Top representatives of the world’s managerial elite, experienced in building effective innovation infrastructure and favourable conditions for innovation will gather in Skolkovo on 19 April for the first-ever Summit of Innovation Economy Creators.
As part of a special study by the Skolkovo Foundation and Expert Media Holding, a list was made of the 30 leading innovation managers worldwide, who have had a pivotal impact on the formation and development of global innovative systems. The volume of innovation business generated through the shortlisted managers amounts to about $2.5 trillion per year. They currently run the world’s major innovative hubs, and act as consultants for dozens of governments across Europe, America, and Southeast Asia. The upcoming forum is honoured to welcome these people as participants.
Participants who have already confirmed their attendance include Dov Frohman, vice president and one of the founders of Intel; Pertti Huuskonen, principal scientist at Nokia Research Centre; Yigal Erlich, the founding father of Israel’s venture capital industry; John Kao, advisor to Hillary Clinton on innovation and US competitiveness; Se-Jung Oh, policy advisor to the Korean government on science and technology since 1989; Sven-Thore Holm, former consultant on innovation to a number of governments and Australian and Chinese companies; Chintay Shih, science and technology advisor to the government of Taiwan; Mei Meng, founder of the Tsinghua University Science Park (TusPark); and many others.
Russia will be represented at the event by Skolkovo Foundation President, Viktor Vekselberg; Deputy Minister of Economic Development, Stanislav Voskresenskij; Deputy Mayor of Moscow for economic policy, Andrei Sharonov; and many others.
“The previous “technology wave” that generated global changes in the global economy in the last third of the 20th and at the beginning of the 21st century was spurred not only by innovative entrepreneurship geniuses, but also by a relatively narrow and little-known group of professional managers who fostered a favourable environment for innovation in their countries, thus creating the world's leading innovation centres. These people can rightly be called the architects of the global innovation system. The experience of the world’s gurus in the field of innovation is extremely useful in the implementation of Russia’s national innovation project,” said Skolkovo Foundation Vice President for Government and Public Relations Stanislav Naumov, explaining the idea behind the summit.
According to him, projects like the Skolkovo Innovation Centre and the renaissance of Soviet ‘Science Cities’ are unique in their scale and ambition and are of considerable interest to the world’s leading innovation managers.
The upcoming summit’s main objective is to facilitate a dialogue between the world’s most respected managers and representatives from federal and regional innovation development institutions; to ensure support for Russia’s ongoing innovation processes from the global innovation elite; and to establish a permanent centre of competence in the field of innovative development based on the Club of Innovation Economy Creators.
On the first day of the summit, the innovation gurus will come together to discuss vital topics such as “The architecture of innovative development centres: Global experience and the Russian approach,” “Building an environment for the reproduction of innovation: Global trends and the Russian case,” “Regional innovative growth centres: Tools, technology, and business approaches,” as well as hold a series of master classes under the title, “Technologies for creating innovation centres.”
On the second day of the summit, 20 April, the globally recognised innovators will hold another series of master classes, this time dedicated to questions of incubating innovative start-ups, attracting venture capital, and creating effective infrastructure for technology parks. The master classes are open to students of Skolkovo Open University (OpUS), Moscow State University undergraduate and graduate students, and participants of the Open Innovation Union project.
Highlights of the Summit of Innovation Economy Creators:
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The Skolkovo Foundation has the mandate from the Russian Government to help accelerate the transformation of Russia from a resource-intensive to an innovation-based economy through strategic partnerships with leading scientists and corporations (currently numbering over 400 companies and start ups). The Foundation aims to strengthen the links between Russian and international science, technology, education, entrepreneurship and investment communities. To achieve this objective it is overseeing the creation of the Skolkovo Innovation Centre composed of five R&D clusters, a Technopark, the Skolkovo Institute of Technology (a new graduate research university established in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Skolkovo City, located near Moscow. Together these entities will establish a vibrant eco-system of technological innovation and entrepreneurship. The Foundation is a non-profit organisation founded in May 2010 by the Russian Government with a grant of $5 billion.
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