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| 9:00-09:45 | | REGISTRATION | | | | | | 09:00-09:30 | | PRESS CONFERENCE | | | | Alison Richard, Vice-Chancellor, University of Cambridge
Fernando Montes-Negret, Director, ECSPF, World Bank
Moderator:
Natasha Kapil, Forum Co-Team Leader, ECSPF, World Bank | | | | | 09:45-10:45 | | OPENING CEREMONY | | | | Welcome remarks
Shigeo Katsu, Vice President, Europe and Central Asia Region Moderator:
Fernando Montes-Negret, Director, ECSPF, World Bank | | | | | 10:45-11:15 | | COFFEE BREAK | | | | | 11:15-12:45 | | PLENARY SESSION I | | | Building Transnational Knowledge & Technology Acquisition Networks
Richard Escritt, Director, EU Research Framework Program, EC
PPT: Building Transnational Knowledge & Technology Acquisition Networks | | | | | 11:45-11:55 | | HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, Chancellor, University of Cambridge | | | | | 12:00-13:30 | | LUNCH | | | | | 13:30-15:30 | | PLENARY SESSION II | | | The Role of Government in Building Absorptive Capacity
Itzhak Goldberg, Lead Specialist, ECSPF, World Bank
PPT: The Role of Government: Building Absorptive Capacity in Europe and Central Asia
Ken Warwick, Deputy Chief Economic Advisor, DTI
PPT: The Role of Government in Building Absorptive Capacity
Boris Kuznetsov, Russia Higher School of Economics
PPT: Russian industrial firms: Absorptive Capacity and State Innovation Policy Moderator:
Finbarr Livesey, Director, Center for Economics & Policy, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge | | | | | 16:00-16:30 | | COFFEE BREAK | | | | | 16:30-18:30 | | PLENARY SESSION III | | | Building Skills for the Knowledge Economy Ken Mayhew, Oxford University
PPT: Education for Growth: Necessary but not sufficient?
Andreas Schleicher, Head, PISA, OECD
PPT: Responsive Education Systems and Skills for the Knowledge Economy
Hubert Ertl, Oxford University
PPT: Learning to work or working to learn? Changing contexts of company-based training
David Hopkins, Institute of Education, Univesity of London
PPT: The UK’s Experience in Developing the New Skills
Moderator:
Michael Mertaugh, ECSHD, World Bank | | | | | 20:00-22:00 | | RECEPTION | | | Shai Vyakarnam, Judge Business School, Cambridge University
PPT: Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurship as key drivers of the Cambridge Technopole | | | |
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| | WEDNESDAY APRIL 18, 2007 |
| 08:45-10:30 | | PLENARY SESSION IV | | | | | Replicating the Cambridge Phenomenon
Walter Herriot, St. Johns Innovation Center
Replicating the Cambridge Phenomenon (pdf)
Charles Cotton, Library House
PPT: The Cambridge Phenomenon
Jody Chatterjee, Executive Director, Enterprise, EEDA
PPT: Cambridge in Context
Sam Weller, Kodak
PPT: Kodak focus on the Cambridge Phenomenon
Moderator:
Mamta Murthi, Sector Manager, ECSHD, World Bank | | | | | | 10:30-11:00 | | COFFEE BREAK | 11:00-13:00
PANEL 1A
Infrastructure for Enterprise Innovation Hubs | 11:00-13:00
PANEL 1B
Solutions to the Skills Gap: Refocusing Education and Training | Martin Garratt, Greater Cambridge Partnership
PPT: Greater Cambridge Partnership
Bagrat Yengibaryan, Director, Armenia Enterprise Incubator Foundation
PPT: EIF Experience
Tim Minshall, Director, St. Johns Innovation Centre (TBC)
Nigel Puttergill, Chairman, Inca Digital
PPT: Printers | Mary Canning, Board Member, Higher Education Authority, Ireland
Muriel Dunbar, Director, European Training Foundation
Genc Pollo, Minister of Education and Science, Albania
Pasi Sahlberg, ECSHD, World Bank | Moderator:
John Gabriel Goddard, ECSPF, World Bank | Moderator:
