European Commission
Commissionner Màire Geoghegan-Quinn - Research, Innovation and Science

Andreu Mas-Colell is a Professor of Economics (Catedrático) at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain and Chairman of the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics. Until September 2010 he acted as the General Secretary of the European Research Council.

Formerly he was Professor of Economics at Harvard University (1981-96) and Professor of Economics and Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley (1972-80). He has been a Sloan Fellow and Guggenheim Fellow.

He holds Honoris Causa Doctorates from the universities of Alacant, Toulouse, HEC (Paris) and Universidad Nacional del Sur (Argentina). He has received the Rey Juan Carlos I Prize in Economics and the Pascual Madoz (National Research Prize).

He has served as main Editor of the Journal of Mathematical Economics (1985-88), and of Econometrica (1988-92). Professor Mas-Colell is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and was its President in 1993. In 1997 he was elected Foreign Associate to the US National Academy of Sciences and Foreign Honorary Member of the American Economic Association. From 1999 to 2005 he was a member of the Executive Committee of the International Economic Association. In the year 2006 he served as President of the European Economic Association. From 2000 to 2003 he was Minister for Universities and Research of the Government of Catalonia and President of the Advisory Scientific Committee of Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo (2005-2008).

Professor Mas-Colell has written some 100 research papers on subjects ranging from abstract general equilibrium theory and the structure of financial markets to pricing policy for public firms. He is the author of The Theory of General Economic Equilibrium: A Differentiable Approach and co-author of thegraduate textbook Microeconomic Theory

Martin Curley is Director of Intel Labs Europe and a senior principal engineer at Intel Corporation. Intel Labs Europe is a network organization of twenty labs and nine hundred researchers/developers in Europe, with a mission of helping to advance both Intel research and European Competitiveness.

Most recently Martin was Global Director of IT Innovation at Intel. Previously Martin has held a number of senior IT Management positions for Intel in the US and Europe and held management and research positions at General Electric and Philips.

Martin has a degree in Electronic Engineering, a Masters in Business Studies from University College Dublin, Ireland, a PhD in Information Systems from the National University of Ireland, Maynooth and has been a visiting scholar at MIT.

Martin is author or co-author of three books and numerous papers on technology management for value, innovation and entrepreneurship.

Martin is also Professor of Technology and Business Innovation at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth and co-founder/ director of the Innovation Value Institute, helping lead a unique industry-academic open innovation consortium to advance IT management and innovation.

Martin is a frequent international keynote speaker on Innovation and Technology Management and is a fellow of the Institution of Engineers of Ireland and the British Computer Society.

Dominique Foray is Full Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and holds the Chair of Economics and Management of Innovation (CEMI). He is the author of "The Economics of Knowledge" published by MIT Press and translated into many languages.

He served as vice-chairman of the expert group "Knowledge for Growth" in 2007-2009 - a group of prominent economists created to advise Commissioner J. Potočnik (European Commission, DG research). He is also a member of the National Research Council (Switzerland), the Advisory Board of the Swiss Economic Institute (KOF), the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council and the UNECE team on innovation and competitiveness policies (Geneva). He served as the 2009 President of the EPIP (European Policy for Intellectual Property) association.

D. Foray has done consultancy work for UNESCO, OECD, the World Intellectual Property Organization, as well as various national governments. He has developed numerous partnerships with the private sector in the field of innovation strategy and knowledge management. He gives seminars and presentations for many large and medium size enterprises, and consulting companies as well as for governmental agencies and public institutions all over Europe, the US and Canada. Moreover, he has been conducting in-depth research on the Swiss economy, thus developing particular expertise on the relationship between science, innovation and growth in this country.

Bronwyn H. Hall is Professor in the Graduate School at the University of California at Berkeley and Professor of Economics of Technology and Innovation at the University of Maastricht, Netherlands. She is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Institute for Fiscal Studies, London. She is also the founder and partner of TSP International, an econometric software firm.

Professor Hall currently serves as an associate editor of the Economics of Innovation and New Technology and Industrial and Corporate Change and as advisory editor of Research Policy. She is a member of the U.S. Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee, and the Research Advisory Councils of the Deutsche Bundesbank, Innovation Research Centre (University of Cambridge and Imperial College) and Solvay Business School (Brussels).

She is also a past member of the Expert Group on Knowledge for Growth at the European Commission and the Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP) Board of the National Research Council, where she served on the Intellectual Property, R&D statistics, the New Economy, and Comparative Innovation Policy committees.

Hugo Hollanders is an economist and Senior Research Fellow at UNU-MERIT, a joint research institute of Maastricht University and United Nations University, with over 15 years of experience in innovation studies and innovation statistics.

He has been involved in various projects for the European Commission, including the 2000-2007 Trend Chart on Innovation Policies and the 2008-2010 INNO Metrics project. Within these two projects he has been responsible for the annual European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS) for over 8 years and he has (co-)authored more than 20 EIS reports, including reports on measuring regional, sectoral and services innovation, innovation efficiency and creativity and design.

His current research projects focus on regional innovation including work on several EC funded projects as such the Regional Innovation Monitor project, a study for DG REGIO on the impact of technological change on regions' economic and innovation performance and the FP7 funded GPrix project which will assess the effectiveness of regional innovation support measures targeting SMEs in traditional industries.

He is a member of the Netherlands Observatory of Science and Technology (NOWT), the 2007 EC Expert Group on Innovation in Services, and the expert group of the UK innovation index.

Branko Huč is co-founder and Managing Director of a Slovenian start-up company Lenis, d.o.o. established in 2008 with the goal or commercializing the research achievements of participating scientists. Current focus is on development of wound care products from maggot excretions/secretions, and industrial uses of extremophilic microorganisms.

