Conference: Knowledge Strategies for the European Innovation Economy, 30-31 March, Helsinki Finland
As its final event, VISION Era-Net organized an international research policy conference to map state of the art and future directions in innovation policy intelligence and research. The event took place in Helsinki on March 30-31st, 2009.
Conference theme
Innovation is a precarious policy arena. Successful innovation systems build upon a mix of research, consisting from evaluation and monitoring activities to basic innovation research and to range of forward looking research activities.
The conference discussed how major global innovation areas generate and exploit research knowledge in order to develop original and competitive innovation strategies and systems. The speakers elaborated in particular how European regions and states may improve coordination and synergies between their knowledge base activities.
Key themes of the conference were
- Innovation policy strategies
- Building knowledge bases for innovation policy
- Evaluation of innovation policies and systems
- Foresight and innovation policy development
- Future of European innovation policy intelligence
For accessing the presentations given in the conference, visit the event site.
Download the program: Conference program final (pdf) (766.1 KB)