B R ICS II BRICS Workshop Invited Speakers and Project Participants Rio de Janeiro, 25 - 27 de abril de 2007 Adilson de Oliveira - Professor, Economics Institute, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Alexander Belyaev - Director, Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge Centre for Financial Studies - Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation Alexander Khlunov - Director, Department for Science and Innovation Policy, Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation Alexander Sokolov - Deputy Director, Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge- Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation Ana Arroio - RedeSist and Industrial Federation of Rio de Janeiro – FIRJAN, Brazil Antônio Carlos Galvão - Director of Center for Strategic Studies, Ministry of Science and Technology, Brazil Claude Serfati - Professor, Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France Carlos Eduardo Young - Professor, Economics Institute, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Carlos Gadelha - Professor, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation - Fiocruz, Brazil Carlos Ganem - Head of Institutional Articulation Area of Brazilian Innovation Agency, Finep, Ministry of Science and Technology, Brazil Celio Hiratuka - Professor, Economics Institute, University of Campinas, Brazil Conceição Vedovelho - Brazilian Innovation Agency, Finep, Ministry of Science and Technology, Brazil Cristina Lemos - Researcher, RedeSist and Brazilian Innovation Agency, Finep, Ministry of Science and Technology, Brazil Dinesh K. Abrol - Researcher, National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies, New Delhi, India Fabio Stallivieri - Researcher, RedeSist, Economics Institute, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Fernando Sarti - Professor, Economics Institute, University of Campinas, Brazil François Chesnais - Professor, Université de Paris XIII, France Glenda Kruss - Researcher, Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa Graziela Zucoloto - Researcher, RedeSist, Economics Institute, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Gustavo Crespi - International Development Research Center, Uruguay Helena M. M. Lastres - Professor, RedeSist, Brazilian Institute for Scientific and Technological Information and Economics Institute, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 1 http://brics.redesist.ie.ufrj.br/semi B R ICS Hildete Pereira de Melo - Professor, Economics Institute, Fluminense Federal University and RedeSist, Brazil Jo Lorentzen - Researcher, Human Sciences Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa João Lizardo Hermes de Araújo - General Director, Electric Energy Research Center, Cepel, Brazil João Saboia - Director, Economics Institute, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Jorge Brito - Professor, RedeSist and Economics Institute, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil Josephilda Nhlapo-Hlope - Development Bank of South Africa José Eduardo Cassiolato - Professor, RedeSist, Economics Institute, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil José Luis Fiori - Professor, Economics Institute, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil José Maldonado - Professor, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation - Fiocruz, Brazil José Marcelo Goulart de Miranda - International Unit, Brazilian Agency for Support of Micro and Small Enterprises, Sebrae, Brazil K.J. Joseph - Professor, Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum, India Léa Velho - Professor, University of Campinas, Brazil Leonid Gohkberg - Vice-Rector of Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation Lucia Melo - President of Center for Strategic Studies, Ministry of Science and Technology, Brazil Luis Manoel Fernandes - Vice-Minister, Ministry of Science and Technology, Brazil Luiz Antonio Rodriguez Elias - Secretary for Technology and Innovation, Science and Technology Ministry, Brazil Luiz Carlos Barboza - Director, Brazilian Agency for Support of Micro and Small Enterprises, Sebrae, Brazil Luiz Martins de Melo - Professor, Economics Institute, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Makhosini Mashele - Head of the International Technology Intelligence Unit of the Department of Science and Technology, South Africa Marcelo Matos - Researcher, RedeSist, Economics Institute, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Márcia Siqueira Rapini - Researcher, RedeSist, Economics Institute, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Marcos Lima - Professor, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil Maria Aparecida Stallivieri - Head of Staff of Brazilian Innovation Agency, Finep, Science and Technology Ministry, Brazil Maria da Graça Fonseca - Professor, Economics Institute, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Mariano Laplane - Professor, Economics Institute, University of Campinas, Brazil 2 http://brics.redesist.ie.ufrj.br/semi B R ICS Marina Szapiro - Researcher, RedeSist, Economics Institute, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Nina Kazakova - Professor, Faculty of Management of Production Systems, Saratov State Technical University, Moscow, Russian Federation Odilon Marcuzzo do Canto – President, Brazilian Innovation Agency, Finep, Ministry of Science and Technology, Brazil Pablo Felipe Bittencourt - Researcher, RedeSist, Economics Institute, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Paulo César Rezende de Carvalho Alvim – Manager, Access to the Innovation and Technology, Brazilian Agency for Support of Micro and Small Enterprises, Sebrae Brazil Priscila Koeller - Researcher, Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, IBGE, and RedeSist, Economics Institute, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Rainer Walz - Deputy Head, Sustainability and Infrastructures Department, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research, Karlsruhe, Germany Rosemary Wolson - Researcher, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa Samuel P. Guimarães Neto – Vice-Minister, Ministry of Foreign Relations, Brazil Sérgio Rezende – Minister, Ministry of Science and Technology, Brazil Stanislav Zaichenko - Researcher, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation Sunil Mani - Professor, Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum, India Tatiana Kuznetsova - Director, Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge Centre for S&T, Innovation and Information Policy - Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation Valéria Judice - Don Cabral Foundation – FDC, Brazil Victor Prochnik - Professor, Economics Institute, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Vinicius Lages - Manager of International Unit, Sebrae - Brazilian Agency for Support of Micro and Small Enterprises, Brazil Virginia Vitorino - Analysis and Monitoring of Research Policies around the World Directorate D, DG Research, European Commission, Brussels - EU Yury Victorovich Chebotarevsky - Rector of Saratov State Technical University, Moscow, Russian Federation 3 http://brics.redesist.ie.ufrj.br/semi