UNECE EXPERTS DISCUSS INNOVATION AND COMPETITIVENESS POLICIES
First meeting of the UNECE Team of Specialists on Innovation and Competitiveness
Policies
Geneva, 2 March 2007 -- Why is innovation the main driver of competitiveness
in the knowledge-based economy? How do the results of technological development
and innovation diffuse in the modern economy and which are the most effective
organizational models? What role can the public sector play in facilitating
the generation and diffusion of innovation? What is the experience of different
countries with policies facilitating technological development and innovation?
These are some of the issues that will be addressed and discussed at the
first meeting of the UNECE Team of Specialists on Innovation and Competitiveness
Policies (TOS-ICP) on 8-9 March in Geneva.
The TOS-ICP was established by a decision of the UNECE Committee on Economic
Cooperation and Integration at its first session in September 2006. The work
of the Team will focus on the identification of good practices leading to
policy recommendations related to innovation and competitiveness. These outcomes
will be broadly disseminated in the UNECE region, providing the basis for
future capacity building and technical assistance activities in response to
demands by member States.
The purpose of the first meeting of the TOS-ICP is to focus the Team’s
work on those aspects of innovation and competitiveness policies where multilateral
cooperation could add the most value and where national experiences can be
most easily taken on by other countries, and to adopt an implementation plan
for its activities in 2007 and 2008.
During the meeting, a web-based virtual platform for information exchange
developed by the UNECE secretariat will be presented. This innovative tool
will serve to facilitate the collaborative efforts of the TOS-ICP members
and other associated experts between sessions as well as the dissemination
of information and communications among them.
What: First Meeting of the UNECE Team of Specialists on Innovation
and Competitiveness Policies
Where: Palais des Nations, Geneva, Salle VII
When: 8-9 March, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
For further information, please contact:
José Palacín
Secretary to the UNECE Team of Specialists
on Innovation and Competitiveness Policies
UNECE Economic Cooperation and
Integration Division
Palais des Nations, Office 449
CH-1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland
Phone: +41 (0)22 917 1643
Fax: +41 (0)22 917 0178
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: http://www.unece.org/ceci/ic.html
Ref: ECE/ECID/07/P01