Guide Booklet - Knowledge4Innovation
Guide Booklet - Knowledge4Innovation
Guide Booklet - Knowledge4Innovation
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Speakers<br />
Anna Kaderabkova<br />
Director, Centre for Economic Studies in Prague, Czech Republic<br />
Founder and director of the Centre for Economic Studies in Prague, member of the UNECE Team of specialists<br />
on competitiveness and innovation policies. Specializes in the analysis of sources and outcomes<br />
of competitive advantage and innovation performance with special regard to the new EU members and<br />
UNECE developing countries and the process of their transition to knowledge-based economy and society.<br />
Senior researcher, team leader or manager in a number of national and international projects on the<br />
topics of competitiveness and economic development, human resource quality, research and development,<br />
innovation and the related policy aspects. Author and co-author of several tens of articles, conference<br />
presentations and a number of books on the subject of structural changes, competitiveness, human<br />
resource quality and innovation. Holds master, Ph.D. and assistant professor degrees at the University of<br />
Economics in Prague. Beneficiary of a number of foreign fellowships (Universities in Amsterdam, Maastricht,<br />
Dortmund, Oklahoma, Oxford)<br />
Monika Kavaliauske<br />
EUREKA Innovation Prize Winner, JSC Biocentras<br />
Mrs. Monika Kavaliauske is marketing manager of JSC “Biocentras”, which is specialises in environmental<br />
biotechnology and has won the Eureka Innovation Award in 2011. Also Mrs. Kavaliauske is a PhD student<br />
at Vilnius University, faculty of Economics, specialising in green marketing and green consumer behaviour.<br />
Mrs. Kavaliauske has been working in the high-tech business for 5 years, therefore she has expertise<br />
in international innovations commercialization including biotechnology and pharmaceutical sectors. International<br />
experience that she gains in everyday business life Mrs. Kavaliauske presents to her students<br />
at the oldest Vilnius University in Lithuania. Mrs. Kavaliauske has experience in various international R&D<br />
projects, like FP7, Life+, Eureka.<br />
Lisbeth Kirk<br />
Editor, EU Observer<br />
A Danish journalist by education, Lisbeth Kirk is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the EUobserver, guiding<br />
the company in both its editorial and business-orientation. In doing so, Lisbeth also established the<br />
EUbookshop.com, EUobserver TV, EUobserver Events and other side activities to fund the EUobserver<br />
news service. She has reported on the European Union for many years and her primary aim is to continue<br />
to offer a widely-read and trusted platform for news and mature debate on EU affairs. The EUobserver<br />
was founded in 2000 as a news service based in Brussels to advance and expand the debate on European<br />
affairs. It has since become one of the largest online news resources for EU stakeholders, reaching 65,000<br />
individuals on a daily basis, via the website, newsletter, RSS feeds and social media out-lets.<br />
Gernot Klotz<br />
Executive Director Research&Innovation, Cefic<br />
Dr. Gernot Klotz studied Biology and Microbiology. After having worked for the US based pharmaceutical<br />
company Armour he joined Bayer in various business sections (pharmaceutical, animal health and crop<br />
protection/product development). Since February 2007 G. Klotz is the Executive Director for Research and<br />
Innovation for the European Chemical Industry Council (CEFIC). He is a member of the CEFIC Leadership<br />
Team, which has the overall responsibility for coordinating and steering the activities of the organisation.<br />
Specific key areas of responsibility are innovation, emerging science-policy issues and nano risk benefits<br />
and testing risk assessment within the CEFIC Long Range Research Initiative (LRI), as well as managing<br />
the CEFIC Research and Innovation Board. He is also a Board Member of the EU Technology Platform for<br />
Sustainable Chemistry (SusChem). Gernot Klotz has been called on to various advisory and steering committees<br />
at OECD, WHO and EU Commission level. He is currently chairing the Group on Nanotechnologies<br />
and he is responsible for the Value Chain topic within the High Level Group Key Enabling Technologies<br />
(HLG KETs).<br />
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