TRANSACT Highlights in Hungary L á szl ó Bacsa PAXIS Joint Final Conference

www.transact-innovation.com

TRANSACT Highlights in Hungary

László Bacsa

PAXIS Joint Final Conference

Salamanca, 23-24 June 2005


Transact Highlights in Budapest/Hungary

Awareness Rising

TrainingNetwork


Awareness Rising

• Articles in Newsletters

• Addressing of Student Organisations

• Other dissemination activities

• Business Simulation Competition


Awareness Rising

Articles in Newsletters

INNOTECH posted different articles in the university newsletter MÜHELY (published twice per month in 7,000 copies)


Awareness Rising

Addressing of Student Organisations

EHK (Student Government of Budapest University of Technology and Economics, where all 8 faculties have to representatives)

Simonyi Károly Professional Student Organization


Awareness Rising

Other dissemination activities

“IDEALAB conference”

25th May 2004

Project presentation

- introduction of the international business simulation competition.

- lecture about the university's R&D and innovations status


Awareness Rising


Interview of Prof. Dr. Risztics in “HEURÉKA! Megtalátam”, Duna TV, September 2004

Prof. Dr Péter Risztics, the director of Budapest University of Technology and Economics Centre of Information Technology (BUTE CIT) had an interview in the Hungarian Duna (Danube) Satellite Television.

The 10 min-interview gave an overview about the BUTE CIT and summarised the point and the goal of the TRANSACT project and the TRANSACT conference in Budapest 11th - 12th March 2004 in BUTE CIT.


Awareness Rising


Professional Workshop, 11th March 2005

“Do competitiveness and effectiveness exist without informatics, information technology?”

To enhance the importance of university-industry relationship and the role of a knowledge and innovation centre in the BME.

About 70 participants


Awareness Rising

Business Simulation Competition – The Idea

- a computer based simulation for students interested in starting their own business

- a model of company structures and business processes at reduced complexity

- focus on reproduction of the typical phases a start-up company is going through facing business, technical and social challenges


Awareness Rising

Business Simulation Competition – The Competitors

4 teams (each 4-6 participants) from

- Romania (University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Bucharest, Faculty of Agriculture)

- Estonia (Tartu University, Institute of Technology)- Hungary (Budapest University of Technology and

Economics, Centre of Information Technology)- France (CREALYS, Lyon)


Awareness Rising

Business Simulation Competition in Budapest, December 2004

Due to the high number of applications even a pre-competition took place with 22 participants in Budapest.

International Business Simulation Competition for students

In the frame of the European TRANSACT project we give students a chance to develop their entrepreneurial skills, participate in an international business simulation competition and win 500 € sponsored by L-BANK, both for the team and for the university!

We invite all students who• do not major in Economics and Business Administration,• are interested in entrepreneurship and• are fluent in English

Meet the challenge and participate in teams of 4-5 students in the competition, think and act like an entrepreneur, deal with problems of start-up companies, compete against student teams from whole Europe and win

Your team members take the role of an entrepreneurial team and go through the whole process of starting a firm

The competition will take place from 1st to 10th of December 2004

Apply for participating in this international competitionUntil the 5th of November at your local TRANSACT partner at the university, whom you will find in the internet: www.transact-innovation.com

In the final competition the Hungarian team “BikeZone” won the 1st prize!


Networking

Outer Network:

…was already established- Pest County Regional Development Agency

- Hungarian Association for Innovation

- Association of Industry Parks

- Budaörs Industrial and Technology Park

- INNOSTART (a BIC)

- INSTITUTE for Strategy Research

- Budapest Chamber of Industry and Commerce


Networking

Outer Network:

…could be strengthened and the good network relations resulted in common project proposals for national tenders:

Establishing and operating

University Based Knowledge Centres


Information Technology Innovation and Knowledge Centre

(IT)

HP

Scansoft

T-Systems

Megatrend

ESRI

DSS

(IT)2

BME

e-Group

Secfone

Balabit

IK IIT

AUT

FMT

SzT

IHM

IVSz

Ericsson

Microsoft

NIIF

Triad

Quatrosoft

Montana

BVM

Simonyi Col.

HP

Scansoft

T-Systems

Megatrend

ESRI

DSS

(IT)2

BME

e-Group

Secfone

Balabit

IK IIT

AUT

FMT

SzT

IHM

IVSz

Ericsson

Microsoft

NIIF

Triad

Quatrosoft

Montana

BVM

Simonyi Col.

Networking


Networking – Awareness Rising

• Articles in Newsletters

• Addressing of Student Organisations

• Other dissemination activities

• Business Simulation Competition


Networking

Internal Network:

As a first step, professors have been addressed who seemed willing to support the idea of start-up support and who could act as multipliers

Centre of Information Technology


Training

INNOTECH included the idea to offer training courses for students, graduates and other would-be entrepreneurs in the field of entrepreneurship into the project proposal. It is part of the integrated approach of technology transfer.

Main modules:- innovation management- Business plan- IPR issues


Laszlo Bacsa

Innotech Innovation Park of the Technical University in Budapest Ltd., Hungary

Thank you

for your attention

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