EVENTS PLANNED
This listing contains information on the events organized by TII during the year. New information and programmes are added as and when they become available.
15-19 September 2008: TII Summer School in Valterra, Italy
A five-day skills development course for the technology transfer and innovation support professions, delivered by seasoned practitioners from around Europe.
2009 TII Annual Conference will be held in Tessaloniki (GR), organised in colaboration with SEERC.
EVENTS PLANNED AND COMPLETED IN 2006 & 2007 & 2008
From 9 to 14 March 2008, Innovation Tour to Israel: this new initiative intends to put the spotlight on good practice schemes in place in different regions to support and promote university spin-offs and academic entrepreneurship. The first tour consisted of site visits to some of Israel's most effective and successful spin-off programmes run by its leading research institutions.
Wednesday 23 Arpil 2008, Valencia (E) Training Workshop: a new one-day workshop on Marketing Communications, specifically geared to knowledge transfer organisations.
24-25 April 2008, TII Annual Conference, Valencia (E)
Co-organised by TII and IMPIVA
8 February 2008, Brussels Group meeting, TII Brussels Office (B)
30 November 2007: Quality Net meeting, TII Brussels Office (B)
8-9 November 2007, Budapest (H)
The purpose of this second Innovation Coach Speed Dating event is to create opportunities for long-term collaboration between innovation support players in 10 RIS NAC regions and representatives of innovation support organizations from across the European Union for developing further R&D projects (FP7 and ERDF projects) and business (technology transfer deals, studies, training, local representation, joint ventures,…).
9 October 2007, Workshop on Integrating Innovation Support Services at Regional Level, Brussels (B)
TII is organising a two-hour workshop on the above theme as part of the programme of the Committee of the Regions Open Days. Four speakers from Austria, Finland, Germany and the UK will present their experience of such integrated models and a representative of DG Competition will present the new Community Framework for State Aid for R&D and Innovation.
4 October 2007, Brussels Group meeting, TII Brussels Office (B)
7 September 2007: Quality Net meeting, TII Brussels Office (B)
17-21 September 2007: TII Summer School in Cyprus
A five-day skills development course for the technology transfer and innovation support professions, delivered by seasoned practitioners from around Europe.
6 July 2007, Innovation Coach Speed Dating event, Warsaw (PL)
The first Innovation Coach Speed Dating event offered participants a cost-effective introduction to the innovation scene of 5 Polish and 2 Baltic selected RIS regions: Silesia, West Pomerania, Wielkopolska, Opole, North and North West Bohemia, Warmia and Mazury, Latvia and Tartu with South Estonia.
Thursday 3 and Friday 4 May 2007, TII Annual Conference, Paris (F)
International conference on "Innovation for Development" co-organised by TII and UNESCO
Wednesday 2 May 2007
TII Annual General Meeting, UNESCO, Paris
Thursday 15 and Friday 16 March 2007, UNSPIN Winter Workshop, Lausanne (CH)
“Practice and Tools for Improving Success in Academic Entrepreneurship Training and Spin-off Support Programmes”
A two-day workshop organised in collaboration with EPFL (CH)
Friday 16 February 2007, TII Brussels Group meeting, TII Brussels Office (B)
Thursday 11 January 2007, Quality Net meeting, TII Brussels Office (B)
Thursday 16 November 2006, TII Brussels Office
With the launch of Framework Programme 7 in sight, our meeting comes at an appropriate moment to take stock of latest developments, such as the updated work programmes for each thematic programme, the role and impact of the Technology Platforms, the new application procedures for FP7 and the 2007 timetable of calls.
20 October 2006: IMT Master Class on Planning Innovation dedicated to Universities and Research Centres
m-Brussels Village (B)
The third in a new series of presentations of tried and tested Innovation Management Techniques developed by innovation support professionals and organizations around Europe, specially tailored for universities and research centres.
11-15 September 2006: TII Summer School, Szeged (H)
A five-day skills development course for the technology transfer and innovation support professions, delivered by seasoned practitioners from around Europe. Themes to be covered in the 2006 course include:
- An Introduction to Innovation Management
- Making the Business Case for Technology Opportunities (practical bridge-building between science and business)
- The Commercialization of a Knowledge-Intensive Business Idea
- Building Success in International Project Management
- Marketing Scientific Results and Services in a Turbulent Environment - What is Really Working in Technology Marketing and Commercialisation Today?
30-31 August 2006: Science Marketing Practitioners' Clinic, Brussels (B)
"Take Home a Marketing Action Plan for your Organisation that Really Works"
A two-day seminar for people who wish to apply them specifically to the needs and constraints of research and technology-based organisations.
23 May 2006: IMT Master Class on Planning Innovation, Barcelona (E)
The second in a new series of presentations of tried and tested Innovation Management Techniques developed by innovation support professionals and organizations around Europe.
26-28 April 2006: TII 2006 Annual Conference “Innovation in the 21st Century”, Newcastle-Gateshead, UK
Join the association’s major event of the year and network with representatives of some of Europe’s leading innovation support and technology transfer organizations. Hosted by RTC North, the conference offers an innovative mix of
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Plenary sessions with high-level inputs from policy makers, researchers and industrialists, including the European Commission, NASA and Procter & Gamble |
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Six parallel working groups on the conference sub-themes of Technology and the Regional Economy, the Challenges of Globalisation and Foresight and Competitive Development |
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A point-and-counterpoint debate |
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An exhibition and tools fair |
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Two pre-conference seminars, one on Technology and Marketing and the other on Science Cities. |
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