The Seventh Innovation Congress in Astana, May 23-24

The Seventh Innovation Congress in Astana, May 23-24The VII Innovation Congress about Innovative Business - the Way to a Competitive Economy will take place in Astana, May 23-24, 2012. The Congress will be held in the framework of the V Astana Economic Forum. The organizers of the event are National Agency for Technological Development JSC (NATD, JSC) with the support of the Ministry of Industry and New Technologies of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

This year's program includes a plenary session on Development of Innovative Entrepreneurship: Challenges and Solutions and a panel session on Private Investment in Innovation for the Development of Technological Entrepreneurship. An Exhibition of innovative projects is also planned.

The heads of research institutions and development institutions will appear during the Congress: Fraunhofer Institute (Germany), Daedeok Innopolis (South Korea), the Skolkovo Fund (Russia), Argonne National Laboratory (USA), Cambridge University (UK).The guest of honor of the Congress will be Professor Gell-Mann Murray, an American physicist who got Nobel Prize in Physics (1969). In general, the congress will bring together 25 international speakers from Germany, Japan, Korea, Switzerland, Italy, Russia, France, USA, UK, Turkey, Jordan, Latvia, Czech Republic and Malaysia.

One of the main themes of the event will be the financing of innovation. As international experience shows the state should create an attractive environment to stimulate private sector investment. Potential business angels in Kazakhstan, with the opportunity to invest their own funds, should become a reliable source of funding for early stages innovation to develop technological entrepreneurship in the country through business angels organized work - Aydin Kulseitov, the authorized person of National Agency for Technological Development, JSC said.






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