“Challenge the Future –

Innovate in times of rapid change”

What is the future and who will challenge it? Which kind of

innovations will lead the way and which organizations have the

courage and power to bring them to success.

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Catering provided by Zatisi Group

The conference is held under the patronage of

Minister Ing. Martin Kocourek, Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic

Doc. MUDr. Bohuslav Svoboda, CSc., Mayor of the Capital City of Prague

Prague

13.05.2011

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08.00 Registration, welcome coffee

09.00 Welcome & Introduction

09.15 Key Note Speech: Innovate to Compete

• Prof. George Haour, IMD Lausanne

09.45 Coffee break

10:15 Speech session: challenge the future with innovation

• Henning Grossmann, head of Technopark Foundation

• Stefan Gabriel, President, 3M New Ventures

• Jan Muehlfeit, Chairman Microsoft Europe, Microsoft Corporation

11:30 Lunch

13:00 Break Out Sessions 1

1. Innovate in times of rapid change

2. Recognizing the next big thing: Foresight & Forecasting Methods

3. Competing on innovation

4. Fast track through the Valley of Death: How to support and finance high

potential and high risk projects

14.30 Coffee break

15.00 Break Out Sessions 2

5. Open Innovation Strategy & Implementation

6. Service Innovation

7. Start-up support

8. Innovating the Smart Grid

16.30 Coffee break

17:00 Workshop results breakdown

17:30 Panel Discussion: What is Effective Tech Transfer?

• Panelists will be experts from the Czech Republic and abroad, active in

knowledge and technology, either from the side of academia, business or

supporting agencies and institutions

• Panelists include speakers from academia and business such as Miroslav

Mejstřík from Czech NERV or Martin Bopp from Swiss governmental

organization CTI Startup

18.30 End of the conference, reception and networking

Program

Prof. Dr. Georges Haour, IMD Lausanne

Dr. Georges Haour is Professor of Technology & Innovation Management. He

also acts as an adviser to firms and organizations in his area of value-creation

through effective management of the innovation process, as well as

commercialization of technology. He has 8 patents, 90 publications and three

books on innovation and technology commercialization. His latest case study is

on Infosys, in Bangalore. Prior to joining IMD, Dr. Haour was a manager at Battelle, in Geneva,

where, for nine years, he led a business unit carrying out innovation projects on behalf of

companies in Europe, Japan and the USA. In this capacity, he significantly grew his unit’s sales

and hired professionals from six countries. Several of his innovations, licensed to firms, resulted

in large new business for the client- companies. Earlier, he was a researcher at ATT's Bell

Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey. He also worked with Marshall McLuhan at his Centre for

Culture, Society and Technology, in Toronto. He holds a Master of Sciences from ENSCP- Higher

School of Chemistry, in Paris and a PhD from the University of Toronto, Canada.

Key Note

Innovation is a buzzword describing a host of different things. The European Union is a major

historical innovation. The use of perspective by painters of the Renaissance as well as China’s

gun powder was innovations. So was the concept of self-service for retailing stores. Singapore’s

night zoo is an innovation. The nano car is another one… We focus here on innovations in firms.

We thus deal with something new aimed at having a commercial success. This definition covers

a broad range of things aimed at making the firm more effective and competitive. Aside from the

usual products and services innovations, the latter may be conceptual or organizational. The

ICTs-information and communication technologies offer powerful ways to enable new and more

effective business or distribution models (e.g. the low cost airline EasyJet, shopping on internet,

online services, etc…)

One powerful way to innovate is to develop scientific and technological knowledge, incorporated

in new, or improved, offerings in the market. Typical of this process is the development of new

drugs or devices in the pharma/biotech/medtech sector. In this, case as well as in others, the

success of innovations does not depend only on the technical staff, but on the whole firm. This is

partly why it is difficult to correlate the investments in R&D (Research and Development) of a

firm with its success in the marketplace. The key features of an “innovative firm” are discussed.

