#engtechscout 
In a fast-paced world where new technologies come to light every day, companies have to fight for the position of a technology leader. That is why external innovation and strategic partnership play a key role in company growth. Companies need specific scouting strategies and intelligent technology investment plans. Well managed external partnering will lead to an increase of quality technology, expansion of the product portfolio and discovery of new business models and markets. Whether this is done through an open innovation platform, separate corporate venturing subsidiary or establishing joint ventures, it is driving global business forward.
This summit brings together leading innovation, R&D and corporate venturing executives from top companies and a cross section of industries. We offer an excellent mix of strategic insight, product case studies and interactive panels to help your company grow technology and establish meaningful and successful partnerships.
This year we cover key topics including:
• Managing the global R&D portfolio in an era of techscouting, corporate venturing and partnerships
• Strategic and practical examples of open innovation: From externally gained technology to commercialisation
• Exploring the corporate venture decision making process and looking to the strategic challenge of disruption
• Analysing the opportunities, risks and values of partnerships with SME’s, universities and joint ventures
• Discovering the right sources for game changing innovation
With so much at stake, this is an event you do not want to miss!
See you in Berlin.
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The executives that will realise the greatest benefit through attendance are Senior Vice Presidents, Vice Presidents, Directors, Heads and Managers of:
Want to see what you missed at last year's 4th annual summit? Click here to view our 2014 event page
The presentations were of very high quality and the atmosphere was one of inclusion rather than competition. The openness with which information was exchanged was unusual and this was critical to the effectiveness of the conference. The audience had as much to contribute as the presenters and it was a refreshing change that they were not only 'talked at' but 'listened to'.
It’s a nice way to become more open. And being open is a promise for innovation
Rich and vibrant conference, with an excellent mix of speakers from SME, mid-sized, and large companies.
NineSigma connects organizations with external innovation resources to accelerate innovation in private, public and social sectors. The company provides open innovation services to organizations worldwide, including GE, Siemens, Roche, Under Armour and Johnson Controls, to solve immediate challenges, integrate new knowledge, fill product pipelines, and stay ahead of the competition. Named to the 2014 Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private U.S. companies, NineSigma’s proprietary process has produced billions of dollars in value for its clients. NineSigma has the largest open global network of solution providers and an extensive database of existing solutions spanning numerous industries and technical disciplines. NineSigma’s online innovation community, NineSights®, connects innovators of all sizes with resources and relationships to drive growth. Learn more at www.ninesigma.com.
› Visit company websiteSpecialChem business-oriented Open Innovation services connects you with solution providers to technological challenges in chemicals and materials (polymers, coatings, adhesives, inks, sealants, cosmetics, biochemicals).
- Connect with solution providers to your challenge within 8 weeks
- Get the best reach: +500,000 registered members
- Obtain quality proposals: specialized network
- Collect ready-to-use solutions: business-oriented
- Secured return on investments: we guarantee the results
- Efficient scout: interacting with an engaged network
Dassault Systèmes BIOVIA provides a scientific collaborative environment for advanced biological, chemical and materials experiences. The sophisticated enterprise system of modeling, simulation, laboratory and quality management enables science- and process-based industries to discover, design, deploy and deliver innovative, sustainable and competitive products of higher quality to consumers globally.
BIOVIA solutions are helping more than 2,000 companies globally in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, energy, chemicals, aerospace, consumer packaged goods and industrial products industries to enhance innovation, increase productivity, and accelerate time to market.
› Visit company websiteeZassi is a trailblazer in providing the first fully automated software solution for innovation procurement and collaboration. As Enterprises strive to accelerate R&D and new product development eZassi's Open Innovation collaboration engine is increasingly used to bridge both internal and external ideation and automatically manage and organize the fuzzy front end of ideation so that actionable projects and products can be identified more rapidly and with less time and costs. eZassi's InnoVision(tm) software platform provides a single gateway of entry for all parties looking to collaborate and connect directly with enterprises while uniquely mitigating the legal risks of external ideation by using Intelligent automated idea capture methodologies and structuring unstructured data. Coupled with downstream smart data analytics to triage ideas faster and secure data integration into other enterprise applications such as PLM makes the eZassi a new standard in open innovation.
› Visit company websiteInnoCentive crowdsources innovation solutions from people all over the world, who compete to provide novel ideas and solutions to important business, social, policy, scientific, and technical challenges. Our global network of millions of problem solvers, proven challenge methodology, and cloud-based innovation management platform combine to help our clients transform their economics of innovation through rapid solution delivery and the development of sustainable open innovation programs.
