Except where otherwise noted, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. ICT INNOVATIONS: Research > Business > Society Wrap-up FITT – Fostering Interregional Exchange in ICT Technology Transfer –

2 | 10 May/2011 FITT conference: Wrap-up Session  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

3 | 10 May/2011 FITT conference: Wrap-up Session 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) Panel I: From Ideas to Products: The Business Model Challenge

4 | 10 May/2011 FITT conference: Wrap-up Session 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) Panel II: How FITT is Europe for the Innovation Challenge? (I)

5 | 10 May/2011 FITT conference: Wrap-up Session  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) Panel II: How FITT is Europe for the Innovation Challenge? (II)

6 | 10 May/2011 FITT conference: Wrap-up Session  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

7 | 10 May/2011 FITT conference: Wrap-up Session 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