Please note that,
unless otherwise indicated, all the documents provided below
are in PDF format.
Please note that,
unless otherwise indicated, all the documents provided below
are in PDF format.
Tuesday, 24 May
09:00 - 10:00 Registration
10:00 - 10:10 Welcome and introduction: Mr. George
Kowalski, Director of the Industry, Energy and Enterprise Development
(UNECE)
10:10 - 10:25 Keynote Speech: Global Restructuring,
Opportunities and Challenges for Economies in Transition: Mr. Michael
A. Landesmann, Scientific Director, The Vienna Institute for International
Economic Studies (WIIW)
[Presentation]
Session I: Economic and Industrial Restructuring in the
UNECE Region
1990-2004 - Lessons and Prospects
Chairman: Mr. Miroslav Somol, Deputy Minister, Ministry of
Industry and Trade (Czech Republic)
Rapporteur: Dr. Judit Habuda, Regional Director in EU & Governmental
Relations, PricewaterhouseCoopers Central and Eastern Europe/CIS (Hungary)
10:30 - 10:50 Industrial Restructuring in Transition Economies: Achievements,
Risks and Opportunities
Dr. Judit Habuda, Regional Director in EU & Governmental Relations,
PricewaterhouseCoopers Central and Eastern Europe/CIS (Hungary)
[Presentation]
10.50 - 11.10 Industrial Restructuring in the CIS Countries: Achievements,
Problems and Perspectives
Dr. Anatoliy Rozhkov, Deputy Director, SOTSUGOL State Enterprise (Russian
Federation)
[Paper] [Presentation]
11:10 - 11:30 Stages of Sectoral and Territorial Restructuring in the CIS
Countries
Prof. Sailau Baizakov, Deputy Director General, Institute of Economic Research,
Ministry of Economy and Budgetary Planning (Kazakhstan)
[Paper]
11:30 - 11:45 Structural Change and Industrial Restructuring in the Steel
Industry in Ukraine - Experience of the KRIVOROZHSTAL Kombinat
Mr. Anatolij V. Sokurenko, President of the Managing Board, OAO Krivorozhstal
(Ukraine)
11:45 - 11:55 Questions and Answers Session
Session II: Information and Communication Technologies and Knowledge-based
Industries and Industrial Restructuring
Chairman: Mr. Ramamurti Badrinath, Director, Division of Trade Support Services,
International Trade Centre (ITC)
Rapporteur: Dr. Bruno Lanvin, Senior Advisor, E-Strategies, The World Bank
11:55-12:15 Can knowledge be the next source of comparative advantage for
transition economies? - The role of ICTs in industrial restructuring, and the
next wave of outsourcing
Dr. Bruno Lanvin, Senior Advisor, E-Strategies, The World Bank
[Presentation]
[Paper]
12:15 - 12:30 Role of ICTs and Knowledge-based Industries in Industrial
Restructuring - the Finnish Experience
Mr. Antti Eskola, Commercial Counsellor, Ministry of Trade and Industry
(Finland)
[Presentation]
12:30 - 12:45 Using ICTs for Development and Restructuring - How ICTs Can
Promote the Competitiveness of SMEs - Turkish experience
Mrs. F�sun S. Nebil, Owner and Chief Executive Officer, Turk.Internet.com
(Turkey)
[Presentation]
12:50 - 13:00 Questions and Answers Session
13:00 - 15:00 Lunch Break
Session III: The Impact of the Industrial Restructuring on Small and
Medium-sized Enterprises: Enhancing Entrepreneurship and Competitive SME Sector
in Europe
Chairman: Prof. David Smallbone, Director of the Centre Small Business Research
Centre at Kingston University (United Kingdom)
Rapporteur: Mrs. Dragica Karaic, Head of Department, Ministry of Economy, Labour
and Entrepreneurship
15:00 - 15:20 Creating an Entrepreneurial Europe: Activities of the EU in
Promoting SMEs
Mr. Jorge Costa-David, Unit E1 - Entrepreneurship, Directorate E- Promotion of
SMEs competitiveness, Enterprise & Industry Directorate General, European
Commission
[Presentation]
15:20 - 15:40 The Impact of EU Enlargement on SMEs
Prof. P�ter Szirmai, Director of the Small Business Development Centre at the
Budapest Corvinus University and others, the Network of Entrepreneurship and SME
Research and Education Colleges and Universities in CEE (Hungary)
15:40 - 16:10 Development of the Entrepreneurship and SME Sector in
South-Eastern Europe and in the Commonwealth of Independent States in Order to
Accelerate the Transition Towards market economy
