InCompass INTERREG IVC Final Conference

18th November 2014
Scotland House, Rond-Point Schuman 6, Brussels. 09.30-16.00

"InCompass Final Conference – Incubating Creativity with Profits"

Morning Workshop – Incubating Creativity with Profits

· Conference Welcome, InCompass Overview and Achievements
Veronica Lynch, Project Leader InCompass

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· INTERREG IVC, State of Play and Perspectives
Akos Szabo, Joint Technical Secretariat

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· Embedding Entrepreneurship for Economic Growth
Astrid Severin, Managing Director, Greenovate Europe

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· Financially Sustainable Incubation Models – Key Success Factors

Commercial Contextualisation, Rūta Valušyte (KTU Regional Science Park, Lithuania)
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Social Contextualisation, Konstantina Papagianni (Western Greece Region, Greece)
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Tiers of Support, Vladimir Kmet (Municipality of Bratislava, Slovakia)
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· Panel session – Incubating Creativity with Profits
Karl-Philip Barakate (Näringsliv Skåne-Entrepreneurship, Malmö, Sweden), Michele Coletti (Province of Milan, Italy), Kostas Tsekouras (University of Patras, Greece), Iván Diego Rodríguez (Valnalón, Spain) and Matt Peacock (Medway Council, UK) will discuss sustainable incubation models. Moderator, Diane Milne, Dundee City Council.

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Afternoon Workshop – Innovation Planning, a regional Approach

· Transferring Innovation - How the InCompass Good Practices Toolkit can be used in your region

Jan Jacob Trip, Delft University of Technology

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· How Implementing Good Practices can create more sustainable incubators
Yuriy Vulkovsky (Sofia Municipality, Bulgaria), Balázs Barta (PBN Gyor, Hungary) and Elsa Ferreira Nunes (CIMBAL, Portugal) and Lars Mattiason from the Creative Plot at Ideon Innovation (Sweden) discuss grounds for the creation of more sustainable incubators

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· Future Innovation Funds

Christian Weinberger, Senior Adviser, Entrepreneurship and EU Policy, European Commission

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