Registration
Sala Reconquista
8:30 – 9:00
Open to all interested, enrolled participants
(including INSME non-Members)
Opening Session
9:00 - 9:30
Welcome Statements
Mr. Washington Burghi
President of the Uruguayan
Chamber of Industries
Mr. Pedro Bonomo
Direct Adviser of the Uruguayan Minister of Economy and Finance, Mr. Danilo Astori (Ministry
of Economy and Finance)
Mr. Giorgio Malfatti di Monte Tretto
Ambassador of Italy
Embassy of Italy in Uruguay
Mrs. María Callejón
INSME Association President
General Director for SME Policy, Spanish
Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade
First Morning Working Session:
BUILDING ALLIANCES BETWEEN SMES & KNOWLEDGE DEVELOPERS
9:30 – 11:00
Moderator:
Mrs. Gabriela Couto
Associate Director of
the Technology Management Center (CEGETEC, INSME Member)
of the Chamber
of Industries of Uruguay
Speakers:
Mr. Hernan Bacarini
National University of Lujan (Universidad
Nacional de Luján), Argentina
Coordinator of MERCOSUR
for the European Commission Project
UNIND-LAM - Analysis of the State of the Art, Needs and Co-operations
Potential of the University and Industry System
“Analysis of Industry/University Relationship in the MERCOSUR
region”
Mr. Jose Luis Briansó and Mr. Ivan Martinez
Autonomous University of Barcelona (Universidad
Autonoma de Barcelona), Spain
Respectively Project Leader and Coordinator of Europe
for the European Commission Project
UNIND-LAM - Analysis of the State of the Art, Needs and Co-operations
Potential of the University and Industry System
“Analysis of Industry/University Relationship in Europe”
Mr. Aleardo Furlani
Chief Executive Officer, INVENT
SAS and INNOVA
SPA, Italy
“Knowledge building, networking and organizational enhancement
as key drivers of SMEs innovation process: practical cases and models”
Mr. Jorge Yutronic
Executive Director, Fund
for the Promotion of Scientific and Technological Development (FONDEF),
Chile
"The experience of research and development between universities
and enterprises in Chile and its impact on innovation: the case of FONDEF"
Discussion with the floor
Coffee Break & Stand Exhibition
11:00 – 11:15
Second Morning Working Session:
DEVELOPING SME’S INNOVATION AND INTERNATIONALISATION POTENTIAL
THROUGH NETWORKING AND PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP
11:15 – 13:00
Moderator:
Mr. Pablo Damian Kunik
Senior Economist, Mercosur
Consulting Group Ltd., Argentina
Speakers:
Mr. Thomas Andersson
President of the International
Organisation for Knowledge Economy and Enterprise Development (IKED)
President of Jönköping
University, Sweden
INSME Vice-President
"Appropriate funding, competences and partnerships for SME innovation
and internationalisation"
Mr. Paulo César Rezende de Carvalho Alvim
Manager of the Innovation
and Technology Access Unit of the Brazilian Micro and Small Business
Support Service (SEBRAE,
INSME Member), Brazil
“Technological Supporting Actions for SMEs - The SEBRAE Experience”
Showcases:
Mr. Martin Izarra
Director-General of Brapenta
Eletronica, Brazil
“The benefits reaped from the technological support offered
by SEBRAE”
Mr. Leonardo Loureiro
Tizone, Technology Development Community, Uruguay
Discussion with the floor
Buffet Lunch
at Sala Terrazza
13:00 – 14:30
offered by UNIND-LAM
First Afternoon Working Session:
THE ROLE OF THE INTERMEDIARIES IN BRIDGING
THE KNOWLEDGE GAP
14:30– 16:00
Moderator:
Dr. Serge Golovanov
President of GOLEM
Integrated Microelectronics Solutions, Austria
and INSME
Board Member
Speakers:
Mr. Afif Barhoumi
Coordinator of the Arab
Center for Entrepreneurship and Investment Training (ARCEIT) Programme,
Kingdom of Bahrain and Investment Promotion Expert of the Bahrain
Investment &
Technology Promotion Office (ITPO) of the United
Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
"The Bahrain Model: Developing Sustainable Small & Medium
Enterprises through Entrepreneurship"
Ms. Mercedes Ines Carazo
National Coordinator of the Technological
Innovation Centers Network (CITEs), Ministry
of Production, Peru
"The Experience of the innovation technologies centres in Peru"
Mr. Iñigo Segura Díaz de Espada
General Manager of the Spanish
Federation of Innovation and Technology Organisations (FEDIT)
INSME Association Board Member
"Technology Centres in Spain: origins, present situation and keys
for their future development"
Mr. Horacio E. Bosch
President of the Council of Industrial Research Associations
of the America (CIRAA) and General Secretary of the FUNPRECIT
Foundation, Argentina
"Industrial research projects managed by the business innovation
association FUNPRECIT in Argentina"
Showcase:
Mr. Jorge Ruibal
Manager of Research, Development & Production,
Forbel, Uruguay
"Forbel's collaboration experience with stakeholders of the
Uruguay Innovation System"
Discussion with the floor
Coffee Break & Stand
Exhibition
16:00 – 16:15
Second Afternoon Working Session:
MECHANISMS AND INSTRUMENTS FOR INNOVATION:
STRATEGIES FOR IMPROVEMENT
16:15– 17:30
Moderator:
Mr. Aleardo Furlani
Chief Executive Officer, INVENT
SAS and INNOVA
SPA, Italy
Speakers:
Mr. Christian Saublens
Director of European
Association of Development Agencies (EURADA)
"Innovation tools to finance innovative SMEs"
Mr. Alberto Giecco
Vocal of the Promotion for Industry Development Committee,
CYTED (Ibero-American
Program for Science and Technology), Spain
“New strategic planning of CYTED's Iberoeka Program”
Mr. Jaap van Tilburg
Chairman of Top Spin International and Senior Consultant at
the University of Twente, The Netherlands
and
Mr. Dick van Barneveld
President of Top Spin International, The Netherlands
"Spin-offs as a mechanism for innovation: the Spin Off Curacao
(SPOC) project"
Mr. Esteban Cassin
Coordinator of the Programme for Incubators, Poles
and Technology Parks of the Secretariat
of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation (SECYT) of the
Argentinean Ministry
of Education, Science and Technology
Member of the UNIND-LAM
Project, Argentina
Discussion with the floor
Conclusions
17:30 – 18:00
Mr. Jorge Brovetto
Minister of Education and Culture (Ministerio
de Educación y Cultura), Uruguay
Head of the Uruguayan
Council for Innovation
Mr. Luis Pieri Storni
Managing Director of the Technology Management Center (CEGETEC,
INSME Member) of the Chamber
of Industries of Uruguay
Mr. Luigi Corbò
Director General of the Institute
for Industrial Promotion (IPI), INSME Founding and Sustaining Member
and host of the INSME Secretariat, Italy
Ms. Simona Marzetti
INSME Association
Secretary General
Director of the Direction for Innovation and Technology
Transfer, IPI, Italy
Interpretation from Spanish to English and vice
versa will be provided although documentation will
be provided in English only.
A hall for stands exhibition and networking and
bilateral meetings will be available throughout the day
9.00 – 19:00
Networking Cocktail and Candombe Drum Show
at Cabildo
de Montevideo (the former Town Hall)
19.00 – 23.00
offered by CEGETEC
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