From Ideas to Market - Knowledge Transfer
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Ford College
Holywell Park
LE11 3TU
Loughborough University
Leicestershire
UK - Date:
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30.09.2010
10.00 h - 15.40 h
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Description
Universities play a crucial role in the process of technological progress. This is being recognised as increasingly important as developed economies place a growing emphasis on the economic and social imperative of developing the knowledge economy. Universities are intrinsically about generating new knowledge through research and developing knowledge and technology literate graduates through teaching. But what should their role be in the commercialisation of knowledge and technology? Over the past 20 years there has been a growing emphasis in universities around the world on transferring knowledge and the technologies that arise from the utilisation of knowledge to the commercial world. The word ‘transfer’ implies a one-way systematic process and many activities have been heavily influenced by a concentration on science push and the protection of Intellectual Property assets. But what are the most effective models of university business interaction and what can we learn from more recent models that shift the focus towards exchange, partnership, collaboration and community and away from a narrow approach to the protection of university assets?
Programme
10.00 - 1030 Registration & Coffee
10.30 – 11.00 Welcome
The developing role of universities in open innovation systems
Dr Kathryn Walsh, Loughborough University
11.00 – 11.40 Opportunities and contradictions : The policy paradox of entrepreneurial education and university-business engagement since 1960
Professor Mary Rose, University of Lancaster
Dr Sarah Robinson, the Open University
11.40 – 12.20 Absorbing Research: the role of university research in business and market innovation
Keith Herrmann and Philip Ternouth, Council for Industry and Higher Education
12.20 – 12.40 Case study – Intelligent Energy
Dr Paul Adcock, Intelligent Energy
12.40 – 13.20 Lunch
13.20 – 14.00 University participation in science parks and knowledge transfer initiatives - international perspectives
Bob Hodgson, Zernike UK
14.00 – 14.40 University industry collaboration – reviewing the evidence
Dr Markus Perkmann, Imperial College London
14.40 – 15.20 Panel session: The role of the entrepreneurial university in the era of the small state
Chaired by Dr Kathryn Walsh
15.20 – 15.40 Concluding remarks
Dr Vicky Story, University of Nottingham
Followed by tea/coffee and further opportunities to network
Fees
Please note that there are 50 funded places available. Once these have been allocated the cost will be £25, with a reduced rate of £10 for PhD students. Subsidised travel is also; further details will be given in the seminar registration available for 5 PhD students; further details will be given in the seminar registration confirmation.
To register please contact Emma Woodward, ESRC Seminar Series Administrator,
Nottingham University Business School before the deadline of Friday 17th September.
Tel: +44 (0)115 8466655
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