EU–Russia Cooperation on Innovation
This workshop brought together leading EU and Russian experts from the public, private and academic sectors with policy makers to discuss the rationales, challenges and opportunities to develop cooperation in innovation between the EU and Russia. Most promising areas and activities for innovation cooperation were identified and analysed which could be incorporated in and drive a future “Common Space on Research and Innovation”.
The recommendations will be further discussed during a follow-up workshop to be held in St Petersburg from May 10-12, 2010 and presented at the 1st EU-Russia Innovation Forum which will be held in Lappeenranta (Finland) on May 25-27, 2010.
This workshop can be seen as a follow-up activity of the INNO-Views workshop “Emerging Economies (Brasil – Russia – India – China) and Innovation - Implications for innovation policies in Europe” organised in Brussels on July 9th and 10th, 2009, where experts recommended a policy dialogue in order to define mutual interest, priorities, etc involving all stakeholders in a participatory process.”
At the twenty-fourth EU-Russia Summit in Stockholm on November 18th 2009, President Barroso proposed a partnership for Modernisation between the EU and Russia, in response to President Medvedev’s plan to modernise Russia’s economy and society. This workshop can contribute to define what could be done in the area of innovation by the next Russia-EU summit, scheduled to take place in Rostov-on-Don on May 31st and June 1st 2010.
Background information on EU innovation policy and innovation policy governance can be found at the documentation of the workshop "Improving Governance in European Innovation Policy".
For a view on background info and the presentations with regard to the Antwerp workshop, please see the below pdf-files.
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