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Technopolis consultants are happy to take opportunities to present work for consideration and discussion in professional and academic fora. The diary shows some of the events over the next few months where we will be making presentations.
23 March - Tomas Åström and Tommy Jansson will be presenting on the subject of 'Focus on Impact Analysis' for the Swedish Agency for Public Management.
30 March - Tomas Åström presents on “Long-term impacts of R&D investments in West Sweden” at the high-level seminar “West Sweden's future at stake – what should its future priorities be?” in Gothenburg.
15 June - Patries Boekholt will present on the subject "Evaluationregimes: an international comparison of modes of evaluation" on a joint conference by the Institute for Research Information and Quality Assurance (iFQ) and the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB) in Berlin.
Technopolis to assess future EU Environmental Technologies Action Plan
As a follow up of the 2004 ETAP (Environmental Technologies Action Plan) a new Eco-Innovation Action Plan is now under development.
In order to improve the development, dissemination and promotion of environmental technologies in Europe the EC started ETAP (Environmental Technologies Action Plan) in 2004. For the next five years ETAP should be broadened and include not only environmental technologies, but all environmental innovations. A new Eco-Innovation Action Plan is now under development and Technopolis was asked by DG Environment to assess the possible impacts of this new plan.
Together with the Wuppertal Institute Technopolis will in the next three months
assess the rationale for the intervention at EU level, based on the 'systems
of innovation' approach. Various options will be developed (including
a 'no action' option) and analysed. Evaluations and other experiences
from a large number of EU and national environmental innovation programmes will
be used in the assessment. Workshops with stakeholders and representatives of
Member States will be included in the project.
Sirin Elci, the Founder and Director of our Turkish Office, has been invited to participate in the US Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship.
This global initiative launched by President Obama in Cairo in June 2009, will get underway in Washington, D.C. in Spring 2010. In addition to Şirin Elçi of Technopolis, the Turkish participants are Bülent Çelebi of Airties; Nevzat Aydın of Yemek Sepeti; Fatih İşbecer of Pozitron; and Baybars Altuntaş of Deulcom International.
In his Cairo speech, President Obama announced he would "host a Summit on Entrepreneurship to identify how we can deepen ties between business leaders, foundations and social entrepreneurs in the United States and Muslim communities around the world." More than 700 entrepreneurs were nominated by US Embassies around the world and via the Entrepreneur Summit website.
President Obama and other high-ranking US government officials will participate
in the Summit, along with entrepreneurs and stakeholders from around the world
who are invested in advancing entrepreneurship in Muslim communities. Beyond
establishing a forum for discussion, Summit organizers hope to establish a platform
for attendees and others to build enduring partnerships that will create economic
opportunity and change lives.
Technopolis opens its 9th Office in Germany
Join the celebrations to mark the official opening of the German office on Monday 1st February in Berlin.
We will celebrate the opening of the new office on Monday, February 1st from 5 pm on at 'Habel Weinkultur',