Presentation made by Caroline Gray-Stephens, Head of Enterprise Europe Network-Scotland at BIP Asia 2012 hosted by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC), 7 December 2012.
Translating intellectual assets into impact – Building innovation capacity wi...SAFIPA
A unit of the CSIR:
- Impact through research, development (R&D) and
Innovation in the information and communication
technology (ICT) and the application thereof
• Established in April 2005 – now the largest
concentration of ICT Researchers in South Africa
- 247 staff and students in two main locations in
Pretoria and Cape Town
- Active international R&D collaboration with partners
in Africa, Europe and Asia
• CSIR Meraka Institute produces:
- Local experts in ICT
- Local ICT technology
- Local innovations
Accelerating innovation and diffusion of renewable energy technologies: techn...CambridgeIP Ltd
There is a need for innovation and industrial upgrade policies to be co-ordinated with renewable energy capacity obligations for Bulgaria and other accession member states to the EU: that was the main message of a presentation by CambridgeIP’s CEO Ilian Iliev at a recent workshop on The Costs and Benefits of Renewables: Biomass organised by the Center for Study of Democracy in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Gradiant is the Galician R&D Center in Advanced Telecommunications. Our goal is to generate and transfer ICT knowledge to Industry and Society. We seek to generate value through applied R&D either as provider for companies or as partner with companies.
Our formula is to combine the freedom and creativity of a research and innovation center with a professional approach to R&D that understands the needs of companies. Our private non-profit nature provides the flexibility needed for doing real-world business with real-world companies.
We generate good ideas, but we do speak business too.
Translating intellectual assets into impact – Building innovation capacity wi...SAFIPA
A unit of the CSIR:
- Impact through research, development (R&D) and
Innovation in the information and communication
technology (ICT) and the application thereof
• Established in April 2005 – now the largest
concentration of ICT Researchers in South Africa
- 247 staff and students in two main locations in
Pretoria and Cape Town
- Active international R&D collaboration with partners
in Africa, Europe and Asia
• CSIR Meraka Institute produces:
- Local experts in ICT
- Local ICT technology
- Local innovations
Accelerating innovation and diffusion of renewable energy technologies: techn...CambridgeIP Ltd
There is a need for innovation and industrial upgrade policies to be co-ordinated with renewable energy capacity obligations for Bulgaria and other accession member states to the EU: that was the main message of a presentation by CambridgeIP’s CEO Ilian Iliev at a recent workshop on The Costs and Benefits of Renewables: Biomass organised by the Center for Study of Democracy in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Gradiant is the Galician R&D Center in Advanced Telecommunications. Our goal is to generate and transfer ICT knowledge to Industry and Society. We seek to generate value through applied R&D either as provider for companies or as partner with companies.
Our formula is to combine the freedom and creativity of a research and innovation center with a professional approach to R&D that understands the needs of companies. Our private non-profit nature provides the flexibility needed for doing real-world business with real-world companies.
We generate good ideas, but we do speak business too.
Market Research plays a vital role for organizations that are looking to move confidently in a new direction. This presentation gives an overview of our unique approach towards delivering unparralled results.
Chris Scafario
6 Tactics To Improve Your Technology ScoutingMamta Agrawal
Technology scouting’s main goal is to help small and medium-sized businesses identify emerging innovations, channel tech-related data into the organization, and promote inexperienced technology in a corporate setting. At Ingenious e-Brain, we combine our knowledge, analysis, and tried-and-true processes to map out the innovations that will influence your business. We carry out a technology scouting service in the following steps.
A presentation made by Dr Gordon McConnachie, CTO of APICC on the development prospect of Innovation & Technology, Technology Transfer and Technology Commercialization in Hong Kong.
Exploitation of research results obtained in industrial collaboration should ideally cover the whole transfer chain, be well-balanced in term of investments and profits of each partner, bring a product which perfectly answers market need and gives a starting point for further developments. The INRIA – Texas Instruments collaboration in the domain of Java applications for mobile terminals is an example of such an “ideal” technology transfer project which ended with patents assignment and competences and know-how transfer.
www.FITT-for-Innovation.eu
In the activity of IP Management, the process of Protection of the IP is an essential stake. In a fast moving sector as ICT, it is not always easy to define the best protection strategy: patenting is a strong protection mean, but is costs and time consuming. Besides secrecy, many other types of protection (e.g. mark, copyright) also exist and offer a wide range of possibilities. The presented practices focus on issues around protection and propose some practices.
www.FITT-for-Innovation.eu
Сергей Уляхин "Аспекты коммерциализации интеллектуальной собственности" (S.Ul...EconMsu
Лекция Сергея Уляхина про особенности коммерциализации интеллектуальной собственности.
