Innogrips Workshops Overview

Title Datesort icon Location
Barriers to Internationalisation and Growth of EU’s Innovative Companies 2010-09-28 Brussels
Innovation policy and the business cycle 2010-09-30 Cologne, Germany
Implications of climate change, resource scarcity and demographic developments in innovation policy 2010-12-01 Brussels
Policies in support of high-growth innovative SMEs 2011-02-01 Brussels, Belgium
Exploring the potential for Open Innovation in the EU 2020 Strategy - A comprehensive insight into trends and determinants of innovation performance 2011-05-19 Brussels
Policies in support of service innovation 2011-05-30 Budapest, Hungary
Social attitudes toward fostering entrepreneurship and innovation demand 2012-01-19 Brussels
Disruptive Innovation – Implications for Competitiveness and Policy 2012-01-24 Brussels
Organisational and marketing innovations: Drivers of growth? 2012-09-03 (All day) Brussels
The role of multinational companies and supply chains in innovation” 2012-11-05 (All day) Brussels, Belgium

Forthcomings INNO-Grips Workshops

Workshop No. 5: Organisational and marketing innovations

Sep 2 2012
Date: 
3 September, 2012 (All day)
Location: 
Brussels
Country: 
Belgium

To date, it has not been addressed sufficiently by previous innovation studies whether and by which market or system failures organisational and marketing innovation are particularly affected and how policy support can be legitimised against this background. This study thus explicitly deals with the question whether and to what extend organisational and marketing innovation are affected by “market failures” on the one hand, or “systemic failures” on the other hand.

Workshop No. 6: Supply Chains

Nov 5 2012
Date: 
5 November, 2012 (All day)
Location: 
Brussels, Belgium
Country: 
Belgium

This study will summarize patterns of internationalisation of the knowledge-creating and knowledge-sourcing activities of multinational enterprises and provide new evidence on the complementarity or substitutability between the R&D activities of the headquarters and its foreign affiliates. It will investigate the role of foreign ownership and other forms of cross-border collaborations in the creation of new knowledge or the diffusion of existing knowledge.

Latest INNO-Grips workshops

Workshop No. 8: Disruptive Innovation – Implications for Competitiveness and Policy

Jan 24 2012
Date: 
24 January, 2012 - 09:30 - 16:45
Venue: 
Hotel Crowne Plaza Brussels “Le Palace” (Rue Gineste 3, 1210 Brussels, Belgium)
Location: 
Brussels
Country: 
Belgium

Some strands of innovation theory make a distinction between ‘incremental’ and ‘disruptive’ (or ‘radical’) innovation. The term disruptive innovation is widely used today in the sense introduced originally as ‘disruptive technology’ by Christensen (1997). The OECD's Oslo Manual defines an innovation as ‘disruptive’ if it has a significant impact on a market and on the economic activity of firms in that market, up to the point that new markets are created while existing markets or products may be rendered obsolete.

This workshop is to discuss the concept of disruptive innovation with a view to possible implications for the competitiveness of the European industry and for innovation policy design. The workshop will focus on three sectors which are all very important for the European economy:

  • the chemical industry
  • the automotive industry
  • tourism The workshop will aim to identify disruptive trends in each of these industries and discuss possible impacts for the various actors in the sector’s value network.

The workshop is organised in the context of INNO-Grips, the innovation policy strand of the PRO INNO Europe portal, the European Commission's focal point for innovation policy analysis and policy cooperation in Europe.

Workshop No. 4: Entrepreneurship

Jan 19 2012
Date: 
19 January, 2012 - 09:00 - 12:00
Venue: 
Rue d’Arlon 63-67, 1040 Brussels
Location: 
Brussels
Country: 
Belgium

Study highlights importance of changing attitudes to innovation

Brussels, 19 January 2012 – The fourth INNO-GRIPS II workshop -Social attitudes toward fostering entrepreneurship and innovation demand - was held to validate a study carried out by the Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT).

