Office of Science and Technology Policy
For Immediate Release
Contact: 202/456-6108 |
November 29, 1999 |
Media Advisory
Summit on Innovation:
Federal Policy for the New Millennium
Nationally recognized public- and private-sector leaders will convene at the George Washington University on November 30th and December 1st, 1999 for a national summit on directions and priorities for Federal support of innovation. The findings of the Summit, sponsored by the White House's National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) in association with several key national stakeholder organizations, will instruct the NSTC in developing and implementing an action plan for Federal policy and regulatory reform that will enhance innovation in the new millennium.
The U.S. role in supporting scientific and technological innovation has received growing attention in recent years with a number of reviews and articles on the innovation process and the Federal government's role. The Summit will be the first attempt to develop a specific national action plan and to establish priorities for the Federal role.
NSTC is sponsoring the summit in association
with the Council on Competitiveness, the Industrial Research Institute,
the Science and Technology Policy Institute at RAND, the State Science
and Technology Institute, the Woodrow Wilson Institute, and the Center
for International Science and Technology Policy at the George Washington
University.
This conference is open to the media.
It will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday, November 30th and Wednesday December
1st, and will be held at the George Washington University's Marvin Center
at 800 21st Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.
Conference agenda follows:
Summit on Innovation:
Federal Policy for the New Millennium
Tuesday, November 30 - Wednesday,
December 1, 1999
George Washington University's Marvin
Center
800 21st Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20052
The summit will bring together high-level experts on the innovation process from a broad range of organizations: business, government, non-profit institutions, and the research community. Drawing on these disparate perspectives, it will examine both obstacles to and opportunities for enhanced innovation in areas such as:
Trade Policy for Innovation
Procurement Obstacles to Technology
Innovation
Public-Private Cooperation in Standards
Development
Harmonization of Policies Across Spheres
of Governance
Capital Barriers and Opportunitiers
Talent Pool for Innovation
Partnerships, Antitrust, and Fostering
Competition
Intellectual Property and the National
Innovation System
Peer Review, Priorities, and Performance
in R&D
Awards and Leadership Groups as an
Incentive to Innovate
Government, Data, and Innovation
Using the Internet to Foster Innovation
Agenda
Tuesday November 30, 1999
8:30 a.m. Welcome -- Stephen
Trachtenberg,
President, George Washington
University
8:45a.m. Opening Remarks -- Dr.
Neal Lane,
Assistant to the President
for Science and Technology
9:00 a.m. Keynote --Driving Innovation
in the Post-Cold War Era
Dr. John Young
Former CEO and President,
Hewlett Packard Corporation, and
Co-Chair, President's Committee of
Advisors for Science and Technology
9:30 a.m. Keynote - Innovation
in the 21st Century: New Opportunities
Martin Baily
Chairman, Council of Economic Advisors,
The White House
10:00 a.m. Keynote -- Global R&D:
A Model for Innovation and Economic Leadership
Gordon Brunner
Chief Technology Officer
The Procter & Gamble Company
10:30 a.m. Break
10:45 a.m. Panel Discussion
Moderator: Dr. Nicholas
Vonortas
Center for International Science and
Technology Policy, The George Washington Univeristy
Confirmed Panelists:
Mr. Gary Bachula, Deputy Undersecretary
of Commerce, Technology
Dr. Ruth Kirschstein, Deputy Director,
NIH
Mr. Ronald Blackwell, AFL-CIO
Dr. Shirley Jackson, President, Renssalaer
Polytechnic Institute
Dr. Adam Jaffe, Brandeis University
Dr. Peter Levin, Techno Ventures Management
12:15 p.m. Q&A
12:45 p.m. Lunch
1:45 p.m. Policy Formulation
Session I
Breakout topics:
3:15 p.m. Break
3:30 p.m. Policy Formulation
Session II
(repeat of Session I
breakout topics)
5:00 p.m. Conclude Sessions
5:15 p.m. Reception in Indian
Treaty Room, Old Executive Office Building
Remarks by Senator John D. Rockefeller,
IV (D-WV)
Wednesday December 1, 1999
8:30 a.m. Welcome -- Dr. Duncan
Moore
Associate Director for
Technology
Office of Science and
Technology Policy
8:35 a.m. Opening Remarks --
Mr. Mortimer Downey
Deputy Secretary, Transportation
8:45 a.m. Reports from Policy
Formulation Sessions
Moderated by Mr.
Mortimer Downey
Deputy Secretary, Transportation
10:30 a.m. Break
10:45 a.m. Reports from Policy Formulation Sessions (continued)
12:00 p.m. Wrap-up Discussion
of Findings and Recommendations
Dr. Lewis Branscomb,
Harvard University
12:30 p.m. Summit Concludes