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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=SL style='font-size:18.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:FR'>VABILO NA PREDAVANJE / INVITATION TO THE LECTURE<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span lang=SL style='font-size:8.0pt;mso-fareast-language:SL'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:center'><b><span lang=SL style='font-size:20.0pt;mso-fareast-language:SL'>prof. dr. Otthein Herzog<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:center'><span lang=FR style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:FR'><br>predstojnik Katedre za umetno inteligenco na Univerzi v Bremnu in član Izvršilnega odbora ACATECH (nemške inženirske akademije)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%'><b><span lang=SL style='font-size:8.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-fareast-language:FR'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%'><b><span lang=SL style='font-size:8.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-fareast-language:FR'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><b><span lang=SL style='font-size:16.0pt;mso-fareast-language:FR'>torek / Tuesday, 23. 10. 2012, ob / at 16:30<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center;page-break-after:avoid'><span lang=FR style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:FR'>velika predavalnica Instituta »Jožef Stefan« / »Jožef Stefan« Institute main lecture hall, Jamova cesta 39, 1000 Ljubljana<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:16.0pt;color:#993366;mso-fareast-language:FR'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:18.0pt;line-height:150%;color:#C00000;mso-fareast-language:FR'>Premostitev razkoraka med izumi in inovacijami / Bridging the Gap between Invention and Innovation<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:18.0pt;line-height:150%;color:#993366;mso-fareast-language:FR'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span lang=FR style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;mso-fareast-language:FR'>Innovation is widely accepted as a crucial driver of economic growth and social welfare. Industrialised and emerging countries equally rely on technological as well as non-technological innovations to remain competitive in world-markets and to improve people’s living conditions. Therefore, innovations have become an integral part of national strategies to tackle the grand global challenges and to foster sustainable growth.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span lang=FR style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;mso-fareast-language:FR'>The presentation will give an overview of recent developments in the German innovation system that aim to bridge the gap between invention and innovation. The experiences with the High-Tech Strategy of the Federal Government, the Innovation Dialogue of the German Chancellor, or the National Platform E-mobility show that the cooperation between different sectors such as science, business, politics and society have become the crucial success factor to strengthen the innovation ecosystem. Furthermore, they also underline that national innovation strategies have to include the international and even global perspective.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span lang=FR style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;mso-fareast-language:FR'>This is one important reason why there is a need for national academies and scientific societies within an international network that play a key role as independent and trusted advisors for society and politics for cultivating innovations.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=FR style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:FR'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#993366;mso-fareast-language:FR'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-fareast-language:FR'>Vljudno vabljeni / Kindly invited<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:SL'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>