Maxim Meyksin invited the event participants to the Innovation Forum to be held on 1-3 October 2014 in St. Petersburg.
St. Petersburg delegation led by Maxim Meyksin, Chairman of the Committee for Industrial Policy and Innovations participated in the summit of the Baltic Development Forum on 3-4 June 2014. Speaking at the Forum, Maxim Meyksin noted that cooperation between St. Petersburg and Turku had been developing in many areas: “Today pharmaceuticals, shipbuilding and innovations are among perspective spheres of our interaction. Tourism also has the serious growth potential". "Our regions are in similar economic conditions: we cannot compete with the countries of South East Asia in producing mass products, but we can develop cooperation in the areas where high level of the competence is required. First of all, the perspective directions are the innovative start-ups support, creation of the joint competence centres, R&D and engineering centres», - Maxim Meyksin noted. It is the innovation sphere in which St.Petersburg and Finland have been cooperating successfully for a long time. Annually Finnish companies take an active part in the St. Petersburg International Innovation Forum which has already proved to be an effective platform for the exchange of opinion and experience in innovative sphere. Maxim Meyksin invited the event participants to the Innovation Forum to be held on 1-3 October 2014 in St. Petersburg.
The Baltic Development Forum. Year of establishment - 1998. The Baltic Development Forum (BDF) is an independent noncommercial organization, participants of which are enterprises, governments, noncommercial organisations, cities, institutional investors, business associations interested in development of the Baltic Sea region. The Baltic Development Forum (BDF) works with a wide range of partners, including commercial companies, governments, regional organizations, research institutes and mass-media companies. The organisation`s mission: the Baltic Sea region promotion in EU and all over the world, promotion of growth and competitive potential by creating favorable conditions for the cooperation of government officials, representatives of business and academic circles. The Baltic Development Forum (BDF) promotes the creation of development strategies, provides carrying out of analytical work and organizes a wide platform for the negotiations of high-level officials. The Baltic Development Forum (BDF) also promotes new initiatives, cooperation development and conclusion of international contracts to maintain growth, competitiveness, creation of innovations in the Baltic Sea region and in I 1 related countries. The Baltic Development Forum (BDF) aspires to develop the region as the global centre of advanced experience, and also to promote the region all over the world, as a strong and attractive brand. The Structure: the Chairman, the Director, Honorary and Advisory Boards, Secretariat.Mrs. Lene Espersen (Lene Espersen, the former Minister for Foreign Affairs of Denmark) is the Chairman of the Baltic Development Forum.
Mr. Hans Brask, Denmark has been the Forum`s Director since 2007. The BDF Secretariat is located in Copenhagen (Denmark). The Secretariat`s location: Copenhagen, Denmark. The 15th Baltic Development Forum was held in Riga in 2013. It was attended by government officials, representatives of business, scientific and educational circles, including the President of Latvia Andris Berzinsh, the Prime Minister of Lithuania Algirdas Butkyavichyus, the Prime Minister of Estonia Andrus Ansipb, the Secretary General of the Nordic Council of Ministers Dagfinn Heybrotenbb, the Minister for European Affairs of Denmark Nikolay Vammen, Assistant to the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation Russian to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg Igor Kapyrin and others.