Creativity World Forum, Hasselt - Belgium
Final Event Making Knowledge Work
The Final Event of the Making Knowledge Work (MKW) project will take place on the 16th and 17th of November, during the 2011 Creativity World Forum in Hasselt (Ethias Arena). The Creativity World Forum hosts two MKW-workshops (both the 16th and the 17th) dedicated to the final event of the “Making Knowledge work” project (INTERREG IVC). The forum is targeted to academics, entrepreneurs, authors, artists and professors who will gather to discuss about innovation, ideas, inspiration and knowledge. The Forum will be organised in different workshops, conferences as well as an exposition in order to present new technologies and to stress the importance of creativity. Among the distinguished high-level speakers, you will find: Jimmy Wales, promoter and co-founder of Wikipedia, Malcolm Gladwell, author of “The Tipping point, Blink and Outliers” and Garr Reynolds, author of “Presentation Zen & the Naked presenter”.
The MKW-workshops will focus on:
- November 16: “Bridging the Innovation Gap by Making Knowledge Work” with interesting speakers (to be confirmed) from the Joint Technical Secretariat from Interreg IVC, Nokia Finland and short best practice pitches from Sweden, the UK, Spain, Poland and France;
- November 17: European and MKW-experiences in the field of Design & Creativity with inspiring contributions (to be confirmed) from DG Enterprise, the University of Milan and pitches from Finland, Poland, the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium.
Bridging the innovation gap
Europe has vast innovation potential. It has a long-standing tradition of breakthrough inventions. Its home to a wealth of creative people and it can capitalise on excellent research and cultural diversity. Yet, Europe does not fully benefit from these advantages, partly because research results and ideas of universities, labs, companies and inventors are often not used and turned into services and products. Making Knowledge Work (MKW) aims to bridge this gap within the innovation chain through exchange of know-how and concrete policy actions involving key stakeholders and innovation actors in the 12 partner regions of the project. All partners have developed regional action plans which focus on the transfer of succesful best practices from other regions to stimulate the take up and commercialisation of innovative ideas and R&D results: bridging the innovation gap!
Final Event Making Knowledge Work
at Creativity World Forum
Hasselt, Belgium, 16-17 November 2011
Programme 16 November
15.00 – 16.30
Making Knowledge Work makes a difference!
15.00 | Introduction Making Knowledge Work (MKW) MKW-video | Laurens Meijering, Brainport Development |
15.10 | Interreg IVC programme perspective | Nicolas Singer, Joint Technical Secretariat INTERREG IVC (tbc) |
15.20 | The EU Innovation Strategy | Leo Baumann, Nokia |
15.35 | Five minutes pitching presentations:
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16.05 | The Creative Mix |
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16.20 | Reflections on MKW from the EU Innovation & Industry policy | Bertrand Wert, DG Enterprise |
16.30 | Closure |
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Programme 17 November
15.00 – 16.30
Making Knowledge Work: Design & Creativity
15.00 | Welcome | Laurens Meijering, Brainport Development |
15.05 | Design & innovation from the EU-perspective | Speaker, DG Enterprise (tbc) |
15.25 | Design & innovation in the Milan region | Prof. Deserti, Milan Polytechnik University (tbc) |
15.45 | Six minutes pitching presentations:
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16.15 | The Creative Mix |
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16.30 | Closure |
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