Лекция была проведена в рамках межфакультетского курса МГУ "Экономика инноваций: как запустить технологический проект?". Подробнее о курсе - https://vk.com/mfk_ei
Want to know how you can elaborate technology scouting projects in 3-step :
1- Identify technologies in the defined domain
2- Evaluate technologies (Technology scouting module)
3- Take decision (Licensing In module)
Market Research plays a vital role for organizations that are looking to move confidently in a new direction. This presentation gives an overview of our unique approach towards delivering unparralled results.
Chris Scafario
6 Tactics To Improve Your Technology ScoutingMamta Agrawal
Technology scouting’s main goal is to help small and medium-sized businesses identify emerging innovations, channel tech-related data into the organization, and promote inexperienced technology in a corporate setting. At Ingenious e-Brain, we combine our knowledge, analysis, and tried-and-true processes to map out the innovations that will influence your business. We carry out a technology scouting service in the following steps.
A presentation made by Dr Gordon McConnachie, CTO of APICC on the development prospect of Innovation & Technology, Technology Transfer and Technology Commercialization in Hong Kong.
Exploitation of research results obtained in industrial collaboration should ideally cover the whole transfer chain, be well-balanced in term of investments and profits of each partner, bring a product which perfectly answers market need and gives a starting point for further developments. The INRIA – Texas Instruments collaboration in the domain of Java applications for mobile terminals is an example of such an “ideal” technology transfer project which ended with patents assignment and competences and know-how transfer.
www.FITT-for-Innovation.eu
In the activity of IP Management, the process of Protection of the IP is an essential stake. In a fast moving sector as ICT, it is not always easy to define the best protection strategy: patenting is a strong protection mean, but is costs and time consuming. Besides secrecy, many other types of protection (e.g. mark, copyright) also exist and offer a wide range of possibilities. The presented practices focus on issues around protection and propose some practices.
www.FITT-for-Innovation.eu
Сергей Уляхин "Аспекты коммерциализации интеллектуальной собственности" (S.Ul...EconMsu
Лекция Сергея Уляхина про особенности коммерциализации интеллектуальной собственности.
Лекция была проведена в рамках межфакультетского курса МГУ "Экономика инноваций: как запустить технологический проект?". Подробнее о курсе - https://vk.com/mfk_ei
Want to know how you can elaborate technology scouting projects in 3-step :
1- Identify technologies in the defined domain
2- Evaluate technologies (Technology scouting module)
3- Take decision (Licensing In module)
The Chinese Daily Deal Websites Pyramid - The Top 20 Sites in 4 Levels
The Chinese Daily Deal Websites Pyramid - The Top 20 Sites in 4 Levels
According to the Dataotuan (www.dataotuan.com)statistics, the total revenue of the Chinese group-buying market in 2012 Q1 is around 4.5 Billion Rmb.
The Top 20 deal sites, accounting for 95% of the market, fall into 4 levels.
Presentation made by Caroline Gray-Stephens, Head of Enterprise Europe Network - Scotland (EEN-Scotland) at BIP Asia 2012 hosted by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (7 December 2012)
PMG Oct 2011 Patents and intellectual property 101 for product managers finalDerek Pettingale
Recent sales of patent portfolios for billions of dollars are leading executives to revisit potential dormant value. With visible portfolio valuations such as Nortel and Motorola IP making headline news, the value of Intellectual Property has never been higher than in today's economy. As a result, Product Managers are now being challenged with understanding basic patent protection, strategy and valuation.
ICIC 2017: How to effectively monitor Technological Developments in IPDr. Haxel Consult
Jochen Spuck (Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property, Switzerland)
Kornel Marko (Averbis, Germany)
Modern, cutting-edge developments are not reflected in current patent classification systems, which tend to catalogue established technologies. Identifying patent portfolios in such emerging fields proves a challenging job for patent and technology experts.
