Building the Bridge between research and Business
Czech and Danish experiences
Conference held in Prague November 18 and 19 2009
The conference
Universities of Technology are enormous assets for regional development. They have a huge potential for the generation of knowledge which can be transferred into market solutions and supply high-tech companies with skilled employees. Thus there is an increasing demand for Universities of Technology taking a proactive role in the processes of regional innovation policy.
This seminar is about how to strengthen and establish cooperation between high-tech companies and academic institutions; and how to strengthen the international views and contacts.
Geographically the scope is development of the academia – Industry Corporation in Scandinavia and the Czech Republic and Scandinavia. Scandinavia has a long tradition with initiatives linking science – innovation and commercialization but also in the Czech Republic there are several aspiring experiences in this field
During the seminar we shall examine those initiatives and see how they can be applied in a Czech context
The purpose of the event
The main objectives are to transfer / share knowledge and best practices and, empower the participants to start activities to accelerate the cooperation between the commercial and academic sphere.
It is also an objective to build network relations, between the participants from the Danish and Czech side
With outset in the workshops we shall construct an idea catalogue. This will be used for creating initiatives. This follow up can take the shape of work groups, follow up seminars or project suggestions. CECMI and the BIC at CTU intend to promote and facilitate such initiatives
Thus there will be a tangible output, in form of new potential projects and networks
More specifically we shall deal with the following issues:
- National and international cooperation between Universities of Technology
- How cooperation with the local/regional community can be initiated by Universities of Technology
- How to take up a proactive role in processes of regional innovation policy.
- How to get an applied approach into the educational system How to apply and strengthen the results of academic research
- How to accelerate the exchange of knowledge internationally
Target Group:
Faculty professors, teaching assistants, and university professionals working within the fields of business economics, technical sciences or innovation and entrepreneurship. Representatives from governmental or semi governmental institutions working with Innovation, entrepreneurship, higher education or Science
• Representatives from incubator initiative and Business Innovation Centers
• Leaders from technological businesses in CR
• Managers from High Tech companies
Free admittance (registration needed).
The language of the conference will be English.
Deadline for registration: 12 November 2009 (number of seats limited)
registration form is to be found here
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Marie Curie Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways (IAPP)
CECMI is working on an EU-application seeking support to transfer know-how from research to industrial capabilities through the Marie Curie Industry-Academica Partnerships and Pathways. The theme for the project will be how to enable SME to create more Radical innovations – through innovation management.
The Project is carried out in association with with University of Aalborg (Denmark), Vysokou školou ekonomickou v Praze, Circle Line Associates (Switserland), Stemm Cell Pro (Czech Republic)
What is Marie Curie Industry-Academica Partnerships and Pathways ?
Marie Curie Industry-Academica Partnerships and Pathways is an EU program that provides financial support for transnational research for and by SMEs wishing to innovate and improve their competitiveness, by enhancing their investment in research activities to acquire new knowledge for growth in Europe’s knowledge-based economy.
Theme
Competition today on global perspective is becoming almost impossible for SMEs to try and compete individually. Therefore, in addition to developing their core competence base individually, enterprises have to be able to develop more open innovation and open for network-based innovation, particularly when the core knowledge and competencies needed to improve their performance are not available in-house. This is especially true for certain industries as for instance biotechnology as one of the strategic sectors of the European Union in regard to their competitivness.
Main potential sources of external competences are customers and suppliers, consultants and even competitors. Collaboration helps them find and open new markets, and obtain a better understanding of what is expected from them (Barclays 20029. Consequently, many European SME companies are finding themselves increasingly tied to other firms especially tied to big international companies. The challenge each of them they face is to adjust their own business model to meet their partners’ core competences so as to create a new and joint platform for collaboration and innovation. Otherwise they will just stay as simple suppliers or sub suppliers - easy to control and easy to compete with low price.
Our previous research and studies suggest it is useful not only to study the business model concept at the level of individual firms -, but even more important to European SME´s - also at that of the level of network. The network-based business model proposed can, and should be, tested on European scale survey supported by more in-depth case studies to develop concrete measures and tools to support SME and startups in their efforts to become more competitive. For that reason, we apply for Marie Curie Industry – Academia Partnerships and Pathways to support a project to carry out a research on a European basis. We also hope in this perspective to be able to draw more concrete conclusions regarding the global part of new network based business models. We believe, that it is important for European SME´s to learn about the potential hidden within the ‘network-based business model’ concept, which stresses the importance of collaboration, which eventually turns the ‘I’ into ‘WE’, and, as a result of that, into a collaborative innovation effort. Our case studies will provide real-life examples of how to leverage and form such network ties with the example of start-ups in the biotech industry in Denmark, Switzerland and the Czech Republic. The knowledge gained within this industry could then be easily transferred and adapted as well to other industries and life cycle of a company which will give to this project a broad impact.
Courses to kick off innovation in your organization
Sejper 1 innovation would in partnership with Central European Center for Management Innovation like to invite you to participate in two courses to improve the innovativeness of your organization. The first one is primarily for Managers while the second one is for your entire organization.
The workshop is a hands-on, team-based event designed to build both individual skills and corporate capabilities. This highly practical workshop will introduce you to a step by- step process for reinventing your company’s management principles and practices and show you how to apply this methodology to your organization’s critical next-generation business challenges. It will also provide you with specific ideas to apply within your own business environment.
The target group is Executives and specialists working in the following segments should attend: General Management, Sales, Quality, Production, Human Resources, R&D, and Customer Service, Lean processes, Marketing, Strategy and Finance
We encourage each company to send at more than one participant to the program in order to maximize the group learning experience within your organization (each additional participant can attend with 30 % discount). We also run this course as an in-company event. Please contact us for further informaton if that has your interest .
Unleash the creativity in your company
Kick off idea generation in your company. This course goes beyond creativity in order to establish creativity as an operational and strategic tool rather than a buzzword. More exact the course deals with how to organize and start up structured creative processes in your firm. You will both learn to use your own creative resources and the resources of others; this is the optimal foundation for idea generation and innovation
The target group for this course is everyone who wishes to be able to lead creative processes.
The courses offered are open courses – if it has your interest we will also be able to deliver the courses as in- company courses targeted your company
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- Conference opening by Martin Ríman, Minister of Industry and Trade
- Future of business in the Czech Republic - Miroslava Kopicová, former Minister of Education
- What is Management Innovation and why is it so important - Henrik Skov, Former lecturer at Roskilde University
- Creating value by thinking differently - Mie Harder, PhD fellow, Centre for Strategy & Globalization, Copenhagen Business School
- Globalization, Technology and Competiveness in 21st century, Jan Mühlfeit, Microsoft CEO Europe
- How to create an innovative culture that improve the R.O.I. in the human capital? - Mohammad Gawdat, Google Managing Director of Emerging Markets, EMEA
- How to combine Lean with Management innovation? - Jirí Cerný, Vice President, Production, TPCA
- The flexible business – leadership and Management at W.L. Gore - Ulrich Loth, Member of the WL Gores Corporate Leadership Group Europe
- Michael Mol, moderator of the conference, Research Fellow at London Business School´s MLab
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