Issue N° 107 - Febraury 2013
Keep up to date on innovation matters worldwide with the INSME Association!
Dear INSMEnews Readers,
did you know that our network
recently turned 9?
Happy Birthday INSME!!
My thanks go to all our members, partners, supporters and staff that
made a constant growth and strong involvement in innovation matters on
an international scale possible!
By thinking about what thoughts to share with you regarding our upcoming INSME Annual Meeting at Izmir/Turkey from the 21st to the 24th of May, I came across the symbolism and properties of “number 9”:
...and now as usual enjoy your reading!
Ms. Christin Pfeiffer
INSME Secretary general
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INSME
is delighted to announce the opening of the INSMEAcademy, a new
webinar-based training program on relevant topics concerning Innovation,
Creativity, Strategic Partnerships and Entrepreneurial Spirit.
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the INSMEAcademy
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Are
you ready for the 9th INSME Annual Meeting?
Remember to save the date: May, 21st
– 24th
2013, Izmir, Turkey!
The first international workshop co-organised by INSME and CEPAS (INSME Member), with the title
"Leverage your Informal Competences:
The Challenge of Interpersonal and Inter-functional Skills
Management" will take place in Rome on the 8th of
April 2013.
On
the 9thof January 2013 AEBAN
(Spain), Business
Angels netzwerk Deutschland (Germany), BAN
Netherlands, BeBAN
(Belgium), France
Angels and IBAN
(Italy – INSME Member), have
signed the founding act of Business Angels Europe
(BAE) – the European Confederation of Angel Investing, based
in Brussels, Belgium.Read
more at http://www.businessangelseurope.com/
The
Summer School program,
organized by WIPO
(INSME Member) in cooperation
with its institutional Partners, provides an intersting opportunity to
senior students and young professionals to acquire deeper
knowledge of IP to gain an appreciation of IP as a tool for
economic, social, cultural and technological development and to
understand the role WIPO plays in the global administration of IP.Find
out more here.
The
Open Working Group (OWG) was established on the 22nd
of January 2013 by the decision of the General Assembly of the United Nations and is tasked with
preparing a proposal on the sustainable
development goals (SDGs) as second step after the United
Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), held in Rio de
Janeiro in June 2012.Read
more here.
The
European Commission drew up the “Entrepreneurship
2020 Action Plan” a blueprint for decisive action to unleash
Europe's entrepreneurial potential and to revolutionize the culture
of entrepreneurship in Europe. To
learn more please download the full Action Plan here.
In this article, you will find some considerations and
food for thought about open innovation. According to the author, we
should take open innovation seriously. What do you think?
In this article the China IPR SME Help Desk (INSME Partner)
explains why every company producing innovative products in China is
strongly advised to use the Chinese patent system, as a European
registered patent has no legal effect in China.
The
European Commission is searching for experts from all fields to
participate in shaping the agenda of Horizon 2020, the European
Union's future funding programme for research and innovation. Read
the details of the call at this
webpage.A
selection procedure for fixed-term positions has been launched by
the European Commission to set up a database of over 3000 successful
candidates with a research background. They will be placed on a
reserve list and called for interview according to the needs of the
services.
The selection addresses researchers in the following areas: Natural
sciences, Quantitative sciences, Human and Social sciences,
Agricultural, Environmental and Earth sciences and Health sciences.
Registration is available via the EPSO
website until the 1st of March 2013 (12:00 CET).
Read
more here.
The
search for the next Millennium Technology Prize Laureates is on!Read
more at the official
website. 
The
EU-financed initiative "EU
Gateway to Japan and Korea" is helping European companies
explore their market potential and build their business in Japan and
Korea.
Read more in INSMEblogRead
more at Eu-Gateway website.
The
Eurostat,
the statistical office of the European Union, published the Community
Innovation Survey 2012, providing a wide set of indicators on
product and process innovation as
well as organizational and marketing innovation and offering
for the first time information on skills and creativity. Among the 27
Member States, the highest proportion of innovative enterprises were
recorded in Germany, Luxembourg and Belgium with respectively a 79%,
68% and 61% of enterprises.Read
more about the survey here.Learn
more about Innovation Statistics here.
In
2012 the Leadership Council of the Network
for Business Sustainability – NBS (INSME
Member) started a research on innovating
for sustainability, whose results are now published in a Systematic Review and an Executive Report.
The Systematic Review aims to be one of the most comprehensive and
credible evidence to date on innovating for sustainability and
highlights “how-to” case studies from large and small leading
organizations.