Going beyond the mere identification of new IP, additional value may be added using a regional geographic weighting combined with consolidated portfolio owner information.
Effective monitoring of the technological field is achieved by training active-learning search engines to hunt for highly relevant patent documents, thus keeping IP portfolios for emerging technologies up to date. The system we have developed permits extremely accurate updates with drastically reduced noise and with low workload which have proven to be invaluable in a world of drastically increasing data blur.
Innovare's Tech Explorer - Technology Discovery ServiceInnovare, Inc.
This presentation describes Innovare’s Tech Explorer a front-end of innovation process for Technology Discovery. The Tech Explorer provides for an externally focused and facilitated forum for innovation teams and technology experts. During the process, we explore current and emerging technologies; define how the technologies may impact customer needs, and how we can leverage the technologies to enable highly competitive innovations.
Our HK Foundation's report -- based on a draft provided by the Victor and William Fung Foundation through the work of Fung Business Intelligence Centre
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
SAP Sapphire 2024 - ASUG301 building better apps with SAP Fiori.pdfPeter Spielvogel
Building better applications for business users with SAP Fiori.
• What is SAP Fiori and why it matters to you
• How a better user experience drives measurable business benefits
• How to get started with SAP Fiori today
• How SAP Fiori elements accelerates application development
• How SAP Build Code includes SAP Fiori tools and other generative artificial intelligence capabilities
• How SAP Fiori paves the way for using AI in SAP apps
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Welocme to ViralQR, your best QR code generator.ViralQR
Welcome to ViralQR, your best QR code generator available on the market!
At ViralQR, we design static and dynamic QR codes. Our mission is to make business operations easier and customer engagement more powerful through the use of QR technology. Be it a small-scale business or a huge enterprise, our easy-to-use platform provides multiple choices that can be tailored according to your company's branding and marketing strategies.
Our Vision
We are here to make the process of creating QR codes easy and smooth, thus enhancing customer interaction and making business more fluid. We very strongly believe in the ability of QR codes to change the world for businesses in their interaction with customers and are set on making that technology accessible and usable far and wide.
Our Achievements
Ever since its inception, we have successfully served many clients by offering QR codes in their marketing, service delivery, and collection of feedback across various industries. Our platform has been recognized for its ease of use and amazing features, which helped a business to make QR codes.
Our Services
At ViralQR, here is a comprehensive suite of services that caters to your very needs:
Static QR Codes: Create free static QR codes. These QR codes are able to store significant information such as URLs, vCards, plain text, emails and SMS, Wi-Fi credentials, and Bitcoin addresses.
Dynamic QR codes: These also have all the advanced features but are subscription-based. They can directly link to PDF files, images, micro-landing pages, social accounts, review forms, business pages, and applications. In addition, they can be branded with CTAs, frames, patterns, colors, and logos to enhance your branding.
Pricing and Packages
Additionally, there is a 14-day free offer to ViralQR, which is an exceptional opportunity for new users to take a feel of this platform. One can easily subscribe from there and experience the full dynamic of using QR codes. The subscription plans are not only meant for business; they are priced very flexibly so that literally every business could afford to benefit from our service.
Why choose us?
ViralQR will provide services for marketing, advertising, catering, retail, and the like. The QR codes can be posted on fliers, packaging, merchandise, and banners, as well as to substitute for cash and cards in a restaurant or coffee shop. With QR codes integrated into your business, improve customer engagement and streamline operations.
Comprehensive Analytics
Subscribers of ViralQR receive detailed analytics and tracking tools in light of having a view of the core values of QR code performance. Our analytics dashboard shows aggregate views and unique views, as well as detailed information about each impression, including time, device, browser, and estimated location by city and country.
So, thank you for choosing ViralQR; we have an offer of nothing but the best in terms of QR code services to meet business diversity!
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024
Embracing Open Innovation Platforms - Enterprise Europe Network (7 Dec 2012)
1. Embracing Open
Innovation Platforms
Title
Sub-title the smart people work for us. We need to work
“Not all
with smart people inside and outside the
company. » Chesbourgh
PLACE PARTNER’S
European Commission
LOGO HERE Enterprise and Industry
2. Open Innovation Title of the presentation | Date |2
IP in-sourced
for development
Products in-sourced
for scale-up
Technology spin-outs
In-sourced
Ideas and technologies
IP licensing
Front End Product Development Product Launch
Innovation
Discovery Market
Diagram courtesy of Mike Addison, P&G
3. Why Technology Transfer ? Title of the presentation | Date |3
Because the wheel should not be invented twice!
