THE ROLE OF EU AND REGIONAL NETWORKS IN SUPPORTING CROSS BORDER KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER AND THE ROLE PLAY

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THE ROLE OF EU AND REGIONAL NETWORKS IN
SUPPORTING CROSS BORDER KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER AND
THE ROLE PLAYED BY SPECIALISED SME TECHNOLOGY
CENTRES

• The IRE Knowledge Transfer Working Group

18-19 October 2007, Göteborg
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Regional delegates

• Agnese GRINEVICA / Latvian Investment and
  Development Agency, Latvia
• Asta ERLINGSDOTTIR / Research Liaison Office,
  Iceland
• Bjorn WESTLING / IVF Industrial Research and
  Development Corp., Västra Götaland, Sweden
• Chrisine BORRMANN / State Ministry for Economics
  and Labour Affairs of the Free and Hanseatic City
  of Hamburg, Germany
• Christian SCERRY /Malta Council for Science and
  Technology, Malta
• Welcome Conor DUNBAR / Department of Enterprise,
  Trade Investment, NI - UK
• Welcome Debora FACCHINI / ASTER, Italy
• Jean-Luc TOURMANN / Région ALSACE, Direction de
  la Recherche, de l'Enseignement Supérieur et du
  Transfert de Technologies (DREST), France
• Jacek BARANIECKI / West Pomeranian Regional
  Development Agency, Poland
• Paloma MALLORQUIN / Fundación madrimasd,
  Madrid,Spain
• Tiziana BOYLAND /SEEDA, South East, UK

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Apologies for Absence

• 1 / Helene MORIN, Bretagne Innovation, France
• 2 / Jim KEANE, NWDA
• 3 / Aurora LAKATOS , West Romania (new
  representative)
• 4 /Anne SOLHEIM, Rogaland/ West Norway
• 5 / Alice Wu EU DG Enterprise
• Bonus Attendee !
• Elzbieta Ksiazek IRE Project Manager 

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AGENDA
Thursday, 18 October 2007  

• 900 Welcome to IVF
• 915 Introduction to the Working Group work
  programme and fourth meeting agenda, Marc
  Pattinson IRE Secretariat
•  
• 930 Welcome to Region Overview Vastra Gotaland
  Regional KT strategy and key KT networks and
  activities.
• Speaker Mr Lave Thorell, Västra Götaland Region
• 1010 Overview Swedish Institute sector and its
  current transformation Speaker Björn Westling
   
• 1045 Tea and coffee break
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• Session I / The role of EU and regional networks
  in supporting cross border knowledge transfer
• 1100 Case study speed presentations from
  partners
•  
• 1300 Lunch
•  
• Session II / "Role of Applied RD centres in KT
• 1430 Case study speed presentations from
  partners on the second meeting topics (free
  choice)
• "Role of Applied RD centres in KT" comparing
  experience with the Swedish examples.

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AGENDA
Friday, 19 October 2007  

• 845 MEETING VENUE Chalmers Knowledge Transfer
  Institute
• Programme of Västra Götaland region
• 930 Visit of Chalmers Knowledge Transfer
  Institute (knowledge transfer organisation of
  Chalmers University of Technology)
• Welcome and short presentation Dr. Kent
  Rundgren, Dr Henric Rhedin
• Presentation of "Forska Väx", (Research and
  Innovation in Small Companies),
• Sweden's largest national initiative for
  bringing RD to SME's
• Getting SME's involved in research Problems and
  success factors,
• Anne Löfquist, VINNOVA (Swedish Governmental
  Agency for Innovation Systems)
•   Round Table Discussion
• Visit to MC2 (Microtechnology and Nanoscience)
  facility at Chalmers. MC2 is developing
  collaboration with industry and attracting
  companies to locate within its dynamic research
  infrastructure
• 1300 Lunch
• 1400 Wrap up presentations and summary
• Conclusion and planning for the next 5th meeting
  planned for early 2008 / Marc Pattinson, IRE
  Secretariat
• 1500 Tea and coffee break
• 15.30 - Departure of the regional delegates

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Work Programme

• Meeting 1 Regional strategies and policies to
  support Knowledge Transfer (overview of the types
  of initiatives, programmes used to support
  knowledge transfer at a regional level, linkages
  between regional strategies and knowledge
  transfer initiatives run by others such as
  universities )
• Meeting 2 Knowledge Transfer governance and
  finance, (the role of PPPs, Research Foundations,
  the appointment of relevant HR , the
  participation of regional actors etc)
• Meeting 3 Effective knowledge transfer
  activities closer linkages SME/HEI and FORESIGHT
  Method
• Meeting 4 The role of EU and regional
  networks in supporting cross border knowledge
  transfer and the role played by specialised SME
  Technology Centres
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• Meeting 5 A review of the key performance,
  evaluation and monitoring tools used in the field
  of knowledge transfer. Public and private
  partners are required to increasingly demonstrate
  the effectiveness of their activities (outputs,
  indicators, results etc) and should therefore be
  addressed in this Working Group
• Final conference Plenary session meeting with
  the other two IRE Working Groups. This will
  enable Working Group members to share their
  findings with the other members.

