INNO-vention, a Specific Support Action co-funded by the European
Commission DG enterprise, offers European companies the opportunity to
establish new business contacts and to benefit from Technology Transfer
concepts in a rapid, efficient and
target-oriented way across technologies and
branches focusing on the textiles,
automotive and aerospace industries.
Since innovations, and the related IPR
issues, are essential for a company‘s competitiveness today,
knowledge transfer across technologies and
branches is important, but, until now, successful Technology
Transfer conclusions have required the concurrent involvement of
multidisciplinary teams, making the Technology Transfer (TT) time consuming and
resource intensive.
INNO-vention, coordinated by D’Appolonia, the Italian agency
responsible for the European Space Agency Technology Transfer Program since
1990, will implement cutting-edge methodological
developments in the field of Collaborative
Technology Transfer and will maximise the use of existing
information resources, supporting companies throughout the Technology Transfer,
including:
- Technology Scouting
- Opportunity Assessment
- Sectoral Needs Identification
- Product Conception
- Intellectual Property Rights Management
- Need and Offer Linkage
- Partner Identification
- Financing
- Brokerage
For this purpose, INNO-vention
will benefit from the opportunities provided by the project partners who will
provide different skills and knowledge:
-
D’Appolonia (IT), the
coordinator, an engineering and consultancy company with a highly qualified
staff consisting of more than 200 engineers active in almost all technological
and industrial fields
-
DITF-MR (GE), the Centre for
Management Research belonging to the German Institutes for Textile and Fibre
Research Denkendorf (DITF)
-
University of Alicante (ES),
co-ordinator of the European IPR-helpdesk, whose role is to assist companies in
exploiting benefits of valuable ideas
-
APRE (IT), member of the IRC
network, the Italian Agency for the Promotion of European Research
-
Bayern Innovativ (GE), member
of the IRC network, the corporation for innovation and technology transfer in
Bavaria
-
Capital High Tech (FR), a
private consulting company specialised in the management of technology transfer
processes, particularly in the area of Space
-
FIRE (PL), the Polish
foundation for Innovation
INNO-vention will offer an initial set of ten “pilot
cases” for a specific group consisting of “Innovation
Champions”, i.e. SMEs and Large Enterprises with in-depth experience in
successful innovation or with relevant interest in Technology Transfer.
Their main role is to support the identification of cutting-edge
technology gaps and innovation needs.
The Innovation Champions will be directly involved in the definition
of the Pilot Cases and will be the first target community of project results
and findings.
There will be some very important benefits for the
Innovation Champions:
- to have the possibility to promote their needs, offers or
visions as Pilot Cases to be investigated confidentially by the Technology
Transfer specialists of the INNO-Vention Team
- to gain direct insight into innovative concepts for Technology
Transfer in their sector
- to experience Collaborative Technology Transfer and Inventive
Problem Solving within an international and multidisciplinary working
group
If you would like more information about the INNO-vention project or
becoming an Innovation Champion, please send an email to
guido.chiappa@dappolonia.it or visit
www.inno-vention.com .
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