Issue N° 106 -
January 2013
Keep up to date on innovation matters worldwide with the INSME Association!
Dear INSMEnews Readers,
welcome back in 2013, the International Year of Water Cooperation as declared by the UN.
May it be a successful, healthy and peaceful one!
The INSME Secretariat started with huge enthusiasm, aware of the potential to further strengthen our collaboration for mutual benefit and successful implementation of useful joint initiatives.
Innovation – with a holistic approach – remains our first goal.
May I take you for a Cappuccino? :-)
Let me renew my invitation to participate at our upcoming 9th INSME Annual Meeting at Izmir/Turkey from the 21st to the 24th of May with the title “The Governance of Innovation: Building an Innovative Eco-System for SMEs”.
The draft agenda is available at www.2013.insme.org; more to follow!
...and now as usual enjoy your reading!
Ms. Christin Pfeiffer
INSME Secretary general
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In this article
the EU
SME Centre in China (INSME Partner),
a project funded by the European Union to
provide business support to SMEs, highlights the importance of carrying
out due diligence and presents seven rules to keep in mind when
entering the Chinese market.
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The
European Alliance for Innovation - EAI (INSME Member) – organized with great success the 3rd Forum
for Innovation 2012 under the theme “Lowering
barriers to Innovation: a Contribution from the Start –Up Nation”
that
took place from the 4th to the 6th of December 2012 in Tel Aviv,
Israel.
The forum brought together global leaders of High Tech, Academy,
Innovators, VCs and Startups, in order to share their experiences and
views to boost innovation in emerging ICT-enabled areas.
INSME Secretary General
Ms. Pfeiffer was one of the speakers, connected
to the event by video conference.
Read more about the Forum at this page
The UNIDO Institute for Capacity Development,
in cooperation
with the Central
European University (CEU) will organize a
summer course with the theme “Green
Industry: Pathways towards the
Industry of the Future”.
The summer course, supported by UNIDO (INSME Member) aims
at providing
the participants with the opportunity to improve industry’s
environmental performance and to turn the concept of green industry
into practice.
The course will consist of a five-week online part, taking place in
March/April 2013 and a two-week classroom training, conducted on 1 - 12
July 2013 at the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest,
Hungary. The application
deadline is the 15th of February 2013.
Find out more at this page
The analysis represents an update of the Outlook edited in May
and
provides an overview of the main markets relevant to EIF.
In particular
it focuses on the general market environment, the main aspects of
equity finance as well as the SME Securitization market. Finally the
report highlights the main aspects of microfinance in Europe as an
important tool to overcome the effects of the financial crisis and to
support inclusive growth.
The European Fund for Southeast Europe (EFSE, the Fund) – initiated by KfW (The German Development Bank) with the financial support of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the European Commission – provided Garanti Leasing (Turkey), Zagrebačka banka (Croatia) and ProCredit Bank (Bosnia and Herzegovina) with respectively a EUR 25 million, EUR 20.0 million, EUR 2.5 million loan to support the expansion and further development of micro and small enterprises (SMEs), in various sectors of these areas.
Find out more about EFSE at this page
The Council of the European Union gave
its green light to the
creation of unitary patent protection in Europe on the 17th of December
2012. The approval comes following a positive vote in the European
Parliament on the 11th of December 2012, approving three measures
collectively known as the “EU
Unitary Patent Package”.
The
new patent will encourage businesses to promote their innovation
activity, thus enhancing their competitiveness. It will
also increase
the interest of EU companies in protecting their inventions and new
technical solutions across Europe and will significantly lower the
costs associated with obtaining a patent in the EU.
The unitary patent will be valid in all participating Member States.
Read more here
In this article Jeffrey Phillips identifies four issues that
block innovation but are often hidden from view: executive alignment,
uncertainty about near term and longer term objectives, resource
allocation, don't want to "go first" but don't want to be "left
behind".
This article, published by McKinsey
Global Institute, gives an
overview of the present and the future of the manufacturing sector,
highlighting that this sector remains critically important to both the
developing and the advanced world.
Read the article and the annexed reports at this page.
