ATV Anniversary Conference 2012 - Recommendations and Presentations
ATV's Anniversary Conference 2012 featured presentations from international and Danish speakers on how technology can play a role in solving global sustainability challenges. This document contains ATV's recommendations from the conference and introduction to each of the presentations.
The Danish Academy of Technical Sciences (ATV) celebrated its 75th Anniversary in 2012 with a conference under the title “The Global Challenges and Technical Sciences: Joint Efforts to find the Solutions for the Future”.
At the conference, leading Danish and international experts gave presentations on issues and solutions within the field of technology, sustainability and cooperation between business and universities; while the Danish Minister for Science, Innovation and Higher Education, Mr. Morten Østergaard presented the opening address.
Based on the outcome of the Anniversary Conference, the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences (ATV) announces the following recommendations:
Sustainability and Technology
At a global scale, the growing population and scarcity of natural resources are huge challenges. A key factor in solving these issues and mitigating their consequences is to achieve technological breakthroughs which may come from significant local growth drivers in industry, universities or the public sector.
ATV recommends that technological solutions are viewed as the key factor in solving the global challenges that stem from an ever growing population, limited resources, environmental and climate issues.
Innovation
Innovative solutions and concepts are vital in creating growth, jobs and sustainable solutions. Innovation must be viewed in context with academic research, education and business opportunities, and scientific results should be applied whenever possible.
ATV recommends an immediate change in concept and perception from ‘knowledge society’ to ‘innovation society’. This includes fostering and nurturing innovation throughout the educational system.
Human Resources
ATV has consistently worked towards promoting ‘circulation’ creative people with knowledge between companies and universities. This concept has worked extremely well and increased Denmark’s innovation capacity.
ATV recommends that knowledge is shared among corporations and academia by ‘circulating’ Human Resources. Excellent researchers and managers from universities should be encouraged to work in private sector companies and vice versa.
