The Fourth Asian Innovation seminar
Monday 24 May 2010
Hosted by Clyde & Co LLP
Co-organisers:Asia-Pacific Technology Network and the R&D Society
Seminar Convenor: Graham Land, Chair of the Innovation and Best Practice Group The R&D Society (Managing Partner, MGL Consulting)
The new EU Commissioner for Science has had “Innovation” added to her portfolio for the next years which says a lot of the EU’ commitment to innovation globally and this seminar will examine some of the priorities for cooperation with Asia
It will examine the emerging target areas for collaborative R&D between Asia and the EU. The EU will prioritise cooperation with India and China under its Strategic Forum for International Cooperation: Korea and Japan will follow in 2011. The current FP7 and future FP8 will provide a mechanism and funding for cooperative R&D at a much increased level that at present. The EP has a Delegation for India and other Asian countries: R&D cooperation is becoming part of their agenda. Intellectual Property is, of course, important. The seminar may look at a how the advent of a single community patent will impact on EU-Asia R&D and innovation. Moreover, EU/US/Japan/China/Korea cooperation on patents is hinting at a global patent – or at least a unified patent application process.
Speakers
Location: Clyde & Co LLP 51 Eastcheap, London, EC3M 1JP
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Nearest tube station: Monument
Timing: 17.30 - 19.30 - followed by refreshments
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To Register your interest: please send your details (name, institutional affiliation, email address, phone number) to biz22@aptn.org
Declan Kirrane
is founder and Managing Director of ISC, Brussels. ISC specializes in science and R&D public affairs, policy analysis and information dissemination. In 1994 Declan established the CORDIS (Community Research and Development Information Service) on-line dissemination service at the beginning of FP4. Prior to that he was Edtor of the CORDIS News Service. Declan has variously edited the Commission’s CORDIS focus, Innovation and Technology Transfer Newsletter and European Dialogue. He has also lectured widely on EU science policy and implementing programs, and has developed R&D and innovation strategies for public and private sector organizations. ISC is currently contracted to the European Commission, US Department of Energy’s Office of Science, EUREKA and the European Patent Office, amongst others.
Louis Turner
is the Chief Executive of the Asia-Pacific Technology Network, an Associate Fellow, Chatham House and a Visiting Fellow, Centre for International Business University of Leeds. Louis has been monitoring the behaviour of multinational companies since his first book Invisible Empires in 1970 (this was the first popular British book on the politics of these companies). From the start of his career, he has monitored developments in Asia, writing and editing The Rise of the Newly-Industrialising Economies in the late 1970s.He has written eleven books/monographs during his career on topics such as a history of the international oil industry, the rise of the Newly industrializing Countries, Middle Eastern Industrialization, Industrial Collaboration with Japan and the coming of Global Competition. He is currently writing a history of Japan's post-1990 investment in the UK (financed by the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation. During the latter part of his career, he concentrated on running conferences and seminars. Since the mid-1980s, he has 20 high-level conferences (often at ministerial level) with Japan, and another five with Korea, three with China and one in Singapore.