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Timetable
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Outcomes and deliverables

• Meeting minutes
• contents and outcomes of each meeting summarised
  in minutes
• minutes available not later than 10 days after
  the meeting
• document circulated to all the group and placed
  on the IRE web site
• Good practice case study material
• good practice and case study presentations
  circulated after each meeting
• case studies published one month after each
  meeting and inserted into the IRE projects
  database/IRE website
• Final report
• Final report (Handbook ) produced after the five
  meetings
• key issues and barriers to effective knowledge
  transfer
• solutions and policy suggestions supported by
  case study material for enhancing knowledge
  transfer activities
• dissemination to other regions faced by similar
  challenges

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Programme of Västra Götaland

• Welcome to Region
• Overview Vastra Gotaland Regional KT strategy and
  key KT networks and activities
• Speaker Mr Lave Thorell, Västra Götaland Region
•  
• Overview Swedish Institute sector and its current
  transformation
• Speaker Björn Westling
•  

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• Tea time (15)

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Session I The role of EU and regional networks
in supporting cross border knowledge transfer

• Case study presentation from Regional delegates.
• Regions Emilia Romagna,

Reminder Check for topic session II "Role of
Applied RD centres in KT
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Session II Foresight . Sharing the experience
of the regions
Session II "Role of Applied RD centres in KT"

• Speed presentations from partners (free
  choice)
• "Role of Applied RD centres in KT" comparing
  experience with the Swedish examples
• Regions Hamburg, Malta, Iceland, (Brittany if
  time)

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Workshop Discussion on Final report of the KT
Working Group and indicators table

• Presentation of the Report 1st draft
• Round table and brainstorming
• Task sharing

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Report 1st draft

• Objective
• To give an overview of the way knowledge transfer
  is deliberated in the policies of the regions
• members of the Working Group and identify key
  issues and barriers to effective regional
• knowledge transfer strategy
• Structure of the report
• Introduction
• KT WG presentation (chapter I)
• 6 chapters (all chapters except chapter I
  correspond to the meetings topics)
• Conclusion and recommandations for users
• Annexes
• Structure of the chapter
• Good practices presentation of 4 the most
  interesting cases according to the following
  criteria
• Challenges
• Description
• Key impact

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Task sharing

• Elzbieta KSIAZEK foreword/introduction
• Task 1 message from regional delegates
• Ex. Latvia says  the participation in the KT WG
  allowed us to. 
• Need for 1 paragraph (5-7 lines) from each region
  on the main outcomes from the KT WG meetings

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Tasks sharing

• Task 2 contribution of each region
• 4 regions per chapter / 1 page per case study

• CH 1/ Regional strategies and policies to
  support Knowledge Transfer
• Region case studies R1(ex Alsace BSB), R2(NI
  Think Create Innovate )
• R3 (Madrimasd), R4(West Pomerania)
• CH 2 / Knowledge Transfer governance and
  finance
• Region case studies R1, R2, R3, R4
• CH 3 / Closer linkages SME/HEI/Universities
• Region case studies R1, R2, R3, R4
• CH 4 / Role of EU and regional innovation
  networks
• Region case studies R1, R2, R3, R4
• CH 5 / Evaluation tools and impact assessment
  procedures (Foresight)
• Region case studies R1, R2, R3, R4
• CH 6 / Recommandations and Annex (Indicators,
  contact details etc).
• Final Workshop meeting

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Tasks sharing

• Task 2 contribution of each region
• ZOOM ON CASE STUDY PRESENTATION

1.1 Regional challenges 1.2 Description
Project / tool /system concept, focus, specific
objectives, means put in place (human, budget..),
innovative aspects 1.3 Key impact main results
and lessons learnt
1 page maximum (without logo, photo)
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Tasks sharing

• Task 2 contribution of each region (2 regions
  per chapter for drafting and editing with inno
  see chapter topics in the next slide )

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Programme of Västra Götaland regionday 2

• 845 MEETING VENUE
• Chalmers Industriteknik
• Chalmers Science Park
• info shuttle Bjorn

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KT indicators exercise

• See table Version 1.5 with comments

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Day 2

• Wrap up presentation and summary
• Marc Pattinson
• Working Group deliverable
• Final report Handbook on the Regional
  Knowledge Transfer Strategy
• Next meeting AND Final Meeting venue for all
  Groups.

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Feedback QuestionnaireIRE Knowledge Transfer
meeting4 Dec - 05 Dec 2006 Malta
Feedback Questionnaire IRE Knowledge Transfer
meeting 4 Dec - 05 Dec 2006 Malta    
TEMPLATE
  7. What follow-up to this meeting do you
expect?   a)       from the IRE
Secretariat?           b)      from your
organisation?             8. Suggestions / topics
for future meetings?
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• Tea time/ departure