Ways to innovation …..
1) In-house Research 3) Technology Transfer
Resources: Time - • Results already exist
Money - Staff - … • Timeline and costs
well predictable
2) Contract Research • Selection from several
Costs – Time horizon - solutions
Success?
Technology transfer is used too little to
access innovations more quickly and reliably
4. Enterprise Europe Network: A Title of the presentation | Date |4
Platform for Technology Transfer
• 50 Countries
• 600 partner organisations
• 6000 specialist advisors
• Potential access to 20 million EU SMEs
• Largest business and TT network and
database in the world: 23,000 live
profiles
Integrated Innovation Support Programme (IISP) 4
5. The TTT process in the EEN Title of the presentation | Date |5
Connecting people
Contract
Negotiation
Follow-up
IPR
Connecting
R&D providers
and seekers
Preparation Dissemination
Brokerage Personal Technology
of Partner of Partner
Events Contact Mission
Searches Searches
• Personal contact to EEN?
•
Clients •
Sincere interest in technology offer/request
High potential clients
• Communication skills (English, personality, …)
Promotion Collaboration Presentation Warm/Cold
www Stakeholders Events callings
6. Dissemination of project ideas, technology
Title of the presentation | Date |6
offers and requests via the EEN
Dissemination
of Partner
Searches
Technology
Offer / Request
(Anonymous, EEN Client 2
one page only) Database
1 600 (AT)
1 180 000 (EU)
400 Sectors
2 2
2
3 3
1 Profile (Offer/ Request)
2 Dissemination in 50 countries 3 Replies (EoIs)
7. Co-operation Profiles Title of the presentation | Date |7
Preparation of
Partner
Searches
Technology Profile
One page only (~2 hours)
Type of co-operation
- R&D, technical co-operation
- Production, Sales, Licencing
Dissemination
50 Countries
~ 180 000 High-tech Players
Companies EoI (Reactions)
R&D institutions
Technology Centers < 2 Months
Universities ~ 4 - 8 (Offers)
~ 10 -15 (Requests)
8. Technology Transfer? Title of the presentation | Date |8
An alternative solution to solve problems?
In-house Contract Technology
Research Research Transfer
Time to market ~ 1-3 Years ~ 1-3 Years 4-12 months
Risk High Medium Low
Alternative solutions No No Several
Costs assessable ? ? Yes
9. Title of the presentation | Date |9
The Bones Of A great Deal: Orthos (UK) and
CREB (SP):Exclusive Patent License
Agreement
• Orthos: bone restoration specialist
• CREB: Biomedical Engineering Research Centre with
patents in self-setting and injectable calcium
phosphate foam
• Orthos granted exclusive rights to EU and Spanish
patents
• CREB: 3%-7% of generated income once introduced
to EU market (where 1 million bone generative
surgeries take place p.a for cancer and osteoporosis)
10. Title of the presentation | Date |10
Giltech’s (UK) French Connections with IMV
Technologies (FR)
• Giltech: biodegradable and controlled release
technologies using glass and plastic
• IMV: artificial insemination of cattle
• EEN provide also a due diligence report on Giltech for
IMV, providing them the confidence to go ahead with
the deal
• Two year agreement to develop controlled release and
biodegradable applications with reproductive
technologies, and discussing other opportunities.
“In terms of the target market, we couldn’t have chosen a
better partner.” Giltech
11. Title of the presentation | Date |11
Precision Smiles for Playmobile Faces:
Cruse Leppelman(DE) - Playmobile (Malta)
