Program

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Day one

Venue:  Lichtenstein Palace, U Sovovych mlynu 4

8.00 – 8.30 Registration

8.30-9.00 Welcome

Ing. Jan Fischer Prime minister of the Czech Republic

Ambassador Ole Moesby, The Royal Danish Embassy in Prague
Prof. Ing. Václav Havlíček, CSc. Rector of CTU Prague
Ing. Petr J. Kalaš advisor for the government and moderator

Chair : Ing. Petr J. Kalaš

9.00-10.30 Status of academic industry cooperation in the two countries

The status of cooperation between academics and industry in the Czech Republic
PhDr. Miroslava Kopicová, Minister of Education, presents the status of cooperation between academics and industry in the Czech Republic and gives her view on the opportunities and obstacles for an extended cooperation. She also explains why this is important since The Czech Republic in the long run cannot rely exclusively on operations, which benefit from moderate cost levels

Presentation of Danish innovation and science policy
Hans Müller Pedersen, Deputy Director, Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation, explains the status of - and experiences with public research funding, researcher mobility, regionalization of research and innovation, commercialization of research, interaction between knowledge institutions and business innovation policy

Czech experiences in supporting development of small businesses,
Ing. Daniela Váchová, the Technology Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, talks about those activities, which are active in advanced high-tech sectors and how to support transfers of research and technology development to the entrepreneurial sphere. She outlines her experiences with long term cooperation with small and medium sized enterprises and active involvement in technology transfer structures and programs

10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break

11.00 – 12:30 How to support entrepreneurship and knowledge transfer through Academia Industry Corporation

Danish incubators and science parks exemplified with the Katapult initiative at Copenhagen University
MSc. Peter Conrad Ottesen, Leader of the Incubation Centre - "Katapult"at Copenhagen University talks about the status on business incubators in Denmark and exemplifies this with the incubator center Katapult. Katapult sets its focus on innovation and entrepreneurship for students and scientists, through Innovation in Natural and Health Sciences (NSI). Peter Conrad Ottesen outlines how the center is working to form a better network between the university and the business community with a view to establishing new businesses with growth potential. The centre works with some of the most innovative and research-based enterprises in the Greater Copenhagen Area.

Czech Business incubators and science parks exploitation
Ing. Jaroslav Chaloupka, CSc. Executive head, director of the Business and Innovation Centre Brno, tells about the experiences with supporting innovation. More specifically he demonstrates how the BIC has realized 7 incubators and 126 innovative firms, and how BIC Brno cooperates with research workers and use their revolting piece of knowledge in common praxes. He also addresses the international perspective, explaining how BIC Brno connects  innovative firms and research institutions in the region to form them as part of a European family of research.

Best practice on Czech industry academia cooperation
Prof. Ing. Vladimir Marik, DrSc.: Dept of Cybernetics, Czech Technical University, focuses its research activities to development of smart, intelligent systems exploring latest achievements of artificial intelligence. It has been recognized as an EU Center of Excellence in 2000. The mission is to achieve excellent research results recognized internationally and to document the efficiency of the University-Industry cooperation. Several models of such cooperation have been developed. Three spin-off companies and two start-ups have been established. Direct long-term research contracts have been signed with e.g. Rockwell Automation, Robert Bosch, Denso, Toyota, Samsung, Honeywell, Boeing, Hitachi and Texas Instruments. The innovation processes are conducted through the National Center for Applied Cybernetics (CAK).

Lunch 12.30 -13.30

13.30 – 15.30 How to integrate business in the educational system and achieve an applied approach

13.30-14.00 Supporting Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Research Engagement in Universities - a Danish Example 
Jørn Kristiansen Center Leader at Aalborg University Innovation Center. Aalborg University is among the most innovative and collaborative universities in Denmark. AAU Innovation supports innovation, business creation and growth in the business community of the region through four areas: Knowledge Exchange, Patent and Contracts, Project and Funding and Entrepreneurship.

