Tuesday

Chair:
Karen Hersey, fm Senior Counsel IP MIT and Professor, Franklin Pierce Law Center
Vice chair:
Boo Edgar, Chairman, MedCoast Scandinavia and Director, GIBBS, Mats Lundqvist, Director, Chalmers School of Entrepreneurship

Early innovation in areas such bioscience, materials technology and ICT will increasingly be engine to drive wealth and welfare creation in the 21st century. Early innovation not only creates totally new market within e.g. regenerative medicine it also will affect established industries as new generic technologies within energy, information technology and materials are adopted.

Central in Early innovation is the changing nature of innovation from an industrial to a knowledge-based process where the management of intellectual assets, property, and capital takes center stage. The session will explore new innovation paradigms such as global research collaboration and building platforms to assure innovation and openness. To support these new forms of innovation we will discuss the importance of the need for a new infrastructure especially around universities that are adapted to knowledge-driven business creation.

Time	Topic	Speakers
14:00-14:15	Chairman's Introduction	Ulf Petrusson, Professor of Law, University of Gothenburg and Director, Center for Intellectual Property
14:15-16:00	Research Platforms: Safeguarding Openness and Innovation	Arundeep Pradhan, AUTM and Oregon Health Sciences Philippe Cupers, PhD, IMI European Union Boo Edgar, Chairman, MedCoast Scandinavia and Director, GIBBS Mike Cleare, Director TTO, University of Pennsylvania
16:00-16:30	Coffee Break
16:30-16:45	Chairman’s Introduction	Marcus Norrgård, Ass. Professor, Hanken School of Economics, Finland
16:45-18:00	IP policy – towards a new Nordic model	Nilkas Bruun, Director, IPR University Center, University of Helsinki, Finland Bjørn Kjellemo, Director, Research and Innovation dept, Norwegian Ministry of Industry and Trade Susanne Ås Sivborg, Director General, Swedish Patent and Registration Office