• Cruse Leppelman: automated quality control systems
for food packages and labels
• Playmobile (Malta): maker of toy figurines
• Playmobile saw the potential for using the technology
in its own production line: ensuring that every figurine
leaves the factory with the same signature smile, and
everything is in the right place
• Testing now taking place in Malta with very promising
results
12. Please keep in mind….
Title of the presentation | Date |12
1
Get results
faster with
Technology Transfer
www.enterprise-europe-scotland.com
2 (23,000 cooperation possibilities)
13. Title of the presentation | Date |13
In Summary
It is Spotting Gaps and Developing Trust
It is not Black Magic
Integrated Innovation Support Programme (IISP)
13
In his landmark book Open Innovation, Henry Chesbrough demonstrated that because useful knowledge is no longer concentrated in a few large organizations, business leaders must adopt a new, "open" model of innovation. Using this model, companies look outside their boundaries for ideas and intellectual property (IP) they can bring in, as well as license their unutilized home-grown IP to other organizations. Technology or innovation acquisition enables companies to acquire new products and services without going through the expensive and risky stages of R&D. These technologies are usually found internationally from other companies and research centres, but of course can also be acquired from the home country. The most common forms are licensing, joint ventures and technical cooperation agreements.
Open innovation is about integrating external partners in the entire innovation process. This should happen not just in the idea or technology development phase but also in all other phases towards market acceptance. User-driven innovation is great as it directs your innovation efforts towards market needs. Open innovation takes you to the next step by providing more opportunities through external partners as you address those market needs. Other aspects of innovation strategies may be relevant as well, such as incremental versus radical innovations, the stage in the innovation process, and the stage in the product life cycle. One may assume a larger impact of inbound activities in the early innovation stages, since the earlier in the process, the larger the potential cost and time savings. It has been observed that open innovation practices at smaller companies are more common in the later innovation stages, especially the commercialization stage, suggesting that outbound activities are more effective at latter innovation stages when the company has something concrete to offer. Also, focussing on the depth and breadth of external search shows that external search depth is greatest early in the product life cycle, while in the latter stages innovative firms scan across a wider number of search channels.
External knowledge sourcing in terms is of inter-organisational and international cooperation is becoming more important for a number of reasons: shorter technology life cycles, emerging technologies with the potential to disrupt market leaders' positions, lack of internal capacity, soaring costs and risks associated with science based technology, increased rivalry between companies in their product markets, and the growing role of seed and venture capital to finance excellent business ideas. Equally importantly it is within the grasp of SMEs. Small companies can gain a lot by open innovation as both their resources and market reach are limited. Companies can enter new and emerging markets, internationalise and get technical and commercial assistance from innovation and technology developers without having to pay for it in advance. This model of open innovation is being increasingly used by organisations throughout the world, and while this model is a must for small enterprises, which usually lack knowledge of some sort to fully complete the innovation process, larger organisations too are moving away from their traditional R&D approach to a collaborative connect and develop (C&D) process.
The Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) brings together close to 600 business support organisations from more than 50 countries, helping small companies to innovate and internationalise. Outside the EU, the Mediterranean and the Middle East, the Enterprise Europe Network is expanding in key international markets, with partners in Chile, China, Japan, Mexico, Russia, The Ukraine, South Korea and the United States. New branches are to open in India and Canada and a there is a recent reinforced presence in China (four new branches in Shanghai and Nanjing have brought China's total to 27). Our strapline is “ Connect, Innovate, Grow. ” Member organisations include chambers of commerce and industry, technology centres, research institutes and development agencies: they have been supporting local businesses for a long time. They know their clients' strengths and needs - and they know their network partners across the Globe. Members of the Enterprise Europe Network are linked up through powerful databases, sharing their knowledge and sourcing technologies and business partners across all Network countries. However, the Enterprise Europe Network is above all a people network, providing a local gateway for businesses to reach international partners and markets. They are our partners, when it comes to initiating contacts, linking clients, exchanging information – we do not need to be there, we have partners that speak the companies ‘ language, know the culture, have access to background information… Since 2008, the Enterprise Europe Network as a whole has: Published 31,000 partnering opportunities, Total estimated impact on sales growth: €450 mio
1. Identify company needs Help define strategic direction of the company and its innovation and internationalisation approach: position now and vision for future Identify technology gaps if IP portfolio and internal capabilities understood 2. Consider potential solutions (internally & externally) Dependent on company size, shape and nature of business Explore different technology and market applications for both offers and requests Build collaboration profile and communicate ‘ needs ’ and offers via EEN databases and contacts): scouting for the right solution and partner 3. The right partnering strategy Type: joint development, in-licensing, acquisition, co-branding? Ensure partner is a strategic fit: eg help to qualify and vet potential partners Help build the relationships and provide support in the negotiation phase (help with follow up, IP, advice, access to finance if appropriate etc)
Just imagine You are a research institution has developed a technology industry could really benefit from “ who will be able to benefit – cross border? how to communicate my results?...” you are an SME and you have developed a new technology, something highly innovative (in a technological sense) but as you are a 10 people company, you neither have the contacts nor the ressources to go find out about potential international cooperation partners. so in a way „nobody in the whole wide world will get to know about it, let alone buy it Who might be interested in their technology? And how can I know that they are seriously interested? A good company?
