KIMconference 2015

On June 19th, KIM organised a new edition of the KIMconference, ‘Industrial and corporate
innovation: empowering new models’.
In this brochure, we have collected some of the thoughts, knowledge and lessons learned by those
attending the event and the KIM team.
We would like to thank the speakers and the audience, who have shared with us their knowledge
and thoughts about the new innovation business models.
1.
“We need to find the way for science to get
transformed naturally in gross domestic product and
vice versa.This requires to adopt a number of key
measures: introduce metric measures into the system,
add knowledge and continually ask ourselves.
Why is this useful to me and to whom it might be
useful?We must take science to the street.
Dissemination is the key.”
Mª Luisa Delgado
2.
“In the field of knowledge transfer we
need specialized talent in knowledge
transfer, we need investment.
We need to keep creating the sector to
allow return of investment to keep
growing in a favorable environment.
Fiscally, we still have to progress.”
Lluís Jofre
4.
Technology Transfer General Subdirector
Spanish Ministry of Economy
and Competitiveness
“It is true that researchers working in
knowledge transfer do it by vocation, but
we also have to work in order to boost
this vocation and make them understand
what benefits the knowledge transfer can
bring to them and to the industry.
3.
Explaining this benefits will accelerate
the process.”
General Director of Universities
Generalitat de Catalunya
(Catalan Government)
Mercedes Sánchez
Technology Transfer Officer
European Space Agency
“Industrial property has a very high value
in experiments at an international level.
We play the facilitator role.”
Carmen Casterás
Intellectual Property Officer
Fusion For Energy
5.
“There is a first brake to knowledge transfer: the timing
of the industry. As researchers, we think about certain
indicators that often are not the same as those that will
be used in the industry.
The second brake is the language.
The third point, which is certainly the most difficult to
carry out, is the notion of the concept customer-supplier.”
Dr. Laurent Aubouy
6.
“We also need to build trust with the business world. Many
companies look for technologies abroad, when they have
them near home.
Building this confidence is hard because for many years the
universities have been closed and the usefulness of what
researchers have done has been relatively low.”
Dr. Buenaventura Guamis
7.
R&D Director
LEITAT
General Director
UAB Research Park
“To increase the speed at which
knowledge reaches the market the
following is necessary: to have a link
with the companies, a paradigm shift
with investigators and to have
mechanisms helping us to preform
knowledge transfer.”
Dr. Carolina Bonacic
“When you hear the word innovation,
you immediately think about mobile
phones, machines, equipment, sensors,
communications... But there are different
types of innovations other than product
innovation, such as the service innovation,
innovation in products at the process level,
in business models or in the organization.”
8.
Investigator
University of
Santiago de Chile
9.
Chief Technology Officer
Suez Environnement
Carlos Montero
“The main challenges we are facing are money,
the distribution of intellectual property and the lack
of specifications.”
Dr. Silvia López
R&D Director
RAMEM
“Innovation seeking has to be
potentiated within the company
for it to happen.
To make it happen it is necessary to
create programs that brings both, the
academy and the companies out of
their current comfort zone of open
innovation. The state has an important
role in this matter.”
10.
Dr. Marc Ramis
11.
CEO
Tech & Business Innovation (TBI)
“The Venture Philanthropy does not only fund social
projects, it also supports them in different areas.
This is the main difference from the Venture Capital:
the commitment is much higher. Sustainability of
projects is sought. We seek social impact and
economic performance, but also to achieve visibility
for a certain problem.”
Glòria Oliver
12.
Managing Director
Pasqual Maragall Foundation
“We have the duty to society to innovate in different
ways to provide added value.”
Dr. Michael Tadros
Senior manager
Botín Foundation