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IIPP at European Forum debating Green Innovation with Austrian PM, Vancouver Mayor and Jeff Sachs
23 August 2017
Our two debates at Alpbach Forum where Professor Mariana Mazzucato talked on the ‘directionality’ of innovation.
Green Innovation: Urgent and important at once
28 August 2017
Professor Mariana Mazzucato and Professor Jeffrey D Sachs will be making the case on how to transform Europe into a resource efficient, green and decarbonised society – which has become both urgent and important.
Speakers:
Christian Kern, Chancellor, Republic of Austria, Vienna
Wilhelm Molterer, Managing Director, EFSI - European Fund for Strategic Investments, Luxembourg
Gregor Robertson, Mayor, City of Vancouver
Chair
Alexandra Föderl-Schmid, Editor-in-Chief, Der Standard, DerStandard.At, Vienna
Business 2050: Europe’s search for the competitive edge
29 August 2017
What is Europe’s competitive edge? Europe lies between the digital superpower of North America and the expansive economies of Asia. Economically strong but politically increasingly instable, the question is where do European businesses need to develop to keep their competitive edge towards 2050?
Speakers:
Introduction
Professor Mariana Mazzucato
Satjiv Chahil, Silicon Valley Innovations Advisor
Carl-Peter Forster, Member of the Board Volvo Cars Corporation, Hangzhou and Gothenburg
Shahrzad Rafati, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, BroadBandTV Corporation, Vancouver
Chair
Stephen Sackur, Journalist and Presenter of HardTalk, BBC, London