For more than a decade, leading organizations such as Astra Zeneca, Booz Allen Hamilton, Cleveland Clinic, Eli Lilly & Company, NASA, Nature Publishing Group, Procter & Gamble, Scientific American, Syngenta, The Economist, Thomson Reuters, The Department of Defense, and several government agencies in the U.S. and Europe have partnered with InnoCentive to rapidly generate innovative new ideas and solve problems faster, more cost effectively than ever before.
The International Association of Innovation Professionals (IAOIP) - our mission is to organize and advance innovation through the development of a catalog of innovation skills and capabilities as well as certifications to demonstrate mastery of that "Body of Knowledge." Working groups are organized to create the base of advanced innovation certification requirements and assure our certified members and organizations are global leaders in practicing and managing innovation.
Innovation Forum Norway:
• We are a national forum where we link more than 100 leading Norwegian companies, through 500+ members to build a new chain reaction for boundless innovation.
• We are a national power center with the goal to make Norway a leading innovation country
• We provide knowledge sharing and open innovation through member meetings, conferences and expert-meetings.
• We provide our members with Best and Next Practices and give access to the best innovation experts
• We work closely with the Norwegian government to drive innovation
ISPIM - International Society for Professional Innovation Management - is a network of researchers, industrialists, consultants and public bodies who share an interest in innovation management. Founded in 1983 by Professor Knut Holt in Norway, ISPIM is the oldest, largest and most active innovation association in Europe, rapidly expanding in the Americas and Asia.
The University Industry Innovation Network (UIIN) is a dynamic network of academics, practitioners and business professionals passionate about advancing university-industry interaction, entrepreneurial universities and collaborative innovation. Members of UIIN include HEI managers (e.g. rectors, vice chancellors), intermediaries (e.g. technology transfer offices, mobility offices), researchers from various fields, business professionals (e.g. innovation managers or management) as well as policy makers
The Innovation Leadership Forum (ILF) is a visionary and original Think (and Do) Tank dedicated to helping organisations understand and improve their innovation performance. It does so through a number of different
avenues:
ILF Networking Group
The membership-based networking initiative, sometimes referred to as ‘Innovators
Anonymous’ enables its members to,
• Share existing and create new knowledge around innovation;
• Engage deeply with and between member companies;
• Benchmark within and across member companies;
• Keep up to date with latest development in innovation.
Technavio is a leading research and advisory company with global coverage. Our research focuses on analyzing emerging market trends and explaining them to our clients to help them identify opportunities and optimize their market positions.
Technavio provides comprehensive research and analysis in these sectors: Healthcare and Life Sciences; Engineering and Automation; IT Hardware, Software, and Services; Telecom and Networking; Automotive and Aerospace; and Energy.
The Hotel Palace Berlin is a professional business travel hotel and enjoys a good reputation as Berlin's privately run conference hotel. In an extremely central position at the heart of the metropolis, between the Gedächtniskirche church and Kurfürstendamm avenue, just a few minutes away from the conference centre (ICC) or Potsdamer Platz and the Brandenburg Gate, the hotel provides its guests with an all-round business service and professional support.
Look forward to exceptional hospitality and personal service combined with the individuality of a privately run hotel.
The presentations were of very high quality and the atmosphere was one of inclusion rather than competition. The openness with which information was exchanged was unusual and this was critical to the effectiveness of the conference. The audience had as much to contribute as the presenters and it was a refreshing change that they were not only 'talked at' but 'listened to'.
It’s a nice way to become more open. And being open is a promise for innovation
Rich and vibrant conference, with an excellent mix of speakers from SME, mid-sized, and large companies.
A very well organised conference with a great selection of varied delegates and speakers. I found it an excellent opportunity to network with new people who I wouldn’t have had the chance to meet in another forum.
Excellent investment of time to learn best practices in business and great inspiration for putting it to work tomorrow in our working environment.
Plenty of time built into the programme to allow delegates to discuss ideas & approaches and develop contacts.
A great opportunity to obtain insights and network with colleagues from a range of industries. Very professionally organised.
Good platform to discuss many challenging aspects of how to make innovation work.
I have enjoyed the meeting and was in fact very positively surprised. It was very good to get this cross-industry feedback and I took back quite a few refreshing ideas which are worthwhile to follow up. This was definitely no waste of time and I will look forward to E.N.G.’s next meeting.
The conference is well organised, right duration, right number of attendees. It is coherent, topic focused and allows people from different industries to share common concerns and solutions.
Excellent networking opportunity in which practices and experiences are shared between large and small players in the industry.
A useful event sharing approaches to leveraging partnerships to create new business opportunities – A varied array of business with opportunities to network-share approaches on cross industry.
Discounts are not reimbursed for previously purchased tickets. Three or more people registering from the same company at the same time qualify for the group discount, but must register online at the same time. Prices include the conference documentation, lunches, refreshments, the networking dinner and service charge but exclude hotel accommodation. Applicable VAT will be charged.