The EPISIS INNO-net on service innovation has just released a proceedings report to the first EPISIS conference that was held in Copenhagen on 14.-16. June, 2010. To view the whole report, please visit http://www.proinno-europe.eu/node/25823
In addition, an interview with the leader of EPISIS’ Work Package 3, Mr Thorsten Egger of PT-DLR, is available via http://www.proinno-europe.eu/episis
On 20 July 2010 the European Commission has published a new call for proposals under the programme "Regions of Knowledge" inviting trans-national consortia of regional research driven clusters in the domain of sustainable transport to submit proposals for co-ordination actions.
The call is open until 9 December 2010 and has a total budget of 18.66 M€. For further information and downloading the call documents please visit the following web site:
The EPO will be running four workshops this autumn, each with a different programme using four or more of the twenty ip4inno modules, on topics ranging from: IP commercialisation, licensing, valuation and financing topics; patent information; and IP enforcement. The workshops will be making use of upgraded ip4inno teaching material, improved workshop exercises and updated information. Also, the EPO has recruited many of the authors of the teaching material to be used during the workshops, that way providing a rare opportunity to be taught by the experts who know the topics the best.
The ip4inno project, which is providing training materials on IP strategies for business advisors, technology transfer professionals and other intermediaries to support notably SMEs, has launched a call in view of the creation of teaching modules in the field of (i) business planning with IP and (ii) IP enforcement.
The document synthesises the outcomes of two preparatory workshops, first one held in Antwerp 27-28th April 2010 and the second one held in Saint-Petersburg 10-12th May 2010 and reflects on the concluding discussions held in the First EU-Russia Innovation Forum in Lappeenranta 25-27th May 2010. The workshops were co-organised by the INNO-Views project, which also contributed to the First EU-Russia Innovation Forum via providing expert input to its content.
This summary provides useful information to those stakeholders who want to engage in EU-Russia cooperation activities on innovation, such as the European Commission, relevant EU Member States’ national and regional authorities, the Russian Federal Government, relevant Russian regional and local authorities, European and Russian researchers, business people and other dedicated innovation support organisations.
Paris, June 2010. In a new flagship publication on “SMEs, entrepreneurship and innovation”, the OECD states that new and small firms have gained importance in the innovation process due to increasing income, more “niched” market demand and changing technologies. This has reduced the disadvantages of small firm size. As a consequence, the OECD sees a new “entrepreneurial economy” rising, as opposed to the “managed economy” of the past.
The document synthesises the outcomes of two preparatory workshops, first one held in Antwerp 27-28th April 2010 and the second one held in Saint-Petersburg 10-12th May 2010 and reflects on the concluding discussions held in the First EU-Russia Innovation Forum in Lappeenranta 25-27th May 2010. The workshops were co-organised by the INNO-Views project, which also contributed to the First EU-Russia Innovation Forum via providing expert input to its content.
