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The European Commission and the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation are pleased to have been hosts of the 2nd European Conference on Corporate R&D (CONCORD-2010), focussing on Corporate R&D – An engine for growth, a challenge for European policy.
Click here to download the final programme
The event was organised by the JRC's Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) and the Spanish Centre for Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI) under the auspices of the Spanish Presidency of the EU Council and also forms part of the Industrial Research Monitoring Analysis (IRMA) activities of the European Commission's Directorates Joint Research Centre (JRC) and Research (RTD).
Over 200 people participated in the academic forum on the first day, and more than 500 attended the practitioners' and policy makers' forum on the second Conference day.
CONCORD aims to link science, business, and policy making by being structured around a series of policy relevant questions and thereby seeks to understand the policy implications of scientific findings. In particular, it addresses the dynamics of corporate R&D, innovation, competitiveness and economic growth.
The main objectives of the Conference are
- To provide a platform for discussing corporate R&D (from analytical / research perspective) and the way stimulate spending on R&D by policy initiatives
- To bring the community of researchers, policy analysts, policy makers and industry representatives together, share their specific knowledge on the subject and translate the individual insights into sound support to policy making
- To provide relevant input and sound support to the European policy making and to outline blank spots for further investigation
The 2010 Conference took place on March 3rd – 4th in Seville / Spain with the first day being a forum for academics and practitioners and the second devoted to the policy dimension of corporate R&D, based on the most relevant policy outcomes of the first day debate.
Venue: IPTS (3rd March), FIBES (4th March)
Click here to view the website of the 2007 CONCORD Conference