Branko is a pharmacist with a Ph.D. in Medicinal Chemistry and 10 years of laboratory R&D experience. He participated in diabetes drug discovery and developed clinical chemistry reagents in two American start-up companies.

He worked in business development and coordinated an international network of over 20 affiliated companies in Slovenian generic pharmaceutical companies Krka and Lek. As Lek representative in the USA he was an instrumental member of the management team that grew Lek US business from about $10 million to over $250 million in 3 years. The company was acquired by Novartis and after serving for one year on the Executive Committee at Sandoz Inc. Branko became an independent consultant focusing on international business development in 2005.

Henning Kagermann serves as President of Acatech - German Academy of Science and Engineering since 2010 and he is a member of Wipro Board of Directors.

Prior to joining Acatech, Dr Kagermann was Chief Executive Officer of SAP AG, till 2009. He was also Professor of Physics and Computer Science at the University of TU Braunschweig and University of Mannheim, Germany.

Professor Kagermann has appointments in several Supervisory Boards in industry and he is currently a member of the following bodies: the senate of the Max Planck Society, the senate of the Fraunhofer Society and the senate of the Foundation Lindau Nobel Prize Winners Meetings.

Franco Malerba is Professor of Industrial Economics at Bocconi University. He is Director of the Bocconi research center KITeS (Knowledge Internationalization and Technology Stusies). He has been President of the International Schumpeter Society and of EARIE (European Association of Research in Industrial Economics). He is editor of Industrial and Corporate Change, advisory editor of Research Policy and the International Journal of Industrial Organization and on the editorial board of the Journal of Evolutionary Economics. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Max Planch Institute of Economics at Jena.

He has published books and articles on the economics of innovation, industrial dynamics, industrial economics, theory of the firm, competition and industrial dynamics, the European ICT industry, the Italian national system of innovation, competition, industrial and technology policies, and European public policy.

He has coordinated several EU projects of DG Research and DG INFSO. His research collaborations include the European Commission, OECD, American National Science Foundation, ENEA (Italian Energy Agency), the Italian Ministry of Science and Technology, the Italian Ministry of Industry, Italian Confindustria, the Lombardy Region and the American Enterprise Institute.

Dr Erkki Ormala is the Vice President, Business Environment, Corporate Relations and Responsibility at Nokia Corporation.

He served as the Secretary of the Science and Technology Policy Council of Finland from 1987 until 1999. In 1992 he led an international evaluation of the economic and social impacts of the Eureka Scheme. From 1996 to 1999 he was the Chairman of the Technology and Innovation Policy Working Group of the OECD. In 2004 he chaired the Five-Year-Assessment of the EU Research Programmes covering 1999-2003.

Since May 2008 he has been the President and Chairman of the Executive Board of Digitaleurope. He is also a member of the Board of University of Oulu.

Dr. Helmar Rendez is the Head of Business Unit Distribution Vattenfall Business Group Central Europe.

From 2007 until April 2010 he was member of the Executive Group Management of Vattenfall AB responsible for Strategies. Previously, he was member of the WEMAG AG Management Board responsible for Finance, HR and Sales, authorized officer of Vattenfall Europe AG and Managing director of Vattenfall Europe Business Services GmbH with responsibility for Customer Services, Logistics and Real estates. He was the Head of Integration Management Office and Head of Corporate Development of Vattenfall Europe AG, as well as Head of Corporate Development of VEAG Vereinigte Energiewerke AG and Head of Service Management of management consultants Kienbaum Unternehmensberatung GmbH.

He has studied economic engineering at Berlin Technical University and holds a PhD in engineering.

Dr Ammon Salter is a Reader in Innovation Management in the Innovation & Entrepreneurship Group at Imperial College Business School, co-Director of the Innovation Studies Centre and a Fellow of the Advanced Institute of Management Research.

In 2009, he was appointed Research Director of the UK Innovation Research Centre, a joint venture between Imperial College London and the University of Cambridge designed to advance the impact of innovation research on policy and practice.

He has worked on numerous research projects with public and private organizations, including HM Treasury, the European Commission, the Royal Society, the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills, the Ove Arup Foundation, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Sun Microsystems, Arup and WS Atkins.

He has written three books and published over 30 papers in leading academic journals including Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Industrial and Corporate Change, and Research Policy.

His research focuses on the sources and determinants of innovation, exploring how firms use external sources of knowledge to help them innovate more successfully. His most recent paper, published in MIT Sloan Management Review, explores how firms can find a successful balance between open innovation and intellectual property.

Since June 2008 Marek Serafin has been a member of the PKN ORLEN Management Board responsible for petrochemical operations, environmental protection, research & development, capital expenditures and energy sector. In the PKN ORLEN Capital Group spread across Central and Eastern Europe, he serves as chairman of the ANWIL SA and Basell Orlen Polyolefins Supervisory Boards as well as Vice President of Unipetrol (Czech Republic). Based chiefly in Plock and Warsaw he leads teams at PKN ORLEN responsible for modernizing production capacity in Poland, Lithuania and the Czech Republic. Marek Serafin also oversees advanced R&D work on polyolefins and second generation biofuels.

An active member of the Polish Chamber of the Chemical Industry (PIPC) he also participates in events organized by The European Petrochemical Association.

Marek Serafin has a civil engineering degree from the Poznan University of Technology as well as an MBA from Warsaw University of Technology Business School. Before joining PKN ORLEN he served as the General Director of several companies in the steel industry including ArcelorMittal Group.