Issue N 26 - October 2005
In this Issue:
INSME Activities
INSME-API Training Programme
INSME Content Feed
Promotional activities
Opportunities for INSME Members
EuroFutureTex 2005
Best Practices in Science Based Incubators
Tenders & Calls
Reminder: CEI Award for Innovative SMEs
Support to Innovation Policy Learning and Development (European Commission)
INNOVA 2006 Conference (European Commission)
Publications
OECD Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard 2005
UNCTAD World Investment Report 2005
Interesting Initiatives
IST Results - News from the EU Information Society Technologies Programme
Events
Highlighted Events
Upcoming workshops, seminars, meetings
 
INSMEnews!
Contact the editorial staff
 
 

Dear INSMEnews Readers,

We are pleased to welcome you to this month's issue of our newsletter with a message from our new INSME Member, the co-organiser of the INSME Annual Meeting 2006, CEGETEC - Centre for Technology Management, who encourages you to attend this event due to take place in Montevideo (Uruguay) on April 24-26, 2006:

"As co-host of the INSME Annual Meeting 2006, we would like to welcome you to Uruguay and enjoy this unique event. We will do our best to meet the expectations of our INSME colleagues and to promote the Association activities to all interested players.
 
Networking is a major asset for our activity at CEGETEC addressed to intermediary organisations. The INSME Annual Meeting 2006 gives us the privilege to introduce you to professionals from many South American countries and to international technology and business parks and the flourishing Uruguayan IT sector. We are confident that partnership opportunities for transnational projects at local or regional level will open up for the private and public sector participants at the meeting.

CEGETEC's mission since 1994 is to deliver customised services for improving the competitiveness of Uruguayan enterprises through technological innovation activities. We are a privately managed organisation financed upon the services delivered to SMEs and participation in international projects. CEGETEC is also a member of international networks such as CYTED, ENDEAVOR, FEALAC, IBEROEKA and UNIND-LAM. Most of our partners are mainly from Canada, Latin America, Europe and Japan.

Linking companies with consultants, universities and technology institutes at national and international level is a need for those SMEs that want to innovate. Therefore we promote this link in order to foster knowledge exchange between those who generate and those who apply knowledge. This is why the theme of the INSME Conference, Bridging the Knowledge Gap: a Developer-User Approach, is relevant to us.
 
We hope it applies to you as well and therefore we look forward to meeting you at the INSME Annual Meeting 2006.

Some final advice: take your time for a couple of extra days in order to visit our beautiful country!

Mrs. Gabriela Couto, Associate Director
CEGETEC, INSME Full Member

 

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INSME Activities
   INSME-API Training Programme

Join now the INSME-API Training Programme in Tunis!

INSME AssociationAPIINSME-API Training Programme on Supporting the Creation and Development of Innovative Enterprises
Date: 13-15 December 2005
Place: Abou Nawas Hotel, Tunis
Language: French only
Registration fee: free for INSME Full Members; reduced fee of 250 euro for INSME Associate Members, INSME Observers and for participants from non-OECD Countries; normal fee of 400 euro for any other participant.

Deadline for subscribing:
December 3, 2005.

This training programme is open to public and private economic players from all geographical areas and will combine theory and practical experience, including topics such as the creation of new enterprises, finance for innovation, new enterprises supporting organisations, the valorisation of public and private research, the development of business relationships and others. Visits to 2 local intermediary centres (El Ghazala Pole of Communication Technologies and Rad�s Incubator) are being organised on 15th December at the end of the course.

Download the revised provisional programme:
 Programme de Formation (FR)

 

Subscribe to the INSME-API Training programme:
 Formulaire d'inscription (FR)

Among the trainers, representatives of the following organisations: UNIDO (United Nations Industrial Development Organization), IBAN (Italian Business Angel Network), EBAN (European Business Angel Network),  WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization), Meta Group (INSME Member).

