Workshop on New financing schemes for fostering science and technological innovation

Documents:

• Background Text and Workshop Program

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