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IMT – Innovation Management Techniques
This is a new initiative launched by TII in the autumn of 2005 and responds to the interests of TII members as expressed in a recent membership survey. It has a number of objectives, namely
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to create a platform where participants can find, share and acquire innovation management techniques (model forms, training materials, toolkits, methodologies, software, …) developed, tested and introduced by experts from companies, consultancies, higher education institutions, research centres, and public institutions, etc. |
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to create a platform where participants can find, share and acquire innovation management techniques (model forms, training materials, toolkits, methodologies, software, …) developed, tested and introduced by experts from companies, consultancies, higher education institutions, research centres, and public institutions, etc. |
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to give an option to both parties to follow up the initial contact with a formal agreement (license, franchise, partnership, copyright, free use, commercial, geographical representation, etc.) in order to boost the diffusion and uptake of innovation management techniques in Europe. |
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to give the opportunity to experts who have developed, tested and formalized innovation management techniques |
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to introduce, promote, spread, share and exchange their techniques with a target audience working in the field of innovation support. |
The scope of innovation management techniques is very broad and may concern one or more of the following techniques (innovation assessment tools, creativity techniques, assessment of innovative projects, SWOT analyses, innovation audits, search for partnerships, negotiating R&DT, patenting, licensing, financing innovation, etc.).
The method chosen for delivery is a one-day event which is structured not as a formal training session, nor a formal commercial presentation, but rather as a Master Class, where participants interested by an innovation management technique receive the information necessary to understand the technique, its background (when and by whom it was designed, implemented and tested), how to use it properly, the results expected, as well as the formal agreements proposed by the owner to potential users.
The benefits for participants are multiple:
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Innovation support intermediaries from private sector consultancies, regional business support and development agencies and research-industry interface organizations have the opportunity to meet master experts in innovation management who have formalized their methodology in a ready-to-use form (toolkits, model forms/templates, software, etc.) and who are ready to share their expertise. |
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Innovation support intermediaries from private sector consultancies, regional business support and development agencies and research-industry interface organizations have the opportunity to meet master experts in innovation management who have formalized their methodology in a ready-to-use form (toolkits, model forms/templates, software, etc.) and who are ready to share their expertise. |
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Participants benefit from TII’s worldwide network of members not just in the EU but also in the United States and in Asia for identifying and acquiring proven innovation management techniques. |
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Participants benefit from TII’s selection of management techniques which have proved to be successful, the priority being given to the quality rather than to the novelty. |
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Participants learn about at least 4 management techniques during the Master Class and have the option to enter into further collaboration with the IMT owner. |
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The number of participants is limited to 20-25 per session in order to facilitate individual contacts during and between the formal presentations. |
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Participants pay a small participation fee to cover costs, thus benefiting from the non-profit status of the organiser. |
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