Business Panel on Future EU Innovation Policy



Consultation Debate: Programme

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Business Europe
Av. de Cortenbergh, 168
1000 Brussels

22 July 2009
15.30 – 18.00

Programme

15:30 Registration
16:00

Welcome
Daniel Cloquet, Director Industrial Affairs, Business Europe
Moderator: William Stevens, Managing Director, Europe Unlimited

"Europe on the Global Map of Innovation"
John Kao, author of the "Innovation Nation"

"Fixing the Future"
Geoff Mulgan, Director of Young Foundation and former Director of Tony Blair's Policy Unit

16:40

"Reinventing Europe through Innovation"
Recommandations
Diogo Vasconcelos, Chair of EC Future Innovation Business Panel

17:00

Debate on the Business Panel Recommendations for Consultations

Daniel Cloquet, Director Industrial Affairs, Business Europe
Peter Dröll, Head of Unit, DG Enterprise, European Commission
John Kao, author of the “Innovation Nation”
Ann Mettler, Executive Director, Lisbon Council
Geoff Mulgan, Director of Young Foundation
Professor Andreas Pyka, President of the Lisbon Civic Forum and
Professor of Economic Theory at the University of Hohenheim, Germany
Diogo Vasconcelos, Chair of EC Future Innovation Business Panel

18:00 End of Meeting