Brussels, 9-11 March 2005
Core issues for debate
Europe aims to become the “most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world, capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion”, an achievement which the Lisbon agenda predicts for the year 2010. This session will critically reflect on whether missing links for the desired social inclusion of sciences (through education, intellectual property regimes, cooperation of knowledge areas, political use of precaution, etc.) can be addressed to facilitate the achievement of Lisbon's goals, conversely the risk of ignoring them. The discussion may as well reinforce the belief that European ways of living, cultural preferences and participative modes rooted in democratic traditions may in turn open new routes to innovative processes, thus renewing the scope for creative industrial and service-oriented uses of technologies.
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