Friday 25 September, 2015
09:30-18:00
Marivaux Hotel, Congress & Seminar
Centre, Boulevard Adolphe Maxlaan 98,
Brussels
Organizing Committee:
Luc Broes, Financial Manager, SPACE,
Belgium
Antoine Harfouche, Project Coordinator and
Professor of Biotechnology &
Bioentrepreneurship, Univeristy of Tuscia, Italy
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T eaching students entrepreneurial skills is a necessary part to prepare them for their future. Today, however, the importance of entrepreneurship education is even more critical as our local, regional, and
global marketplaces face economic challenges and transitions.
BIOINNO Entrepreneurship education is about creating and nurturing a learning environment that promotes entrepreneurial traits and behaviours, such as
creative thinking, opportunity recognition, risk taking, strategic planning, problem-solving, and all types of communication and negotiation that are key to building new ventures. It is based on a revolutionary New Learning and Teaching ModelTM designed to inspire and engage students and researchers in the fundamental aspects of an entrepreneurial mindset and the unlimited opportunities it can provide. T his conference features keynote speakers who will highlight the importance of entrepreneurship
education and ways to enhance entrepreneurial teaching in Europe, as well as successful entrepreneurs in the biotech industry, who started locally, scaled their business and created a world class innovation-based enterprises. It will also shed light on the Bioentrepreneurship New Learning and Teaching ModelTM developed by the project University-Business Alliance as a promising practice in bioinnovation and entrepreneurship teaching and learning across Europe. Furthermore, It will focus on the innovative approaches that can benefit industries and universities get towards their common goal. For industries to identify their future talent pipeline, and for universities to ensure that their graduates have the right combination of entrepreneurial attitudes, skills and knowledge that will enable them to enhance their employability, to be entrepreneurial in a range of settings including employment, and to ultimatley make effective contributions to the economy and society.
Co-financed by the European Commission
Emerald Marketing
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Registration 09:00-9:30
Welcome 09:30-09:40 Anabela Mesquita, SPACE President, Belgium
Opening Remarks 09:40-09:50 Giuseppe Scarascia Mugnozza, Director and Full Professor, DIBAF, University of Tuscia, Italy
Keynote Session 09:50-10:10 University - Business cooperation: embedding entrepreneurship in teaching and learning. Antoine Harfouche, Associate Professor, DIBAF, University of Tuscia, Italy 10:10-10:30 Setting the context: entrepreneurship education in Higher Education Institutions Shai Vyakarnam, University of Cranfield, Director, The Bettany Centre for Entrepreneurship, Cranfield School of Management, UK 10:30-10:50 Knowledge Alliance projects scale: last selection and upcoming calls Gilles Gervais, Head of Unit, DG EACEA A2, European Commission, Belgium 10:50-11:20 Coffee break & group photo 11:20-11:40 The importance of entrepreneurship in bioeconomy Waldemar Kütt, Head of Unit, DG RTD F2 BioBased products and processes, European Commission, Belgium 11:40-12:00 Being enterprising in research Beatrix Schlarb-Ridley, Director of Innovations and Impact, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK 12:00-12:20 Setting up inovation-based startups in life sciences research institutions Johan Cardoen, Managing Director, VIB and ex-CEO CropDesign, Belgium (tbc) 12:20-12:40 Technology Transfer in biotechnology: case studies of successfull startups Thomas Crispeels, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
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12:40-13:00 Managing Intellectual Property rights in biotech startups Jan Demolder , IP manager, VIB, Belgium 13:00-14:30 Networking Lunch 14:30-14:50 How can we make entrepreneurship education a success? Shima Barakat, Research and teaching fellow, CfEL, University of Cambridge, UK 14:50-15:10 BIOINNO entrepreneurship facilitator training: train the trainers Orsoloya Ihasz, Senior Programme Manager/Business Development Manager, CfEL and Chief Communications Officer, Cambridge University Innovation Forum, University of Cambridge, UK 15:10-15:30 Essential tips for designing successful entrepreneurship education programs Liliya Serazetdinova, Director, Adapt Commercial, Bio-renewable products and technologies, Adapt Low Carbon Group, UK 15:30-16:00 Accessing capital for your start up: an investor's perspective Caroline Goddeeris, Associate Health & Care, Gimv European investment company, Belgium 16:00-16:30 Coffee break & networking
Entrepreneurial Students Session 16:30-17:30 Opening by Moderator Antoine Harfouche How did they do it, why? How were they supported by BIOINNO? Giuseppe Marson, University of Padova, Italy Nelly Olova, University of Cambridge, UK Sacha Khoury, University of Tuscia, Italy
Wrap-up Session 17:30-17:45 What are the key take-aways from the conference? What actions need to be taken? Luc Broes, Financial Manager, SPACE, Belgium
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Online courses are taught by the same faculty who teach in physical classrooms. The courses are asynchronous and highly interactive. The e-learning platform offers a monthly innovation and entrepreneurship webinar series. BIOINNO Innovation and Entrepreneurship Certificate is offered online.
BIOINNO curriculum for bioentrepreneurs features a customizable suite of 4 units that provide a deep dive into specific topic areas and are taught around the framework of Bioentrepreneurship New Learning and Teaching ModelTM. Content Units Creativity and Idea Generation Opportunity Recognition and Business Planning Biotechnology Entrepreneurship Intellectual Property for Entrepreneurs The Transfer of Technology Ideas to Market New Venture Creation
BIOENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION
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SHAPING THE FUTURE
Antoine Harfouche, Project Coordinator , Univeristy of Tuscia, Italy
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