Mr. Antal Szab�, Regional Adviser on Entrepreneurship and SMEs, UNECE
[Presentation]
Mr. Armen Gevorgyan, Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Trade and Economic
Development (Republic of Armenia); and
[Paper]
[Presentation]
Dr. Marija Zarezankova-Potevska, Head of Department of the Ministry of Economy
(The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia)
[Paper] [Presentation]
16:10 - 16:20 Questions and Answers Session
16:20 - 16:30 Coffee break
Session IV: Good Practices in Entrepreneurship and SME Development: The
Baltic Miracle - Experiences in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
Chairman: Prof. David Smallbone, Director of the Centre Small Business Research
Centre at Kingston University (United Kingdom)
Rapporteur: Mrs. Dragica Karaic, Head of Department, Ministry of Economy, Labour
and Entrepreneurship
16:20 - 16:55 Entrepreneurship and Competition Policy in Estonia
Ms. Signe Ratso, Deputy State Secretary General, Ministry of Economic Affairs
and Communications of Estonia [Paper]
[Presentation]
16:55 - 17:20 Dialogue between the Government and Stakeholders - a Crucial
Factor for Improving Business
Mr. Anrijs Matiss, Deputy State Secretary of the Ministry of Economy or the Head
of the Latvian Investment and Development Agency
[Presentation]
17:20 - 17:50 Creation of Better Environment for SME Growth
Mr. Gediminas Rainys, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Economy of Lithuania
[Presentation]
17: 50 - 18:00 Questions and Answers Session
Wednesday, 25 May 2005
Session V: Driving Forces in Industrial Restructuring in Transition
Economies
Chairman: H.E. Mr. Dumitru Croitor, Ambassador, Permanent Mission of the
Republic of Moldova to the UN Office and other International Organization
Rapporteur: Dr. �va P�l�cz, Deputy General Director, KOPINT-DATORG
RT.(Hungary)
10:00 - 10:20 Financing of Industrial Restructuring in the Transition
Economies
Mr. Zbigniew Kominek, Economics, European Bank for Reconstruction and
Development (EBRD) [Presentation]
10:20 -10:40 The Role of Business Related Services in the New Economic and
Industrial Policy of EU, Major Issues of the Service-oriented Policy: Results
and Problems
Dr. �va P�l�cz, Deputy General Director, KOPINT-DATORG RT. (Hungary)
[Presentation]
10:40 - 11:55 The Role of Foreign Direct Investment in Economic Growth in
Increase of Competitiveness of the Transition Economies
Mr. Kalman Kalotay, Ecomomic Affairs Officers, United Nations Conference on
Trade and Development (UNCTAD) [Presentation]
11:55 - 11:10 The Role of Quality and Environment Management in Industrial
Restructuring - Experience in Countries in Transition
Mr. Mihaly Parkany, Director, Digart Ltd., (Switzerland)
11:10 - 11:25 The Role of ICT in Industrial Restructuring and in Increasing
the Competitiveness of Enterprises
Mr. Patrick Gannon, CEO, Organization for the Advancement of Structured
Information Standards (OASIS), (United States)
[Presentation]
11:25 - 11:35 Question and Answers Session
11:45 - 12.30 Round Table Discussion on Fostering Restructuring in
Manufacturing
Representatives of manufacturing companies from transition and
emerging economies like:
Mrs. Maria Grapini, President of the Board of Administration of the Pasmatex
Group, Romania
Mr. Domagoj Milo�evic, President of the Board and CEO, PASTOR Group, Croatia -
case study of PASTOR Group [Presentation]
Mr. Teimuraz Kortua, Deputy Director, "Georgian Industry Investment
Corporation - Light Industry Ltd." [Paper]
Mr. Essen Amanjolov, Human Resource Director of "Argymak TransService"
LLP, Kazakhstan
Mr. Alexander A. Kruglik, First Vice-President, OAO ROSLEGPROM, Russian
Federation
Ms. Salimova Makhfuza, Managing Director, Sarbad Fashion House, Uzbekistan
Session VI: New Challenges and Perspectives for the Industrial
Sector
12:30 - 12:50 Report of the Rapporteurs of the Sessions
12:50 - 13:00 Summary and Concluding remarks by Mr. George Kowalski,
Director, UNECE Industrial Restructuring, Energy and Enterprise Development
Division
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