Technology Transfer Workshop

Organizer:
ILOL – Institute for Lifestyle Options and Longevity
ILOL is a unique not-for-profit research institute concerned with identification, examination, and evaluation of social and technological developments, trends, and practices concerning future lifestyles and social growth in rapidly changing national, regional, and global environments (www.ilol-think-tank.eu).

Special features:

• Workshop participants will be able to take part in small group discussions related to the concepts introduced in the workshop. 
• At the end of the day, participants are invited to a reception which will provide an opportunity to network and share information and ideas with the workshop leaders, guest-speakers, and other participants. 
• A guest-speaker specializing in legal aspects and regulations concerning protection of innovations and new technologies will meet with the participants during the reception.
• A guest-speaker, member of top committees and bodies working on policies for this field, will meet with the participants during the reception.

Objective of the workshop:
The objective of this workshop is to examine how new ideas, discoveries, inventions, and new technologies are brought from scientific or engineering laboratories into the market place.   The workshop will cover the entire technology transfer process from inception to the point where products based on new technologies are introduced in the market place.

Lecturer:
Professor Ing. George Tesar, Ph.D. (Wisconsin, USA)
Chief Scientific Officer for Social Marketing at ILOL
Co-author of Scientific Technology Management: Building Bridges between Scientists, Engineers, and Business Management, 2nd edition published by Imperial College Press in London in 2008   

Guest-speakers:
Mgr. Jana Vaňová, FP7 legal consultant, Technology Center AS CR
Ing. Pavel Komárek, technology transfer consultant, consultant to the Minister of Education, Youth, and Sports

Partners:

EG
EG is a group of companies that co-operate on interdisciplinary projects from different scientific and market industries. EG professionals follow the same business principles and values such as flexibility, agility, professionalism, competence, continuity, and loyalty.

EG founded ILOL with the aim to contribute to understanding long-term trends modeling social, economic, and healthcare development of societies.

Science-Technology Park Mstětice
Science-Technology Park supports technology-oriented small and medium enterprises with innovation potential, supports research and development, creates the prerequisites for applied scientific and technological research and development, business development, and interconnects research and development activities of technology-oriented firms, universities, and research institutions (www.eurosignal.eu)

Technology Center AS CR
Technology Centre is the National Information Centre for European Research, it works on analytic and perspective studies in research and technology development and innovation and it is involved in transnational technology transfer (www.tc.cz)

Apotex
Apotex believes that every man, woman and child is entitled to affordable medical care and freedom of unneccessary pain and suffering (www.apotex.cz)