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Dear readers,
It is my pleasure to welcome you to the second edition of the SEETechnology Newsletter. The support activities for creating the environment for innovative entrepreneurship have been gaining mo-mentum in the last few months. The existing conditions (both stimu-lating and de-stimulating), that are crucial for the support to innova-tive SMEs, have been thoroughly examined and analysed in all project respective regions / countries, which allowed the project partners to begin in a stimulating inter-action to contemplate on the new effec-tive mechanisms that could be put in place in a transnational context.
Some concrete results are already visible; the first pilot project has been carefully designed in order to build a link between the university sphere and the real entrepreneurial world. The pilot is carrying the name DEMOLA and is since September 2013 being implemented at the University of Maribor, in close cooperation with the Budapest University. Deriving from the previous experiences elsewhere in Europe (starting in Finland), we have adopted the notion that young generation is an exciting fountain of innovative ideas and in our pilot they are involved into self-dependent solving of real-life cases from enterprises. First months show a lot of dedication, enthusiasm and fun!
I would like to take this opportunity to wish all our readers successful and joyful 2014!
Dean Korošak
SEETEchnology Coordinator
SEETechnology is a part of South East Europe (SEE) Transnational Cooperation Programme. The project is about co-operation of SEE (South East Europe) science parks for the promotion of transnational market uptake of R&D results and technologies by SMEs. It's about creating the environment for innovative entrepreneurship.
Message from Prof. Dr. Dean Korošak, SEETechnology Project Coordinator
Inside this issue:
Meetings, events 2
Promotional events 4
Upcoming events 4
Project Partners 5
Merry Christmas and Merry Christmas and
a prosperous and happy a prosperous and happy
New Year 2014!New Year 2014!
Year 2013, No. II Winter 2013
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Picture by László Bacsa
UEFISCDI started a series of events called "Cafeneaua de Inovare" (Innovation Coffee Shop), where local private and public incubators, clusters and entrepreneurs have been invited.
SEETechnology project was presented during the "Innovation Coffee Shop" held on 11 July 2013 and raised a lot of expectation from entrepreneurs.
Laszlo Bacsa, the director of BME MTTI summed up in his presentation the knowledge transfer activi-ties within the university and programmes that are running on this issue like SEETechnology project, as
well as the open innova-tion platform called De-mola-Budapest and ac-commodated in the BME Innovation Lab.
Innovation Coffee shop (July 2013)
2nd Innovation Lab was
held on 18 June in Buda-
pest, Hungary.
Within the framework of “Lifelong Learning” pro-gramme series of the European Union, a delega-tion of 10 people from Turkey ( businessmen and university professors) vis-ited the BME Technology and Knowledge Transfer Office (BME MTTI).
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New series of events -
Innovation Coffee shop
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2nd Innovation Lab in Budapest (June 2013)
Picture:
Meeting in Graz
Pictures:
Insights from the Innovation
lab
Picture:
Presentation of the
SEETechnology project at
the Innovation Coffee Shop
More information available at: http://www.cafeneauadeinovare.ro
Picture:
Innovation Coffee Shop
website
Project Meeting in Graz (September/October 2013)
WP4 (Capacity building
and policy recommenda-
tion) Project meeting
was held in Graz on 30
September and 1 Octo-
ber 2013.
Subjects of the meeting covered presentation of SEETech project to local authorities, WP4 activities,
and next steps in WP4 actions, project and finan-cial management.
Also, the progress of WP3 - Mapping of needs and capabilities and develop-ment, monitoring and evaluation of a joint ser-vice development strat-egy and elaboration of a joint business plan – was presented.
development of Slovenia.
After the presentation of development policies and innovation ecosystem of the University, the pro-gramme was divided into four strands of develop-ment that allowed an inten-sive exchange of experi-ence and suggestions by participants: Advanced Ma-terials and Technologies, Modern ICT solutions for a better quality of life,
At the beginning of October, we visited New Factory in Tampere, Finland. Demola story began in Tampere 5 years ago and the New Factory is the Demola center in Tampere.
Additionally, during the visit we actively participated at the Academic MindTrek conference (1 - 3 October).
During the visit we had a fruitful discussion with Demola co-founder Ville Kairamo and other Demola facilitators. We met several students, Demola projects' participants and participated in one of the first meetings Demola student team had with their facilitator. Demola team Tampere showed us their premises and we had the opportunity to observe some of the daily activities in Demola Tampere.
Within Academic Mindtrek conference, we presented a contribution “Enhancing Identification of Opinion Spammer Groups” as an important functionality of the ICT Tool, which would be able to automatically discover interesting content.
