Cultures of innovation: The innovation ecosystem today

Cultures of innovation: Past, Present and Future

How did China, India, Japan, Singapore and Switzerland reach their respective levels of industrialisation and adoption of technology in people’s daily lives?

In a series of three webinars, we will explore the past, the present and the future of the cultures of innovation with leading experts and policy makers from these countries. We will also explore the success of transferring the results of academic research to industry. The series is organised by the Embassy of Switzerland in India and swissnex India, together with swissnex China, and the Swiss Science and Technology Offices in Japan and Singapore, supported by the Swiss public diplomacy initiative in India, Swiss It!

In this webinar we examine the current science, technology and innovation policies in India, Singapore and Switzerland and the role that they play in creating and nurturing innovation ecosystems.

Date: Tuesday, 13 October 2020: 09:00 – 10:00

Speakers

India: Dr. Rama Swami Bansal, Senior Principal Scientist, and Head, International Science and Technology Affairs Directorate, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research

Singapore: Mr Tuang Liang Lim, Executive Director, RIE Coordination Office, National Research Foundation

Switzerland: Dr Christian Busch, Scientific Advisor, Innovation Unit, State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation and Mr. Michael Hilb, Founder and CEO, DPB Group.