Open innovation & university:
Competitiveness & development

26 & 27 of May, 2008
VALENCIA

Dr. Alph Bingham

Founder and Member, Board of Directors, Innocentive, Inc

Dr. Curtis R. Carlson

President and CEO, Stanford Research Institute (SRI International)

Mr. Bowman J Heiden

Deputy Director, CIP - A Development Center for Knowledge-Based Business, Chalmers University of Technology, University of Gothenburg

Dr. Henry Chesbrough

Executive Director, Center for Open Innovation (Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley)

Mr. Pedro Gil

Managing Director, Principia Technology

Mr. Tom Hockaday

Managing Director, Isis Innovation Ltd.: Technology Transfer from the University of Oxford

Dr. Juan Juliá Igual

Rector, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia

Dr. Jan-Anders Manson

Vice President for Innovation and Valorization, Ecole Polytechnique Féderale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Dr. Andreu Mas-Colell

Professor of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and President of the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics

Mr. Eduardo Montes

Executive Advisor to the CEO of Siemens AG

Dr. Francisco José Mora Más

Vice-rector for Financial Planning and Coordination, UPV. Director of the Foundation 'Ciudad Politécnica de la Innovación'.

Dr. Hu Haiyan

President, Beijing Institute of Technology

Dr. André Oosterlinck

Honorary Rector and Chairman of the Catholic University of Leuven

Mr. Matti Pursula

Rector, Helsinki University of Technology

Mr. Xavier Ricart

Knowledge Innovation Market

Mr. David White

Director, Directorate A LIFELONG LEARNING: horizontal Lisbon policy issues and international affairs, European Commission, DG Education and Culture

Dr. Ronald M. Wolf

Senior Business Development Manager, Philips Research Strategy and Business Development Office

Dr. Guven Yalcintas

Vice President for Technology Transfer, Research Foundation of State University of New York in Albany (SUNY)