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FACING
THE INNOVATION
CHALLENGE
EARTO & EIRMA ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2015
PROGRAMME
LUXEMBOURG
Infrastructures and Resources Sharing
between Industry & RTOs in Europe
APRIL 28-29, 2015
ALVISSE PARC HOTEL | 120, ROUTE D’ECHTERNACH | L-1453 LUXEMBOURG
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In partnership with
FACING
THE INNOVATION
CHALLENGE
earto-eirma-luxembourg2015.eu
April 28, 2015
EARTO & EIRMA Gala Dinner
All participants are invited to the Gala Dinner that will take place on April 28, 2015 at the Cercle-Cité in Luxembourg-City.
A guided visiting tour will be organised during the trip from the Hotel Park Alvisse to Cercle-Cité.
18:30
19:30-22:00
Joint bus transfer to Gala Dinner with guided visiting tour
Departure: Alvisse Parc Hotel Lobby
Joint Gala Dinner at Cercle-Cité
Welcome address by
Francine Closener, Secretary of State of the Economy, Ministry of the Economy, Luxembourg
and Marc Schiltz, Secretary General, Fonds National de la Recherche, Luxembourg
22:00
Joint bus transfer to Alvisse Parc Hotel
April 29, 2015
EARTO & EIRMA Conference 2015: Part 1
08:30-09:00
Registration & welcome coffee
Room Europe C
09:00-09:45
Introduction (Room Europe B)
Gabriel Crean, CEO, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) – Conference Host
Marc Hansen, Secretary of State for Higher Education and Research, Ministry of Higher Education and Research,
Luxembourg
Carlos Moedas, European Commissioner for R&I, European Commission (TBC)
Maria Khorsand, President of EARTO and CEO, SP
Carlos Härtel, EIRMA President and GE Managing Director Europe
09:45-10:15
Coffee break
Room Europe C
10:15-12:00
Part 1 - How to construct an appropriate ecosystem to support infrastructures and resources sharing
between industry & RTOs in Europe? (Room Europe B)
Government policy to support infrastructure and economic development
Mario Grotz, Director General for Research, Intellectual Property and New Technologies, Ministry of the Economy,
Luxembourg
Views of the JRC
Xabier Goenaga, Head of the Innovation Systems Analysis Unit, JRC Institute for Prospective Technological Studies
Shared infrastructures linked to economic & regional development policy
Jean-Philippe Bourgoin, Director Strategy & Programmes, CEA
Rejuvenate KETs technology infrastructure for SME’s: the case of the RTO’s technology infrastructures
Jean-Frédéric Clerc, Vice President of CEA Technological Research Division, CEA
Infrastructure sharing, industry experience of hosting start-ups
Tom Aelbrecht, Director Venture & Incubation Center, Janssen Pharmaceutica, Johnson & Johnson
Discussion moderated by Maria Khorsand, President of EARTO and CEO, SP
12:00-13:30
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Lunch
Room Europe C
EARTO&EIRMA Annual Conference 2015
April 29, 2015
EARTO & EIRMA Conference 2015: Part 2
13:30-15:00
Part 2 - How is “smart specialisation” a reality? (Parallel Sessions)
Session 3
Room Fischbach
Session 4
Room Europe B
Session 1
Room Hollenfels
Session 2
Room Europe A
Regional specialisation:
what does it mean in a
global competitive
market?
How important are shared Shared infrastructures lessons Learned
infrastructures for the
transfer of technology
between Industry &
RTOs?
Volvo experiences
Urban Wass, Senior Vice
President Research &
Innovation Policy, Volvo
Frank Ruttens, Account
Manager, AGFA
Procter & Gamble/BIRD
working group
André Convents, Section
Head, Connect & Develop,
Procter & Gamble
Mapping research
infrastructures
Philippe Froissard, Deputy
Head of Unit Research
Infrastructures, DG R&I,
European Commission
Tecnalia experience
Iñaki San Sebastian,
Deputy Managing Director,
Tecnalia
AIT experience
Alexander Svejkovsky,
CFO, Austrian Institute of
Technology (AIT)
IMEC experience
Jo De Boeck, Chief
Technology Officer, IMEC
Alignment of public and
private RDI
Georges Thielen, Manager
Winter Technology
Programs, Goodyear
Innovation Centre,
Luxembourg
Normunds Popens, Deputy
Director General, DG
REGIO, European
Commission
Christos Tokamanis, Head Peter Dröll, Director
of Unit Advanced Materials Innovation & ERA, DG R&I,
and Nanotechnologies, DG European Commission
R&I, European Commission
Promoting the access of
SMEs to innovation
Pedro Ortún, Director
Service Industries, DG
GROW, European
Commission
Moderator EIRMA
Léopold Demiddeleer,
Honorary President EIRMA,
formerly Solvay
Moderator EIRMA
David Brown, Chair
ProFactor Pharma. Ex
Global Head of Drug
Discovery, Hoffman La
Roche
Moderator EARTO
Frank Treppe, Director
Corporate Strategy and
International Affairs,
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Rapporteur EARTO
Ragnar Heldt Nielsen,
Director, GTS – Advanced
Technology Group
Rapporteur EARTO
Rapporteur EIRMA
Marc Lemmer, Chief
Christopher Shilling,
Strategy & Inovation Officer, EIRMA Individual Member
Luxembourg Institute of
Science and Technology
(LIST)
15:00-15:30
Coffee break
Room Europe C
15:30-16:15
Plenary Session
Room Europe B
Moderator EARTO
Anne-Christine Ritschkoff,
Executive Vice President,
CTO, VTT Technical
Research Centre
Mapping research and
technology
infrastructures, what
types of tools are
available?
Rapporteur EIRMA
Falk Wottawah, Head of
Visioning & Scouting,
Siemens
4 Short reports on parallel sessions by rapporteurs
Discussion moderated by Carlos Härtel, EIRMA President and Managing Director GE Global Research Europe
16:15-16:30
Closure by EARTO & EIRMA Presidents
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