R:R panel was held on Thursday 28 November 2013 in Maribor. The event was attended by researchers, businessmen, students and representa-tives of other organiza-tions. The main purpose of the panel was to connect the needs of commercial partners and competences of the University of Maribor and thereby accelerate economic and social
students, 250 projects and 6 centers (Tampere, Vil-nius, Oulu, Budapest, east-ern and western Sweden) - university students are developing products and services together with companies and thus con-tributing to solving real problems.
Demola helps with estab-lishing the needs and competencies and com-
bines functional groups, and thus facilitates the process of creating.
With its innovative ap-proach, Demola connects talented students, compa-nies and the academic community and creates conditions for better co-operation of businesses and universities.
Innovation lab in Zagreb (November 2013)
On 26 November 2013 in Zagreb, an Innovation lab was held, including Demola presentation.
Demola Project was launched in Finland in 2008 and quickly became so successful that it has turned into a network that connects four Euro-pean countries. As part of Demola – a net-work that includes 1500
Visit to Tampere, Finland (30 September - 5 October 2013)
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Demola connects
talented
students,
companies and
the academic
community and
creates
conditions for
better
cooperation of
businesses and
universities.
R&R panel (November 2013)
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Marketing and management skills for successful market performance and Methods of lean entrepreneurship and business models generating. The final part of the meeting included presentation of promising student projects within Demola - a concept, which encourages co-creation of students, companies and universities (Demola "no-slide-pitching").
Pictures:
Visit to Tampere
Picture:
Prof. Dr. Dean Korošak, SEETechnology
Coordinator, speaks at the R:R panel
Besides project events, as a promotion activity, the SEETechnology project has also been presented at the following events:
• Within the final event of project FIDES, held on 28 February 2013, the SEETechnology project was shortly presented.
Project FIDES (FROM IP TO BUSINESS: Developing enviroment for start up companies) was a bilateral project between Slovenia and Croatia within the Operational Programme SL-HR 2007-2013. Main goals of the project FIDES were: to use potential that is provided by inovative individuals within regions, to promote entrepreneurship, to
improve services of an exisiting supporting environment in the field of intellectual property, and to promote commercialisation activities.
• Workshop „ The value of intellectual property as an additional leverage in the financing of small and medium-sized en-terprises“, 11 June 2013, Zagreb, Croatia.
• 26th Bled eConference, 12 June 2013, Bled, Slo-venia.
• Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry – Innovation Conference and Training, 21 June 2013, Budapest, Hun-gary.
• “4 TU MEETING”, 16 – 17 July 2013, Prague, Czech Republic.
• Creation and operation of innovative start-ups – elective course, 24 Sep-tember 2013, Budapest, Hungary.
• Opening SEETechnology Conference, organised by the recently joined ENPI partner from Chisinau - ASEM -
Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova.
Upcoming events ...
Events to be held in January 2014:
• Transnational workshop on organisational concept (WP4), Iasi, Romania;
Promotional events
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Pictures:
Insights from the events
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On Friday, the 29 Novem-
ber 2013, the team from
the Maribor pilot
“DEMOLA” prepared a
whole-day “train the train-
ers” experience for project
partners by involving them
into the practical work of
students in solving of real-
life cases.
Train the trainers / Partners meeting (November 2013)
Partners had a chance to
learn about the Demola
model and its mechanisms.
They were pulled into
elaboration of the first idea
prototype, in communicat-
ing of the prototype with
the public on the street and
by pitching the prototypes
to the wider audience.
It was an exciting and fruit-ful Demola day!
The project partners used
the event also to analyse
and discuss the project
work and to set pathway
for action in the future
months.
Website:
http://www.seetechnology.eu/
More information about the project:
Project partners:
SEETechnology
Disclaimer:
This newsletter is a product of SEETechnology project and its objective is to disseminate information about the
project.
Editorial Board: Dean Korošak, Jasmina Klojčnik, Andreja Čurin, Andrej Duh, Marko Samec, University of Maribor;
Jasna Poženel, IPMIT d.o.o.
Contact e-mail: [email protected]
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JAPTI - Public Agency for Entrepreneurship
and Foreign Investment (Slovenia)
ASTER Joint Stock Consortium (Italy) Styrian Government - Department 3,
Science and Research (Austria)
Industrial Property Office of the Slovak
Republic (Slovakia)
Slovak Centre of Scientific and Technical
Information (Slovakia)
Hungarian Investment and Trade Agency
(Hungary)
Styrian Business Development Agency
(Austria)
University of Maribor
(Slovenia)
Budapest University of Technology
and Economics (Hungary)
Alma Mater Studiorum - University
of Bologna (Italy)
University of Graz
(Austria)
»Petru Poni« Institute of
Macromolecular Chemistry (Romania)
University of Zagreb
(Croatia)
Comenius University in
Bratislava (Slovakia)
Executive Agency for Higher Education,
Research, Development and Innovation
Funding (Romania)
Business Innovation Agency of
Croatia - BICRO (Croatia)
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