title：strategic innovation programs in europe and china: trends, issues, challenges
speaker：sylvia schwaag serger, executive director, international strategy and networks, vinnova, and senior research fellow, school of economics, university of lund
venue: room 609, sppm
time: 14:00-16:00, 8th november, 2013
language: english
abstract:
the seminar will focus on nordic and european attempts to promote strategic and systemic innovation and address trends, issues and challenges in this area. a few concrete examples of nordic and european innovation policies will be presented including examples of nordic agencies' but also the european commission's strategic innovation programs and programs aimed at raising firms' innovative capacity. these will be compared with some recent chinese innovation policies and initiatives. the presentation will be based on the insights from being a member of a high-level expert group under the leadership of former finnish prime minister esko aho, which has been put together by the european commission to evaluate the european innovation partnerships.
bio of speaker:
ms. schwaag serger received an ma in international relations from the paul h. nitze school of advanced international studies (sais) at the johns hopkins university in 1992 and a phd in economic history from the london school of economics and political science (lse) in 1997.
ms schwaag serger joined vinnova in 2008. prior to that she was science counselor in beijing. since 2010, ms. schwaag serger is member of the board of the expert group for public economics (eso) under the swedish ministry of finance. from 2008-2011 she chaired a task force on internationalization of innovation for the european association of innovation agencies (taftie). she recently also chaired an expert group on international science, technology and innovation cooperation for the european commission.