Open innovation & university:
Competitiveness & development

26 & 27 of May, 2008
VALENCIA

Innovation has become a key factor in relation to the competitiveness of companies and countries. Innovation based on new business solutions, new knowledge or knowledge combinations, often looks to the university and thinks about how to make use of the scientific and technological capacity arising from research. In this way the university becomes a key element in the knowledge based economies of the innovation system. If the relationship bridges between the university and the company do not work, this means the innovation system turns out to be inefficient. One of the priorities in all advanced societies is to facilitate the innovation process from the university with greater mechanisms and incentives for research assessment.