Top 500 Innovators Society building modern science-industry collaboration Conference "Science for Industry: Necessity is the mother of invention: Third Networking Event dedicated to the Polish experience in the field of shale gas exploration" 25-27 June 2014 Project co-financed by the European Union under the European Social Fund
About the Top 500 Innovators Program Program of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education for the years 2012-2015 financed from the Operational Program Human Capital Training program in the leading universities around the world of a 9-week duration The largest training program for scientists and employees involved in commercialization of the research results
Top 500 Innovators Program Lectures Workshops Seminars Projects Business plan Business meetings Internships in companies Visits in University laboratories
Top 500 Innovators in numbers 320 people have already completed the program (8 groups) Lublin 4% Białystok 3% Olsztyn 2% Toruń 2% Other 5% 79 alumni in Warsaw! Katowice 5% Warszawa 25% Łódź 5% Gdańsk 6% Szczecin 6% Kraków 11% Poznań 12% Wrocław 14%
Warsaw group of Top 500 Innovators Systems Research Institute 3% Institute of Fundamental Technological Research PAS 3% Institute of Physical Chemistry PAS 3% Institute of Geodesy and Cartography 3% Other 13% Warsaw University of Technology 15% University of Warsaw 10% Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology PAS 3% Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering PAS 3% BioTech-IP Bio & Technology Innovations Platform 3% Polish National Contact Point for Research Programmes of the EU 4% Space Research Center, PAS 5% Institute of Aviation 4% International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology 4% Medical University of Warsaw 5% Air Force Institute of Technology 5% Warsaw University of Life Sciences 8% Military University of Technology 6%
Innovators in Warsaw according to their fields 16 14 12 10 8 6 4 2 0
Top 500 Innovators Association Our goals: Development of an interdisciplinary platform for cooperation between representatives of the scientific community and business in Poland Using knowledge and experience gained at the best universities in the world Promotion of innovative attitudes and academic entrepreneurship Promoting cooperation between science and industry Think-tank
Networking Map of Innovators in Poland GDAŃSK SZCZECIN POZNAŃ WARSZAWA WROCŁAW KRAKÓW
First Alumni Meeting 8 10 July 2013 Project co-financed by the European Union under the European Social Fund Discussed topics: Financial support of science and commercialization 2014-2020 Entrepreneurship in science Building the knowledge-driven industry Commercialization a challenge for scientists, administrative environment Top 500 Innovators cooperation in a field of Design Thinking Polish-American cooperation in a field of research and innovation
Alumni activities http://top500innovators.org/boomerang.html
Alumni activities US-Poland Innovation HUB Project co-financed by the European Union under the European Social Fund http://innovationhub.usptc.org
Alumni activities The Polish-American Innovation Bridge Project co-financed by the European Union under the European Social Fund Tadeusz Słomka, Rector of AGH University of Science and Technology Maria Elżbieta Orłowska, Secretary of State in the Ministry of Science and Higher Education Stephen Mull, U.S. Ambassador in Poland Brian George, Public Affairs Officer, US Consulate General in Kraków Mark Rittenberg, University of California- Berkeley, Haas School of Business, Piotr Moncarz, Consulting Professor at Stanford University, Director of Top 500 Innovators Program Jeff Colvin, Stanford Center for Professional Development Wojciech Burkot, Director of Engineering and Chief of R&D, Google Poland Ramon Tancinco, Head of Strategy and Business Development, Central and Eastern Europe, Cisco Systems Gloria Pearce, Director of Systems Operations at Akamai Technologies (.)
Alumni activities Project co-financed by the European Union under the European Social Fund
Alumni activities Project co-financed by the European Union under the European Social Fund
Workshops, Trainings Global Service Jam Poland GLOBAL SERVICE JAM Design Thinking and Prototyping in practice! 48 hours of creative thinking and customer-oriented approach. Sounds familiar? Yes, surely we all miss the dschool!
Alumni activities and success stories Incubator of Innovation Jan Chełkowski UAM in Poznań, Paweł Chrapowicki - Politechnika Lubelska, Agnieszka Krawczyk PG in Gdańsk, Rafał Ślusarczyk ZUT in Szczecin Innovation Brokers 13 of 30 Innovation Brokers awarded by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education are TOP 500 Innovators alumni Young Scientists Council Karolina Czarnecka, Jerzy Domżał, Przemysław Korytkowski, Bartosz Sołowiej Grant LIDER by The National Center of Research and Development Dorota Bociąga, Piotr Boruszewski, Anna Czarnecka, Kamil Grabowski, Witolda Kazimierski, Sebastian Koziołek, Grzegorz Skrabalak Final stage of the Businesswoman of the year contest Anna Czerwoniec 1st edition of Top 500 Innovators
Thank you for your attention Top 500 Innovators Association www.top500innovators.org kontakt@top500innovators.org
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