| 10:15 | Registration |
| 10:45 | Welcome/opening & round table introduction |
| 11:00 | EC policy framework: European Commission’s policy on project maturation |
| 11:30 | Session 1: European expertise in project maturation |
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| Objective | Present experience and best-practices in maturation models to promote the idea of shared tools in Europe |
| 11:30 | European experts on project maturation models in various regions |
| 13:00 | Networking Luncheon |
| 14:00 | Session 2: Common tools in project maturation & finance |
| Objective | Identify effective maturation objectives and innovative tools |
| 14:00 | Towards a Joint Action Plan: Presentation of results of survey on project maturation |
| 14:15 | Bio-CT partners’ experience: Île de France, Piedmont, Catalonia, Debrecen, Berlin-Brandenburg |
| 15:30 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00 | Session 3: Discussion & outlook |
| Objective | Open discussion of results and next steps for Joint Action Plan |
| 16:00 | Open discussion / round table (all) |
| 16:50 | Final remarks and upcoming events |
| 17:00 | End of event |
| 17:00 | Optional: Programme of Charité Entrepreneurship Summit 2010 |
| Objective | Information and matchmaking opportunities research – business |
| 17:00 | Panel discussion: How to overcome the valley of death in early stage financing? |
| 18:15 | Flying Dinner |
1. THE EVENT
CEBR and BioTOP Berlin-Brandenburg are proud to organise the Workshop European Maturation Models. The event will take place in Berlin on March 16, 2010 and will bring together substantial expertise in the field of project maturation.
2. THE PROJECT
The Bio-CT project deals with the necessity in Europe to build a system that enables entrepreneurs or academia to achieve, in the best conditions of rapidity and cost effectiveness, the Industrial Proof of Concept (I-PoC) that enables a real economic valorization of Research achievements (Scientific Proof of concept-Sci-PoC).This early stage development is considered world wide as the bottleneck in the chain of innovation.
The objective is to design a Joint Action Plan between Consortium members and other European Bio-Regions, that will enable any actor responsible for an early stage development to beneficiate from a variety of shared resources that will accelerate the process, make it safer and cost effective.
The central tool for this is twofold:
- A network of maturation systems that can take in charge the pre-development stage without creating a company
- A network of incubation systems that can, collectively, select, mentor, finance and nurture start-up companies, wherever they are located
3. THE CONSORTIUM
Bio-CT’s consortium is made up of the following regions and partners:
- Paris-Evry (FR): GENOPOLE
- Torino (IT): Bioindustry Park del Canavese SpA
- Cambridge (UK): ERBI Ltd (administrator of CEBR)
- Barcelona (ES): Fundació Privada BioRegió de Catalunya
- Sophia Antipolis (FR): innoTSD
- Berlin-Brandenburg (DE): BioTOP Berlin-Brandenburg
- Debrecen (HU): GND Regional University Knowledge Center
The Workshop will be integrated into the framework of the Charité Biomedical Entrepreneurship Summit 2010 taking place from March 15 until 17. Since its successful launch in 2007, the Summit has become an international forum for participants and speakers coming from various professional backgrounds in life sciences and entrepreneurship. The Charité Summit 2010 is organised to inform, motivate, and qualify researchers, clinicians, administrators and intermediaries.
For more information on the Charité Summit see http://www.charite-summit.de/
Venue
The Maturation Workshop and the Charité Summit 2010 will take place in the central seminar building (“Lehrgebäude”) at the campus Virchow Klinikum of Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin. The Virchow campus is located in the centre of Berlin and easy to access from Tegel Airport.
For travel and hotel information see http://www.charite-summit.de/39.html
Registration
To register and indicate if you would give a presentation on your region’s experience in project maturation please contact
Wolfgang Korek
Manager European Projects
BioTOP Berlin-Brandenburg
Fasanenstraße 85
10623 Berlin, Germany
Phone +49 30 318622–18
Fax +49 30 318622–22
BioTOP Berlin-Brandenburg is responsible for the programme of this module and for the contents of this page.
