Workshop on New Financing Schemes for Fostering Science and Technological Innovation
- 11/11/2007As part of the Lisbon Research and Policy Workshops on Science, Technology and Social Change, organised by the Portuguese Presidency of the European Union, a Workshop on What is the potential of new financing schemes for fostering science and technological innovation? … Balancing private and public, national and global incentives, will be held on 12th – 13th November 2007 at the Fundação das Comunicações, Lisbon.
One of the aspects under examination will be the emergence of new funding possibilities, such as the channelling of global liquidity pool resources into science and technology, as well as using new risk management tools.
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Presentations:
- Pedro Conceição, Director of the Office of Development Studies United Nations Development Programme, USA – Expanding Resources and Enhancing Incentives for Investments in Science and Innovation Insights from New Initiatives in Development Cooperation Financing
- Frans van den Boom, Vice-President for European Programmes, Executive Director Europe International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, Netherlands – Health R&D for the developing world – Expanding incentives for investments in science and innovation: Balancing private and public, national and global incentives
- Mário Amendola, University of Rome, Italy – Technology and the Human Resource: An out-of-equilibrium analysis
- Dirk Pilat, Head, Science and Technology Policy Division OECD, France – Innovative ways of financing science and innovation: some findings from OECD work
- António Baldaque da Silva, Lehman Brothers, USA – Public Policy and Innovation: Partnering with Capital Markets through Securitization
- William Masters, Professor of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University, USA – Accelerating innovation withex-post ‘prize reward’payments
- José Barros, SPGM Chairman, Portugal – Mutual Guarantee schemes and other financial instruments able to foster science and technological innovation
- Luisa Ferreira, Projects Directorate Innovation and Competitiveness DepartmentEuropean Investment Bank – Innovative Financing, Financing Innovation: EIB financing for Human Capital, R&D and Innovation
- Wouter Spek, European Science Foundation, France – EuroBioFund