Date: 23/09/2008 Time:
16:30 - 18:00 Location: Hall F.2
Target Audience: Players of The German Water Sector (Business, Research, Associations, Politics); Political and Other Stakeholders
Objectives:
Gathering
and Developing Ideas for the Work of the Innovation Platform and their
Interaction With Other Stakeholders
Make
Transparent the Political Motivation
Develop
Concepts
Motivate
People to be Involved
Format: key note lectures and moderated discussion Language:
German (English translation)
16:30 – 16:35 Introduction 16:35 – 16:45 key note lecture: From a Political Agenda to Targeted Actions (Mr. H. Grübel, BMBF; decision pending) 16:45 – 16:55 key note lecture German Water Partnership - building up a highway from innovation to the market (Prof. F. Bischof, HAW) 16:55 – 17:10 moderated discussion What are the opportunities and challenges of an innovation platform (Dr. J. Loeffler; Head of the Steinbeis-Centre Europe) 17:10 – 17:20 lecture Innovation Management (Mr. P. Ungeheuer, Malik Management Center St. Gallen) 17:20 – 17:30 lecture From research co-operation to transfer strategies - example the Middle East (referring to the different aspects that will come up in the discussion, ad hoc analysis) Prof. H. Hötzl (consortium co-ordinator SMART; Technical University of Karlsruhe) 17:30 – 18:00 moderated discussion Concepts and instruments of an innovation platform (Dr. J. Loeffler; Head of the Steinbeis-Centre Europe)
Contribution of research to a competitive and sustainable Europe
Europe was not really the topic of our session. Our session rather focussed on German competitiveness in the water sector by joining forces in research, business and politics.
Generally spoken, research will be indespensable to compete with other knowledge-based countries. But high-level research alone will not be enough to compete successfully: a good strategy and the coordinated action of politics, science and business will be the surplus to defend high-level performance in the world markets.
Research priority areas for the foreseeable future
Difficult to judge - Water is an important theme, because of its importance for peace and life in general. But I feel it is not a priority theme, because there are not so much high-level advances expectable
Possible fields:
nanotechnologies
neurobiology
biology in general in combination with electronics, material sciences
Other important issues or topics discussed during the session
Coordinated action of politics, science and business: how to achieve?
Research for Sustainable Development - full paper (DIN-A4) - 68 pages (URL: http://www.fona.de/pdf/publikationen/research_for_sustainable_development.pdf)
Research for Sustainable Development - abstract (DIN-A5) - 20 pages (URL: http://www.fona.de/pdf/publikationen/research_for_sustainable_development_short.pdf)
Research for Sustainable Development
