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The Open Innovation paradigm: turning challenges into business opportunities

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The EU-funded PITCCH project aims to build a pan-European open innovation network to support collaboration between innovative SMEs and Large Enterprises to take up their advanced technologies-based solutions. It will create an European open innovation network, where large enterprises can launch their challenges and SMEs and start-ups have the opportunity to apply to be solution providers.

The PITCCH project started in May 2020 and will run until April 2023. The webinar was about:

  • Understanding the needs and boundaries of big corporations;
  • Understanding the barriers, risks and advantages of this business approach;
  • A presentation of a case study presentation on open Innovation success story;
  • A presentation of the PITCCH project and its approach.

Moderator:

Paula Galvão, Chief Officer for Business and Strategic Relations (INL)

 

Speakers:

Maurits Butter from TNO

George Tsekouras from INSPIRE

Michela Mattaloni from INL

César Martins from CHEMITEK

 

Agenda:

12:00: Introduction to the Open Innovation paradigm: Barriers/risks and needs/opportunities for companies by Maurits Butter – Senior Researcher Innovation Policy, at the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO);

12:20: Q&A

12:30: Lessons learnt on Open Innovation (from the INSPIRE project) – Dr. George Tsekouras, Director of Centrim, University of Brighton;

12:50: PITCCH presentation – Michela Mattaloni , Business and Strategic Relations Officer, International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL);

13:00: Case study presentation- César Martins, CEO at Chemitek;

13:30: Q&A and Closing

 

 

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