Panel conversation – Strengthening trust and social capital to build competitiveness

Biswas
Papic
Phiri
Handjinicolaou
16 Nov 2022
10:20
GRANDE BRETAGNE HOTEL - GRAND BALLROOM

Panel conversation – Strengthening trust and social capital to build competitiveness

Social capital is essential to advance innovation, competitiveness, and economic growth. All initiatives that further those complex agendas require various stakeholders’ convincement, mobilization, and engagement. And partnership-building is much smoother and easier when trust, the ultimate social glue, is in place. This panel conversation will discuss the secrets to building trust and strengthening social capital in practice, creating the social fabric needed to advance innovation and competitiveness efforts.

 

Saurabh Biswas, Executive Director of Commercialization and Entrepreneurship, Texas A&M Engineering Station, USA

James Metson, Deputy-Vice Chancellor (Research), University of Auckland, New Zealand

Igor Papič, Minister of Education, Science, and Sport, Slovenia

Phillip Phiri, Executive Director, National Competitiveness Office, Zimbabwe

Moderator: George Handjinicolaou, Chairman, Piraeus Bank, Greece

 

Discussion questions:

  • What are the critical success factors that build trust and social capital?
  • What are some global examples that demonstrate trust-building in society?
  • What tools are used to build social capital and trust and enable competitiveness, policy change, and innovation?