Consortium Meeting, July 22-23, 2016 – Lappeenranta
OIPEC members met on July 22nd and 23rd, 2016, in Lappeenranta (Finland) for sharing advancements in project activities and to plan detailed actions for the following semester.
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)
- Initiating collaborative innovation* projects
- 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 |