Higher Education Institutions HEIs play a crucial role in promoting and fostering open innovation due to their extensive research capabilities, academic expertise, and diverse talent pool.
Support services in HEIs provide a range of services and resources that enable and enhance open innovation activities. They facilitate technology transfer, provide start-up support, connect researchers with external partners, secure funding, offer training programs, manage intellectual property rights, and promote open innovation within and outside the university. These services play a critical role in creating an enabling environment for open innovation to thrive and contribute to societal and economic impact.
Are you involved in Open Innovation activities or would you like to play an important role in your regional innovation ecosystem and connect it to other thriving innovative communities? Who should participate? Staff from research and innovation offices in HEIs, Professionals from innovation support services, staff from other offices dealing directly or indirectly with research and innovation: Innovation managers, technology transfer experts, incubator managers, grant and funding specialists, research and development managers, collaboration and partnership specialists, legal and intellectual property experts, innovation consultants and advisors.
On the 25th October participants will have the opportunity to attend an optional touristic programme with an extra charge to be defined. Participants are expected to cover their own travel and accommodation expenses through the Erasmus funds for staff mobility or otherwise.
Concentrated within one square kilometre, this District integrates not only several faculties of the University of Porto and schools of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto, but also by private universities, a central teaching hospital, an institute of oncology and several national and international research institutes. With 50, talented people working here, it is primarily a technological location, where the strong presence of engineering technologies, health sciences and entrepreneurship lend considerable impetus to the process of innovation.