The Executive Report intends to answer the question: "What
innovation activities help companies become sustainable?",
by providing a framework for assessing which stage of the
sustainability journey your organization currently occupies, 38
practices for fostering innovation at each stage and case studies
that are actively finding innovative ways to serve people, profits
and planet.
Read
the Systematic
Review.
Read
the Executive
Report.
"Doing
Business 2013: Smarter Regulations for Small and Medium-Size
Enterprises" gives an overview of regulations affecting
domestic firms in 185 economies and ranks the economies in 10 areas
of business regulation, such as starting a business, resolving
insolvency and trading across borders.
The 2013 year's report covers regulations measured from June 2011 to
May 2012.
According to these data, Poland
was the global top improver in the past year and Singapore topped
the global ranking on the ease of doing business for the seventh
consecutive year, followed by Hong Kong SAR, China, New
Zealand, the United States and Denmark.
Download
the report here.
The
Cluster
Observatory is an online
platform that provides a single access point to information and
analysis of clusters and cluster policy in Europe. Born in
2007, the Observatory is now offering a range of new services, as it
provides data and analysis on clusters and competitiveness, a
cluster library, a cluster wiki and a classroom for cluster
education.
The Cluster Observatory also produces analysis and reports on
regional competitiveness conditions, transnational cluster networks,
clusters in emerging industries, and studies on better practices in
cluster organisations.
This
newsletter, issued by the Technology
Innovation International association – TII provides updated
information on services, events, publications, funding programmes
and proposals related to Technology Transfer and innovation issues.
You can subscribe the newsletter here.
 28th of Febraury – 1st of March 2013 Second
Annual Investing in Innovation Forum The Second Annual
Investing in Innovation Forum, organized by The
Chamber
of Eco Commerce (CEC), will take place in Atlanta,
the Eco Commerce Capital of the World. This event will focus on exploring access to finance
vital to growing business and investment in new
technology. INSME Secretary General Ms. Christin Pfeiffer will intervene during the Forum as a speaker. |
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The OECD will hold an International Business Dialogue on the theme of Barriers to 21st Century Commerce. The main objective of the workshop is to bring
together representatives from firms across sectors and
regions to identify and prioritize barriers to
international business activity. In particular, the
event aims at providing a platform to companies to share
hands-on experience in international markets with
representatives of both the OECD and its members' trade
ministries – and identify the most urgent obstacles to
international commerce before, at, and beyond the
border. |
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This event is organized by InnovExpo
with the support of Administration of the President of
the Russian Federation, Government of Moscow and WIPO
(INSME Member). INSME Secretary General Ms.Christin Pfeiffer will attend as speaker. |
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
4th - 8th of March 2013
EU
Science
Global Challenges & Global Collaboration conference
Organized by ISC Intelligence in Science
Brussels, Belgium
11th - 13th of March 2013
Innovate
UK Conference
Organized by Innovate UK
London, UK
18th - 19th of March 2013
The
Global Commodities Forum
Organized by UNCTAD
Geneva, Switzerland
18th - 21st of March 2013
2013
Global Entrepreneurship Congress
Organized by Global Entrepreneurship Congress,
Endeavor Brasil, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
20th - 22nd of March 2013
World
Investment Conference North Africa
Co-organized by the Moroccan Investment Development
Agency (AMDI), with the partnership of ANIMA Investment
Network
Marrakech, Morocco
21st - 24th of March 2013
FutureEverything
Conference 2013
Organized by FutureEverything
Manchester, UK
7th - 10th of April 2013
Annual
NBIA
Conference
Organized by the National Business Incubation Association
(NBIA)
Boston, USA
10th - 14th of April 2013
41st Exhibition of
Inventions
Organized by Inventions Geneva
Geneva, Switzerland
Innovation through knowledge
transfer - The InnovationKT2013
Organized by KES International in partnership with the
Institute of Knowledge Transfer and the University of Ulster
Derry-Londonderry, Northern Ireland
IFT Energy 2013 International
Fair of Technologies
Organized by IFT Energy
Espacio Riesco, Santiago- Chile
21st – 23rd of April 2013
ADT
Spring Conference 2013
Organized by ADT (German
Association of Innovation, Technology and Business Incubation
Centres)
Chemnitz, Germany
24th – 26th of April 2013
Seventh
Global Congress "Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy"
Organized by WIPO
Istanbul, Turkey
TII Conference: Globalization of
Technology
Organized by Technology
Innovation International (TII)
Beijing, China
9th of May 2013
Innovation
Economy Expo
Organized by Innovation
Economy Konnect, Inc.
Ontario, California, USA
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