14:00 – 14:30 How the Danish DHI started as an offspring from the Technical University of Denmark – and today has 800 employees worldwide
Dr. Evžen Zeman, CSc. Managing Director of DHI a.s. in the Czech Republic speaks about how DHI have a long tradition for dissemination of knowledge by technology transfer and capacity building in the form of formal courses as well as on-the-job training.  Among other things he exemplifies this with how DHI has related to Climate change. DHI is a global and independent research and development organization dedicated to work within the fields of water, environment and health. Within these fields they provide a wide range of consulting, research and policy services as well as leading edge technologies and products

14.30-15.00 Danish initiatives to promote Danish presence in international research and innovation 
Søren Jensen, Head of Secretariat of the Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation.Søren Jensen, presents how the Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation has addressed the challenges of facilitating co-operation between Danish researchers  and companies, especially SMEs. The examples include a number of Danish innovation programs focusing on co-operation between companies and researchers

15.00-15.30 Barriers to the cooperation between institutions of higher education and employers in the Czech Republic
Martina Jakl, PhD and lic.oec. HSGoutlines how she views the barriers to the cooperation between institutions of higher education and business. The presentation will include examples of the typical ways of partnering between institutions of higher education  and business from the Czech Republic and where potential is still to be tapped because of existing barriers. She will also introduce some concepts for eliminating those barriers.

15.30 - 16.00
Conclusion on day one debate, questions and answers

16.00 – 17.00

Reception with a glass of wine

 

Day 2 
Venue: Národní technická knihovna Technická 6 160 80 Praha 6 - Dejvice
On day two the participants can choose between two different themes

Theme 1
How to create world-class innovative university educations?

A day on how to create universities that are capable of supporting students, graduates and researchers to realize their entrepreneurial ideas and how universities in general can create an education, which assures that the candidates are able to act as bridge-builders between research and business on one hand, and academic qualifications and market on the other hand

09.00-09.30 Introduction to the Day
Method-and expected output explained by Jesper Vej and Martina L. Jak

Danish Experiences 

9.00-9.30 Danish initiative to create an Engineering Bachelor program that builds a bridge between Engineering, Innovation and Entrepreneurship
MA. Jesper Vej Partner in CECMI and Ass. Professor at the technical University College of Copenhagen outlines the principles behind a new engineering Bachelor program, which breaks with the traditional paradigm for technical educations. The new bachelor program “Process and Innovation” combines the traditional Engineering skills with courses in innovation, entrepreneurship and more general business skills. Further the program includes projects with a business interface as well as a trainee period

09.30 – 10:00 Examples on how Aalborg University has managed to integrate innovation and entrepreneurship in their educations explained by Jørn Kristiansen

10.00-10.30 Coffee break

10.30-12.00  Czech Experiences

10:30 – 11:00 Ing. Martina L. Jakl, Ph.D. VŠE Praha outlines the traditional pedagogical approach behind the structures of the graduate and undergraduate programs at Czech Economic universities and addresses what kind of initiatives there are in the effort to target the different programs in order to provide the students with the skills that are required by the business life, such as the ability to solve complex problems and apply their achieved knowledge to a world with ongoing dramatic changes

11:00 – 11:30 Dr. Ing. Jaroslav KUBA, PhD., Vice-Rector for Science-Technological Park and Student Affairs / CTU
Outlines the traditional pedagogical approach behind the structures of the graduate and undergraduate programs at Czech technical universities and addresses what kind of initiatives there are in the effort to target the different programs in order to provide the students with the skills that are required by the business life, such as the ability to solve complex problems and apply their achieved knowledge to a world with ongoing dramatic changes

11.30-12.00 Ing. Martin Štorkán outlines hs experiences of university initiaitives on business corporation  he adresses the barriers to the cooperation between institutions of higher education and employers. He will also introduce some concepts for eliminating those barriers, including applicable instruments and initiative

12.00-12.30 Participants present and discuss their experiences from their respective Czech academic institutions