Find out more about the organisers and trainers:
 http://www.insme.org/
 http://www.insme.org/ 

If you are interested in attending or getting more information about the INSME-API training course, please contact the INSME Secretariat:
Mr. Mariano G. Cordone
 secretariat@insme.it
Phone: +39 06 80972.472
Fax: +39 06 80972.443

 

   INSME Content Feed
The INSME Secretariat has launched two new innovative, value added online services:

the INSME Content Feed Service, dedicated to the Association's Full Members interested in featuring INSME portal content directly on their websites; 

the INSME Newsreader, available for any INSME portal reader interested in receiving INSME portal news and headlines directly on his/her desktop.

The INSME Content Feed Service is up and running on GoOnline website, a project being implemented as part of the European GoDigital initiative by EOMMEX and GRNET (INSME Member).

For further information on how to set up these services, contact the INSME Secretariat:
Ms. Carla Fritz
 fritz@ipi.it
phone: +39 06 80972.497
fax: +39 06 80972.443

 

   Promotional activities

INSME at the WTO Working Group on Trade and Technology Transfer (Geneva, 11 October 2005)

WTO Working Group on Trade and Technology TransferMs. Simona Marzetti (INSME Secretary General) made a presentation about INSME at the last session of the World Trade Organization's Working Group on Trade and Technology Transfer (WGTTT), which took place in Geneva (Switzerland) on October 11, 2005.

This meeting was an occasion to illustrate INSME's activities so far and to present future initiatives, including the INSME Annual Meeting 2006.

 Download INSME presentation

The mission of the WTO Working Group on Trade and Technology Transfer is to examine the relationship between technology transfer and trade and to increase flows of technology to developing countries. Sharing this goal with the WGTTT, the INSME Association is interested in creating synergies and sharing knowledge with its members and observers.

INSME at the AICA Annual Meeting (Udine, 5-7 October 2005)

Mr. Alessandro Sisti, Member of the INSME Secretariat and responsible for INSME's online activities, participated at the annual meeting of the Italian Association of Computer Science (AICA), held in Udine (Italy) on October 5-7, 2005.

The annual meeting's theme was dedicated to how Italian enterprises face knowledge management issues. Mr. Sisti made a speech in a specific session focused on virtual communities, presenting INSME portal and services as examples of knowledge sharing at national and international level.
 http://www.aicanet.it/

 

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Opportunities for INSME Members
   EuroFutureTex 2005

Cientifica, the world's leading supplier of nanotechnology information, is pleased to offer INSME Members a 20% discount on the registration fees for EuroFutureTex 2005 (Padua, Italy, 8-9 November 2005), an event dedicated to explore nanotechnology applications in the textile industry.

INSME Members can learn how to take advantage of this discount by logging into the INSME Association Members Area at insme.org.

For further information on EuroFutureTex, please visit:
 http://www.eurofuturetex.com/

 

   Best Practices in Science Based Incubators
I3P (The Polytechnic of Turin's Incubator for Innovative Enterprises) is pleased to offer INSME Members a discount on the participation fee for the Science Alliance Conference on Best Practices in Science Based Incubators, which will take place in Turin (Italy) on December 1-2, 2005.

The theme of the conference is "The Role of Government, University and Industry in Incubation". Expert speakers from around the world and from the various stakeholders will examine why and how their organisations play a crucial role in their regional, national and international incubation market. 
 
If you are a Member of the INSME Association and would like to attend the conference, contact the INSME Secretariat to learn how to benefit from the discount. A registration form is available in the Members Area at insme.org.

Forgot your username and password to log into the Members Area? Contact the INSME portal Webmaster:
  webmaster@insme.it

 

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Tenders & Calls
   Reminder: CEI Award for Innovative SMEs

The Central European Initiative (CEI, INSME Member) has launched an Award for Innovative Small and Medium-sized Enterprises which will grant winning SMEs seed money for financing their business ideas. CEI will give preference to applications from SMEs belonging to non-EU CEI Member States (Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Moldova, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro and Ukraine).

Details on how to apply are available from CEI website: 
 http://www.ceinet.org/main.php?pageID=302

Closing date: 15.12.2005

Ms. Simona Marzetti, INSME Secretary General, will be part of the international Selection Committee.

