Palma de Mallorca event on knowledge transfer

The workshop will present University-Industry co-operation schemes that have been successfully implemented in several European regions to exploit academic knowledge in favour of local companies. The event will describe both direct ways of knowledge transfer from universities to firms, such as companies research promotion schemes and technology services; and indirect ways, for instance through research centres and university spin-off companies. The conference will look at the critical factors lying behind the success of the regional schemes presented.
Concrete examples will include, among others, Madr&d, the regional information and technological promotion system of Madrid, the Shannon Region Knowledge network that brings together the regional development agency and four higher education institutions to strengthen innovation support, and the FIRST scheme in Wallonie to foster mobility of individuals between university and companies. The TULI process in Finland to identify commercially viable ideas within publicly funded research will also be presented, as well as the promotion of spin-offs in the Overijssels Twente area.,For further information, please visit: http://www.innovating-regions.org/network/events/displayEvents.cfm?eve_id=142 ,Tel: +352 44 10 12 2093
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