12.30-13.30 Lunch

Work groups 13.30 - 15.30 hosts Martina Jakl and Jesper Vej
Work groups with the purpose to generate and evaluate ideas for specific potential projects and/or focus areas in order to strengthen the bridge between universities and the need of the business life.  (Specific program will follow)

Concluding remarks 15.30 - 15.45

Output of the day: is an Idea catalogue paper containing conclusions and recommendations for further work 
Target group: Universities

Theme 2

How to create collaborative innovative networks 
We will discuss opportunities for creating collaborative innovation networks business innovation centers, universities and business life. Topics can be

• What are the evaluation criteria and benefits desired by the industry and chat are the obstacles for entering such collaborations.
• What are the experiences from the academic side and from the Business innovation Centers, can we use some of those experiences to match the wants and needs of the industry in order to create innovative network, 
• How do we facilitate and maintain such networks and how do we create meeting-places to facilitate collaborative Networks

The aim of this day is to give academic partners and companies the opportunity to meet face to face to kick off future cooperation, thus this workshop will be of interest to technology companies as well as university representatives and have the aim to create potential projects and networks

09.00-10.15 Presentation to the business incubator at CTU
Ing. Etienne Samoura, MBA executive head, director of the CTU BIC shows the facilities and representative from the incubater company Novuco - Software - Hardware outlines their experiences with the incubator and present their profile, and visions

10.15-10.45 coffee break

10.45-11.00 Introduction to the day
Method-and expected output by Mr. Paolo Zanega and Henrik Skov
 
11.00-11.30 What does business life expect from cooperation between with universities? 
Ing. Luboš Král, PhD. from CERTICON tells about experiences with industry - academia cooperation and how CERTICON have established joint work-site with two Czech Technical Universities and has become Co-founders of national Center for Applied Cybernetics. CERTICON aims to be the premier provider of software design and development services, complementary ASIC design and verification services, introducing the most innovative technology solutions by taking full advantage of own applied research. Their research based products are expert and prediction systems, production planning and scheduling, multi-agent systems

11.30 -12.00 Danish Business incubators and science parks 
 Jesper Jespersen Director from NOVI Management ( NOVI Management acts as management company for the innovation environment NOVI Innovation and NOVI Science Park located in Aalborg in Denmark. Mr. Jespersen tells about NOVIs experiences with the science parks. Hereunder how the objective of increasing the science parks and innovation incubators development and joint interest in Denmark and worldwide has been handled through common development of products, services and concepts, joint education of staff, knowledge sharing and coordination

12.00 -12-30 How to bridge the gap between higher educations and the business environment - a two-way process

Keld Harbo, ass. professor at University of Southern Denmark explains the ways of bringing business and research and education together - especially in a context of entrepreneurship, innovation and small and medium-sized enterprises. A process that benefits both parties. He illustrates this with specific examples from activities at the University of Southern Denmark

12.30 - 13.30 Lunch

13.30-14.00
Conclusion, debate, questions and answers, idea generation and focus for the afternoons work groups

14.00 -16.15 Work group

Host  Mr Paolo Zanega and Mr. Henrik Skov. The afternoon will carry on a two-way path to build an interactive network so as to trigger a continuous process of innovative:

• Project Path: it starts from the present business model to build a meta-model (a cognitive and cultural mediator) able to attract and integrate knowledge from the network poles and to accelerate the emergence of innovative concepts
• Organizational Path: it is a path originating from a first core team to include along the way internal and external relationships until a self-organized network emerges.

These two complimentary paths create a complex dynamics (the top-down meta-modeling and the bottom-up emergence of new concepts) which is generative of an effective innovation, especially of radical innovation. Environmental factors (e.g. the creation of labs separated from the mainstream organization) and specific activities and capabilities (e.g. design thinking) will be discussed.
Some case-studies will allow an interaction among the participants toward a shared vision of the innovation process. Concepts relevant to how the innovation dynamics works will be explained along the workshop.

Output of the day: A white paper for further work

Target group: Business Leaders, Researchers, Universities Business innovation Centers and other organizations working with science based entrepreneurship