Policies in support of service innovation

May 30 2011
Date: 
30 May, 2011 - 09:30 - 16:30
Venue: 
Hotel Mercure Budapest Buda
Location: 
Budapest, Hungary
Country: 
Hungary


Workshop objectives

The workshop was attended by about 25 innovation experts, including representatives of the European Commission, national ministries and governmental agencies as well as economists, consultants and business representatives. It addressed the following questions:

  • What are the main trends in service innovation in Europe and beyond?
  • What is the role of policy in this context: can/shall policy aim to encourage and promote innovation in services? Is there a need for service-specific policy within innovation policy? If so:
  • Which instruments are most suitable for services?

Study Material

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application/pdf iconInnogrips - WP3_final.pdf

Workshop No. 3: Exploring the potential for Open Innovation

May 19 2011
Date: 
19 May, 2011 - 09:00 - 12:00
Venue: 
63-67 Rue d’ Arlon , 1040 Brussels
Location: 
Brussels
Country: 
Belgium

New insights into open innovation policy in Europe

Brussels, 8 September 2011– Today, the study Open Innovation in Europe: effects, determinants and policy has been made public.  The study provides novel insights into open innovation and tackles the concept as a multi-dimensional phenomenon rather than a singular best practice.

Policies in support of high-growth innovative SMEs

Feb 1 2011
Date: 
1 February, 2011 - 09:30 - 16:30
Venue: 
Hotel Crowne Plaza Brussels “Le Palace”, Rue Gineste 3, 1210 Brussels, Belgium
Location: 
Brussels, Belgium
Country: 
Belgium

In recent years there has been an increased interest of policy makers in Europe and around the world to foster high-growth enterprises. These enterprises are seen as important drivers of economic growth, employment and social well-being. Europe has performed relatively badly in generating high-growth innovative companies compared to the US and also to some Asian economies. Therefore Europe is eager to find effective ways to promote high-growth enterprises. However, there is uncertainty about how to best design related policy measures in order to reach the desired impact.

Study Material

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application/pdf icon2-INNOGRIP2_Report_v29B.pdf

Workshop No. 2: Implications of climate change, resource scarcity and demographic developments

Dec 1 2010
Date: 
1 December, 2010 - 09:00 - 12:00
Venue: 
Rue d’Arlon 63-65, 1040 Brussels, Belgium
Location: 
Brussels
Country: 
Belgium

Innovation policy – a powerful toolbox for mitigating climate change

Maastricht, Brussels, 15 April 2011 – Today a new report on “Integrated Innovation Policy for an Integrated Problem: Addressing Climate Change, Resource Scarcity and Demographic Change to 2030”was released. The report concludes that a continuous, coherent, forward-looking process of adaptive policymakingwill be vital to a successful energy transition.

Innovation policy and the business cycle

Sep 30 2010
Date: 
30 September, 2010 - 10:00 - 17:00
Venue: 
Cologne, IW - Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln, Konrad-Adenauer-Ufer 21, 50668 Köln
Location: 
Cologne, Germany
Country: 
Germany

About 30 experts, including policy makers, economists and representatives of industry and innovation intermediaries participated in this event. The workshop discussed whether there is a case for applying innovation policy in a proactive way to recover faster from economic downturns. It addressed the following specific questions:

  1. What is the pattern of innovation activity during the cycle? How do economic downturns affect investments in innovation in different sectors and countries? 
  2. Should the design of innovation policy consider business cycles? Can innovation policy be an effective measure to foster economic recovery in a recession? 
  3. What are critical success factors to be considered in this context? Which policy instruments in specific can be recommended to this end? 

Study Material

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application/pdf iconInnoGripsII_Report_Barriers.to_.internationalisation.and_.growth_0.pdf
application/pdf iconInnoGripsII_Summary_Barriers.to_.internationalisation.and_.growth_0.pdf

Workshop No. 1: Barriers to Internationalisation and Growth

Sep 28 2010
Date: 
28 September, 2010 - 16:30
Venue: 
Rue d’Arlon 63-65 , 1040 Brussels, Belgium
Location: 
Brussels
Country: 
Belgium

In the framework of the PRO INNO Europe® project INNO GRIPS II, a study has been prepared on "Barriers to internationalisation and growth of EU's innovative companies".