On June 19th, KIM organised a new edition of the KIMconference, ‘Industrial and corporateinnovation: empowering new models’.

In this brochure, we have collected some of the thoughts, knowledge and lessons learned by those attending the event and the KIM team.

We would like to thank the speakers and the audience, who have shared with us their knowledge and thoughts about the new innovation business models.

“In the field of knowledge transfer we need specialized talent in knowledge transfer, we need investment.

We need to keep creating the sector to allow return of investment to keep growing in a favorable environment.

Fiscally, we still have to progress.”

2. “It is true that researchers working in knowledge transfer do it by vocation, but we also have to work in order to boost this vocation and make them understand what benefits the knowledge transfer can bring to them and to the industry.

Explaining this benefits will accelerate the process.”

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Mercedes Sánchez Technology Transfer Officer European Space Agency

“We need to find the way for science to get transformed naturally in gross domestic product and vice versa.This requires to adopt a number of key measures: introduce metric measures into the system, add knowledge and continually ask ourselves.

Why is this useful to me and to whom it might be useful?We must take science to the street. Dissemination is the key.”

Mª Luisa Delgado Technology Transfer General SubdirectorSpanish Ministry of Economyand Competitiveness

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Lluís Jofre General Director of UniversitiesGeneralitat de Catalunya(Catalan Government)

“Industrial property has a very high value in experiments at an international level.

We play the facilitator role.”4.

Carmen Casterás Intellectual Property OfficerFusion For Energy

“There is a first brake to knowledge transfer: the timing of the industry. As researchers, we think about certain indicators that often are not the same as those that will be used in the industry.

The second brake is the language.

The third point, which is certainly the most difficult to carry out, is the notion of the concept customer-supplier.”

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Dr. Laurent Aubouy R&D DirectorLEITAT

“We also need to build trust with the business world. Many companies look for technologies abroad, when they have them near home.

Building this confidence is hard because for many years the universities have been closed and the usefulness of what researchers have done has been relatively low.”

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Dr. Buenaventura Guamis General DirectorUAB Research Park

“To increase the speed at which knowledge reaches the market the following is necessary: to have a link with the companies, a paradigm shift with investigators and to have mechanisms helping us to preform knowledge transfer.”

Dr. Carolina Bonacic InvestigatorUniversity ofSantiago de Chile

7. “When you hear the word innovation, you immediately think about mobile phones, machines, equipment, sensors,

communications... But there are different types of innovations other than product innovation, such as the service innovation, innovation in products at the process level, in business models or in the organization.”

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Carlos Montero Chief Technology OfficerSuez Environnement

“The main challenges we are facing are money, the distribution of intellectual property and the lack of specifications.”9.

Dr. Silvia López R&D DirectorRAMEM

“Innovation seeking has to bepotentiated within the companyfor it to happen.

To make it happen it is necessary to create programs that brings both, the academy and the companies out of their current comfort zone of openinnovation. The state has an important role in this matter.”

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Dr. Marc Ramis CEOTech & Business Innovation (TBI)

“The Venture Philanthropy does not only fund social projects, it also supports them in different areas.

This is the main difference from the Venture Capital: the commitment is much higher. Sustainability of projects is sought. We seek social impact and economic performance, but also to achieve visibility for a certain problem.”

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Glòria Oliver Managing DirectorPasqual Maragall Foundation

“We have the duty to society to innovate in different ways to provide added value.”12.Dr. Michael Tadros Senior manager

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