Nina Arnhold, ECSHD, World Bank Sponsorship: British Council |
| | 13:00-14:00 | | LUNCH | | | | | | 14:00-16:30 | | PLENARY SESSION V | | | | Technology Adoption - the Investment Climate, Trade and FDI Paulo Guillerme Correa, Sr. PSD Specialist, ECPSF, World Bank
PPT: Technology Adoption and the Investment Climate: Enabling the Private Sector to Acquire and Use Modern Technologies
Jose Luis Guasch, LAC, World Bank
PPT: Innovation-IC, Trade, FDI
John Gabriel Goddard, ECPSF, World Bank
PPT: Technology adoption via FDI? Lessons from brownfield investment in Serbia
Ona Juknevičienė, Member, European Parliament
Moderator:
Itzhak Goldberg, Lead Specialist, ECSPF, World Bank | | | | | 16:30-17:00 | | COFFEE BREAK | | | | | | 17:00-18:00 | | Q&A SESSION | | | | | | 19:30-22:00 | | BANQUET DINNER | | | | Chair:
Richard Ellis, East of England Development Agency
Sponsorship: EEDA | | | |
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| | THURSDAY APRIL 19, 2007 |
09:00-10:30
PANEL 2A
Standards and Quality Certification: Technology Upgrading & Trading Tools | 09:00-10:30
PANEL 2B
Logistics and Integration into Global Supply Networks | Jean-Louis Racine, ECSPF, World Bank
PPT: The National Standards and Quality System
Paul Temple, Surrey University
PPT: Standards, Markets, and Regulation: The Two Faces of Standards in the Knowledge Economy Jose Luis Guasch, LAC, World Bank
PPT: Implementing Effective Quality Systems to Support Trade and Competitiveness Initiatives
Norbert Anselmann, Head, Standardization Unit, DG Enterprise, European Commission
PPT: European Standardisation in Support of European Policies and Legislation Chris Humphries, City and Guilds of London Institute
PPT: The vocational education system
| Matthias Holweg, Director, Center for Competitiveness and Innovation, Judge Business School
PPT: Creating World-Class Supply Chains Mike Gregory, MIT Cambridge Partnership
PPT: Global Industrial Context Nimish Jhaveri, CARANA
PPT: Enterprise Logistics and Integration into Global Supply Networks Andrew Higginson, Finance and Strategy Director Diane Denham, Strategic Insight Manger, TESCO (TBC) | Moderator:
John Gabriel Goddard, ECSPF | Moderator:
Natasha Kapil, ECSPF |
| | 10:30-11:00 | | COFFEE BREAK | 11:00-12:30
PANEL 3A
Developing Networks and a Market for Knowledge Brokerage | 11:00-12:30
PANEL 3B
Supporting University Spin-Offs via IPR policies: From Ideas to Profits | Arnoud De Meyer, Director, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge
PPT: Developing Networks and a Market for Knowledge Brokerage
Peter Hewkin, Cambridge Network
PPT: Processes, Values and Experiences developed at the Cambridge Network
David Connell, Senior Research Associate, Cambridge Centre for Business Research
PPT: Soft Companies and R&D Contracts; The Undervalued Engine of Growth for Knowledge Based Economies
Gilbert Nicolaon, Former Head of French Agency for Commercialization
PPT: Developing Networks and a Market for Knowledge Brokerage
| Patrick Farrant, Taylor Vinters
PPT: Supporting University Spin-Offs via IPR policies: from Ideas to Profits
Teri Willey, Cambridge Enterprise
PPT: Cambridge Enterprise Limited, An Overview
Edward Carr, Business Affairs Editor
Brian Graves, Head, Engineering Technology
PPT: Imperial Innovations
Pol van den Bergen, Partner, Prisma BV Technology Management
PPT: Supporting University Spin-Offs via IPR Policies | Moderator:
Natasha Kapil, ECSPF | Moderator:
Fernando Montes-Negret, ECSPF Strategic Insight Manger, TESCO (TBC) |
| | 12:30-13:30 | | LUNCH | | | | | 13:30-14:30 | | CLOSING SESSION | | | | Closing remarks
Fernando Montes-Negret, Director, ECSPF | | | |
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