You describe what you offer / are looking for. You Publish your own Technology Offer/Request, anonymously on an online database We promote your offer / request anonymously in over 40 countries to find cooperation partners! Automatic matching of offers and requests and ealert to your dekstop You ’ ll receive approx. 4-15 expressions of interest WE help to qualify the EOIS and the potential partners Answer to Technology Offer/Request Can also conduct one off searches of the database
In Summary technology transfer can be a quicker, less risky more cost effective way of developing new products and services and getting them to market
Orthos Limited specialises in developing technologies to help re-grow human bones. They were looking to identify Universities across Europe with which to work in a bid to source new technologies. They contacted their EEN office (SW England) who helped pull together a profile which was published on the database. Colleagues in Catalonia (Spain) were in touch with CREB who have developed and patented a self-setting and injectable calcium phosphate foam. An agreement was signed which gives Othos exclusive rights to the Spanish and European patents. In addition Othos also invested a further €200k enabling them to exploit the technology commercially for bone regeneration and to develop the next generation of orthobiological devices which reduce the risks of surgery and allows for a rapid patient recovery. The patent agreement gives Orthos exclusive rights to exploit the university ’ s technology with CREB benefiting by receiving royalties on the sale of any Orthos device which uses their technology. Orthos signed the agreement through EEN ’ s Partner Alert Service. : “ Orthos is a prime example of how a company can benefit from exploiting international academic research. We have strong links with universities across our partner countries and strive to increase collaborative research and development across all sectors by putting companies and academics in contact with each other. ”
Giltech is a specialist co-development partner that works with customers around the globe to help differentiate their products through the creation of bespoke formulations of its biodegradable and controlled release technologies. They offer their portfolio of innovative, patented and licenced technologies and are constantly on the lookout for the right commercial partners to help drive forward business opportunities. They approached EEN Scotland who published a collaboration profile on the database. IMV is a long established French company, and the first French centre for the artificial insemination of cattle. They were looking for innovative and sustainable solutions for their insemination devices. Through the help of the EEN colleagues in France they identified Glitch as a possible partner, but wanted more information on the company to ensure they were the right fit. EEN France asked EEN Scotland to produce a due diligence report on Giltech, which we commissioned. This provided IMV with the necessary information to have the confidence to go ahead with the deal, and a two year agreement has been signed to develop controlled release and biodegradable applications with reproductive technologies
Cruse Leppelman is a German company which manufactures and sells non-contact quality control systems, mainly for food packaging and labelling. They were looking for new customers and approached their German EEN office, who released a technology profile in the EEN database. In this case a response came very quickly from the EEN partner in Malta, reveling interest from an unexpected source: Playmobil Malta, maker of the eponymous brand of figurines. Matthias Fauser, Playmobil Malta ’ s chief operations officer, thought the toymaker could make use of Cruse Leppelman ’ s innovation for its own production line – ensuring that every figurine leaves the factory with the signature smile and everything else in the right place. Although workers currently do visual spot checks about every 100th piece, it is not a fool-proof system – hence, the interest in automation. “ A technology-driven company like ours is always on the lookout for new developments, ” says Fauser. “ We count on the Enterprise Europe Network to keep us informed of new innovations, even ones not yet on the market. ” Playmobile malta tested the system for optical quality controlof their toy figures initially, and now uses it sucessfully. “ Bringing companies together who might otherwise never have crossed paths is what the Network does best, ” notes Brigitte Tanti, Malta ’ s Network coordinator. “ It is a winning formula. ”
Finally, what will be the future of open innovation? My prediction is that we should not be surprised to learn that within a decade, the term will fade away. Not because the concept has lost its usefulness, but, on the contrary, because it has been fully integrated in innovation management practices. Which organization can afford to assume it has nothing to learn nor gain from the rest of the world. : open innovation is on its way to become innovation.