Award Ceremony for the 2012 EARTO Innovation Prize

The award ceremony for the 2012 EARTO Innovation Prize will be held in Brussels in the late afternoon of December 4th. The EARTO Innovation Prize is awarded, on the basis of an open competition adjudicated by an independent jury, to a member of EARTO in recognition of its contribution to an innovation of significant economic and/or social impact.

The President of EIRMA and Director of SOLVAY Future Businesses, Leopold Demiddeleer, has kindly accepted to make the awards this year. An added highlight will be the publication of a report that EARTO has commissioned from Technopolis Group on the appropriate balance of public investment in "basic" and "applied" research.

It will stress the need to take a systemic view of innovation, with adequate space for both curiosity-driven research and mission-oriented work, where the role of government is not just to fund research but to ensure that the links between the different actors and functions within the innovation system operate effectively. The report, which will derive consequences for Horizon 2020, will be presented by the Chairman of Technopolis Group, Erik Arnold.

More information on the programme and registration can be found here (PDF).