XIV International Triple Helix Conference
Heidelberg, Germany, 25-27 September 2016
Triple Helix Models of Innovation – Addressing Ecosystem Challenges in the Era of Crises
/// SEE we are proud to present you our preliminary conference program which contains a broad set of conference tracks and plenaries that examine Triple Helix theories and practice and critical innovation related content. Check it online!!!
We have introduced a number of new sessions in the program and as we would like to facilitate a striving intellectual enterprise, we have extended our deadlines for submission of abstracts – both for our main scientific tracks, but also for the new events. You could upload your abstract and practitioner cases now until 30 June 2016.
/// HEAR It is an honor to present you our new highly regarded keynote speakers:
- Hans-Peter Hiepe (German Federal Ministry of Education and Research) who is responsible for regional innovation initiatives and the development of former Regions of East Germany will join our Panel on the Germany Innovation Ecosystem.
- Dimitri Corpakis (European Commission, DG Research & Innovation) Directorate for Open Innovation and Open Science will address the European view on crises.
/// INTERACT Adriano la Vopa (Innoventually; former Philipps) will host a workshop for practitioners dealing with open innovation possibilities in research and academia: Inbound or Outbound: Where the Opportunities for Academia?
Panayiotis Ketikidis (Vice Principal at the University of Sheffield International Faculty, CITY College Thessaloniki, Greece) will host a workshop session with focus on
EU funded projects, brainstorming for participation.
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/// FLY Last but not least, we may offer you special prizes for your flights to Germany via our Lufthansa cooperation! The booking link will be online WEDNESDAY the 8th of June our website – check regularly for news!
Help us in wide-spreading the Conference!
We invite our community to widely promote the Conference
by distributing virtually or physically the Conference leaflet. The Poster of the conference are available in hard copies for bulletin boards. If interested write to:
mlaura.fornaci@triplehelixassociation.org
TH Journal latest articles and call for paper
Triple Helix the official Journal of the Triple Helix Association, is Triple Open access: * Open to diverse innovation perspectives, * Free to authors, * Free to readers. Make your work freely available online and accessible to a global readership in English with abstracts also provided in Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic.
The TH Talks Series is looking for Champions
The
TH TALK Series aims at inspiring and engaging our society and extended network by offering them
10 minutes video-recorded interviews with our THA Champions. Tha Series is open to
THA members who would like to be interviewed to present their TH practices, achievements and success cases to our international community. If you want to showcase your experience and be a Triple Helix Champion, TH Talks is the place for you! Please email to:
lucascoelho@nextainnovation.com your short presentation and the experience you intend to present.
Lucas Coelho, the Chair of the TH Talk will schedule with you the interview
.
Working Paper Series has a new mentor!
The THA Working Paper Series is delighted to introduce to the THA community its
new Mentor, Mike Burbridge. Mike is currently a PHD student at Curtin University Sustainability (CUSP) Institute looking into how business, government and academia can together innovate to deliver a low carbon future. Prior to his studies he has worked on sustainable development for 25 years in government (UK and Australia) business (UK) and academia (Australia) where he was the Executive Director of the Australian Sustainable Development Institute. He left this post to study as he was sure there is a better way for universities, industry and government to work together to deliver mutual benefits. He got his undergraduate degree from University College London and his Masters at the Environmental Change Institute University of Oxford.
If you want to become a WPS mentor send your candidature to mlaura.fornaci@triplehelixassociation.org.
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NETMIB project: Phase one finishing soon!
The research, benchmarking and field work of the
NetMIB project aimed the
identification of best practices in entrepreneurship education, incubation, governance and reward systems. Under the coordination of the phase leader South East European Research Centre (SEERC), every project partner carried out desk research and interviewing to collect diversified information from institutions like for example Aalto University, Complutense University of Madrid, Carlos III University of Madrid, Politecnico di Milano, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere University of Applied Sciences, University of Ohio, University of Tampere and University of Victoria. The benchmarks will help to design the NetMIB program and also support recommendations for its implementation. The THA community will be informed upon publication of the research and benchmarking report.
Our monthly digest from the TH Repository
For you this month:
Papers:
Eager to access fresh material on TH theories and practices? Our
TH Repository offers a selections of educational resources, publications, cases, guidelines and tools developed by the THA and its members, embracing all the dimensions of Triple Helix interactions. If
you want to contribute with your work, send an email to
mlaura.fornaci@triplehelixassociation.org
Helice is launching a call for TH pitcures
Our Helice Magazine is looking for
new pictures that exemplify Triple Helix interactions in different ways and we invite our Community to contribute to our call! The best pictures (4 best pictures per year) will go on the cover of each Magazine issue. You can send your pictures to
mlaura.fornaci@triplehelixassociation.org by 24th June. The proponents of the best 4 selected images will be awarded with a free
student individual THA membership valid for 12 months.
THA President visiting TH Russian Chapter in May
On May 20th Henry Etzkowitz, THA President, visited the official Triple Helix Russian Chapter that is based at Lomonosov Moscow State University (Innovation department) and a few more events in Russia. During the trip he hosted a speech at X International Forum “From Science to Business” at Sant.Petersburg.
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Triple Helix special events
Register now to the Webinar “Evolving Innovation Ecosystem and New Company Formation” on 7th July @6pm CEST
We are very happy to see a great interest in the number of registrations for our next webinar from 7th of July 2016 on new company formation ! This webinar will track
emerging trends in this ecosystem and will highlight specific success factors that today’s startups should consider. The presenters, Adriano La Vopa and Daniel Satinsky, bring years of practical business experience and proven analytic insight to the critical THA issues to be discussed in this webinar. By taking part to the webinar you’ll
be inspired by international successful cases on how to manage your triple helix ecosystem co-creation process.
Register now!
GEUM Workshop , Silicon Valley 3-5 June 2016
On 3-5 June 2016, the
International Triple Helix Institute (ITHI) in cooperation with the Triple Helix Association (THA) hosted the second GEUM workshop in Palo Alto, Silicon Valley, USA. The
Global Entrepreneurial University Metrics initiative (GEUM) has already produced some new results since the first research projects from the initiative break through: Brazil, Finland, Austria and Russia have conducted the GEUM studies in their countries and presented the results in the workshop that moved between Dinah’s Garden Hotel, Stanford University and a prototypical Silicon Valley “garage Setting” the past week-end. “The Workshop was very interesting and also, it was a great opportunity to share our knowledge about entrepreneurial universities and meet old colleagues in this field” – says David Urbano, Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Department of Business, Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain)/University of California Berkeley.
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GEUM Round Table in Russia, 20 May 2016
Global Entrepreneurial University Metrics (
GEUM initiative) Round Table discussion “Development Standards of the Innovative Entrepreneurial University” was held at III International Conference “Education and Global Cities: Horizons for Contemporary University” (Russia). Panel of experts including prof. Henry Etzkowitz discussed a new role of a global, multidisciplinary and entrepreneurial universities in a modern world and finding adequate instruments to measure their effectiveness. Results of Russian comparative study of 35 leading innovative Russian universities were presented as a pilot study.
