Innovation, Research & Entrepreneurship Conference
Register now for the major one-day Conference on Innovation, Research and Entrepreneurship - Malton Hotel, Killarney, 27th February 2008.Details and online registration are now available for the DRIVE for Growth Conference ‘How to Speak the Same Language - Getting Businesses and Research Organisations to Work Together’.
This Conference represents the final phase of the DRIVE for Growth Project and is free to attend. However, places are limited and will be allocated on a first come first served basis.To view the conference programme and hold your place at this important event log onto www.driveproject.eu and click on the CONFERENCE link and complete your registration online.
How to Speak the Same Language Getting Businesses and Research Organisations to Work Together
Malton Hotel, Killarney, Co. Kerry, Ireland
February 27th 2008
The How to Speak the Same Language Conference is targeted at businesses with a goal or need to interact more regularly and successfully with publicly funded research organisations - both within their own catchment areas and with experts throughout Europe.
What does innovation and collaboration mean to your company on a daily basis? How can researchers promote and support greater levels of innovation with industry? How do businesses know what expertise is available, and whether it’s available on their own doorsteps? How does one find the right people to speak to? And, if one gets this far… do both parties speak the same language? This conference will bring together a range of experts from both industry and research backgrounds who will illustrate by example and first-hand experience what is required in order to effectively engage with each other and give you the basic tools and insight to understand the benefits of being proactive in terms of your company’s attitude to innovation.
Collaboration among companies, universities and research institutes is an integral and increasingly essential part of the modern ‘open’ innovation process. Performed well, these collaborations can be highly productive - enhancing exchange of knowledge and supporting the rapid development of new technologies and services. However, sound management is needed on all sides to overcome the well-known problems.
This conference is being hosted by the DRIVE for Growth Project partners – South West Regional Authority and South East Regional Authority Ireland, Stoke-On-Trent City Council, Staffordshire University, UK, and Kompetenznetzwerk Mechatronik, Göppingen, Germany. DRIVE for Growth is co-funded by INTERREG IIIB North West Europe Area. DRIVE aims to help SMEs to recognise the value of R&D, understand it and use it to their commercial advantage. The partners are working to transform the cooperation between research institutions and SMEs into a partnership to foster development and production, economic growth and employment.