CONFERENCE PROGRAM

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October 24th	LJUBLJANA
DAY 1	Jožef Stefan Institute (grand lecture room)
9:30 - 10:00	Registration
10:00 – 10:15	Prof. dr. Jadran Lenarčič, direktor of Jozef Stefan Institute; HE Mr Jos Douma, ambassador, Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherland
10:15 – 11:30	SECTION 1.1: TT industrial relations Technology Transfer, experiences at Philips and its Spin-off's: Leon Tossaint, former Vice-President Quality Management at Philips Consumer Electronics and Honorable Member of the Board at Slovenian Foundation for Business Excellence - SLIDES Development of knowledge mapping and brokering in Croatian PROs and HEIs: dr. Hrvoje Zorc, Predstojnik Zavoda za laserska i atomska istraživanja i razvoj,  Inštitut Ruđer Bošković - SLIDES Dutch innovation system: Leo Verhoef, Prof at Eindhoven University of Technology and Prof at Polytechnic University Zuyd - SLIDES
11:30 – 12:00	Coffee break
12:00 – 12:30	SECTION 1.2: TT methods & tools Joint venture partnering: A way to bring technology to the market: Srečko Čadonič, Čadonič svetovanje, d.o.o. - SLIDES Methods and tools for successfull management of innovation processes: Dušan Bevc, Invention Machine Corp. - SLIDES
12:30 – 13:00	SECTION 2: Internationalisation of innovation Internationalisation of innovation: How can companies enter international markets? Good practices of exporting, licensing, franchising, joint venture and subsidiary from Slovenia: Simona Rataj, GZS - SLIDES Internationalisation of innovation and business excellence: Nenad Savič, Unikatum, d.o.o. - SLIDES
13:00 – 14:00	Lunch break
14:00 – 15:00	SECTION 3.1: Seeking Venture Capital Round table with representatives of VC companies and TTO
15:00 – 16:00	SECTION 3.2 (part 1): Workshop - TT & Spinoff creation Presentation of the submitted cases and questions/comments on the submitted cases by the commission members. Presenters of the cases: Stojan Petelin Gregor Majdič Jernej Iskra Marija Vukomanović Marin Berovič nad Darko Makovec IMPORTANT NOTICE: All informations disclosed during the workshop in section 3.2 (part 1) are considered as confidential!
16:00 – 16:30	Coffee break
16:30 – 17:30	SECTION 3.2 (part 2): Workshop - TT & Spinoff creation Presenters of the cases: Slavko Kralj Manca Logar Ida Istinič Vasja Vehovar Branka Mušič Uroš Petrovič IMPORTANT NOTICE: All informations disclosed during the workshop in section 3.2 (part 2) are considered as confidential!
17:30 – 18:00	SECTION 3.2: Workshop - TT & Spinoff creation (closed for public - meetings room) SECTION 4: Spin offing & Youth
18:00 – 20:00	Official Dinner. Conference reception and Awards.
October 25th	MARIBOR
DAY 2	University of Maribor
8:30 - 9:00	Registration
9:00 – 9:15	Opening Speaches Rector of the University of Maribor
9:15 – 9:45	Keynote speaker Michael Kitson University of Cambridge - SLIDES
9:45 – 10:15	SECTION 5: Methods and results of contract and collaborative research aid Introducing KBB project - SLIDES SLO – Tadej Černivec/Alenka Zalaznik AT– Romana Rauter
10:15 – 11:00	SECTION 6.1: Support within the three networks (in Austria) Technoogy transfer projects in the food sector, Sabine Prossnegg, SFG - SLIDES Development of a multifunctional 30-feed container, Wolfgang Schabereiter, Brainplus - SLIDES ICC-Projects, Christina Schweiger, FH Joanneum  - SLIDES
11:00 – 11:15	Coffee break
11:15 – 12:00	SECTION 6.1: Support within the three networks (in Slovenia) Development of a water soluble powder and slon for animal feed addition, dr. Janez Petek - SLIDES EI-mis – IT Implementation process for energy monitoring in industry, dr. Aleš Polič - SLIDES Si.mas – System for identification, measurement and analysis of the dynamics of the social networks, Hubert Frölich - SLIDES
12:00 – 12:15	SECTION 6.2: Successful knowledge application to the market, dr. Igor Drstvenšek (Ortotip d.o.o.) - SLIDES
12:15 – 13:15	SECTION 7: Christian Schmock – workshop - SLIDES
13:15 – 14:15	Lunch & Participants meetings with TTFs (networking)
14:15 – 16:00	SECTION 7 –  Christian Schmock – workshop - SLIDES (same as above) Data collection in TT office and from the inventions, intellectual property rights (IPR) and different type of knowledge transfers that the TTO handles, the logics behind these facts and figures, practices and regulations of IP management and transfer to the private sector and its particularities in terms of contract research, collaborative research, licensing and spin-offing.
16:00	Conclusions of conference &  Networking

