6th Annual World Open Innovation Conference (WOIC)
OpenInnoTrain is hosting a workshop at WOIC 2019 in Rome, Italy at Luiss University from 12 to 13 December 2019.
Overview
In a time of slow growth and rising uncertainty, businesses can find hidden growth opportunities in societal challenges to enable transformation.
Societal challenges (or grand challenges) bring together resources and knowledge from different fields, technologies and disciplines, including social sciences and the humanities. These challenges expand the range of what is possible, creating new sources of growth.
At WOIC 2019, Open Innovation experts combine their business experience with transformational objectives, with academic perspectives on societal challenges.
This year’s conference theme: “Opening Up for Managing Business and Societal Challenges” brings together conceptual research theories and pragmatic insights that will be presented by Open Innovation thought leaders in academia and industry. The keynote speaker will be Francesco Starace, CEO of Enel, and a visionary who has led remarkable developments in green and renewable energy.
Visit the website: https://woic.corporateinnovation.berkeley.edu/
OpenInnoTrain Session
OpenInnoTrain will participate to WOIC during the workshop sessions on Friday 13/12/2019 at 3:00pm – 4:15pm
Session 6E: OpenInnoTrain (Anne-Laure Mention)
The food industry is characterized by traditional systems and cultures that, to some extent, create rigidities hampering creativity and innovation. At the same time, there are so-called FoodTechs – technologies, companies and approaches – emerging that apply advanced tech to production, packaging & distribution of food and that challenge existing routines and structures. FoodTech, along with FinTech, Industry 4.0 and CleanTech, is one of the sectors where the Horizon 2020 MSCA-RISE project OpenInnoTrain explores how Open Innovation and Research Translation can be facilitated between academia and industry within the University‐Industry Cooperation (UIC) framework. This Open Innovation approach for Research Translation is the prerequisite for societal impact through value creation by embedding research‐generated knowledge into practices, transforming knowledge made available in academic publications to new or improved products and services and behavioural changes.
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