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Please rsvp to Kathy Brown:
kathy.brown@c-pet.org, with the name, affiliation, and email address of each participant
You are invited to join us for the next C-PET Innovation Roundtable, Tuesday October 11 at 2.45; with a reception following at 4.45. In our DC offices at 10 G Street NE, Suite 710 (situated next to Union Station).
There is no word more central to discussion in policy and business circles in the United States than innovation. President Obama has addressed it on many occasions and lauched innovation-focused initiatives. C-PET hosted a series of roundtables in the spring with sponsorship from the Task Force on American Innovation. We continue our teleconferences with innovation thought leaders - most recently with Washington Post columnist and entrepreneur Vivek Wadhwa and Tom Kalil - White House lead on technology policy.
This roundtable takes the discussion further by initiating our series on Global Perspectives - looking at U.S. global innovation initiatives, approaches to innovation policy in other nations, and the questions raised for competition and other policy areas.
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON INNOVATION - 1
Panelists include:
Nagy Hanna, Senior Fellow, C-PET; Adviser and former Head of Corporate Strategy, World Bank
Senior advisor to international development organizations. Senior Fellow, Center of Policy for Emerging Technologies. Senior Fellow, James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership. Lecuturer/speaker at University of amrlyand, GWU, GTU, and Duke. Consultative and executive programs for business strategists and technology leaders. Established global forums for CIOs. Keynote speaker at international and regional forums. Led efforts to establish and direct an international center for e-leaders anf government transformation. Author of books on government transformation, business transformation, e-society, national e-transformation strategies, national innovation systems, smart cities
Prabhu Guptara Formerly Executive Director, Organisational Development, Wolfsberg, Executive Development Center of UBS, he is a Freeman of the City of London and of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists, and Chartered Fellow of the of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, and the Institute of Directors; and has worked with doctoral candidates at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He is a member of the Executive Board, IFB Institute of Management, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland; the International Advisory Council, Development Alternatives, India; and the International Advisory Panel for the Tomorrow's Global Company Report by Tomorrow's Company, U.K.
Nicholas Vonortas, George Washington University; Director, Center for International Science and Technology Policy; Director, International Science & Technology Policy Program
Nicholas Vonortas is director of the graduate program in Science, Technology, and
Public Policy. His teaching and research interests are in industrial
organization, the economics of technological change, and science and technology
policy. His recent work has included topics on technology licensing, strategic
partnerships, innovation networks, intellectual property rights mechanisms, R&D
program evaluation, and the knowledge-based economy. Vonortas has consulted with various international bodies including the World Bank and the European Commission.
Representatives from diplomatic missions, invited |
