International Conference on Knowledge Based Development (Minsk, Republic of Belarus, 10-12 June 2009)

Organizers:

• United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
• State Committee for Science and Technology of Belarus
• Belarusian Institute of System Analysis and Information Support of Scientific and Technical Sphere.

The Conference is initiated by the Economic Commission for Europe of the UN and carried in accordance with the order of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus of 20 March 2009 N 34/310-99. It’s supported by the CIS Executive Committee and United Nations Development Program.

The aims of the Conference:

• Informing national experts engaged in developing and realization of the innovation policy, and also in its coordination on different levels about the best foreign experience and modern tendencies in this area in EU, USA and CIS;
• Presenting the main areas and results pf Belarus activities in creating conditions for innovation development of the country and developing the knowledge based economy;
• Exchange of experience in stimulating and supporting innovations.

Thematic sessions of the Conference:

1. Creating a supportive environment for innovative development
2. Financing innovation
3. Commercialization and protection of intellectual property
4. Public-private partnerships and innovative development

Venue: “BELARUS” Hotel, 15, Storozhevskaya str., Minsk.

Languages: Russian, English. Simultaneous translation will be provided.

•   Programme (by 4 June 2009)
•   Provisional_List_of_Participants (by 4 June 2009)
•   Poster

More detailed information about the Conference and possibilities of participation is available at http://belisa.org.by/ru/news/stnews/international/inf_conf10_06_09.html (in Russian). 

Please, address your questions concerning participation in the Conference to Mrs. Olga Meerovskaya, tel/fax +375 17 2867630, e-mail: meerovskaya@fp7-nip.org.by. 

Information materials

1.    Good Practices and Policies for Promoting Knowledge-Based Development. Overview of the Objectives and Achievements of the UNECE Subprogramme on Economic Cooperation and Integration
   Roumen DOBRINSKI
2.   Science, Technology and Innovation Policy in Belarus
   Vladimir Matiushkov
3.   National and Regional Innovation Systems and Policies for Development: From Learning Regions to Research— Research Intensive Clusters
   Liana Marina RANGA
4.   Innovation support institutions: good practices in managing b siness inc bators business incubators and science parks
   Malcolm Parry
5.   Innovation Support — Challenges and Solutions. The Experience of Regional Innovation Strategies in NAC (Newly Associated Countries) Regions
   Andrea Di Anselmo
6.   The State Programme of Innovative Development of Belarus for 2007-2010 and Creation of the National Innovation System
   Igor Voytov
7.   Belarusian State University in the Scientific and Innovation Context
   Oleg Ivashkevich
8.  The Experience of Ukraine
   Dmytro Lyapin
9.   Policies and Opportunities for Innovations in the Republic of Moldova
   Stratulat Diana
10.   The System of Support to R&D and Innovation in Uzbekistan 
    Odilkhuja Parpiev
11.   The National Innovation System in the Context of Creating a Knowledge-based Economy
    Nina Bogdan
12.   The Landscape for Early-Stage Financing of Innovative Companies
    Dimo Dimov
13.   Talents and Risk Taking to Boost Knowledge Intensive Economy
    Andrea Di Anselmo
14.   Business Angels – an Alternative Source of Financing Innovative SMEs
    Jacek Blonski
15.   Financing innovations in Belarus
    Vladimir Nedilko
16.   Financial Mechanism of Stimulating Innovation Processes in Belarus
    Andrey Markov
17.   BIF’s Capacity for Supporting Innovation Activities in Belarus
    Anatoli Hryshanovich
18.  Investment and Innovation Activities of Minsk Tractor Plant and the Enterprise Competitiveness
    Igor Yemelyanovich
19.   Partnership Concepts in Risky Innovative Activities in Belarus
    Baris Husakov
20.   Promoting Innovative Projects and New Technologies through Annual Trade Fairs: The Experience of Uzbekistan
    Doniyor Ubaydullaev
21.   Good practices in Technology Transfer, Business Planning and Commercialization of Intellectual Property
    Victor Korsun
22.   WIPO`s Activities in Support of Innovation Development
    Serguei Zotine
23.   Economic and Legal Aspects of Introducing Objects of Intellectual Property in Civil Turnover
    Evgeny Sesitski
24.   Commercialization of Technologies and Development of Small Innovative Entrepreneurship in Belarus
    Yuri Alekseev
25.   Commercialization of Intellectual Property in Kazakhstan
    Marinat Bapiyeva
26.   Support for Technology Transfer and Commercialization in Belarus: State-of-the-art, Problems and Ways to Address Them
    Alexander Yspensky
27.  Public-Private Partnerships and the Importance of Multilateral Cooperation
    Geoffrey Hamilton
28.   Public-Private Partnerships in the Transport Sector
    Anthony Pearce
29.   The case of Public-Private Partnerships in the new Obama Administration of the United States
    Arthur L. Smith
30.   Public-Private Partnership Relations in the Innovation Sphere of the Republic of Belarus
    Piotr Nikitenko
31.   Private-Public Partnership in the Republic of Korea and Opportunities to Use the Korean Experience in Belarus.
    Irina Novikova
32.   Prospects of the public-private partnership in Ukraine
    Olga Apatenko
33.   Legal and regulatory framework for PPPs in the Republic of Moldova
    Daria Zanoga
34.   Information on PPPs in Uzbekistan
    Marina Gulyamova
35.   Training of innovation oriented staff
    Vladimir Grabaurov
36.   Mechanisms of innovation policy realization
    Sergey Posledov
37.   An overview of Public Private Partnerships in Australiа
    Chris Cliffton
38.   PPP Tool: Self-regulation
    Nikolai Trifonov