The Dragon and the Elephant: Understanding the Developing Innovation Capacity in China and India
September 24th – 25th, 2007
National Academies’ headquarters, 2100 C Street, NW, Washington, DC 20418
The National Academies' Board on Science, Technology and Economic Policy, in collaboration with the State University of New York Levin Graduate Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Urban Institute, and Athena Alliance, will host a conference comparing and contrasting the 2 countries’ growing science and technology capacity, broadly and in key industrial sectors such as software, pharmaceuticals, and telecommunications, and energy.
Confirmed speakers include: Sam Pitroda, Chair, Indian National Knowledge Commission; V.S. Ramamurthy, Chair, Indian Institute of Technology; Mu Rongping, Institute of Policy and Management, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing; Edward Luce, Financial Times Washington Bureau; K. J. Dewoskin, PriceWaterhouseCoopers; Pete Engardio, Business Week Senior Writer; Nicholas Lardy, Peterson Institute for International Economics; AnnaLee Saxenian, UC Berkeley School of Information Management; Lee Ting, WR Hambrecht and Lenovo; and Ashok Vermuri, Infosys Technologies.
A preliminary agenda and registration is available on the STEP Board website.
For additional information please contact Mahendra Shunmoogam, mshunmoogam@nas.edu or (202) 334-2823.
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