CONFERENCE PROGRAM

September 17^th 2014

Location: Congress Center Brdo pri Kranju

Main Conference Room

Parallel Session

8:30 – 9:00

Registration

9:00 – 9:15

Grand Opening

Špela Stres, Chair, Organizing Committee

Honourable Speakers:

Violeta Bulc, Vice-President for Innovation, Challenge:Future
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Vesna Stanković Juričić, Director, Slovenian Intellectual Property Office

Session I: IP Creation and Valuation - Keynote Speeches

9:15 – 9:40

IP Creation – Sources for New Ideas, Products, Technologies

 1. Idea creation and development

2. Checking and confirming the novelty of idea

3. Sources of IP/knowledge

4. The rationale  for IP watch

5. Does and don’ts in innovation creation

Roland Feinäugle, Unit Manager Patent Information Training, European Patent Office, Germany
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9:40 – 10:00

IP Valuation in Companies and Business Transactions

1. Introduction of an emerging single European marketplace for IP (practical examples and case studies)

2. How to use IP: not just for protection but also for value generation?

3. IP valuation methods and how they work in practice? Case study: New Austrian standards for patent and brand valuation.

Alexander G. Welzl, Senior Researcher, ECONOMICA Institute of Economic Research, Austria
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10:00 – 10:05

1st National Consultation on Knowledge Transfer - Opinion Collection

Špela Stres, Chair, Organizing Committee

10:00 – 13:00

Brokerage Event:

R2B (research – to - business) meetings.

B2B (business to business) meetings

Important: please apply at tehnologije@ijs.si for the meeting arrangements with Slovenian companies and/or researchers from Jozef Stefan Institute!

Presentations of the commercially applicable research results and projects by the Slovenian researchers.

10:05 – 10:10

Start of the Brokerage Event

Session II: Financing Innovation

10:10 – 10:55

Start-up Workshop

1. Lean principle for development of business model in academic start-up or licensing case

2. Showing value of your intellectual property to the investors / banks / H2020 project evaluators.  

3. Assessment of innovation

4. Presenting value of your products

5. Simple yet effective tool for preparation of a business model.

6. Identifying Core Intellectual Property for Business Model Value Creation

Matej Golob, 30Lean, Slovenia
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Sara Giordani, TTP Lab, Technology Transfer Program & Laboratory, Italy
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10:55 – 11:00

1st National Consultation on Knowledge Transfer - Opinion Collection

Špela Stres, Chair, Organizing Committee

11:00 – 11:30

Networking Break & Coffee

11:30 – 12:35

Best Innovation with Business Proposition:  Pitch Competition

Presentation of the real business model proposals from the public research labs to the investors and technology transfer experts.

The project teams, researchers / entrepreneurs, authors of the inventive/innovative technologies present their business models in front of the evaluation commission. Each of the presenters has exactly 5 minutes for the pitch presentation and 7 minutes for responding to the questions of the commission members. Every case has been preassessed by the members of the commission on the basis of predetermined assessment criteria.

There are 6 groups of criteria that are covered in the evaluation process:

1. Overall situation of the case

2. Product/application advantage

3. Market attractiveness

4. Competitive situation

5. Technology maturity

6. Risk versus return

Members of the Evaluation Commission / Člani komisije (in alphabetical order):

Alexander G. Welzl, ECONOMICA Institute of Economic Research

Branko Drobnak, Business Angels Slovenia

Sara Giordani, TTP Lab, Technology Transfer Program & Laboratory

Uroš Glavan, DTK Murka, Slovenia

Rok Habinc, STH Ventures, Slovenia

Iztok Lesjak, Tehnološki park Ljubljana, Slovenia

Nina Mazgan, META Group, Slovenia/Italy

Moderation of the Competition:

Robert Blatnik, Center for Technology Transfer and Innovation at the Jožef Stefan Institute

12:35 – 12:40

1st National Consultation on Knowledge Transfer - Opinion Collection

Špela Stres, Chair, Organizing Committee

Session III: International Partnering

12:40 – 13:10

Developing and Marketing of Innovation Through International Partnering Networks (European Institute of Innovation and Technology and Horizon 2020)

Peter Olesen, President of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology, Denmark
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Best Innovation Competition: Evaluation commission meeting – winner selection. Non public part of the event!

Awards Ceremony

13:10 – 13:15

1st National Consultation on Knowledge Transfer - Prize Draw

Špela Stres, Chair, Organizing Committee

13:15 – 13:30

Awards for the Best Innovation with Business Proposition from Research Labs / Slavnostna razglasitev zmagovalca za najboljši projekt iz JRO

Honourable Speaker:

Alexander G. Welzl, ECONOMICA Institute of Economic Research

Members of the Evaluation Commission will present the winners.

13:30 – 14:30

Lunch

14:30 – 16:00

Awards for the Best Innovation from the Industry / Slavnostna podelitev nagrad GZS.

Honourable Speakers:  

Samo Hribar Milič, president of the Slovenian Chamber of Commerce

Peter Olesen, President of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology