Vision of the OIPEC Consortium for the COIL labs (Spaces for Collaborative Innovation)

• Expected output: INNOVATION*:
  • Engineering solutions characterized by Novelty and Value

• Actors:
  • (Public) Universities: students; researchers/professors
  • SMEs: decision makers, managers, technicians
  • Corporates: Open Innovation departments
  • Government: funding bodies

• Framework (to be tailored based on actors and country):
  • Reference Business Models
  • Collaboration rules
  • IPR Management
  • Infrastructure for concept generation and development

• Functions:
  • Initiating collaborative innovation* projects
    • Define the team (Academia/Edu + Enterprise) and collaboration scheme
  • Providing infrastructure and reference models to teams
    • Generate concepts
    • Check business/technical viability
  • Promoting educational activities (short courses + learning-by-doing)

• Scope of courses (according to Framework and Functions)

 

WP1 Activities and plans for WP2 action

These three themes not only will define and classify the courses offered
by EU partners, but also will serve as

• Modules in the OIPEC classes prepared by extra-EU members
• Categories for the presentation of practical experiences
• Thematic areas (physical or conceptual) in the COILabs

 

Open Innovation and University-Enterprise collaborations

Topics

• Business plans for Open Innovation
• Management of Intellectual Property
• Principles of collaborative design

Practical experiences

• Examples of successful University-Enterprise collaboration

COILabs

• Area for entrepreneurship and interaction between university and enterprise

 

Inventive Design and Design Creativity

Topics

• Creativity dimensions and assessment
• Inventive design methodologies
• Design Thinking
• TRIZ
• Bio-inspired design
• Technology Forecasting
• …

Practical experiences

• Examples of applied case studies

COILabs

• Area for co-creation activities

 

Tools for idea development and prototyping

Topics

• Virtual prototyping
• Rapid prototyping
• Agile development and Lean entrepreneurship

Practical experiences

• Examples of facilities and laboratories for prototying

COILabs

• Area for virtual and rapid prototyping

 

Further points for discussion

The second day of the meeting has been dedicated to
Consortium-confidential issues related to the following key aspects:

• Project managament
• Internal accounting procedures
• Quality Control
• Advisory Board
• Dissemination Activities

 

 

Politecnico di Milano	Gaetano Cascini (coordinator)
Lappeenranta University of Technology	Leonid Chechurin Iuliia Shnai
Grenoble INP	Jean-François Boujut
Lomonosov Moscow State University	Georgy LaptevDmitry Shaytan Svetlana Shchelokova
Vladimir State University	Pavel ZakharovAlexey Zhdanov
HEBEI University of Technology	Yu Fei Jia Lizhen
Tianjin University	Zhao Lin