TII-UNISPIN Winter Workshop on Designing, Managing and Evaluating a Spin-off Programme
1 March 2005 - 5 March 2005
Austria
BACKGROUND
At the beginning of the nineties there was the realisation at Europe's most entrepreneurial universities that spin-off companies meant more than a small number of single entrepreneurs. To fulfil the ambition of becoming the world's leading area in high-tech company creation, universities and research centres understood the importance of implementing an official spin-off programme in their institution to support their research staff and students in setting up technology-based companies. Such programmes generally offer a combination of facilities and services, e.g. awareness-raising events, training sessions, awards, seed and venture capital, loans, networking activities, mentors, communication support, etc.
With the benefit of 15 years experience, the original UNISPIN team invites colleagues from universities across Europe to report on how their spin-off programmes have evolved and exchange their experience and good practice. What did not work well and what proved to be successful? This one-and-a-half-day workshop aims to investigate the state-of-the-art in spin-off support programmes and map out the path for the future.
TRAINERS
The workshop speakers have been delivering support to spin-off programmes for more than 15 years.
- Dr. Colette Henry, Head of Business Studies and Director of the Centre for Entrepreneurship Research, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Dundalk, Ireland
- Prof. Magnus Klofsten, Director of the Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Linköping University, Sweden,
- Dr. Peter van der Sijde, Senior Consultant, NIKOS (Dutch Institute for Knowledge Intensive Entrepreneurship) University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
OBJECTIVES:
Delegates will have the opportunity to submit their own spin-off support scheme as an example and discuss its successes and failures with colleagues and trainers. However, the workshop is not just about sharing knowledge on setting up spin-off support schemes and their success or failures. It aspires to formulate policy recommendations which may be used to sensitize and convince the board members of your university as well as the direct stakeholders, e.g. regional authorities, key politicians, bankers, associations of entrepreneurs.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
The workshop addresses the concerns of spin-off team managers, professors, deans and others working in universities and research centres who are involved in one way or another with encouraging the exploitation of research through the creation of academic spin-offs or encouraging students to set up their own business at the end of their degree course. Their background is likely to be in ,- research-industry knowledge transfer and business development,- graduate and academic entrepreneurship schemes,- university incubators and science parks,- regional development enterprise,- seed and venture capital
Further information about the venue, accomodation, cost as well as programme and registration process of the seminar can be found at http://www.tii.org/termine/docs/614_Programme%20and%20registration%20form.UNISPIN%202005doc111.doc(opens in new window)
Seminar package includes a Wellness Week from 1 to 5 March 2005,organised by the TII UNISPIN Special Interest Section.,Founded in 1984, TII is one of the leading European associations representing the technology transfer and innovation-support professions. It has 250 members in over 30 countries who are active in areas such as business and technology consultancy and start up support, research-industry technology transfer, including spin-off creation, and the provision of infrastructure to foster innovation, in particular high-tech incubators.
At the beginning of the nineties there was the realisation at Europe's most entrepreneurial universities that spin-off companies meant more than a small number of single entrepreneurs. To fulfil the ambition of becoming the world's leading area in high-tech company creation, universities and research centres understood the importance of implementing an official spin-off programme in their institution to support their research staff and students in setting up technology-based companies. Such programmes generally offer a combination of facilities and services, e.g. awareness-raising events, training sessions, awards, seed and venture capital, loans, networking activities, mentors, communication support, etc.
With the benefit of 15 years experience, the original UNISPIN team invites colleagues from universities across Europe to report on how their spin-off programmes have evolved and exchange their experience and good practice. What did not work well and what proved to be successful? This one-and-a-half-day workshop aims to investigate the state-of-the-art in spin-off support programmes and map out the path for the future.
TRAINERS
The workshop speakers have been delivering support to spin-off programmes for more than 15 years.
- Dr. Colette Henry, Head of Business Studies and Director of the Centre for Entrepreneurship Research, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Dundalk, Ireland
- Prof. Magnus Klofsten, Director of the Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Linköping University, Sweden,
- Dr. Peter van der Sijde, Senior Consultant, NIKOS (Dutch Institute for Knowledge Intensive Entrepreneurship) University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
OBJECTIVES:
Delegates will have the opportunity to submit their own spin-off support scheme as an example and discuss its successes and failures with colleagues and trainers. However, the workshop is not just about sharing knowledge on setting up spin-off support schemes and their success or failures. It aspires to formulate policy recommendations which may be used to sensitize and convince the board members of your university as well as the direct stakeholders, e.g. regional authorities, key politicians, bankers, associations of entrepreneurs.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
The workshop addresses the concerns of spin-off team managers, professors, deans and others working in universities and research centres who are involved in one way or another with encouraging the exploitation of research through the creation of academic spin-offs or encouraging students to set up their own business at the end of their degree course. Their background is likely to be in ,- research-industry knowledge transfer and business development,- graduate and academic entrepreneurship schemes,- university incubators and science parks,- regional development enterprise,- seed and venture capital
Further information about the venue, accomodation, cost as well as programme and registration process of the seminar can be found at http://www.tii.org/termine/docs/614_Programme%20and%20registration%20form.UNISPIN%202005doc111.doc(opens in new window)
Seminar package includes a Wellness Week from 1 to 5 March 2005,organised by the TII UNISPIN Special Interest Section.,Founded in 1984, TII is one of the leading European associations representing the technology transfer and innovation-support professions. It has 250 members in over 30 countries who are active in areas such as business and technology consultancy and start up support, research-industry technology transfer, including spin-off creation, and the provision of infrastructure to foster innovation, in particular high-tech incubators.