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2015 Crash Course on Research Funding, Intellectual Property and Start up Creation

The Crash Course arrived at its 7th edition. It has the objective to provide to Phd Students, young researchers, entrepeneurs and R&D staff of private companies with the fundamental concepts and tools for knowledge transfer: intellectual property and patent protection, research funding (e.g. HORIZON 2020 industrial leadership scheme and SME Instrument), business planning and start up creation models.

The Course is organised by the University of Trento Research and Technology Transfer Support Division.
The initiative is open to students, startuppers, researchers coming from Trento University and other research institutions, R&D staff from private companies.

Programme

Tuesday, 31 March  (11:00 – 13.00) – Povo 1 Room A203
Managing Knowledge for Growth in an ageing Europe: Public research Programmes for Business and Academia

Speaker: Giorgio Clarotti, Research Policy Officer, European Commission

Wednesday, 1 April (9:00 – 11:00) - Povo 1 Room A203
Managing Knowledge for Growth in an ageing Europe: Public research Programmes for Business and Academia
Speakers: Giorgio Clarotti, Research Policy Officer, European Commission – Fabrizio Chiara - iLooxs

Wednesday, 8 April (11:00-13:00) – Povo 1 Room A203
Introduction to intellectual property and start up creation
Speaker: Lino Giusti, Research and Technology Transfer Support at University of Trento

Thursday, 16 April (9:00-12:00) – Povo 2 Room B104
University Knowledge Transfer: Copyright and open science in the digital age
Speakers: Paolo Guarda and Valentina Moscon, Post-doc Researchers, Faculty of Law and Research and Technology Transfer Support Division, University of Trento

Wednesday, 22 April (10:00-12:00) – Povo 1 Room A224
Organising collaboration projects between Industry and Academia for financing research
Speaker: Claudio Nidasio, Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Trento

Tuesday, 5 May (9:00-11:00) – Povo 1 Room A203
Best practices for a successful patent protection: the interaction between the inventor and the patent attorney
Speaker: Cristina Freyria Fava, Patent Attorney, Studio di consulenza in proprietà industriale Buzzi, Notaro e Antonelli d’Oulx

Monday, 11 May (9:00-11:00) - Povo 1 Room A203
HORIZON 2020: The EU Framework for Research and Innovation
Speaker: Laura Paternoster and Martina Calamusa, Research and Technology Transfer Support at University of Trento

Tuesday, 19 May (11:00-13:00) - Povo 1 Room A203
Introduction to Intellectual Property in an Academic Context
Speakers:  Gabriella Reniero, Studio Dr. Reniero & Associati, Giovanni Casucci, Studio Legale Casucci.

Thursday, 21 May  (9:00-11:00) – Povo 1 Room A218
Case study: academic start up Seelko srl
Speakers: Nicola Loss and Roberto Covi

Wednesday, 27 May  (9:00-11:00) Povo 1 Room A203 (*)
The Fundamentals of financial statements and start up creation
Speaker: Giorgio Degasperi, Studio Degasperi Martinelli

Thursday, 4 June (11:00 – 13:00) Povo 1 Room A203
Industrial Research & Development success stories in Trentino
Speaker: Mauro Caldara, Director Research, Quality and Technology, Aquafil Spa

Tuesday, 9 June (9:00-11:00)– Povo 1 Room A218
Challenges and opportunities in managing open  innovation
Speaker: Alessandro Rossi, Department of Economics and Management University of Trento

Phd students interested in credits recognition need to attend 70% of the seminars. The seminars are open to students, researchers and private companies.

Seminars will be held in English.

(*): A limited number of seminar may be in Italian.

Participation is free.
Limited seats are available; a confirmation of your participation is mandatory: lino.giusti@unitn.it; claudio.nidasio@unitn.it