	Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, India
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10:15 – 10:45	Metrology, Standards, Testing and	Hüseyin Ugur, Director,
	Quality Assurance Systems (MSTQ)	National Metrology Institute (UME),
	WTO, EU Harmonization	Turkey
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11:00 – 11:45	Competitiveness, FDI, Trade & Innovation	Sanjaya Lall, Professor, Oxford
>> 11:45 - 12:15	>> Competitiveness Challenges in ECA	University, Former WB Staff Shigeo Katsu, VP, ECA Region
>> 12:15 – 1:00	>> Improving the National Innovation Climate	>> Shahid Yusuf, Senior Advisor
	Business Environment, Policy Interventions	Development Research Group
	Asian Experience – Malaysia, Thailand	Syed Ejaz Ghani, Economic Advisor
		South Asia Region
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1:00 – 1:45	L – U- N – C – H	Carl Dahlman, Head, Knowledge for
	Innovation Initiatives at WBI	Development Program, WBI
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1:45 – 2:30	LAC Experience – Policy and Operations	William Maloney, LAC Region
	LAC Portfolio – Mexico, Chile, Brazil…..	Lauritz Holm-Nielsen, LAC Region
	eBusiness and Innovation	James C. Hanna, LAC >>
2:30 – 3:00	ECA Experience – Science & Technology	Vinod K. Goel/Ekaterina Koryukin
	Design, Implementation, Monitoring & Evaluation	ECSPF
	Turkey, Croatia…
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3:00 – 3:30	Firm Level Innovation Upgrading	Mel Goldman, Cornell University,
	Building Technology Development Programs	Former Bank Staff
	India, Korea
>> 3:45 - 4:15	>> US Small Business Innovation Rsch Program	>> Ronald Cooper, Small Business Administration, Washington, DC
4:15 – 4:45	Panel Discussion on Best Practices and	Chair: Khaled Sherif, ECSPF
	Lessons in Innovation Project Design,	Vinod Goel/Mel Goldman/ Lauritz H.
	Implementation, and M&E	Cecilia Valdivieso
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4:45 – 5:00	Wrap-Up	Vinod. K. Goel
	& Briefing on Istanbul Workshop