Issue N° 112 - July/August 2013
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Dear INSMEnews Readers,
Summer, sun and time for a break!
Isn’t it a good moment to have some food for mind?
After a successful first half of the year and an inspiring
9th INSME Annual Meeting discussing on the Governance of Innovation,
it is now the moment to take a deep breath, rest and “digest” this
period full of activities, events and successes!
To continue on our path to creativity,
let me share this picture with you:
*courtesy of:
http://forum.xcitefun.net/mind-blowing-creativity-with-food-t85438.html
Ms. Christin Pfeiffer
INSME Secretary general
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The INSME Secretariat met Mr. Shigeiro Shinozaki, Financial Sector
Specialist - Office of Regional Economic Integration from the Asian Development Bank (INSME
Member) on the occasion of the 9th INSME Annual Meeting, where he
held an interesting round table on
"Innovative Financing Modalities for High-end SMEs amid Global
Financial Uncertainty". 
Read
more about the interview here
INSME is proud to announce its upcoming 10th anniversary: the 10th INSME Annual Meeting
will be held in Abu Dhabi, UAE,
co–organized by Khalifa
Fund for Enterprise Development, holding the INSME
Vice-presidency.Find
out more about this initiative at the following link.Learn
more about the initiative here.
The Committee of Permanent Representatives
endorsed on the 17th of July the agreement reached last
June between the Presidency of the Council and the European Parliament
representatives on the "Horizon
2020" programme for research and innovation for the years
2014 to 2020. The agreement paves the way for the formal adoption of
the "Horizon 2020" legislative package by the European Parliament and
the Council through a vote in the coming months.Learn
more about the agreement here
The European Commission recently launched the new
format of the Export Helpdesk. This free online service explains to
businesses in developing countries how
to export to the EU. In just a few clicks businesses can find
the EU requirements, taxes, tariffs,
preferential arrangements, rules of origin and statistics
that apply to their products. Learn
more about the new Export Helpdesk at the following link.
This
article identifies the three most common mistakes, according to its
author, that can block the road towards successful innovations.
These are: confusing creativity with innovation, fairing failures
and treating innovation like a quick-fix add-on.
Read
the article at this page.
Lateral thinking is an important
tool to stimulate innovations in every field of life and it can even
transform the lack of material resources in a help for creativity.
This article aims at showing that dealing with a limited set of resources contained in a problem forces to be more creative - and very often the result is a solution that is elegant, inexpensive and effective.
Read
the article here.
In this article, the China
IPR SME Helpdesk (INSME
Partner) provides useful suggestions for companies and
organisations that will take part in a trade fair in China.
The article is split in three parts: Before the trade fair: fail to prepare, prepare to fail, At the trade fair: be pro-active not reactive, After the trade fair: act on the information you have gathered.
The
Orange African Social Venture Prize promotes social innovations in support of
development that use Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).More
info at this page.
The
European
Commission launches an open call for tenders with the aim to
develop a stronger evidence base of entrepreneurial potential of
higher education and derive lessons for policy development.
The study should help in gaining a better understanding of the
effective possibilities of Higher Education Institutions in
developing entrepreneurial activities, capabilities and
characteristics.
The maximum budget available for the study is 300.000 Euro and the deadline is fixed on the 9th
of September 2013.
More info at this page.
The
aim of the Joint
Programming Initiative (JPI) Urban Europe is to coordinate
research and innovation in order to make better use of Europe’s
public funds.
As part of this initiative, Urban Europe launches its second call to
bring together partners from different European countries and
thereby enable projects that would be more relevant and capable
than the ones developed by a single country on its own.
The call topics are: Governance of
Urban Complexity and Urban
Vulnerability, Adaptability and Resilience.
A total amount of joint public funding of approximately 15.000.000
Euro will be provided by national funding agencies from Austria,
Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden,
Turkey and the United Kingdom.
Each project proposal must be submitted by a project consortium
consisting of at least three eligible applicants from at least three
participating countries. Each applicant is required to have the
interest and competence to undertake research, development or
innovation within the specified themes.
The deadline for the proposal
submission is the 18th of September 2013.
More info at this page.
StartUp
Cup is a global network of locally driven business model
competitions open to any type of business idea. It can be replicated
in any community and is a proven
model to create viable businesses, grow jobs and enhance
entrepreneurial ecosystems.