 

   Support to Innovation Policy Learning and Development (European Commission)

The European Commission has launched the PRO INNO Europe Initiative'Promoting Innovation in Europe' - through the publication of the call for proposals 'Support to Innovation Policy Learning and Development' (FP6-2005-INNOV-9), under the Research and Innovation section of the Sixth Framework Programme for Research and Development (FP6).

This call, designed to foster trans-European cooperation between national and sub-national innovation programmes and actions, consists in 5 strands:

  • Strand 1INNO-Initiatives - Support action at programme level, this action is committed to generate networking and collaborative activities between regions, replacing pre-existing ERA-Nets with INNO-Nets.
  • Strand 2INNO-Actions - Support action to joint initiatives. Complementary to the first strand, it foresees the support to joint initiatives put in place by innovation agencies from different countries (at least 3) in order to stimulate trans-national collaboration.
  • Strand 3INNO-Learning Platform - Accompanying measure to support joint initiatives: configured as an accompanying measure to support cooperation among national and sub-national innovation policy programs through the selection and analysis of good practices.
  • Strand 4Mapping Innovation Clusters - It consists in the identification, analysis and monitoring of business clusters in Europe.
  • Strand 5GRIPS - The last strand relates to the creation of a Global Review on innovation Intelligence and Policy Studies (GRIPS).

The total indicative budget for these five strands is 29.25 million Euro.

Closing date: 05.01.2006
OJ Reference: OJ C 245 of 05.10.2005

 

   INNOVA 2006 Conference (European Commission)
Europe INNOVA is an initiative for innovation professionals supported by the European Commission under the Sixth Framework Programme for Research and Development (FP6).

In anticipation of the Europe INNOVA Conference 2006, the EU Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry is launching a call for expressions of interest, looking for a partner to help with the organisation of a two-day event for innovation professionals, to be held sometime between October and December 2006. It will bring together more than 230 contractors from 23 Member States and will support sector innovation professionals.

Applicants for the hosting of this conference should be cities or regions where one or more Europe INNOVA contractors are based, although spontaneous applications will be considered.

Expressions of interest, consisting of up to 20 pages, should be sent by e-mail to Ms. Elke Van Tendeloo (elke.van-tendeloo@cec.eu.intbefore November 30th, 2005.

For further information on the call, please visit the European Innovation Portal:
 http://www.cordis.lu/innovation/en/eoi.htm

For further information on Europe INNOVA: 
 http://www.cordis.lu/innovation/en/policy/europe-innova.htm

 

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Publications
   OECD Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard 2005

OECD Science, Technology and Industry (STI) Scoreboard 2005
The recently published OECD Science, Technology and Industry (STI) Scoreboard 2005 explores the impact of the growing globalisation of knowledge on the OECD economies and provides a comprehensive picture of countries' performance in the areas of science, technology, globalisation and industry, as key determinants of innovation.

This 7th edition of the STI Scoreboard is a statistical overview, which comprises several graphs and charts, to help examining emerging policy issues including the international mobility of researchers and scientists, the increasing pace of innovation, the growth of the information economy and new patterns in trade competitiveness and the impact of emergent economies, such as China.

The Scoreboard, edited in English, is available as a printed edition and as PDF version at the OECD online bookshop and OECD Publishing distributor network, and as an electronic E-book via sourceOECD.

 

   UNCTAD World Investment Report 2005

UN World Investment Report 2005
The "World Investment Report 2005: Transnational Corporations and the Internationalization of R&D", edited by UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, INSME Member), presents the latest trends in foreign direct investments and explores the impact of R&D internationalization by transnational corporations in selected developing countries.

"Firms now view parts of the developing world as key sources not only of cheap labour, but also of growth, skills and even new technologies", says UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan in the preface to the report, "they do this to enhance their efficiency, to access expanding pools of scientists and engineers, and to meet the demands of increasingly sophisticated markets in these countries".

This trend is accelerating as a reaction to increased competition, which urges firms to innovate more and at lower cost.  Developing host countries, in turn, should play an active role to innovate effectively and to benefit from joining transnational corporations R&D networks.