DETAILED CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Day 1: October 24th (Ljubljana)

GRAND OPENING

10:00 - 10:15
Prof. dr. Jadran Lenarčič, direktor of Jozef Stefan Institute
Jos Douma, ambasador, Netherlands Embassy

SECTION 1.1: TT industrial relations (section chair: Robert Blatnik, Jožef Stefan Institute)

10:15 - 11:00
Technology Transfer, experiences at Philips and its Spin-off's: Leon Tossaint, former Vice-President Quality Management at Philips Consumer Electronics and Honorable Member of the Board at Slovenian Foundation for Business Excellence

11:00 - 11:15
Development of knowledge mapping and brokering in Croatian PROs and HEIs: dr. Hrvoje Zorc, Predstojnik Zavoda za laserska i atomska istraživanja i razvoj,  Inštitut Ruđer Bošković

11:15 - 11:30
Dutch innovation system: Leo Verhoef, Prof at Eindhoven University of Technology and Prof at Polytechnic University Zuyd

11: 30 - 12: 00
COFFEE BREAK

SECTION 1.2: TT methods & tools (section chair: Robert Blatnik, Jožef Stefan Institute)

12:00 - 12: 15
Joint venture partnering: A way to bring technology to the market: Srečko Čadonič, Čadonič svetovanje, d.o.o.

12:15 - 12:30
Methods and tools for successfull management of innovation processes: Dušan Bevc, Invention Machine Corp.

SECTION 2 - Internationalisation of innovation (section chair: Simona Rataj, GZS)

12:30 - 12:45
Internationalisation of innovation: How can companies enter international markets? Good practices of exporting, licensing, franchising, joint venture and subsidiary from Slovenia: Simona Rataj, GZS

12:45 - 13:00
Internationalisation of innovation and business excellence: Nenad Savič, SFPO and Unikatum, d.o.o.

13: 00 - 14: 00
LUNCH BREAK

SECTION 3.1: Workshop - TT & Spin-out creation: round table: Seeking Venture Capital (round table moderator: mag. Nina Mazgan, META Group)

14:00 - 15:00

Round table with the representatives of venture capital companies and TTO (members of the evaluation commission):
Andrea Di Anselmo, META Ingenium, družba tveganega kapitala, d.o.o., vice president of Meta Group

Laszlo Czirjak, Co-Founder and Co- Managing Partner iEurope Capital

Aleksandar Čabrilo, director of Serbian Business Angels Network

Uroš Glavan, DTK Murka, družba tveganega kapitala, d.o.o., CFO at Murka, d.d.

Rok Habinc, STH Ventures, družba tveganega kapitala, d.o.o., director of S.T. Hammer investments

Blaž Kos, Sklad poslovnih angelov, družba tveganega kapitala, d.o.o., director, group manager at Business Angels of Slovenia

Jure Mikuž, Prvi sklad, družba tveganega kapitala, d.o.o., managing director and partner of RSG kapital (head of the commission)

Christian Schmock,  partner at TTO A/S, Copenhagen

Leon Verhoef, Prof at Eindhoven University of Technology and Prof at Polytechnic University Zuyd

SECTION 3.2: Workshop - TT & Spinoff creation »Innovation for the Economy« (section chair: Robert Blatnik, Jožef Stefan Institute)

Presentation of the submitted cases and questions/comments on the submitted cases by the commission members.
Goal is the selection/competition of the best innovative projects for the spin-off/out creation. Each team will have 5 minutes for pitch presentation and 10 minutes for the question answering. All cases will be selected during the pre-evaluation process.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: All informations disclosed during the workshop in section 3.2 (part 2) are considered as confidential!

