- Program
The program for the two and a half day conference will be divided into an opening ceremony, four plenary sessions, and fourteen parallel sessions on specific topics. Each session and discussion is distinct and unique in content and emphasis.
Attention is focused on the role to be played by STPs in responding to the global challenge of climate change and the environmental/energy crisis, a topic embodied by the expression: ˇ°Global Green Growth.ˇ± Talks will consider distinct aspects of this new developmental model for the world, its implications for regions and the role that STPs should take in leading the way.
The presentations and discussions in plenary sessions I and III are connected by the common theme of Global Green Growth, while plenary sessions II and IV are primarily concerned with STPs. Plenary session I focuses on policy and innovation systems with experts from the fields of government, academia & STPs, and plenary session III takes up the topic of the commercialization of green technology with the participation of business, academia and STPs.
Following the plenary sessions I and III, respectively. Speakers for plenary sessions I and III will be invited directly by the Steering Committee. Therefore papers submitted for these sessions will be for inclusion in the Conference Proceedings only (see notes on pages 3, 5 and 7). The rest of the plenary and parallel sessions offer the usual options (oral presentation and/or publication in the Conference Proceedings).
The 14 parallel sessions will address three main topics: 8 sessions for the next generation STPs of each nation and region, 2 sessions for the current technology foresights, 4 sessions for SMEs and regional development, etc.
The highlight of this conference will be the announcement of the ˇ°Daedeok Green Initiative,ˇ± the articulation of a new paradigm for global green growth in STPs based on the consensus among participants. The Daedeok Green Initiative will lay the foundations for a new developmental and industrial model.
- Submission of Abstracts
- Notification to Authors
- Submission of Full Papers
- Notification to Authors
- 23 October 2009
- 23 November 2009
- 23 February 2010
- 26 March 2010
- Requests for Submission of Full Papers
Papers should be prepared in Word format, using 11 point Times New Roman Font, single line spacing and 25mm margins at the sides of each page. Power Point and "pdf" formats will not be taken in.
Policy and Innovation Systems for Global Green Growth
(Speakers from 3 fields: government, STP management and academia)
Green growth implies a quantum leap in how we conceive growth, technology and the economy at every level. All systems of science, government and academia must be rethought to accommodate such a transformation in both the STP and the nation as a whole. But equally necessary is the creation of effective systems to promote innovation in emerging and existing technologies. How can STPs become the leading institutions in institutional and technological innovation and how can they serve as models for the rest of the economy and society? This session will consider the essential challenges to creating effective policy and innovation systems for green growth that can liberate us from a carbon-dependent economy and give hope for a long-term solution to the challenge of climate change.
- Possible topics for papers:
- Strategies for encouraging innovation within national innovation systems in green technologies.
- Imagining the national innovation systems as the engine leading a global green transformation of business and manufacturing.
- Creating consensus and momentum for green growth between divergent groups.
- Making the national innovation system itself sustainable by applying the technology it develops to its own environment.
- Effective models for innovation in government, R&D, technology transfer, commercialization, financial systems, training and development and the transformation of culture and institutions around the world.
- Responding to the challenge of the ˇ°green divideˇ± between nations and regions: how to encourage cooperation through innovation.
- Note:
Papers for this session will be considered for publication in the conference proceedings only, and not for oral presentation at the conference.
Plenary 1 will only be composed of speakers invited by the Conference Steering Committee. Paper proposals submitted through the Call for Papers for this session will be for inclusion in the Conference Proceedings (subject to approval by the Steering Committee). The same technical specifications apply to this session as per pages 15-17.
The Role of the STPs in Economic Development:
Retrospect and Prospect
The STP has experienced major shifts in its ecosystem over the last few years as the world economy is subject to rapid changes in the cost of energy, contraction in the availability of finance and debates over the importance of government and global institutions. Such an environment offers a golden opportunity to rethink globally the role of the STP in economic development both locally and regionally. How has the transformation of the global economy, innovation in technology, the emergence of brain networks and the dominant concepts of ˇ°openness and convergence,ˇ± knowledge-based economy, green growth and innovation cluster transformed the landscape in which the STP finds itself? This session will consider the history of the STP and its prospects for the future.
- Possible topics for papers:
- Successful strategies of STPs in responding to the global financial crisis through innovation and international collaboration.
- The Financial crisis: encouraging protectionism or inspiring higher levels of international collaboration?
- Responding to the challenge of convergence, international accessibility and financial constraints.
- Implementing Copenhagen: The Copenhagen convention will have set out a range of ambitious goals for the world that require radical reconstruction of economies, new priorities in R&D and a rethinking of habits and culture. What will the STPs role be in the implementation of the Copenhagen agenda?
- What are the prospects for close collaboration between STPs post-Copenhagen?
- What incentive systems can be constructed to effectively encourage the commercialization of technologies of STPs and apply them to the challenge of climate change? How can we establish effective incentive systems for the long haul?
Commercialization for Global Green Growth
(Speakers from 3 fields: business, STP management and academia with a focus on business concerns)
The global challenge of climate change, combined with the financial crisis, has led to a fundamental reevaluation of commercialization and the rapid and effective implementation of new technologies. Transparency, innovation and collaboration are increasingly demanded to effectively commercialize and realize the full potential of technologies for the environment. This plenary session will consider effective means of evaluating the potential of technologies, encouraging their development and commercialization and securing the financing required for commercialization from diverse sources globally.
- Possible topics for papers:
- Financing commercialization for universities, government and businesses: new challenges, new innovations.
- The special needs in commercialization of STPs in emerging economies.
- Intellectual Property, green growth and innovation in the commercialization process.
- Creating win-win alliances for commercialization globally.
- Attracting venture capital and intellectual capital in commercialization of green growth.
- The role of MNCs (Multinational Corporations) in the commercialization of green growth and the response of SMEs and STPs.
- Regional and developmental variations in commercialization for green technologies: finding the perfect fit.
- Note:
Papers for this session will be considered for publication in the conference proceedings only, and not for oral presentation at the conference.
Plenary 3 will only be composed of speakers invited by the Conference Steering Committee. Paper proposals submitted through the Call for Papers for this session will be for inclusion in the Conference Proceedings (subject to approval by the Steering Committee). The same technical specifications apply to this session as per pages 15-17.
Global Collaboration in Technology Capacity Building:
Encouraging the Diffusion of STP Best Practices
One of the most important roles of IASP is the introduction of successful models for the planning and administration of STPs to local and central governments that desire to establish their own STPs to aid technological and economic development. The diffusion of best practices to increase technological capacity is a critical element in this process, one made even more essential by the emergence of global challenges to the environment, energy and food.?
In order for local governments to establish successful STPs and business incubation, know-how must be introduced, including the specific history, culture and industrial-business precedents of successful STPs and innovation program. That process is intimately linked to the larger challenge of increasing national competitiveness through international collaboration.
Therefore attempts to promote global collaboration in technology capacity building must be linked to a firm understanding by decision makers of the implications of that project for national and regional competitiveness. How can examples of best practices in STPs be accurately and effectively passed on to central and local government, and businesses? How can those best practices be made relevant to the present moment and shifting economic and technological conditions?
- Possible topics for papers:
- Successful experiences in STPs and national competitiveness: the essential link.
- New horizons for the STP movement. The next models. Are there significant qualitative changes in perspective?
- What can be, or cannot be, transferred from one successful cluster to an emerging cluster: The cultural, historical and developmental limits of best practices and strategies.
- How can STPs strategies and models from one place best be applied and adapted to other places? And in particular, how can Asia make best use of other STPs experiences and adapt them to its features and needs?
