KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER: GOVERNANCE AND FINANCE

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KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER GOVERNANCE AND FINANCE

• The IRE Knowledge Transfer Working Group

19th - 20th February 2006, Madrid
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AGENDA
Monday, 19th February 2006  

• 1230 MEETING VENUE Consejería de Educación de
  la Comunidad de Madrid Calle Alcalá, 32
• 13.00 Lunch at the restaurant / Cafe
• 14.00 Welcome by Clara Eugenia Nuñez, General
  Director for Research and Universities,
  Comunidad de Madrid, Spain (to be confirmed)
• 14.15 Introduction to the Working Group work
  programme and second meeting Agenda Marc
  Pattinson IRE Secretariat
• 14.30 Presentations from 7 regions
• Overview of the initiatives and programmes used
  to support knowledge transfer in regions.
  Governance and financial issues.
• Followed by questions
• 16.15 Tea and coffee break
• 16.30 Zoom on the KT governance and finance tools
  
• Presentations from Three regions (proposal to
  be confirmed )
• -          Alsace
• -          Northern Ireland
• -          Latvia
• Followed by questions
• 1745 Presentation of the IRE network / Award
  and other IRE issues
• Marc Pattinson
• 19.30 Dinner venue

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AGENDA
Tuesday, 20h February 2006  

• 800-845 Breakfast at Hotel
• 900 MEETING VENUE Consejería de Educación de la
  Comunidad de Madrid Calle Alcalá, 9.15 Programme
  of the Hosting region
• Visit of the Madrid technoparc
• Visit to one innovative company in
  biotechnology
• Visit to one innovative company in engineering
• 11.30 11.45 Tea and coffee break
• 11.45 -12.20 Presentation of Oficina de
  comercializacion
• Guest Speaker 1 KT governance aspect
• Beatriz Presmanes Arizmendi. Research
  Programmes Coordinator, Comunidad de Madrid
• Guest Speaker 2 KT financial aspect
• Bonifacio Vega García. Managing director of the
  IMDEA network.
• Followed by questions
• 1300 Lunch
• 1415 Presentations ( continuation of day 1
  regional presentations)
• Wrap up presentation and summary Marc
  Pattinson, focussing on the issues that will be
  included in the report Marc Pattinson, IRE
  Secretariat
• Questions and Discussion
• 15.30 Conclusions and planning for next event
  (date and venue).
• Meeting feedback and evaluation forms
• 16.00 Tea and coffee break

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Outline Work Programme

• Background
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• 3 IRE Working groups thematics
• Innovation systems
• Regional clustering and networking as innovative
  drivers
• Knowledge transfer
• 13 September 2006, EUs communication regarding
  innovation Putting knowledge into practice A
  broad-based innovation strategy for the EU
• Knowledge Transfer one of the ten key actions as
  part of the Roadmap for a more innovative
  Europe.
• The IRE knowledge transfer working group
• meetings
• systematic knowledge exchange
• best practices
• Recommendations to EU

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Objectives and purpose

• The IRE Knowledge Transfer working group aims to
• Create a continuous learning process amongst IRE
  member regions of how knowledge transfer
  activities can be stimulated, developed and
  promoted
• Increase efficiency and effectiveness of public
  support to knowledge transfer initiatives by
  improving the integration of both policy makers
  and knowledge transfer practitioners in the
  process
• Develop ideas for knowledge transfer policies
  and tools
• Create networks between regions to facilitate
  exchanges and perhaps joint policy/project
  implementation
• Produce a final report in the form of a Handbook
  that identifies key issues and barriers to
  effective knowledge transfer and more importantly
  offers solutions and good practice ideas for
  promoting knowledge transfer in the regions and
  with companies

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Working group activities

• Format
• 5 meetings in two years (programme ends June 08)
• Final joint policy conference/meeting with the
  two other IRE Sub groups (clusters and innovation
  systems) in order to reinforce the dissemination
  activities
•  Concept and methodology
• Presentations by the working group members
  themselves
• Structured discussions related to a set of key
  working group issues and lessons learnt from each
  of the presentations and barriers to their
  transferability topics
• How to learn from others what to learn
  approaches
• Visits of Knowledge Transfer initiatives within
  the host region
• Literature on Knowledge Transfer with examples of
  good practices
• Wrap up presentation and summary by the animator,
  focussing on the issues that will be included in
  the final report Handbook

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Draft 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 Understanding the needs of SMEs and
  the approaches necessary to secure their
  participation in effective Knowledge Transfer
  activities, project detection etc
• Meeting 4 The role of EU and regional
  networks in supporting knowledge transfer and in
  particular cross border knowledge transfer,
  internationalisation etc
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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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Presentations from 7 regions

• Overview of the initiatives and programmes used
  to support knowledge transfer in regions.
• Governance and financial issues

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• Your questions
• Ideas
• Comments
• Suggestions
• Reactions
• ARE WELCOMED !!!!!

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• Tea time

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Zoom on the KT governance and finance tools

• Presentations from Three regions

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• Alsace
• Northern Ireland
• Latvia

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• Your questions
• Ideas
• Comments
• Suggestions
• Reactions
• ARE WELCOMED !!!!!

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• Presentation of the IRE network
• / Award and other IRE issues

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Day 2

• Wrap up presentation and summary
• Marc Pattinson, focussing on the issues that
  will be included in the report Marc Pattinson,
  IRE Secretariat
• Questions and Discussion

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• Conclusions and planning for next event (date
  and venue)
• Meeting feedback and evaluation forms

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Feedback QuestionnaireIRE Knowledge Transfer
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Feedback Questionnaire IRE Knowledge Transfer
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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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2 Important issues

• What follow-up to this meeting do you expect?

a)       from the IRE Secretariat?
b)      from your organisation?

• Suggestions / topics for future meetings?

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Key reports, best practices and literature

• European Technology transfer, Guide of best
  practice
• http//www.innovating-regions.org/network/regional
  strat/by_theme.cfm
• COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE COUNCIL,
  THE. EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC
  AND SOCIAL COMMITEE AND THE COMMITEE OF THE
  REGIONS
• Brussels, 13.9.2006. COM(2006) 502 final
• http//www.europe-innova.org/exportedcontent/docs/
  6/6206/en/EN2050220-20original.doc
• Knowlege Transfer and Public Sector research
  establishments, DTI, October 2004, 72p.
• http//www.dti.gov.uk/files/file28411.pdf
• Valencia Declaration on Innovation
• www.europe-innova.org

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Regional delegates

• Agnese GRINEVICA / Latvian Investment and
  Development Agency, Latvia
• Anne CONATY / Department of Enterprise, Trade
  Investment, UK
• Anne SOLHEIM / Rogaland County Council, Norway
• Asta ERLINGSDOTTIR / Research Liaison Office,
  Iceland
• Corneliu BERARI / West Romania
• Estella PANCALDI / ASTER, Italy
• Goenke TETENS / State Ministry for Economics and
  Labour Affairs of the Free and Hanseatic City of
  Hamburg, Germany
• Jean-Luc TOURMAN / 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
• Helene MORVAN / Bretagne Innovation, France
• Lynne TAYLOR / NWDA, UK
• Amelia SUAREZ / Fundación madrimasd, Spain
• Stephanie AZZOPARDI /Malta Council for Science
  and Technology, Malta
• Tiziana BOYLAND /SEEDA, South Est, UK
• Tomi TURA / Lahti Science and Business Park Ltd,
  Finland