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Appendix B: Biographies of Speakers
Appendix B: Biographies of Speakers
Pages 158-174
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After a career as corporate manager in the banking sector, he became principal administrator at the European Commission dealing with enterprise policy, in particular the financing of European enterprises. He was special adviser to the Belgian President of the Industry Council during the Belgian Presidency of the European Union before becoming deputy head of cabinet to the Walloon minister of economics, dealing with research, entrepreneurship, and financing.
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After 16 years in the chemical industry as well in a multinational as in a mediumsized company, he started working at Fedichem, the Federation of the Belgian Chemical Industries, where he is responsible for product and innovation policy with activities on the Flemish, Belgian, and European levels. He is a member of the European Chemical Industry Council Innovation Planning Group, SusChem, and the board of the Belgian Normalisation, and he is the author of a book on REACH, the coming European legislation on chemicals.
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He has published over 150 articles and book chapters in this field. Publications have appeared in Research Policy, Scientometrics, Journal of Product Innovation Management, R&D Management, Technovation, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Small Business Economics, Proceedings of the American Academy of Management, International Journal of Management Reviews, EMBO Reports, Research Evaluation, The Economics of Innovation and New Technology, International Journal of Technology Management, Journal of High Technology, Management Research, Creativity and Innovation Management, The Journal of Technology Transfer, and Research Technology Management.
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Koenraad Debackere is also actively engaged in technology transfer activities as managing director of K.U.Leuven research and development and chairman of Gemma Frisius Fonds (the venture fund) of the K.U.Leuven.
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In those initial years, he was also chairmanfounder of the chapter on biomedical engineering of the Belgian Engineering Society (Flemish section) and director of Meditek, the Flemish government body created to promote Academia to Industry Technology Transfer in the area of biomedical engineering.
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Households," and has recently initiated a new project on "Exploring the Digital Divide: Regional Differences in Patterns of Internet Use in the U.S." He continues to work with the semiconductor industry research consortium, International SEMATECH, and is building a return-oninvestment-based prototype to add economic logic to SEMATECH's industry investment model. He also is a member of the National Research Council's Committees on the Future of Supercomputing, Measuring and Sustaining the
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Among the latter are Mismanaged Trade? Strategic Policy and the Semiconductor Industry (1996)
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In 1987 Dr. Goodall joined ADE in Boston, a leading producer of advanced measurement systems for the semiconductor industry.
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Fientje Moerman Fientje Moerman is the vice minister-president of the Flemish Government and Flemish minister for Economy, Enterprise, Science, Innovation and Foreign Trade, a post she has held since 2004. She received her law degree from the University of Ghent (honors)
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In 2003, she became minister for Economy, Energy, Foreign Trade and Science Policy, and in 2004 she became vice minister-president of the Flemish Government and Flemish Minister for Economy, Enterprise, Science, Innovation and Foreign Trade.
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, SEMATECH, Semiconductor Research Corporation, the Bay Area Economic Forum, and Dubai Silicon Oasis, and was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations Economic Task Force on Japan. He participates on advisory committees at the College of Engineering at Purdue University and is a member of the California Council on Science and Technology Fellows Program.
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He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and serves on numerous advisory groups and boards, including the Committee on Comparative Innovation Policy at the National Research Council. He was the Regents Professor at the University of California in the spring of l998.
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Spyns returned in 2002 to academia (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) where he became a postdoc senior researcher in the field of ontology engineering and the semantic web.
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Mr. Turner's work has been recognized over the years through awards presented by the American Mathematical Society, American National Standards Institute, American Society for Mechanical Engineering, ASTM International, Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer, Federal Patent Law Association, National Institute for Building Science, Semiconductor Industry Association, Technology Transfer Society, U.S.
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, the role of entrepreneurial universities in economic development, science-technology interactions in conjunction with technological development trajectories, and knowledge intensive ventures. Bart Van Looy is also actively engaged in the European Institute of Advanced Studies in Management (EIASM)
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Alan Wolff also serves as chairman of the Advisory Board of The Institute for Trade & Commercial Diplomacy, and is currently a member of the National Research Council's Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy, the U.S. Department of State's Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy, the Advisory Committee of the Institute for International Economics, the Advisory Board of the Economic Strategy Institute, the Board of Trustees of the United States Council for International Business, the Board of Advisors of the American
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He is a member of the bar in Massachusetts, New York, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Court of International Trade, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the Supreme Court of the United States.
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