A workshop on innovation and entrepreneurship and a networking aperitif
Friday 26 September, 18-20 hours, Cloister of Olivetani, Via San Nicola, Lecce
He has just entered the European Network ENoLL of Living Lab with the Official Ceremony that has been held in recent days in Amsterdam, and now already resumes his fervent activity on the territory: it is TIE, the Living Lab of the project VINCENTE, one of the five projects of the Dhitech of Lecce, which now will also be protagonist of the Night of Researchers Friday 26 September, from 18 to 20 in the picturesque location of the Cloister of Olivetani.
During the evening, after a short presentation of TIE, Technology Innovation Ecosystem, a Living Lab session will open in which students, researchers, start uppers and, in any case, all those who have an idea of innovative enterprise, will be able to discuss the main issues related to the needs of the actors of the Apulian entrepreneurial ecosystem.
Focused on Technology Entrepreneurship, TIE aims to promote the exchange of ideas and knowledge, sharing of experiences, comparison and dialogue between researchers, companies, citizens and associations, local authorities and public institutions who, together, plan, design and realize innovative entrepreneurial projects and spread entrepreneurial culture.
All this to trigger opportunities for economic, social and cultural development of a territory.
To learn more about the dynamic protagonists of this adventure, the appointment Friday, September 26 is at Chiostro Degli Olivetani in Lecce, starting at 18, when the participants will start recording. It will go on until 20, with the workshop, conclusions and aperitif networking.
The meeting is open to all interested parties who can participate freely.
"The event organized on the occasion of the Night of Researchers is an important opportunity to contact all those who in the University, the Research Offices or in any case in their activities, are thinking of starting an entrepreneurial initiative, which has an innovative idea. ", explains Dhitech President Lorenzo Vasanelli.
Central in the District's action methodology, are the Living Labs environments where researchers, entrepreneurs, public administration representatives and citizens cooperate in defining the research objectives, experimenting with them and disseminating their results, according to an open innovation approach.
TIE Living Lab acts as a "knowledge platform" for the collection and launch of initiatives aimed at promoting technological entrepreneurship through: enhancing the results of science and research, meeting and collaboration between innovative enterprises, spreading and developing skills and entrepreneurial skills.
The initiatives/services currently offered by Living Lab are: the Open Lab: mainly aimed at innovative SMEs, start-ups and technological entrepreneurs interested in presenting their products, services and innovative prototypes to a community of possible companies and institutions interested in a possible adoption and/or valorisation of market; the Co-Lab: mainly aimed at innovative companies that want to meet a community of potential users, in order to present a new idea of product/services and collect feedback
DHITECH: The Apulian High Tech Technology District operates in the field of research and training activities developed in national and Community projects.
The purpose of the District is to facilitate and orchestrate the development of an Innovation Ecosystem High-Tech incardinated on three socio-technical systems:
• Tissutale Engineering for Regenerative Medicine
• Nanotechnologie Molecolari for the environment and health
• ICT for Innovation in the Design of high knowledge and sustainable products and services.
The ecosystem refers to the European model of the "Knowledge and Innovation Communities" whose approach to development is based on the valorisation and dissemination of knowledge.
The main strategic objective for achieving the aims of the District is the creation of a substantial critical mass of development actors, including the figure of "Innovators/Entrepreneurs", young people who, with solid scientific/technical bases, are able to promote and implement paths of valorisation of knowledge to innovate the production system also through the birth of new High-Tech enterprise.