What is the most important aspect of successful Competence Centres in the future?

The Expert Session 1 focuses on Competence Centres. We intend to base this event on the work of Task Force CompAct, which has presented an excellent overview of the potential scope and use of the Competence Centres programmes that has been summarised in the final report Future Competence Centre Programmes

We do not intend to duplicate the work already done. The Expert Session I will concentrate on experience of agencies, their frank and open bottom – up perspective. We will try to find answers to following questions: What was the key mission and targets when establishing the Competence Centres in different countries? To which extent were the expectations met and fulfilled?  What was a success story, what did not work at all? Why?

We would also like to know: What is the perception of Competence Centres by the Agencies, by their managers? What is the perception of their clients - SMEs?

 

What is the most important aspect of successful Competence Centres in the future?

The COMET programme with 10 years old experience was selected to be compared with programmes of TA CR and Catapult Centres, each of them having slightly different goals and strategy. We have asked our speakers to answer our questions: What was the key mission and targets when establishing the Competence Centres in their countries? To which extent the expectations were met and fulfilled?  What was a success story, what did not work at all? Why? Further we have also asked them to accomplish their presentation with the position of one of their typical clients or partners in order to compare (or to confront) the view of the Agency and the view of the client. We have invited prof. Posselt from Fraunhofer Centre for International Management and Knowledge Economy IMW Institute as well. We should focus on the original idea and vision when establishing the Institute and on the experience today, more than 40 years later. We wish to have a view of an independent institution “from outside” and comparison of different models. That will be the role of Erik Arnold from Technopolis.

Finally, we wish the Expert Session 1 were an interactive event. Therefore we reserve space enough for questions, comments, replies, views, visions…

 

Event supervisor: , TA CR

Organisation: , , TA CR

 

11:30 –12:00 AM	Registration of participants
12:00 – 1 PM	Lunch
1 – 1:15 PM	Welcome	Petr Očko
1:15 – 1:30 PM	Competence Centres in the CR – lessons learned	Martin Bunček, TA ČR
1:30 - 1:50 PM	Experiences from the Austrian COMET programme	Otto Starzer, FFG
1:50 – 2:15 PM	Discussion, questions
2:15 – 2:40 PM	Catapult Centres in the UK	David Golding, Innovate UK
2:40 – 3:00 PM	Experience in Germany	prof. Thorsten Posselt, Fraunhofer IMW Leipzig
3:00 – 3:15 PM	Discussion
3:15 – 3:45 PM	Coffee Break
3:45 – 4:15 PM	Technopolis View	Erik Arnold
4:15 – 5:00 PM	Discussion
5:00 - 5:15 PM	Closing remark	Martin Bunček, TA ČR