In this
article the China IPR SME Help Desk (INSME Partner) gives an overview of the differences and similarities between the legislation about IPR
in China and in Europe.
At the end you can also find a list of “Dos and Don’ts of IPR strategy in China”.
The Eurostars Programme is a European
Joint Programme
dedicated to the Research and Development performing SMEs that receives
co-funding from the European Communities and 33 EUREKA member countries.
Eurostars aims to
stimulate innovative SMEs to lead international
collaborative research and innovation projects by easing access to
support and funding.
EUREKA's Eurostars Programme is open for
funding applications on a
continuous basis, with an average of two application submission
deadlines each year.
The next deadline for the submission of applications is on the 4th of April 2013.
With the Human
Resources Training Programme - Japan Industry
Insight, the EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation
offers EU
managers of small, medium and large enterprises the opportunity to
experience and understand both the cultural and economic elements which
define and explain Japan's business and technological achievements.
The programme, lasting 4 weeks with an optional fifth week, consists of
a combination of lectures, joint seminars and company visits and is
designed to help participants become thoroughly informed about the
actual conditions of Japanese business through practical analysis and
research.
The application deadline
is the 28th of Febraury 2013.
Read more at this page.
The European Entrepreneurial Region
(EER) is a project that
identifies and rewards annually up to three EU regions with outstanding
entrepreneurial visions. The regions with the most convincing and
forward-thinking policy strategy will be granted an entrepreneurial
label: Entrepreneurial
region of the year. The aim of the initiative is
to create dynamic, green and entrepreneurial regions throughout Europe.
The deadline for
submission of EER 2014 applications is the 28th of
February 2013. The EER 2014 award ceremony will be held on 3rd and 4th of July 2013.
The objective of this study is to consolidate an EU-wide information base on open innovation and knowledge transfer.
This includes an in-depth analysis on performance of public research organisations and higher education institutes performing research in knowledge transfer through new and emerging mechanisms, as well as perceptions of stakeholders on the barriers, challenges, ongoing practices and success factors as well as set of recommendations for open innovation and knowledge transfer mechanisms.
Tender reference number: RTD/C1/2012/2
Read more at this page.
European Week of Regions and Cities
is an annual four-day
event during which cities and regions showcase their capacity to create
growth and jobs, implement European Union cohesion policy and prove the
importance of the local and regional level for good European Governance.
The 2013 European Week of Regions and Cities
will be held from the 7th
to the 10th of October 2013, with more than 100 workshops and debates,
exhibitions and networking opportunities. In addition to the
Brussels-based workshops, some 250 local events will be run from
September to November all over Europe.
Produced by ANIMA (INSME Member) in
collaboration with the
MIRA
project of the European Commission, this study is an analysis of
macro-economic issues relating to the Mediterrean area and
aims to
identify the key elements required to drive new innovation dynamics -
including the promotion of best practises, the need to identify and
involve industry leaders as well as to strengthen networking between
communities and innovation clusters at regional level.
Based on this assessment the study examines the state of play of the
innovation stakeholders and policies in 7 Southern Mediterranean
countries: Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine and
Tunisia.
The report highlights some critical factors with a negative impact on
innovation growth in the Mediterranean countries - lack of critical
mass and global visibility, poor performance in commercialising
research results – and promotes
12 proposals for an Euro-Mediterranean
action plan that helps the countries in this area to develop an
innovation culture.
Download the report at this webpage.
The 2013 Global
Manufacturing Competitiveness Index, prepared
by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited’s (DTTL)
Global Manufacturing
Industry group and the U.S. Council on Competitiveness,
once again
ranks China as the most
competitive manufacturing nation in the world
both today and five years from now. Second and third scored Germany and
the United States, but according to the report in next years they could
be overtaken by emerging nations such as India and Brazil.
The report highlights
that access to talented workers is the top
indicator of a country’s competitiveness – followed by a
country’s
trade, financial and tax system, and the cost of labor and materials.
Enhancing and growing an effective talent base is the core of
competitiveness for the traditional manufacturing leaders and the
emerging market challengers.
Read the full report at this webpage.
