Ministerial / Policymaker Roundtable

• Chairperson:  Hartwig Schafer, Vice President (Acting), Africa Region, World Bank
• Venancio Massingue, Minister of Science and Technology, Mozambique
  [: 22minutes] [Presentation , 680KB]
• Turner Isoun, Minister for Science and Technology, Nigeria
  [: 16minutes] [Presentation , 427KB]
• Derek Hanekom, Deputy Minister of Science and Technology, South Africa
  [: 21minutes] [Presentation , 1MB]
• Crispus Kiamba, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Science and Technology, Kenya
  [: 19minutes] [Presentation , 238KB]
• Manuel Hinds, Former Minister of Finance, El Salvador
  [: 16minutes] [Presentation , 2.3MB]

Session II, Panel B:
The private sector view on STI needs in natural resource sectors

• Chairperson:  Yaw Ansu, Sector Director, Human Development Department, Africa Region, World Bank
• Michael Fairbanks, Chairman, On The Frontier Group
  Creating competitive advantage from natural resource endowments
  [: 17minutes]
• Beatrice Gakuba, CEO, Rwanda Flora
  Rwanda Cut Flower Industry, Building capacity for service delivery in private industry
  [: 21minutes] [Presentation , 430KB]
• Thomas Dixon, Tanzania Country Director, Technoserve
  STI Capacity Building in the Tanzanian Coffee Industry
  [: 11minutes] [Presentation , 543KB]

Session III, Panel A:
Leveraging FDI for technological learning and supplier development

• Chairperson:  Charles Weiss, Distinguished Professor, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service
• Nanci Palmintere, Vice President, Finance and Enterprise Services, Intel Corporation
  Intel investment site selection process, requirements, and goals
  [: 15minutes] [Presentation , 1.3MB]
• John Varney, Visiting Fellow of International Business, Northumbria University
  FDI and Supplier Development in Serbia and/or Czech Republic
  [: 16minutes] [Presentation , 630KB]
• Roberto Calvo, Director, Costa Rica Provee
  Developing suppliers for Foreign Investors in Costa Rica
  [: 12minutes] [Presentation , 1.3MB]

Session III, Panel B:
Building public private partnership institutions for technological catch-up

• Chairperson: John Matthews, Professor of Strategic Management, Macquarie Graduate School of Management, Australia
• Sergio Trindade, President, SE2T International
  PPPs in STI Capacity Building
  [: 15minutes] [Presentation , 90KB]
• Peter Brimble, President, Asia Policy Research Company
  Designing University-Industry Linking Programs in Thailand
  [: 12minutes] [Presentation , 117KB]
• María del Pilar Noriega, Directora Técnica, ICPIC, Colombia
  The role of a technological development center: lessons for success
  [: 13minutes] [Presentation , 1.2MB]
• Sungchul Chung, President, Korea Science and Technology Policy Institute
  Korean development of technology adaptation institutes
  [: 14minutes] [Presentation , 292KB]
• Discussant: Jose Luis Guasch, Senior Advisor, Private Sector and Infrastructure Department, Latin America Region, The World Bank

Session III, Panel C:
Supporting entrepreneurship and enterprise innovation

• Chairperson:  Daniel Malkin, Deputy Manager, Education, Science and Technology Subdepartment, Inter-American Development Bank
• Guillermo Fernández de la Garza, Executive Director, FUMEC (US/Mexico Foundation for Science), Former Deputy Director General of CONACYT
  High technology business development in the global context: The FUMEC-TechBA program of Mexico and the experiences of other countries, lessons and opportunities
  [: 17minutes] [Presentation , 1.3MB]
• Regina Lacayo Oyanguren, Ministry of Industry and Commerce, Nicaragua
  Nicaraguan Fund for Technological Transfer to SMEs
  [: 11minutes] [Presentation , 377KB] [Examples]
• David Kaplan, University of Cape Town; Formerly of Government of South Africa
  Policies and programs to support innovation in high-tech firms in South Africa
  [: 18minutes] [Presentation , 459KB]

Day 2 Closing Keynote
George Atkinson, Science Advisor, US State Department
US Cooperation in STI Capacity Building
[: 23minutes] [Presentation , 773KB]

Reception hosted by the US National Academies – 2100 C St. NW
(By Invitation Only)