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PROFESSOR HELGA NOWOTNY, PRESIDENT OF THE EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCIL HAS BEEN CONFIRMED AS THE KEYNOTE ADDRESS SPEAKER AT SCITECH EUROPE 2010

The European Commission’s innovation action plan will look at what can be done to help Europe compete with the US, China, India and Japan. Greater partnerships, research collaborations and private investment can help convert leading research and development into marketable products.

One of the stumbling blocks towards this is a risk averse private sector investment strategy in Europe. Institutional investors have tended to have less venture capital than their American counterpart pensions and insurance companies, and are less inclined to back high-risk, high-reward emerging science enterprises.

 How can we deliver a strong European venture capital market to help turn innovation into commercial success?

Second annual SciTech Europe conference will promote breakthrough research, successful innovation networks and potential investment opportunities and illustrate how – by linking knowledge, resources and skills – we can produce harmonised research and development networks that can boost both innovation and investment opportunities.