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CIMR Workshop - When Science and Business Talk

When:
Venue: Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square

No booking required

The Birkbeck Centre for Innovation Management Research invites you to attend an afternoon workshop centred around engagement between businesses and scientific centres.

Objectives

  • To understand how we might best measure and observe engagement with businesses
  • To know the forms engagement can take
  • To understand how we might measure the downstream activities of businesses that spark off interactions with a scientific centre

Programme

14:00 - Registration

14:10 - Welcome addresses and introduction
Dr Andrea Filippetti, Italian National Research Council and CIMR, Birkbeck

14:30 - Round-table and discussion: Policy Instruments that Foster Business Engagement with Scientific Centres

Chair: Dr Federica Rossi, CIMR, Birkbeck

Participants: Dr Muthu Da Silva, CIMR, Birkbeck; Mr Dan Hodges, Innovate UK; Prof Jonathan Linton, Sheffield University

15:30 - Break

15:45 - Round-table and discussion: Evidence from Scientific Centres and Businesses

Chair: Dr Marion Frenz, CIMR, Birkbeck

Participants: Dr Simon Philbin, Imperial College; Dr Mike King, National Physical Laboratory; Mr Lorenzo Pradella, Co-Founder and CEO GreenBone

16:45 - Summing up and farewell
Prof Daniele Archibugi, CIMR, Birkbeck and Italian National Research Council

17:00 - Close

If you would also like to attend the event, please register via Eventbrite using the link below:

https://cimrscienceandbusiness.eventbrite.co.uk