For the full text of the report: 
 http://www.insme.org/documents/wir2005_en.pdf 

 

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Interesting Initiatives
   IST Results - News from the EU Information Society Technologies Programme

This informative web service on undergoing IST researches and prototypes is designed to keep informed and updated the IST community (from enterprises, to intermediaries, to public authorities).

Reporting on sectoral events and investing opportunities, this website is an integrated online service not exclusively providing news and scientific articles. One of the website's section is dedicated to matchmaking and partnerships creation between participants to the IST project, (one of the European 6th Framework Programme Priority Areas) and venture capitalists.

To catch up with up-to-date IST researches visit:
 http://istresults.cordis.lu/index.cfm

 

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Events
   Highlighted Events
WIPO-Italy International Symposium on Intellectual Property and the Competitiveness of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in the Textile and Clothing Sectors
Real Sito Belvedere di San Leucio, Caserta (near Naples), Italy

Jointly organised by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the Ministry of Productive Activities of Italy-UIBM (Italian Patent & Trademark Office) and the Italian Institute for Industrial Promotion (IPI).

Download the Symposium agenda:
 English Version  Italian Version
Download the Registration Form:
 English Version  Italian Version
Free participation for all.


15-16 November 2005
CréaWal 2005 - Forum on Enterprise Creation and Financing
Louvain La Neuve, Belgium


The Forum is an initiative of the Walloon Ministry of Economy, Education and Foreign Trade of Belgium.
http://www.creawal.org/

 


24-26 April 2006

INSME Annual Meeting 2006 - Boosting Innovation by Bridging the Knowledge Gap: a Developer-User Approach
Montevideo, Uruguay

Organised by the INSME Association in collaboration with CEGETEC - Centre for Technology Management, Chamber of Industries of Uruguay.

 

   Upcoming workshops, seminars, meetings

8-9 November 2005
EuroFutureTex 2005
Organised by Cientifica Ltd. and Veneto Nanotech to highlight how nanotechnology is enabling the textile industry to improve its competitiveness.
Padua, Italy
 Presentation 
 Programme

13-15 November 2005
Achieving Growth through Strategic Innovation
An open forum on best-performer innovation policies for growth promotion jointly organised by Agoria and MIT Industrial Liaison Program.
Brussels, Belgium

13-15 November 2005 
"Past, Present, and Future of Research in the Information Society"
A satellite event preceding the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).
Tunis, Tunisia

15-16 November 2005
The Innovation Gap between EU & US: Myth or Reality?
Workshop organised by the EU Commission's DG Enterprise to compare EU and US innovation performance.
Brussels, Belgium

16-18 November 2005 
WSIS - World Summit on Information Society 2005
Under the auspices of the United Nations.
Tunis, Tunisia

17-18 November 2005 
RENT (Research in Entrepreneurship and Small Business) XIX Conference 2005 - Entrepreneurship, Competitiveness and Local Development"
Organised by the ESIM (European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management) in collaboration with the ECSB (European Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship).
Naples, Italy

21-23 November
2005 World SME Expo
Organised by the Trade Development Council - TDC (Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region).
Hong Kong, China

23-24 November 2005 
The 8th CEI (Central European Initiative) Summit Economic Forum
Sponsored by the Italian Government and by the 2005 Slovak Presidency. This year's main theme is Reforms key to Competitiveness.
Bratislava, Slovakia
 Presentation and Programme

29 November-02 December 2005
Innovation 2005
Week of Research Development and Innovations in the Czech Republic
Prague, Czech Republic

01-02 December 2005 
Fourth Annual Conference and Award on "Best Practices in Science Based Incubators"
Organised by Science Alliance in cooperation with I3P, the innovative enterprise incubator of the Politecnico di Torino (Italy), and various regional partners in the City and Region of Turin.
Turin, Italy

01-02 December 2005
European Venture Market Izmir
Partnered and co-organized by ESBAS, the Aegean Free Zone Development & Operating Company.
Izmir, Turkey

11-14 December 2005
ProTon Europe Annual Conference 2005 - Transfer Offices - "Bridging the Gap Between SME's and Academia"
Co-organised with e-unlimited this year ProTon Europe conference will focus on technology transfer and universities/enterprises virtuous relationships.
Berlin, Germany

 

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