The TransAtlantic IPR Portal is part
of the collaboration
between the United States and the European Union, aimed to help small
and medium-sized enterprises and enforce their intellectual property
rights in foreign markets around the world.
This portal helps to find resources related to intellectual property
rights for businesses. These resources have been developed by various
Government agencies and programmes in the United States and the
European Union.
The website is divided into six sections (What are Intellectual
Property Rights, Country toolkits, Manage your IPR, Training and
e-Learning, Contact Enforcement Authorities, Find Expert
Advice).
The ISPIM Magazine is a new
publication that offers insight
and informed opinion on Innovation Management from industry, academic,
consulting and policy-making perspectives.
It is published every two months by The International
Society for
Professional Innovation Management ISPIM (INSME Observer).
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4th - 7th
Febraury 2013 The National Elites Foundation of the Islamic Republic
of Iran, in cooperation with by IOR-ARC Regional Centre for Science and
Technology Transfer – RCSTT (INSME Member) will
hold the 5th Fajr
International Innovation and Inventions Exhibition.
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19th - 20th March 2013 The Centre for Commercialization of Research
– CCR
(INSME Member)
will host the third annual International Commercialization Forum. This
by-invitation only event brings together a select group of experts to
engage in interactive sessions and discuss exemplary practices in
commercializing research results and evidence-based effective
innovation models from around the world. INSME will be represented by Secretary General Ms.Christin Pfeiffer.
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27th - 29th of
January 2013
NBIA's Seventh Summit for Advanced
Incubation Professionals
Organized by National Business Incubation Association (NBIA)
Santa Monica, California, USA
28th - 29th of January 2013
Workshop on the Role of IP in Enhancing the Competitiveness of SMEs
Organized by WIPO
Beirut, Lebanon
29th of January 2013
Energy
Innovation 2013: Clean Energy, Ready for Primetime?
Co-organized by the Information Technology and
Innovation Foundation and the Information Technology and Innovation
Foundation
Washington, D.C., United States
6th - 7th of
February 2013
Salon
des Entrepreneurs
Organized
by Groupe Les Echos
Paris, France
14th of February 2013
Women 2.0 Conference
Organized by Women 2.0
San Francisco, CA, USA
14th - 15th of February 2013
European Intellectual Property Forum
Organized by Unifab – Union des Fabricants pour la protection internationale de la propriété intellectuelle
Paris, France
19th - 20th of
February 2013
Business
Innovation Summit 2013: Innovation for the Corporation
Organized by the Conference Board of Canada
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
28th of February 2013
European Competition Forum 2013
Organized by the Chamber of Eco Commerce
Atlanta, USA
28th of February 2013
Second Annual Investing in Innovation Forum
Organized by the Chamber of Eco Commerce
Atlanta, USA
4th - 5th of March 2013
OECD International Business Dialogue 2013
Organized by OECD
Paris, France
4th - 6th of
March 2013
7th
Annual Front End of Innovation EMEA (FEI 2013)
Co-organized by the Institute for
International Research and ISPIM
Copenhagen, Denmark
10th - 13th of March 2013
10th
Annual International Patent Information Conference & Exposition, IPI-ConfEx
Organized by IPI (International Patent Information Organization)
Seville, Spain
18th - 19th of March 2013
The Global Commodities Forum
Organized by UNCTAD
Geneva, Switzerland
20th - 22nd of March 2013
7th
Annual University Startups Conference 2013
Organized by the National Council of
Entrepreneurial Tech Transfer (NCET2)
Washington, D.C., United States
21st - 23rd of March 2013
Expo Eficiencia Energética
Organized by Achee (Agencia Chilena de Eficiencia Enegética) – FISA
Santiago, Chile
24th - 26th of March 2013
1st InnoSim Workshop – Simulation for Innovation (Facebook link) - email contact
Organized by Lappeenranta University of Technology, I-Space Institute and Aalto University
Helsinki, Finland
7th - 10th of April 2013
Annual NBIA Conference
Organized by the National Business Incubation Association (NBIA)
Boston, USA
8th - 10th of April 2013
IASP Africa 2013
Co-organized by IASP & The Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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