OECD-MOST Conference on the Review of China's National Innovation System: Domestic Reform and Global Integration: Programme and presentations

Review of China’s National Innovation System:
Domestic Reform and Global Integration

Conference co-organised by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), China

Beijing, 27 August 2007

Opening Session: Welcome Address and Keynote Speeches
Chaired by: Zhijian HU, Deputy Director-General, Department of Policy, Regulation and Reform, MOST, China

• Xueyong LI, Vice Minister of Science and Technology, China
• Pier Carlo PADOAN, Deputy Secretary-General, OECD
  

Session I: Presentation of the OECD Report: key findings and policy recommendations

Chaired by: Dirk Pilat, Head, Science and Technology Policy Division, Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry (DSTI), OECD

• Jean GUINET, Head, Country Review Unit, Science and Technology Policy Division, DSTI, OECD
• Gang ZHANG, Principal Administrator, Science and Technology Policy Division, DSTI, OECD

Human Resources for S&T in China

• Rongping MU, Director General, Institute for Policy and Management, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Globalisation of R&D and China

• Sylvia SCHWAAG SERGER, Senior Advisor, Swedish Institute for Growth Policy Studies (ITPS), Sweden
• Nannan LUNDIN, Researcher, Research Institute for Industrial Economics (IFN), Sweden

Chinese Innovation policies

• Lan XUE, Professor, Director, China Institute for S&T Policy, Tsinghua University

Comments

• Alan Wm. WOLFF, Managing Partner, Dewey Ballantine, LLP, Washington DC, USA

Session II: Policy Dialogue: Building an enterprise-centered technology innovation system

Chaired by: Alpo KUPARINEN, Deputy Director-General, Ministry of Trade and Industry, Finland

• Xudong GAO, Associate Professor, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, China
• Xinnan LI, Deputy Director-General, Department of Policy, Regulation and Reform, MOST
• Jakob EDLER, Professor, PREST and the Institute of Innovation Research, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK
• Ken WARWICK, Chair of the OECD CIIE and Deputy Chief Economic Adviser, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, UK

Session III: Policy Dialogue: Innovation for social progress and sustainable development

Chaired by: Changlin GAO, Professor, Director of Department of Foresight and Development Research, National Research Center for Science and Technology for Development (NRCSTD), MOST

• Xielin LIU, Professor, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Science
• Adam BLY, CEO and Editor-in-Chief, SEED Media Group
• Magnus GISLEV, First Secretary for Environment, European Commission Delegation in Beijing

Session IV: Policy Dialogue: Innovation and Regional Development

Chaired by: Svend Otto REMØE, Managing Director, Prokontra AS, Norway

• Jin CHEN, Professor, Associate Dean, College of Public Administration, Zhejiang University
• Mark DRABENSTOTT, Chairman, OECD Territorial Development Committee; Director, RUPRI Center for Regional Competitiveness, University of Missouri-Columbia
• Claire NAUWELAERS, Research Director, United Nations University (UNU)-Merit
  

Concluding panel discussion

Moderator: Lan XUE, Professor, Director, China Institute for S&T Policy at Tsinghua University, China

Panelists:

• Jean GUINET, Head of Country Reviews Unit, OECD
• Richard JOHNSON, Vice Chair of the BIAC Science and Technology Policy Committee; Senior Partner, Arnold & Porter LLP
• Kari KVESETH, Director General, International Department, Research Council of Norway
• Pu LI, Deputy Director-General, Department of Policy, Regulation and Reform, MOST
• Xielin LIU, Professor, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Science
• Jing SU, Director, Policy Division, Department of Policy and Reform, MOST, China
  

Closing remarks

• Yong Hong MEI, Director General, Department of Policy, Regulation and Reform, MOST
• Nobuo TANAKA, Director for Science, Technology and Industry, OECD