15:00 - 16:00
1st round of presentations:

• Stojan Petelin
• Gregor Majdič
• Jernej Iskra
• Marija Vukomanović
• Marin Berovič and Darko Makovec

16:00 - 16:30
COFFEE BREAK

16:30 - 17:30
2nd round of presentations:

• Slavko Kralj
• Manca Logar
• Ida Istinič
• Vasja Vehovar
• Branka Mušič
• Uroš Petrovič

17:30 - 18:00
Commission evaluation of the presented cases (closed for public).

SECTION 4: Spin offing & Youth »Good practices in spin-out creation«

Promoting the spin-out possibilities and good practices in the public research organizations.
17:30 - 18:00
Spin-out startup Modro oko, d.o.o.: Boštjan Pajntar, researcher and founder of the spin-out company at Jožef Stefan Institute.
Spin-out startup InnCerT, d.o.o. : dr. Kristoffer Krnel,  researcher and founder of the spin-out company at Jožef Stefan Institute.

18:00 - 20:00

Official dinner. Conference reception and awards.

DAY 2: October 25th (Maribor)

Keynote speaker

New developments in the movement of ideas: from technology transfer to knowledge exchange
Michael Kitson, University of Cambridge
There has been an increasing focus on the role of universities in stimulating innovation and economic growth though the transfer of technology. This presentation argues that the transfer of technology is an important element of the movement of ideas but that it needs to be considered in wider context of broad knowledge exchange. The presentation will show that there are many knowledge exchange mechanisms used by academics – these include commercialisation processes but also many other ‘hidden’ connections involving people based and problem solving activities.It will also show that knowledge exchange involves academics from all disciplines – not just those from science and engineering - and involves partners from the public and charitable sectors as well as private sector businesses. Furthermore, it shows that the main constraints that hinder or limit the knowledge exchange process include: a lack of time within academia: insufficient internal capability in businesses to manage relationships; and insufficient information to identify partners and benefits. The presentation will argue that effective knowledge exchange requires ‘boundary spanners’ - people or organisations who can connect businesses (and other institutions) to academia and who can manage productive relationships. 

SECTION 5: Methods and results of contract and collaborative research aid, chair: to be defined

Introducing KBB project (activities, project results) – TTFs: TIA +SFG: Tadej Černivec, Alenka Zalaznik, Romana Rauter, TU Gratz; common presentation 

The joining principle: TTO & CCR

SECTION 6.1: Support within the three networks in Slovenia and Austria (section chair: Tadej Černivec, TIA)

Presentations of cases by TTFs and TTOs. The main challanges that companies face with TT, what is needed on business level). A selection of best cases/practices/results. Each of the cases to have different message/stemming from different sector.

3 TTF cases from Slovenia:
Development of a water soluble powder and slon for animal feed addition, dr. Janez Petek
EI-mis – IT Implementation process for energy monitoring in industry, dr. Aleš Polič
Si.mas – System for identification, measurement and analysis of the dynamics of the social networks, Tomaž Sešek
3 TTF cases from Styria:
Technoogy transfer projects in the food sector, Sabine Prossnegg, SFG
Development of a multifunctional 30-feed container, Wolfgang Schabereiter, Brainplus
Development of an energy monitoring system, Wolfgang Stocksreiter, FH Joanneum
 

SECTION 6.2: Successful knowledge application to the market

Successful knowledge application to the market: Product development with 3D technologies in company Ortotip d.o.o.

Dr. Igor Drstvenšek, Orotip, d.o.o.

Company Ortotip d.o.o. was established by two scientists, dr. Igor Drstvenšek and dr. Vojko Pogačar. They offer product development with 3D technologies in medicine, various areas of industry, art, design and architecture. With blooming business and intellectual capital, including patents, trademarks and industrial designs, they are a success story of transfering knowledge and technology from academia to the market.

SECTION 7 – Workshop (section chair: Christian Schmock)

Data collection in TT office and from the inventions, intellectual property rights (IPR) and different type of knowledge transfers that the TTO handles, the logics behind these facts and figures, practices and regulations of IP management and transfer to the private sector and its particularities in terms of contract research, collaborative research, licensing and spin-offing.