Marco Walentiny

Name: Smart Manufacturing Week 2023
Start: 2023-06-06T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-06-09T18:00:00+02:00

Ministry of the Economy

Advisor DG Industry, New Technologies and Research Industry 4.0, Financing & State Aid

Description

Ministry of the Economy, Directorate General for Research, Intellectual Property and New Technologies (Directorate General for Competitiveness, Research and Innovation, before February 2012; Directorate General for Enterprise, Economic Development and Foreign Trade, before October 2009; Department of Industry and Technology, before October 2004) Director of the Directorate for Research and Innovation (since October 2004), Head of the R&D, Innovation and Transfer of Technology Unit (before October 2004); is responsible for conceptualization, coordination, budgeting and implementation of the research-development and innovation (RDI) policy dedicated to the industry, service and small business sectors, including state aid projects due diligence and annual reporting of state aids to Parliament and to DG Competition of the EC; manages an annual budget of c.a. 50 Mio EUR of the Innovation fund (dedicated to state aid incentives to support private RDI endeavours and promotional and support expenses) Member of the Advisory Board of the Ministry of the Economy (Law of June 5th, 2009); Since 1990 National Delegate to different programme management committees of the EU Framework Programmes for Research and Technological Development (EU RTD) and for Competitiveness and Innovation (CIP) 1990-99 National Project Coordinator-NPC of the EUREKA Intergovernmental Initiative; 1990-2012 Expert, Secretary of the "Innovation” Advisory board of Société Nationale de Crédit et d’Investissement-SNCI (Government owned Investment Bank); 1992-2002 Member of the Board of Directors of CRP(Public Research Center)- Gabriel Lippmann and of CRP-Henri Tudor; 1992-2014 Member of the Inter-ministerial Committee of the Ministry of Higher Education and Public Research (Law of March 9th, 1987); 1998-2012 President of Luxinnovation G.I.E. (national public/private innovation agency); Since 1999 Member of the Group of High Level Representatives-HLR of the EUREKA Intergovernmental Initiative; 1999-2014 Member of the Board of Directors of the National Public Research Fund FNR (“Fonds National de la Recherche dans le Secteur Public”); 2000-2012 Member of the Board of Directors of Business Initiative A.S.B.L.; Since 2004 Member of the “Industry” and “Media and Communication” Advisory boards of SNCI; Member of the Evaluation Committee of Société luxembourgeoise de Capital-Développement pour les PME- CD-PME; Member of the Board of Directors of ArcelorMittal Belval & Differdange S.A.; Since 2008 Co-Secretary of the High Advisory Board for Research and Innovation; 2009-2013 Member of the Board of Directors of CTI Systems S.A.; Since 2010 Member of the Board of Directors of Paul Wurth S.A.; Since 2012 Vice president of Luxinnovation G.I.E.; Member of the Board of Directors of Creos Luxembourg S.A.