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The FITT conference in brief

½ Day: Introductory Session, 2 Panel Sessions, 1 Panel Discussion, Wrap-up Session 20 Speakers, 90 Participants Recommendations from the FITT Position Paper: to bear in mind the fundamental objectives of technology transfer contribute to smart, sustainable and inclusive growth

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The FITT conference in brief

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  1. ½ Day: Introductory Session, 2 Panel Sessions, 1 Panel Discussion, Wrap-up Session 20 Speakers, 90 Participants Recommendations from the FITT Position Paper: to bear in mind the fundamental objectives of technology transfer contribute to smart, sustainable and inclusive growth tackle societal challenges like climate change, energy, health, ageing establish an open innovation approach to technology transfer capacity building  that is what FITT is about The FITT conference in brief

  2. Panel I: From Ideas to Products: The Business Model Challenge Keywords: Collaboration, Culture, Co-design Collaboration as win-win strategy, where revenue sharing and control is key (Pieter Ballon) Innovative business models improve flexible collaboration (Nick De Mey) Introduce entrepreneurship culture within research environment by doing market driven and output oriented research (Prof. Thomas Baaken) Mix researchers and MBA people to let innovation happen (Dr. Carolina Garcia Rizo) Co-design is better than classical business plans in solving bottlenecks that usually stop innovative ideas of reaching the market (Dr. Mario Cameron) Choose a good license and economic model: depends on the domain and on the market (Claude Gomez)

  3. Panel II: How FITT is Europe for the Innovation Challenge? (I) Keywords: Collaboration, Community Building, Competent People There is no one size fits all model, but proof of concept, governance and funding mechanisms and entrepreneurship education (management skills) are key for success (Prof. Bruno Van Pottelsberghe) Venture capital has a high impact on innovation. Collaboration between public and private funds improves the impact even more and promotes investment readiness (Yannis Pierrakis) Potential impact of innovative procurement: “spend wisely” (Dr. Anthon Theuma) Promote ICT living labs for user driven innovation and cut the red tape for SMEs to join collaborative research (Alain Bravo) Investor readiness needs to be improved: KIS SMEs and entrepreneurs need “to understand how investors think” (David Moir)

  4. Panel II: How FITT is Europe for the Innovation Challenge? (II) Needed: Web 2.0 approach and brokerage events for bringing all shareholders together: researchers, technology transfer experts, investors, entrepreneurs (Achieve More, ICT-VentureGate, FITT) Needed: Train-the-trainer  tackle skills mismatch (e-skills, bizz skills), improve investment readiness of SMEs (Dr. Anton Theuma, David Moir)

  5. Key challenges for the European Technology Transfer scene have been addressed during the FITT conference The FITT Toolbox is useful to build a common understanding and approach of this challenges and to build a community of experts in Technology Transfer  solve daily problems of TT and hence their clients struggling in the market This is the end of the FITT project, but FITT will keep on going: as a living Toolbox, as a community of practice “ICT TechTransfer” (LinkedIn), as a platform for professionalizing TT throughout Europe, as a step-up for an ICT ecosystem where ICT entrepreneurs can get real incubation and venturing support in a one-stop-shop logic Next step will be to build this ecosystem in Europe and to cooperate more closely with existing projects like ICT-VentureGate and Achieve More FITT is dead, long live FITT

  6. Thank you to: All Speakers for their valuable contribution The Representation of the State of Baden-Württemberg as host of the conference All Participants for their active contribution Don’t forget to: Please fill in the feedback form And finally: Please join us for dinner and keep on the networking Thank You

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