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May 24 - 25, 2011

Conference

Meeting Global Challenges: German - U.S. Innovation Policy

Date

May 24 - 25, 2011

Location

Meistersaal am Potsdamer Platz
Köthener Straße 38
10963 Berlin (Mitte)

The German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) and the National Academies of Sciences (NAS) are pleased to invite you to
the conference.

High ranked representatives from politics, academics and private business discussed the latest development in the field of innovation and education policies. The overall goal of the meeting is to better understand our common challenges and opportunities in several important areas relating to innovation policy, including:

  • Best practice lessons from both nations' innovation systems in order to identify how our respective innovation capacities can be improved and what steps might be taken to accelerate progress;
  • Comparisons of U.S. and German approaches for stimulating and capitalizing on innovation in critical industrial sectors such as biomedical, electric mobility, and clean energy; and
  • Common challenges and areas for cooperation where innovative technologies are needed to address national and global concerns.
     

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