COLLABORATIVELABORATORIESAND NEW OPPORTUNITIESFOR TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE

CONTRIBUTIONS TOWARDS OPEN INNOVATIONAND THE EUROPEAN INNOVATION COUNCILA POLICY RESEARCH AND INNOVATION ROUNDTABLEMAY 6, 2016; 9:00 AM TO 5:00 PM

TEATRO THALIA, MINISTRY FOR SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND HIGHER EDUCATION(ESTRADA DAS LARANJEIRAS 205, LISBOA - PORTUGAL)

MAIN OBJECTIVES

This Roundtable attempts to enlighten new insights in science, technology and innovation policy for Europe. Its ultimate goal is to promote the discussion on the increasingly relevant role played by intermediaries, which are also becoming global. This requires opening-up science and innovation policies to multiple public and private agents and promoting intermediaries in the form of Collaborative Laboratories, in partnerships among government, industry and academia, as well as global research networks towards socio-economic resilience. In addition, the debate is aimed to help clarifying the emerging diversity of policies and increasing institutional specialization and clarification of the role of private and public incentives to support R&D and innovation.

The need to promote and integrate public and private strategies in modern societies will be discussed, namely in terms of fostering a non-hierarchical integration of formal policies and informal system linkages leading to knowledge-driven societies.

Potential implementation strategies may involve Research and Innovation Agendas to be promoted in specific themes, such as sustainable cities and mobility, advanced manufacture, agro- industry and forestry, space for maritime surveillance, among others.

The Roundtable is aimed to foster new ideas facing the current discussion on innovation challenges for Europe, including the creation of the European Innovation Council.

The Initiative: Promoting Collaborative Laboratories, with Research and InnovationThe basic premise of this initiative is that the central locus of innovation has increasingly become distributed and dependent upon linkages between many different institutions and sources of knowledge. First, the increasingly transnational business, technology and science require evolving from nationalistic approaches to new collaborative policy frameworks. Among these, large international collaborative arrangements play an emerging role. Second, the science and technology performance sectors, namely government, industry and academia, remain key players, but the connectivity, links and associations with intermediaries and a range of different institutional players and agencies is no less important. In particular, the increasingly relevant role played by intermediaries and new technology-based firms is identified, which are also becoming global. This calls for a new set of science and innovation policies open to multiple public and private agents and promoting intermediaries in the form of Collaborative Laboratories, as well as global research networks towards socio-economic resilience.

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AGENDAIntroduction

08h45: Registration

09h00: Opening Remarks: Open Innovation – Policy IssuesManuel Heitor, Minister for Science, Technology and Higher EducationManuel Caldeira Cabral, Minister of EconomyCarlos Moedas, European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation

Collaborative Research in Europe: Governance09h45: Collaborative Research: setting the scene and the Portuguese case

José Carlos Caldeira, National Innovation Agency, ANI

Collaborative Research in Germany: The case of FraunhoferThorsten Posselt, Fraunhofer Center for International Managementand Knowledge Economy

Collaborative Research in the UK: The case of CatapultArun Harish, Centre for Process Innovation

Collaborative Research in the Netherlands: The case of TNOEgbert-Jan Sol, Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research - TNO

Debate on Collaborative Research Spaces in Europe (brief Interventions) Discussants:Francisco Cunha, CEIIAJosé Manuel Mendonça, INESC TECAlcibíades Paulo Guedes, INEGI Manuel Cruz, ISQCarlos Bernardo, PIEPRui Tocha, CENTIMFEBraz Costa, CITEVE

11h30: Coffee break

Collaborative Research in Europe: Innovation ChallengesI. Panel on Sustainable Cities and Mobility

11h45: Short introduction to innovation challengesSteffen Preissler, Fraunhofer Center for Intl. Management and Knowledge Economy Francisco Cunha, CEIIADiscussants:Luís Seca, INESC TECAntónio Cunha, IPN

Debate on innovation challenges and research and innovation agendas

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12h45: Lunch and networking

II. Panel on Manufacturing

14h00: Short introduction to innovation challengesEgbert-Jan Sol, Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research – TNOAlcibíades Paulo Guedes, INEGIJaime Bonnin, IN+/ISTDiscussants:Carlos Bernardo, PIEPRui Tocha, CENTIMFE

Debate on innovation challenges and research and innovation agendas

III. Panel on Cyber Physical Systems and Assisted Living

15h20: Short introduction to innovation challengesArun Harish, Centre for Process InnovationPedro Almeida, AICOS, Fraunhofer PortugalDiscussants:Carlos Salema, ITBraz Costa, CENTI

Debate on innovation challenges and research and innovation agendas

16h20: Coffee break

Collaborative Research in Europe: Policy Lessons16h30: Concluding Remarks

José Carlos Caldeira, National Innovation Agency – ANIThorsten Posselt, Fraunhofer Center for International Management and Knowledge EconomyArun Harish, Centre for Process InnovationEgbert-Jan Sol, Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research - TNOManuel Heitor, Minister for Science, Technology and Higher Education

17h00: End of workshop

Follow-up workshops will be organized, to further develop thematic research and innovation agendas covering these and also other relevant topics.

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