Organised jointly by SwissCore and other Swiss Stakeholders in Brussels (eg. the Mission of Switzerland to the European Union, economiesuisse), the Swiss Innovation events are a platform for presenting specific aspects of the Swiss innovation landscape. High level speakers are invited to discuss the selected topic in a European context.
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11 May 2010
Experts' Lunch on Competitiveness
Mauro Dell'Ambrogio, State Secretary for Education and Research, State Secretariat for Education and Research (SER)
Tonnie de Koster, Team Leader Strategic Objective Prosperity, Secretariat General, European Commission
Jennifer Blanke, Director, Senior Economist, Head of Global Competitiveness Network, World Economic Forum
Klaus Müller, Pharmaceutical Research-Science & Technology Relations, F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd
Experts' Lunch: Report by economiesuisse (German)
24 June 2009
Experts' Lunch on Innovation
Franziska Schwarz, Director International Relations, Swiss Federal Office for Professional Education and Technology
Jean-Noël Durvy, Director, DG ENTER, European Commission
Dominique Foray, Professor, EPFL and Vice-Chair of the EU expert group "Knowledge for Growth"
Georg Brodach, Senior Vice-President ABB Europe Ltd
11 June 2008
Internet of Things: Applications emerging from R&D in Switzerland
Marc Langheinrich, Senior Researcher and Lecturer, Institute for Pervasive Computing, ETH Zürich
Karl Aberer, Prof. and Head of the Distributed Information Systems Laboratory, EPF Lausanne
Herbert Bay, CEO and Co-founder, Kooaba
Florent Frederix, Head of Sector, DG INFSO, European Commission
13 September 2006
Magic measures to foster innovation? Swiss lessons learnt from an OECD evaluation
Christoph Caviezel, Director of the Swiss Commission for Technology and Innovation (CTI)
Reinhard Büscher, Head of Unit for Innovation Policy Development, DG ENTR, European Commission
20 March 2003
"Silicon Mountains" Monitoring science, technology and education as motors for innovation in Europe's alpine regions
Christoph Koellreuter, founder and managing director of BAK Basel Economics
Thomas Kübler, deputy director of BAK Basel Economics
Richard Escritt, director, DG Research, European Commission