Become one of the European ACES Friday, January 16, 2009
Posted by Luca Segantini in Business update, Projects.Tags: ACES Awards, europe, innovation, Karolinska, R&D, Stockholm
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Starting up! conference and ACES Awards 2008 Saturday, November 29, 2008
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Say you have a new idea – what you think may be a good way to treat a disease, generate cheap energy, or collaborate on-line. How do you get the idea into the marketplace?
Start your own company, has been the answer over the past decade for a growing number of European researchers.
To celebrate these researchers-turned-entrepreneurs, on 2 December in Stockholm the Science|Business Innovation Board, a blue-ribbon panel of leaders in industry, academia and policy, will pick the winners of the first pan-European awards for university enterprise. At a conference and awards ceremony, the week before the Nobel Prizes are awarded there, the ACES Academic Enterprise Awards will be presented to winners in six categories, by dignitaries including Odile Quintin, the European Union’s Director-General for Education and Culture.
Academic entrepreneurs: do they exist? Monday, September 22, 2008
Posted by Luca Segantini in Business update.Tags: academic entrepreneurship, awards, Karolinska, ScienceBusiness
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Innovation is the lifeblood of a vibrant economy ’ but in Europe, it’s often said, a risk-averse culture in its universities prevents innovative ideas from getting out of the labs and into the marketplace.
To help change that culture, the first Europe-wide awards for academic enterprise are being launched, with a coalition of leading European universities, multinational corporations, foundations, and the Science|Business news service. The awards will be promoted at a series of events and on-line activities through 2008/9, and will be overseen by the Science|Business Innovation Board. The programme will culminate in a conference and awards ceremony in Stockholm in December 2008.
My role is to put together and deliver the awards programme over 2008, working with the ScienceBusiness and the Karolinska teams.
ESOF2008 for Business – From Lab to Market Saturday, May 3, 2008
Posted by Luca Segantini in Business update.Tags: barcelona, esof, europe, european union, euroscience, innovation, R&D, research, science
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ESOF2008 for Business – From Lab to Market
21 July 2008 – 8:30 to 18:00
New ways to bridge the gap between industry and academia
The marketplace for science and technology is vast, fast-growing and complex. It cuts across all borders, between countries, industries and scientific disciplines. It involves many skills: corporate R&D managers, academic researchers, technology transfer officers, IP specialists, venture capitalists and policy-makers. And for success, what counts is what you know, and whom you know.
The “ESOF2008 for Business – From Lab to Market” programme is a series of engaging panel discussions, targeted at executives managing science & technology innovation within large corporations and medium businesses throughout Europe. This is your chance to discuss what it takes to grow your business by identifying, developing and securing innovative technologies. Join thousands of the best scientists and entrepreneurs and discuss your innovation agenda.
Sessions:
2 – Knowledge Transfer – What works?
3 – Open innovation – The new model for collaboration
4 – Innovation Clusters – How to build Silicon Valley in Europe
Download the full programme in PDF format 
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Back to my origins Saturday, October 13, 2007
Posted by Luca Segantini in Business update.Tags: books, frankfurt book fair, publishing
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Yesterday I visited the Frankfurt Bookfair, the biggest show for book professionals worldwide. I used to go there regularly when I was in the medical publishing business, but since 7 years I had been missing this huge opportunity to learn about the latest trends and development in the way information is passed around.
Well, I wasn’t disappointed: the official excuse to go there was to develop my Blue Highways business, but I am not ashamed to admit that soon I lost track of that objective to get lost among the 7,448 exhibitors from 108 countries who presented 391,653 titles. I was only one of the almost 300,000 visitors, but enjoyed myself thoroughly.
To next year!
Video highlights of 12 June event with EU Commissioner Potocnik Wednesday, July 11, 2007
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It was a great event and hope the video can communicate some of the excitement…
The Lego nostalgia Wednesday, June 27, 2007
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I spent most of today sitting besides a video editor in a NASA-like room full of monitors, videocameras and switches, editing a video-record of an event we organised with the EU R&D Commissioner. For those of us involved in the day-to-day management of things, with sales responsibilities, or marketing, or business development, it is somewhat refreshing to do something that results in a physical product, and where you can see your efforts turning into something concrete (and hopefully nice-looking) in a matter of hours. (more…)
The Economist’s perspective on Brussels seminars Friday, June 15, 2007
Posted by Luca Segantini in Business update.Tags: brussels, bruxelles, conferences, event, lobbying, public affairs, seminar
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“Nobody seems able to change the default formula for Brussels policy seminars: good coffee and croissants, dull speeches and a brief exchange of conventional wisdom.”
Well, that sounds like a faithful representation of a vaste majority of the gatherings that take place every day around rue de la Loi. There is definitely a bad need for innovative events that are interactive and provocative, as opposed to predictable and stale. In my brief stint within the Brussels club of policy makers and lobbyists, I have been attending a few meetings and conferences, almost all of which would have needed some refreshing paint. It is now one of my priorities with my current client Science|Business to bring to this community a series of different events, focused on R&D, policy, innovation and technology transfer in Europe.
These events will benefit from being part of a mix of activities provided to members of Science|Business Forums, which turns them an opportunity for continuing a lively discussion face-to-face.
Stay tuned for a full event calendar and an announcement of the upcoming Science|Business Forums.
Ah, and we will notify The Economist too…
The full article: The think-tanks that miss the target is available here.
An email panic button Thursday, June 7, 2007
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Thanks to Michael Geary, we now have a solution for that email panic that gets us when we hit SEND and suddenly realize we didn’t attach something, or that the text in the email wasn’t really expressing what we wanted…
Otherwise, you can always use this.
