Venue: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Date: October 11‐14, 2010

Dubai Institute of Technology (DIT), in collaboration with WAITRO, is pleased to invite you to block your schedule for this forum, which will be held in conjuction with WAITRO's 20th Biennial Congress and General Assembly. Under the theme Leadership for Innovation, the forum will encompass various sessions as listed below:

1. Leadership ‐ 21st Century Innovation Leaders: Roles and Parameters
2. Finance ‐ R&D Financing: Innovative Mechanism
3. IP and Management ‐ IP and Portfolio Management
4. Young Scientists ‐ Young Scientists: Development Programs and Opportunities
5. Knowledge Transfer ‐ Knowledge Transfer: Challenges and Best Practices
6. Policies and Procedures ‐ Government Policies and Procedures: Enabling Innovation Ecosystem
7. Public Private Partnership ‐ PPP Towards Sustainable Industrial Growth
8. Science and Society ‐ Science and Society: A platform for a Value-based Economy Participants who wish to present at the conference are invited to write papers on the above subjects.


The deadline for abstract submissions is on April 30th, 2010. The BROCHURE can be downloaded by clicking HERE.

For more information on the call for papers and submission of abstracts which should be in English language, kindly contact:

Ms Samira Manar
E-mail: samira.manar@ezw.ae
Phone: +9714 8814888
Fax: +9714 8871626