According to the promoters of this initiative, the competitive
process can educate entrepreneurs to design a viable business model,
develop customers and accelerate their startups into the marketplace
thanks to a comprehensive judging, coaching, and mentoring process.
Read more here.
Cornell University,
INSEAD and the World Intellectual
Property Organization - WIPO (INSME Member) co-published The Global Innovation Index (GII),
in 2013 in its sixth edition.Download
the report at this page.
The
World Investment Report 2013,
published by UNCTAD
(INSME Member) presents the
latest trends in foreign direct investment (FDI) and contains
in-depth analysis of policy developments, investment prospects and
key emerging issues related to investment, including financial flows
via offshore centres and divestments.
One of the most interesting results of this analysis is that in 2012 - for the first time ever -
developing economies absorbed more FDI than developed countries.
In addition, they generated almost one third of global FDI
outflows.
Download the report at this page.
The Agreement on the Unified
Patent Court was signed by 25 EU Member States on the 19th
of February 2013, with the aim of
creating a specialised patent court with exclusive jurisdiction
for litigation relating to European patents - a bundle of
national patents with no single jurisdiction for disputes - and
European patents with unitary effect, a legal title ensuring uniform
protection for an invention across 25 Member States on a one-stop
shop basis, providing huge cost advantages and reducing
administrative burdens.
The Court has not entered in force yet, but in its website you can
find all the documentation and the news about the Preparatory
Committee.
Until the 1st of October 2013 the draft Rules of
Procedure shall be open to written comments from stakeholders or
other interested parties. You can find the details of this
consultation at this page.
Visit
the official
website of the Unified Patent Court.
Eureka eZine is the newsletter of EUREKA, the European research and development funding and coordination organization, aiming to coordinate efforts of Governments, research institutes and commercial companies concerning innovation.
It
is published twice a month and you can subscribe to it here.
 25th - 27th
of September 2013WTA Daejeon Hi-Tech Fair Daejeon, Republic of Korea The 10th edition of the Daejeon Hi-Tech Fair will take place from the 25th to the 27th of September 2013 and is organized by the World Technopolis Association - WTA (INSME Member) under the topic “Creative industry and Entrepreneurship Ecosystem”. The main objectives of the WTA Hi-Tech Fair are as follow:
Learn more about the event at the this link |
12th – 31st of August 2013
European
Forum Alpbach 2013
Organized by EFA
Alpbach, Austria
3rd – 6th of September 2013
The 16th
TCI Annual Global Conference "Designing the Future –
Innovation through strategic partnerships"
Organized by TCI Network
Kolding, Denmark
4th – 6th of September 2013
Entrepreneurs
Festival 2013
Organized by UK Trade &
Investment
Manchester, UK
6th of September 2013
Conference on Green Technologies - IP,
Technology Transfer and Dispute Resolution in the Energy
Sector
Organized by WIPO
Bonn, Germany
18th – 20th of September 2013
Innovation
in Mind
Organized by Lund University
and Region Skane
Lund, Sweden
18th – 21st of September 2013
19th
International Conference on Small and Medium Enterprises
(ICSME)
Organized by the World
Association for Small and Medium Enterprises (WASME)
Durban, South Africa
21st – 24th of September 2013
Innovation
on the Edge
Organized by the Economic
Developers Association of Canada
St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada
24th – 27th of September 2013
2013
International Conference
Organized by the Association
of University Research Parks (AURP)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
26th – 28th of September 2013
IX International Salon of Inventions and New
Technologies
Among the organizers: the
Ministry of Education, Science, Youth and Sport of Ukraine and
the State Intellectual Property Service of Ukraine
Sevastopol, Ukraine
29th of September – 1st of October 2013
Second
Arab Innovation Network Annual Conference
Organized by the Arab
Innovation Network
Alexandria, Egypt
1st – 2nd of October 2013
Sustainability
Applied 2013
Organized by The Bloom Centre
for Sustainability
Mississauga, Canada
7th – 9th of October 2013
Innovation
Days 2013
Organized by Universal Medica
Group
Paris, France
22nd - 24th of October 2013
EPO Patent Information Conference
Organized by European Patent
Office and the Italian Ministry of Economic Development
Bologna, Italy
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