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The University Industry Innovation Network (UIIN) is a professional resource and networking platform aiming to create a self-sustaining resource and networking platform providing academics and practitioners in the field of technology transfer, intellectual property and university-industry relationships with the knowledge and information to effectively and efficiently conduct their work. With close to 130 members the platform and more than 3,500 resources listed, UIIN has become an important player in university-industry interaction. www.uiin.org UIIN Conference on "Challenges and solutions for fostering entrepreneurial universities and collaborative innovation": From the 27th till the 29th of May 2013, the University Industry Innovation Network and the VU University Amsterdam will jointly host the "2013 University-Industry Interaction Conference". With keynote speeches and parallel sessions, workshops, panel discussions, a PhD workshop as well as an amazing social programme being the building blocks of the event, Amsterdam will be the place where theory meets practice. The conference will feature more than 100 talks from 30 plus countries, including both scientific research results as well as insights into good practices. Confirmed keynote speakers include Henry Etzkowitz (President of the Triple Helix Association), Lucia Recalde Langarica (European Commission, Head of Unit - European Institute of Innovation & Technology ), Dr. David Docherty (Chief Executive of the Council For Industry and Higher Education, UK), Philippe Vanrie (CEO of European Business & Innovation Centre Network). UIIN Award winners announced: Having finished the second review round, the Award Committee Chairs have announced the Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering at Politecnico di Milano as well as the Office of Technology Licensing at the University of California, Berkeley as the winner of the 2012 University- Industry Innovation Award. With a total of 37 submissions from all over the world in its first year of existence, the UIIN Award gives recognition to the many projects and publications making a clear impact on university-industry innovation. Moving Forward - Road Map for University- Industry Innovation and Entrepreneurial Universities: UIIN is currently in the process of setting up a think-and-do-tank like project, called "The Moving 54 February - May 2013 Forward Project", which aims to shape the future environment of university-industry relationships and entrepreneurial universities. Bringing together the various stakeholders in university-industry interaction, the project will foster the discussion on key challenges, potential solutions as well as implementation strategies. Besides research reports, the main outcomes of the project will be regularly published roadmaps for the various stakeholders. Global Glossary on Science-to-Business Marketing and University-Industry Innovation: The Science-to- Business Marketing Research Centre at Münster University of Applied Sciences in Germany, together with UIIN, just launched a glossary project on key terms and definitions on Science-to-Business Marketing and University-Industry Innovation. Currently containing more than 500 definitions, academics and practitioners are invited to contribute terms and definitions on the glossary's website with an expert group later on deciding which terms and definitions make it into the final glossary. If you are interested in serving as a member of the Glossary's Expert group, please contact Alborada Gonzalez at gonzalez@uiin.org. Introducing our new network partner ILSLEDA is the network of 60 Local Economic Development Agencies (LEDA) aimed at human development, operating in developing and in transition countries. Although in the past their role has been mainly of reducing poverty, exclusion, territorial marginality, through joint efforts of the public and private actors, lately these LEDAs are putting increasingly attention in stimulating innovation. www.ilsleda.org The recent theoretical approaches (Freeman, Nelson) have stressed that R&D is only one part of the overall process of innovation, which is rather stimulated by a complex system of overlapping socio-economic relations, feedback mechanisms and knowledge flows within and between firms, producers and users, between economic agents and institutional and research organisations (Lundvall, Edquist). Others (Hodgson, Granovette, Camagni, Storper, Amin, among others) have emphasised how systemic interactions and creative synergies among learning agents are embedded in their local socio-cultural and business settings of action. Due to the importance of the “systemic interactions”, the
ole of the LEDAs has become increasingly important in the innovation processes, because their proven capacities of gathering all the local actors, stimulating and facilitating relationships and networks for providing tailored comprehensive services for sustainable and competitive development (Canzanelli). A recent thesis of the London School of Economics (Ferrannini) investigated the role of two Balkan LEDAs of the ILSLEDA network (Auleda, and Redasp) in the innovation processes, and it confirmed their contributions as animators of innovation, strengthening the governance of systemic relationships between the local actors, whose activities and interactions generate, import, modify and diffuse new technologies (Morgan). In this perspective these LEDAs (but similar considerations could apply to the majority of the Leda of the network) have: • multiplied the quantity and quality of the interactions towards innovation • raised the awareness of the need of innovating for competing and improving the quality of living • provided technical assistance for innovation, financed it, build capacities for it, and introduced it in the territorial plans. • channeled funds for knowledge building Nevertheless still many weaknesses exist for fostering spread innovation, such as: • scarce availability of applied research and propensity of universities to provide services and knowledge to the local system, • low diffusion of information and knowledge. • lack of skills, and capacities • scarce involvement of national governments and academic institutions • low cooperation among local firms are far from being diffused, when the entrepreneurs are not linked within clusters and value chains • lack of links with national policies • weak role of local media in the innovation processes • lack of tailored financial instruments The next challenge for the LEDAs are therefore in: 1. strengthening the local interactions through constituting and coordinating special task forces, including local administrations, universities and research centres at local and national level, entrepreneurs, representatives of civil society. 2. strengthening the R&D activities and the Universities' capacities 3. improving the local skill, through valorizing talents, operators, researchers, and entrepreneurs 4. stimulating and realizing tailored finance 5. enhancing knowledge building and diffusion through emigrants, international partnerships, and scouting and spreading existing innovations 6. promoting new infrastructure for innovation (BIC, technological parks, etc.) Heading for Recovery: latest U.S. and European trends in entrepreneurship and SMEs In February 2013, The Business Incubator magazine and the U.S. Mission to the European Union coorganised a panel discussion and networking lunch with four industry experts: Kimberly Weisul (Editor-at-Large for Inc.com), Robert Sanders (Head of International Projects at EBN), Moraig Henderson (Deputy Director for Policy and Communications at UNDP) and moderator, Tom Strodtbeck (Director of International Programs at NBIA). The panel provided valuable analysis on both current and evolving trends that impact SMEs and entrepreneurs around the world. Cultural perceptions were acknowledged by the panel as a strong influential factor. They felt that lessons should be learned from the U.S. ‘culture of entrepreneurship’, in order to bolster the entrepreneurial spirit both in European countries and worldwide. In this context, Kimberly Weisul referred to the acceptance of failure as an insightful comparative indicator between the U.S. and European mindsets. With SMEs as the current driver of recovery, support to entrepreneurship has been acknowledged as a leading strategy for worldwide economic development. In this perspective, the panel agreed that the capacity to reach and support less developed regions presents a major challenge. “Success is through inclusiveness of marginalised communities,” stated Moraig Henderson. The panel presented the current development of crowd funding in the U.S. as an encouraging trend. The role of education and mentoring were also raised by the audience and confirmed by the panel as offering powerful leverage. Yet, whether the solutions exist to enhance entrepreneurs' support, the challenge is to identify delivery mechanisms, concluded Robert Sanders. In their closing remarks, the speakers emphasised the necessity to support entrepreneurs and promote the entrepreneurial spirit in our time of economic downturn. Reported by Flora Soyez theNetwork 55
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