Europe INNOVA - Partnerships for better innovation support

Opening Plenary Session
Reviewing Community innovation support in a changing world

Monday 21 September

Using Structural Funds for the benefit of innovation: the Greek example
Costas Kokkinoplitis, Head of Managing Authority of Operational Programme ‘COMPETITIVENESS and ENTREPRENEURSHIP 2007 - 2013’, Ministry of Development, EL

European innovation policy in a changing world
Henriette van Eijl, Policy Officer, European Commission, DG ENTR, Innovation Policy Development Unit

Is service innovation sufficiently understood and supported?
Jenny Tooth, Business Development Director, GLE Growth Capital, UK

Synergies between regional, national and EU level innovation support: Complementarity and subsidiarity between different levels. Where is there progress and where not?
Emiliano Duch, ECEI Coordinator, IESE Business School, ES

The perspective of the eco-community: When is Community support for eco-innovation helpful and when not?
Fabio Iraldo, Associate Professor of Management and Innovation, Sant'Anna School of Advanced University and Post Lauream Studies, IT

Parallel Sessions

What are the tools and instrument to be developed by Europe INNOVA, for whom and by whom?
Reinhard Büscher, Head of Unit for Support for Innovation, European Commission, DG ENTR

PARALLEL SESSION 1
Developing New Tools and Instruments for Innovative SMEs

PARALLEL SESSION 2
Involving SMEs in the Testing of New Tools and Instrument

PARALLEL SESSION 3
Promoting New Forms of Clusters   

Mette Quinn, Policy Officer, European Commission, DG ENTR, Support for Innovation Unit

KIS-PIMS - innovation vouchers: Katharina Krell, Managing director, Greenovate! Europe, BE

KIS4SAT - IP guide:Robert Sanders, Head of European Projects, EBN, BE

REMake: Uwe König, CTO, Zentralverband Oberflächentechnik, DE

TAKE IT UP: Andrea Di Anselmo, Vice President, META Group, IT

Christophe Guichard, Policy Officer, European Commission, DG ENTR, Support for Innovation Unit

IMP³rove:Eva Diedrichs, Consultant, AT Kearney, DE

ACHIEVE MORE: Natalia Blagburn, FinanceTree, UK

KIS-PIMS: Vincent Morfouace, Senior Consultant, TECHNOFI, FR

Kincső Izsák, Policy Officer, European Commission, DG ENTR, Support for Innovation Unit

 

KIS4SAT: Jakob Rasmussen, Chairman, Living Labs Global, Partner, Interlace-Invent, DK

EcoCluP:Gareth Jones, Centre for Economic and Environmental Development, UK

Mobile Heights: Linda Karlsson, Marketing and Communications Manager, Mobile Heights, SE & Philip Stankovski, Network Manager, Mobile Heights, SE

Question and Answer Sessions

KIS 100 Club of Young Entrepreneurs: the New Approach

KIS PLATFORM, William Stevens, CEO & Founder, Europe Unlimited, BE

Europe INNOVA Communication & Promotion
 

Europe INNOVA Communications, Jacques Viseur, Managing Director, EuroTop SC, BE

ACHIEVE MORE - EIX platform,  Paul Ormerod, Director, euConnect, UK

Project Management
 

Agnieszka Zelaskiewicz, Finance and Contract Officer, European Commission, DG ENTR, Support for Innovation Unit

Closing Plenary Session
Effectiveness of innovation support

Tuesday 22 September

The rationale for the public consultation on the effectiveness of innovation support in Europe
Christophe Guichard, Policy Officer, European Commission, DG ENTR, Support for Innovation Unit

Lessons learned from the public consultation on the effectiveness of innovation support
Eurico Correia Neves, CEO and Founder, INOVA+ S.A., PL

The New Nature of Innovation: What is expected from the EU and what is not?
Jørgen Rosted, Development Director, FORA, DK

The EU Baltic Sea Strategy: A pilot initiative
Anders Lindholm, Programme Officer, European Commission, DG REGIO

Voting Session   
Towards a New Mission Statement for Europe INNOVA