PROGRAMME
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WEDNESDAY 18 MAY
THURSDAY 19 MAY
FRIDAY 20 MAY
SATURDAY 21 MAY
POSTER PRESENTATIONS - ALL DAYS


VISITS TO RESEARCH CENTERS
Please note that transportation and visits to the Resarch Centers are free of charge but you MUST notify your participation either by email to logistics@triplehelix5.com or at the conference registration desk before the requested deadlines.

Telecom Italia Lab - Thursday 19 May, 3:30 p.m. - 5:00p.m.
(Registration before 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday 18)
Telecom Italia Lab is the R&D branch of the Telecom Italia Group. Centre of excellence since 1964 in networks and services, Telecom Italia Lab took part in the definition and consolidation of the GSM standard, MP3 and optical transmission.

CRF- Centro Ricerche Fiat (Fiat Research Center) Friday 20 May, 12:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m
(Registration before 4:00 p.m. on Thursday 19).
CRF is an independent R&D organisation and recognised centre-of-excellence with a high-profile role in Europe promoting and performing collaborative research and innovation. It was founded in 1976 as an Engineering Centre providing R&D services to each of the different companies within the FIAT Group.
 

PROGRAMME OVERVIEW

WEDNESDAY 18 MAY, 2005
09:00 Participant Registration
11:30 Meeting for session chairs & organizers
12:00 Press Conference
12:30 Welcome Lunch
13:30 Official Opening of the 5th Triple Helix Conference
Greetings and salutations:
Mercedes Bresso*, President of Piedmont Region
Antonio Saitta, President of Province of Turin
Sergio Chiamparino, Major of City of Turin
14:00 Opening Plenary Session:
"Third Academic Revolution: Polyvalent Knowledge, the DNA of Triple Helix"
(Loet Leydesdorff, Riccardo Viale, Henry Etzkowitz, Stan Metcalfe)
15:30 Parallel sessions
Panel 1: "Biotech Scientists Are From Venus, Public Authorities Are From Earth and Biotech Entrepreneurs Are From Mars" (Bioindustry Park)
17:00 Coffee Break
17:30 Parallel Sessions
Panel 2: "Create a Networked System Among Public and Industrial Partners Towards Technology Growth. A successful story: Motorola settlement in Turin" (Motorola)
20:00 Welcome Cocktail at the Mole Antonelliana (Cinema Museum)
 

THRUSDAY 19 MAY, 2005
09:00 Registration
09:30 Keynote Address "Innovation Europe's Universities: Institutional Reconfiguration and the Triple Helix" (Paul David)
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Parallel Sessions
Panel 6 "Innovative Finance for High-Growth Companies" (Finlombarda)
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Plenary Session "Knowledge: Free or Paid"?
(Andrea Bairati, Morris Teubal, Bronwyn Hall, Cristiano Antonelli, Michel Quéré, Luigi Orsenigo)
15:30 Parallel Sessions
Panel 7: "Venture Capital Models for University Technologies" (State University of New York)
17:00 Coffee Break
17:30 Parallel Sessions
Panel 3: "Management of Intellectual Property" (Politecnico di Milano)
 

FRIDAY 20 MAY, 2005
09:00 Plenary Session: "From Communism to Triple Helix"
(Zeng Guoping, Zhao Yandong, Anna Maria Inzelt)
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Parallel Sessions
Panel 8: "Models, Tools and Actors to Support Innovation in the SME" (Corep)
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Parallel Sessions
Panel 9: "Technology Transfer Policies. An analysis of Selected Italian Industrial Areas" (INFM)
15:00 Parallel Sessions
Panel 5: "Risk Capital for Innovation" (AIFI-Associazione Italiana del Private Equity and Venture Capital)
16:30 Coffee Break
17:00 Parallel Sessions
Panel 8: "Models, Tools and Actors to Support the Innovative Start-ups" ((I3P))
20:00 Gala dinner
 

SATURDAY 21 MAY, 2005
09:00 Parallel Sessions
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Parallel Sessions
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Parallel Sessions
15:00 Closing Plenary Session: "Triple Helix Historical Perspective" (Giovanni Dosi, Habibul Haque Khondker, Sharon Traweek)
16:30 Official closing of the 5th Triple Helix Conference
Giuliano Amato, former Italian Prime Minister