When: Wednesday 2 August 2023, 2:00pm – 3:00pm Seminar / Q&A

Where: Online (link will be provided upon registration)

International Guest Speaker: Cristina Barbosa, Innovation Consultant and Researcher at CITE – Centre for Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship at INESC TEC, Porto, Portuga | OpenInnoTrain Secondee

Facilitator: Professor Anne-Laure Mention, Director, Global Business Innovation Enabling Impact Platform | OpenInnoTrain Chief Investigator

Seminar Abstract:

In this seminar, Cristina Barbosa will explore how to:

• involve stakeholders to co-create innovative, sustainable and resilient innovation communities

• transform an innovation culture into a social innovation culture in organisations

• foster social and sustainable.

Cristina's Bio:

Cristina Barbosa is an assistant researcher and consultant in the Centre for Innovation, Technology, and Entrepreneurship (CITE) at INESC TEC. She has more than 13 years of professional experience as a consultant in the areas of Innovation Management and Public Procurement.

Since 2016, she works as an Advisory Expert for the Enterprise Europe Network supporting business innovation, international partnerships and international growth of Portuguese SMEs, Scaleups, Start-ups, Researchers and Entrepreneurs.

Cristina has been also involved, since 2020, with EIT Jumpstarter programme and the KIC EIT Manufacturing, a cross-industrial pre-acceleration of the European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT), as a local trainer, mentor and programme facilitator. In 2022, she was involved in three annual activities promoted by the regional innovation scheme of EIT Manufacturing – Demo4Green (Green Manufacturing: Demonstrating technologies to fight Climate Change), GreenMA (Green Manufacturing Accelerator) and Tech2Market (Technology to Market for Competitive Manufacturing in Europe).

She holds a M.S. in Innovation and Technological Entrepreneurship, a B.S. in Information Science from the University of Porto; an Interdisciplinary Post-Graduation in Human Rights (a postgraduate training on Law, Education, Psychology and Social Economics) from the Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Also, a Climate-KIC Professional Education training on «Greening Your Business – Embedding Sustainability into Business Model Innovation» from Bologna Business School.

Acknowledgements

OpenInnoTrain Project, is a global network of researchers and industry practitioners across Europe and Australia for promoting the translation of research between university-industry through cooperation and Open Innovation in the sectors of: FinTech, Industry 4.0, CleanTech, FoodTech. This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 823971.

RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia – Global Business Innovation Enabling Impact Platform (Director, Professor Anne-Laure Mention).

INESC TEC