Workshop Committee:
- Diego Alonso, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (Spain)
- Andrés Iborra, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (Spain)
- Claire Johnsen, University of Cambridge (UK)
- Indrė Laurinčiukaitė, CIVITTA Management Consulting (Lithuania)
- Kirsten Masson, University of Cambridge (UK)
- Maciej Nowak, Poznan Science and Technology Park (Poland)
- Natalia Rimarczuk, Poznan Science and Technology Park (Poland)
- Brendan Rowan, BluSpecs consultancy (Spain)
- Sander van der Molen, CIVITTA Management Consulting (Lithuania)
Important Dates
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July 1: Workshops papers
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July 3: Notification of papers
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July 12: Camera ready version
INTRODUCTION
In the context of H2020 program and Startup-Europe initiative, the objective of this 1-day workshop is to accelerate and foster the grow of new ventures by equipping researchers better to work with effective models for the successful commercialization/bringing to market of their R+D activities to increase productivity; to improve the private investment in further researchers; create more global innovations, and stimulate a greater interest from researchers to view the results of their work as potential opportunities to be exploited with the correct business model; and to briefly describe the European entrepreneurship ecosystem and the financial opportunities it offers.
PARTICIPATION
Participants are encouraged to FREELY join the workshop by submitting a short document, 4 pages maximum, answering the following questions:
- Describe the problem your software product solves, potential customers (target market), and its origins (results from public/private funded projects, collaboration with SMEs, PhD thesis involved, grants like Marie Curie actions, etc.).
- Describe its current stage of development (pre-alfa, alfa, beta, …).
- Describe the team that is encouraged to foster the product, if any.
- Describe the steps or initiatives previously carried out in order to reach the market, if any.
SUBMISSION
Please send your papers with subject “ECSA Innovation Bootcamp” to the following e-mail addresses: diego.alonso@upct.es and pedro.sanchez@upct.es