Round Table Meeting on 16 September 2011, TNO Facilities in Delft

Summary

Optimisation of strategic partnerships defines the success and failure of innovation projects. Are companies today using the full potential of their partnerships with the RTO’s and Universities? This Round Table will look at best practices in collaboration between companies, RTO’s and Universities in complex international co-operation projects.

Announcement

 

Issues addressed

• Discuss what companies expect from universities and other research partners: new ideas within or outside their core business. How to start the dialogue between companies and universities and how to make the dialogue go-on?
• Focus on the different missions of RTOs / universities / industries. The question of different perspectives on time will be raised: if speed is a critical factor, how to share the payout of the value chain?
• Explore where joint roadmaps can give results that are beneficial for industry and university and how to create and manage joined roadmaps;
• Learn about Managing IP which often is not an obstacle but a matter of general trust and respect for each other’s capabilities;
• Discover the collaboration in the Open Innovation model with other actors such as clients, suppliers, spin-offs from universities and other industries;

• Examples of the specific situation of innovation networks at local level (as the French “Pôles de Compétitivité” or Regional Clusters), trying to create an eco-system of innovation.

Target Audience

R&D Directors, Partnership and External Relations Managers, Heads of Universities and Research Centres

Chairman

Dr. Erik Drop, Director Strategy & Planning, TNO

Related Link

EIRMA is supporting the work of a student of Université-Paris-Sud for a survey on Open Innovation Practices in European Companies. To participate, Follow this link