They include a most critical element, i.e. the passion and the motivation of the staff. The

management of firms must be much better than currently at taking care of the crucial human

factor. The trends in the innovation process are expected to go along three main and common

sense directions in our interdependent world. Firms must:

- effectively federate sources of innovations external to the firm.

- better use the ICTs, both for managing the global firm and to enable new managerial

practices, business models and distribution systems.

- integrate India and China (and, later, Brazil, etc…) in the world-wide array of the

innovation/R&D system of western firms.

Key Note Speech

Stefan Gabriel, President, 3M New Ventures

Stefan Gabriel as President 3M New Ventures, founded and is in charge of

3M’s global Corporate Venture to “invest in technologies that lead into new

territory and reinfect 3M with an innovation virus”. In this newly created

position, Gabriel drives the company's on-going efforts to identify, acquire and

develop new-to-3M technologies and businesses using venture style funding

and management. Previously to his engagement within the multi-technology

company 3M he studied manufacturing engineering in Berlin and then worked for more than

23 years for BMW AG in Germany and UK, e.g. in manufacturing engineering, strategy

consulting and innovation management for future vehicle concepts and concept vehicles,

receiving prestigious innovation awards. With an unabashed passion for innovation and

long-term experience in PE he handles a huge network of innovative businesses and open

innovation. Furthermore he is e.g. board member of the IDWI (Innovationsvereinigung für

die Deutsche Wirtschaft), advisory board member of Tech2b, Austria and sponsor of

FutureLab for Architecture UCLA, Munich and many more.

Henning Grossmann, CEO, Technopark Foundation

Henning Grossmann is CEO of the Technopark Foundation in Zurich. He

finished a practical apprenticeship; in succession he studied economy at the

University of Applied Science in Lucerne. After additional studies in

technology- and innovation-management he became IT Manager at ABB Fläkt

Ltd. and Manager Business Improvement at ABB Flexible Automation Ltd. In

2003 he founded his own firm, bizzeps Ltd, specializing on technology-innovation, growth

strategies and business intelligence. At the same time Henning Grossmann took up

counseling and coaching work in start-up enterprises and in 2006 with the Technopark

Aargau.

Jan Muehlfeit, Chairman Microsoft Europe, Microsoft Corporation

Jan Muehlfeit is responsible for representing the Microsoft Corporation and

engaging with governments, large corporations, key partners and academic

elites both cross Europe and on a global level. His goal is to ensure that

Microsoft continues to act as a relevant, trusted and valuable partner that

listens and contributes to enabling long-term growth, local economic competitiveness, job

creation and innovation both in public and private sectors. Jan Muehlfeit has been serving in

different advisory boards of several European governments in the field of ICT, national

competitiveness and education. He also represents Microsoft on the TABD, the Transatlantic

Business Dialogue and is involved as advisor in different projects of the European Policy

Center (EPC). Jan Muehlfeit is member of the executive advisory board of Ovum, part of the

Datamonitor Group. He is a board member of the Czech National museum.

Speech Session Speakers

Venue:

Prague Congress Centre (www.kgc.cz)

Catering by Zatisi

Registration fee

1-day pass 13.05.2011

(including conference material and refreshment)

Early-booker until 21.04.2011

• Regular fee CZK 1‘200 (excl. VAT)

• Partner fee CZK 800 (excl. VAT)

• VSE and CVUT Alumni, academia CZK 700 (excl. VAT)

Registration from 22.04.2011

• Regular fee CZK 1‘800 (excl. VAT)

• Partner fee CZK 1’300 (excl. VAT)

• VSE and CVUT Alumni, academia CZK 1‘200 (excl. VAT)

Registration closes on 10 May 2010

General Information

Conference website: www.innovationday.cz

Contact details

Main organizer:

TIM-FPH

Institute for Technology and Innovation Management

Faculty of business administration

University of Economics, Prague

W. Churchill Sq. 4

130 67 Prague 3

Czech Republic

Martina L. JAKL, PhD., lic. oec. HSG

Director

Email: martina.jakl@vse.cz

Phone: +420 224 098 409

Mobil: +420 775 740 006