collaborative laboratories

COLLABORATIVE
LABORATORIES
AND NEW OPPORTUNITIES
FOR TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE
CONTRIBUTIONS TOWARDS OPEN INNOVATION
AND THE EUROPEAN INNOVATION COUNCIL
A POLICY RESEARCH AND INNOVATION ROUNDTABLE
MAY 6, 2016; 9:00 AM TO 5:00 PM
TEATRO THALIA, MINISTRY FOR SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND HIGHER EDUCATION
(ESTRADA DAS LARANJEIRAS 205, LISBOA - PORTUGAL)
MAIN OBJECTIVES
This Roundtable attempts to enlighten new insights in science, technology and innovation policy for
Europe. Its ultimate goal is to promote the discussion on the increasingly relevant role played by
intermediaries, which are also becoming global. This requires opening-up science and innovation
policies to multiple public and private agents and promoting intermediaries in the form of Collaborative
Laboratories, in partnerships among government, industry and academia, as well as global research
networks towards socio-economic resilience. In addition, the debate is aimed to help clarifying the
emerging diversity of policies and increasing institutional specialization and clarification of the role of
private and public incentives to support R&D and innovation.
The need to promote and integrate public and private strategies in modern societies will be discussed,
namely in terms of fostering a non-hierarchical integration of formal policies and informal system
linkages leading to knowledge-driven societies.
Potential implementation strategies may involve Research and Innovation Agendas to be promoted in
specific themes, such as sustainable cities and mobility, advanced manufacture, agro- industry and
forestry, space for maritime surveillance, among others.
The Roundtable is aimed to foster new ideas facing the current discussion on innovation challenges for
Europe, including the creation of the European Innovation Council.
The Initiative: Promoting Collaborative Laboratories, with Research and Innovation
The basic premise of this initiative is that the central locus of innovation has increasingly become
distributed and dependent upon linkages between many different institutions and sources of knowledge.
First, the increasingly transnational business, technology and science require evolving from nationalistic
approaches to new collaborative policy frameworks. Among these, large international collaborative
arrangements play an emerging role. Second, the science and technology performance sectors, namely
government, industry and academia, remain key players, but the connectivity, links and associations with
intermediaries and a range of different institutional players and agencies is no less important. In
particular, the increasingly relevant role played by intermediaries and new technology-based firms is
identified, which are also becoming global. This calls for a new set of science and innovation policies
open to multiple public and private agents and promoting intermediaries in the form of Collaborative
Laboratories, as well as global research networks towards socio-economic resilience.
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COLLABORATIVE
LABORATORIES
AND NEW OPPORTUNITIES
FOR TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE
AGENDA
Introduction
08h45: Registration
09h00: Opening Remarks: Open Innovation – Policy Issues
Manuel Heitor, Minister for Science, Technology and Higher Education
Manuel Caldeira Cabral, Minister of Economy
Carlos Moedas, European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation
Collaborative Research in Europe: Governance
09h45: Collaborative Research: setting the scene and the Portuguese case
José Carlos Caldeira, National Innovation Agency, ANI
Collaborative Research in Germany: The case of Fraunhofer
Thorsten Posselt, Fraunhofer Center for International Management
and Knowledge Economy
Collaborative Research in the UK: The case of Catapult
Arun Harish, Centre for Process Innovation
Collaborative Research in the Netherlands: The case of TNO
Egbert-Jan Sol, Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research - TNO
Debate on Collaborative Research Spaces in Europe (brief Interventions)
Discussants:
Francisco Cunha, CEIIA
José Manuel Mendonça, INESC TEC
Alcibíades Paulo Guedes, INEGI
Manuel Cruz, ISQ
Carlos Bernardo, PIEP
Rui Tocha, CENTIMFE
Braz Costa, CITEVE
11h30: Coffee break
Collaborative Research in Europe: Innovation Challenges
I. Panel on Sustainable Cities and Mobility
11h45: Short introduction to innovation challenges
Steffen Preissler, Fraunhofer Center for Intl. Management and Knowledge Economy
Francisco Cunha, CEIIA
Discussants:
Luís Seca, INESC TEC
António Cunha, IPN
Debate on innovation challenges and research and innovation agendas
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COLLABORATIVE
LABORATORIES
AND NEW OPPORTUNITIES
FOR TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE
12h45: Lunch and networking
II. Panel on Manufacturing
14h00: Short introduction to innovation challenges
Egbert-Jan Sol, Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research – TNO
Alcibíades Paulo Guedes, INEGI
Jaime Bonnin, IN+/IST
Discussants:
Carlos Bernardo, PIEP
Rui Tocha, CENTIMFE
Debate on innovation challenges and research and innovation agendas
III. Panel on Cyber Physical Systems and Assisted Living
15h20: Short introduction to innovation challenges
Arun Harish, Centre for Process Innovation
Pedro Almeida, AICOS, Fraunhofer Portugal
Discussants:
Carlos Salema, IT
Braz Costa, CENTI
Debate on innovation challenges and research and innovation agendas
16h20: Coffee break
Collaborative Research in Europe: Policy Lessons
16h30: Concluding Remarks
José Carlos Caldeira, National Innovation Agency – ANI
Thorsten Posselt, Fraunhofer Center for International Management and Knowledge Economy
Arun Harish, Centre for Process Innovation
Egbert-Jan Sol, Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research - TNO
Manuel Heitor, Minister for Science, Technology and Higher Education
17h00: End of workshop
Follow-up workshops will be organized, to further develop thematic research and innovation agendas
covering these and also other relevant topics.
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