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style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">VABILO NA
INŠTITUTSKO PREDAVANJE /<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"> INVITATION TO
THE INSTITUTE LECTURE<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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align=center><B><FONT face=Verdana color=black size=5><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Prof.
Børge Diderichsen<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P>
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align=center><B><FONT face=Verdana color=black size=3><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Vice-President,
</SPAN></FONT></B><B><FONT face=Verdana><SPAN lang=EN-GB
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align=center><B><FONT face=Verdana color=black size=5><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 16pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Sreda
/ Wednesday 18. 04. 2007, ob / at 15:00<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P>
<H6 style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B><FONT face=Verdana color=black
size=4><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Velika predavalnica
Kemijskega inštituta /<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></H6>
<H6 style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B><FONT face=Verdana color=black
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style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Lecture Hall at the
National Institute of Chemistry<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></H6>
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color=black size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Hajdrihova 19,
Ljubljana</SPAN></FONT><I><FONT color=black><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-STYLE: italic"> <SPAN
lang=FR><o:p></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></I></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; MARGIN-LEFT: -7.1pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: -14.2pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm"
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style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B><FONT face=Verdana
color=#993366 size=5><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 18pt; COLOR: #993366; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Biomedical
Research and Innovation in a Globalized World<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B><FONT face=Verdana
color=#993366 size=1><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: #993366; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P>
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style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #993366; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-TOP: 6pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT
face=Verdana color=black size=3><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Currently, we are
witnessing an unprecedented shift of wealth and power on a global scale that
will have serious and severe consequences for the competitiveness of
</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Verdana><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><ns0:place w:endInsDate="2007-04-11T11:38:00Z"
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w:insAuthor="Unknown"><FONT color=black><SPAN
style="COLOR: black">Europe</SPAN></FONT></ns0:place><FONT color=black><SPAN
style="COLOR: black">. As </SPAN></FONT><ns0:place
w:endInsDate="2007-04-11T11:38:00Z" w:endInsAuthor="Unknown"
w:insDate="2007-04-11T11:38:00Z" w:insAuthor="Unknown"><FONT color=black><SPAN
style="COLOR: black">Europe</SPAN></FONT></ns0:place><FONT color=black><SPAN
style="COLOR: black"> does not have cheap labour or significant natural
resources, it is by now generally recognized that innovation of “knowledge
intensive” products and processes is a requirement if </SPAN></FONT><ns0:place
w:endInsDate="2007-04-11T11:38:00Z" w:endInsAuthor="Unknown"
w:insDate="2007-04-11T11:38:00Z" w:insAuthor="Unknown"><FONT color=black><SPAN
style="COLOR: black">Europe</SPAN></FONT></ns0:place><FONT color=black><SPAN
style="COLOR: black"> is to maintain its wealth and welfare.
</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Verdana color=black><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Health Care and Biotech is
o</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Verdana color=black><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">ne of those sectors where
</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Verdana><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><ns0:place w:endInsDate="2007-04-11T11:38:00Z"
w:endInsAuthor="Unknown" w:insDate="2007-04-11T11:38:00Z"
w:insAuthor="Unknown"><FONT color=black><SPAN
style="COLOR: black">Europe</SPAN></FONT></ns0:place><FONT color=black><SPAN
style="COLOR: black"> may remain competitive. However,
t</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Verdana color=black><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">he challenges for companies,
universities and other institutions to be innovative are to train talents, to
compete for talent, to motivate m</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Verdana
color=black><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">ulti-disciplinary teams and to
establish dynamic and value-adding partnerships between business and society in
biomedical research and innovation.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-TOP: 6pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT
face=Verdana color=black size=3><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">In a globalized
world the </SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Verdana color=black><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">pace of competition is accelerating.
Doing the same, even if you are good at it, is not enough while China, India,
Vietnam and Korea are catching up, learning everything that is worth knowing and
investing heavily in research and education with the intension to expand their
“bio-economies”.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Vljudno vabljeni! /
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Information: Doc.
dr. Peter Venturini,</SPAN></FONT><FONT color=blue size=2><SPAN lang=FR
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue"> <A
href="mailto:peter.venturini@ki.si"><FONT face=Verdana size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">peter.venturini@ki.si</SPAN></FONT></A></SPAN></FONT><FONT
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