[ie-announce] ECSS 2013 - Workshop Innovation Management & Technology Entrepreneurship for Faculty

[Cristina Pereira]

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ECSS 2013 -  9th European Computer Science Summit 
<http://www.informatics-europe.org/ecss/ecss-2013.html>

Pre-Summit Workshop Innovation Management & Technology Entrepreneurship 
for Faculty 
<http://www.informatics-europe.org/ecss/ecss-2013/innovation-workshop-2013.html>

October 7, 2013 - Amsterdam, The Netherlands

*Innovation and entrepreneurship in the space between "magic" and "science"*

Workshop chairs: *Mark Harris*, Innovaventures, *Jeroen Klijs*, TU München

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Taking a pragmatic view of the fields helps to demystify them. One must 
recognize that the field of start-ups and entrepreneurship is not yet a 
«pure» science. Outcomes cannot yet be guaranteed.

In Math 2+2=4, all the time.  In Physics most experiments work 95% of 
the time. 200 years ago, it was maybe 60% of the time. Enough not to be 
random, but still too complex to understand and control all of the 
complexities. Even recently CERN had to do more than 1 trillion 
collisions to be able to prove the Higgs boson subatomic particle.

Entrepreneurship is more like Physics 200 years ago. There is enough 
knowledge and expertise to be able to get satisfactory results, but 
still not enough to be as predictive as Mathematics. Most expertise has 
been acquired through years of "experimenting" and "evaluating".

This workshop covers in a distilled fashion the theory of innovation 
management and technology entrepreneurship as well as gives practical 
advice and examples to build an efficient European technology transfer 
system.


*Summary Workshop Program*

Morning Session: Innovation Management and Technology Entrepreneurship - 
See details here 
<http://www.informatics-europe.org/ecss/ecss-2013/innovation-workshop-2013.html>

Afternoon Session: Best practices in managing the valorisation of 
academia-industry transfer of knowledge - See details here 
<http://www.informatics-europe.org/ecss/ecss-2013/innovation-workshop-2013.html>
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