Track A: Research & innovation and horizontal aspects
Session A.1: Research & innovation and education and training
Tuesday September 7th, 2010: 11:30 – 13:00
Europe must maintain its competitiveness and contribute to sustainable development through education and training that reflect the needs of tomorrow's "knowledge workers".
This session will address the following questions:
- Are our education and training systems (and existing European initiatives) delivering the appropriate skills for a sustainable knowledge-based economy?
- How to attract the most competent people to industry and research - in particular women - in areas like nanotechnologies, materials, manufacturing and engineering?
- How can manufacturing enterprises become "learning factories"?
- How can the industry's potential be exploited through innovation?
Chair
- Costas Kiparissides, University of Thessaloniki (Greece)
Speakers
- George Chryssolouris, Professor, LMS Director, Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems & Automation (LMS), University of Patras (Greece)
- Pasj Salhberg, Centre for International Cooperation and Mobility (Finland)
- Jos van Haaren, Senior Director Philips Research (Netherlands)
- Barbara Malic, Jožef Stefan Institute (Slovenia)
| Attachment | Size |
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| All slides - Session A1 | 2.34 MB |
| Slides - Costas Kiparissides | 466.06 KB |
| Slides - Pasj Sahlberg | 552.66 KB |
| Slides - Jos van Haaren | 603.17 KB |
| Slides - Barbara Malic | 528.94 KB |
| Slides - George Chryssolouris | 674.36 KB |
Session A.2: Towards European standards and metrology to support transfer of innovation to industry
Tuesday September 7th, 2010: 15:45 – 17:15
Assuring product quality and safety is one of the essential tasks of industry and commerce and the availability of suitable measurement techniques and standard processes for assessing the properties of products is often a pre-requisite for the success of innovations.
The session aims to give an overview of European efforts to support the industry in terms of metrology and standardisation and to give industrial examples where metrology and standardisation are badly needed in order to achieve the needs of society and assure European commercial success.
This will be illustrated through lectures on initiatives for increased innovation through standardisation, standardisation needs within energy related research (from research and industry perspective) and the European Metrology Research Programme (EMRP).
The session will also address the following set of questions:
1) How can we strengthen pre-normative research in the framework programme?
2) How is it possible to remove impediments for innovation, facilitate trade and increase market acceptance with help from standardisation?
3) How is it possible to improve interactions between industry, research and standardisation bodies?
Chair
- Kamal Hossain, National Physical Laboratory (UK)
Speakers
- Martin Winter, University of Münster (Germany)
- John Ketchell, CEN-CENELEC (EU)
- Tom Munters, Philips (Belgium)
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
| All Slides - Session A2 | 3.42 MB |
| Slides - Kamal Hossain | 1.07 MB |
| Slides - Martin Winter | 736.8 KB |
| Slides - Tom Munters | 1.86 MB |
| Slides - John Ketchell | 239.45 KB |
Session A.3: Financial engineering in research & innovation
Tuesday September 7th, 2010: 17:45 – 19:15
What are the best practices of financing the conversion of research results into industrial activity, especially in the area of manufacturing ?.
What are the barriers to transfer of new technologies to the market ?
What is the relationship between finance and technological development ?
Success stories involving the European Investment Bank and CIP financial instruments for SME’s will be presented (Loan guarantees - SME Guarantee Facility, High Growth and Innovative SME Facility (GIF)).
Chair
- Patrik Lundström, European Nano Invest - ENI (Sweden)
Speakers
- Jenni Tooth, GLE Growth Capital (UK)
- Táňa Perglová, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (Czech Republic)
- Uffe Bundgaard-Joergensen, CEO InvestorNet-Gate2Growth Group (Denmark)
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
| All Slides - Session A3 | 1.82 MB |
| Slides - Patrick Lundstrom | 1.41 MB |
| Slides - Jenni Tooth | 416.88 KB |
| Slides - Tana Perflova | 365.38 KB |
Session A.4: IPR issues and technology transfer models
Wednesday September 8th, 2010: 11:30 – 13:00
The identification of barriers to commercialisation is necessary to accelerate technologies' successful development and to encourage faster market uptake.
This session will address the following questions :
- What are best practices and main success factors of effective communication and business models and 'working together' between various types of researchers and/or entrepreneurs and investors?
- What are best practices for IPR, license agreements and model licenses?
- How can these best practices bring together a critical mass in terms of knowledge?
Chair
- Koen Debackere, Leuven Research & Development (Technology Transfer Office of KU Leuven) (Belgium)
Speakers
- Eeva Viinikka, Programme Director Culminatum Innovation (Finland)
- Vincent Ryckaert, IMEC (Belgium)
- Eva Pando, General Manager CEEI ASTURIAS (Spain)
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
| Slides - Koen Debackere | 279.03 KB |
| Slides - Eeva Viinikka | 1.38 MB |
| Slides - Vincent Ryckaert | 465.95 KB |
| Slides - Eva Pando | 873.91 KB |
| All Slides - Session A4 | 2.52 MB |