Management Studies Group of Wageningen UR in collaboration with DAFNE and ZHI Foundation present:
TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER AT WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY AND ELSEWHERE
Conference
March 25-26, 2010
Hotel De Wageningsche Berg, Wageningen
Entrepreneurship and commercialising knowledge have become important for all universities in Western Europe; it is now a prominent element in their plans and activities in the domains of education, research, outreach/extension and internal people management. While transferring their research to the public domain (e.g. by publishing), now researchers and university managers seriously look into the promises and pitfalls of bringing their inventions and skills to the market place. When looking into their relatively new role of collaborating with industry and other stakeholders and valorizing knowledge, some universities have emphasized economic development with regional businesses and governments while others seek revenue generation through licensing and spin-off formation or simply stick to the knitting of striving for excellence in teaching and/or research. These different ambitions lead to distinct approaches and outcomes.
A major challenge in our knowledge society is the continuous development of new products based on new scientific achievements. It requires bridging the gap between organizations that do fundamental and applied research and those that develop and commercialize those products. This conference addresses the interplay between the production of science and technology and the commercialization of academic knowledge and designs by universities, start-up firms and established firms. Key notes of this conference will address issues such as technology transfer, patenting/IPR management, licensing, incubation, spin-off creation, public-private research partnerships, and techno-economic clustering at Wageningen University and Food Valley Netherlands, and elsewhere in Europe and North America. A follow-up conference (May 20-21) will zoom in on these issues within the Plant Sciences and will show the various ways of valorization in a number of cases taken from the international scenery.
This conference is organised by the Management Studies Group at Wageningen University, and in particular by Prof. dr. Bill Lesser (visiting professor from Cornell University), Prof. dr. Wim Hulsink and Prof. dr. Hans Dons, and facilitated by the ZHI Foundation (sponsor of the Rotating Chair International Entrepreneurship at Wageningen UR)
The last session of this conference (on Friday March 26 from 15hrs onwards) includes the Farewell Address of Hans Dons, Professor in Entrepreneurship in the Life Sciences at Wageningen UR, followed by an official reception and drinks.
Program
Please see the file attached.
Registration
You can register for this conference by sending an email to office.mst@wur.nl, stating Conference Tech Transfer I, name, title and affiliation (for on the badge).
Location
Hotel De Wageningsche Berg, Wageningen (Gelderland)
Generaal Foulkesweg 96, 6703 DS Wageningen, the Netherlands
Telephone: +31317-418208, Fax: +31317-495911
www.hoteldewageningscheberg.nl