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NEWS ABOUT INNOVATION IN THE NETWORK

Barcelona surrenders to artificial intelligence

Since the opening of the doors of this new edition at the Mobile World Congress (MWC 2018), the role of Artificial Intelligence, the development of 5G, virtualization and the connectivity of objects was perceived. In this new edition it is Artificial Intelligence that focuses all eyes, voice recognition, chatbots, virtual assistants, the Internet of Things, the autonomous car, robotics, virtual and augmented reality, quantum computing, digital transformation, services in the cloud, cybersecurity or data analytics. "Artificial Intelligence is being applied successfully to change what is possible with a large number of interactions with different technologies," explains José Luis Sancho, managing director of Accenture Digital Spain, Portugal and Israel.
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Barcelona is "iCapital" of Europe (European Commission)

Europe’s premier innovation event, the Innovation Convention 2014, took place in Brussels on March 11. The European Commission has awarded the European Capital of Innovation (“iCapital”) to Barcelona (Spain). The winner of the iCapital award was announced during the convention; Barcelona was awarded the prize of 500000 Euros. This amount will be used to scale up and expand Barcelona's efforts on innovation. Barcelona was chosen by a panel of independent experts in a close competition with Grenoble (France) and Groningen (The Netherlands). The judges chose Barcelona thanks to its dedication and efforts to promote innovation and improving the quality of their citizen’s lives. Innovation is central to economic growth and business competitiveness, and is at the heart of the EU's 2020 strategy.
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Ten creativity lessons that drive your business (Expansión)

Innovation can’t disappear from your company, not even when it is consolidated.

The characteristics that define the entrepreneur –he sees solutions where others just see problems – have much to do with being creative: creativity is born from the divergence, from seeing with different eyes what everybody have seen. It is to discover what others haven’t discovered.

The entrepreneur is creative and, in addition, looks for original people with different answers, but which have capability so their ideas can be realized. Hire ground-breaking people is a difficult task in organizations which reward more the conservative attitude and are excessively afraid of failure. In to many companies the different thinking is not admitted and they don’t give what is needed so the good ideas can grow. The arrival or attraction of ground-breaking employees is a challenge for the change management capability, and the professionals who generate alternatives become uncomfortable for some managers, because inevitably the matter is to integrate people who are going to challenge them.

One of the most important factors that makes creativity appear is that a suitable environment is necessary. Innovation comes from sharing opinions and different ways of thinking, in a work climate in which it exists a mutual respect relationship between the employees and with the boss, and which doesn’t penalizes neither the different ideas nor the mistakes. Because innovations lies on experimentation and it fails many times, but it is the solution for discovering new ideas.

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Last events - Think Tank Meeting in Breast Cancer for PFIZER Emerging Markets

From November 4th to November 6th, MEDSIR had the pleasure to host a Think Tank Meeting in Barcelona (Spain), organized in sponsorship with PFIZER and design and dinamized with Innovation Factory Institute CreaInnova Institute. A group of oncologists and KOL from LATAM, Asia and AfME participated in a 3-day dynamic whose final objective was to design clinical trials with the help of innovative methodologies.

You can read the MEDSIR press release here.

You can see a summary of the Think Tank Meeting here. [View].

Últimos eventos - Global best practices to inform the new NED Technology Park 2021

CreaInnova Institute is delighted with the successful International Symposium, co-organized with our Innovation consulting division System of Innovation, the IASP - International Association of Science Parks and Areas of Innovation, with more than 300 Park members worlwide) and La Salle BCN and La Salle Technova Barcelona.

The new park is being built by NED University of Engineering & Technology Karachi (NEDUET), founded in 1921, making it one of the oldest universities in Pakistan. Planned as a “born global” knowledge hub, NED Tech Park’s key goals will be preventing local brain drain of a highly educated population, and developing Pakistan's knowledge economy.

At the symposium on 4th March, over 150 attendees tuning in from around the world heard the current plans for NED Tech Park from the NEDUET team, with an institutional welcome and a high-level overview of the fundamental value of STPs from IASP CEO Ebba Lund. IASP Past President Josep Piqué also reflected on the role of innovation ecosystems and international networks to develop the knowledge economy and retain local talent in Pakistan, as well as giving a summary of the challenges and models the NED Tech Park project is working with.

IASP members Tecnopuc (Brazil), TusPark (China), Bilkent Cyberpark (Turkey) and Skolkovo Techpark (Russia) presented their innovation ecosystems, sharing insights on their governance models, international connections, services and relationships with local universities.

You can watch the recording of the full symposium here [View].

Last events - FIRST WORKSHOP ON DIABETES AND CARDIOVASCULAR RISK

On 26 and 27 January 2018, the first Reflection Workshop on potential links in the fields of cardiovascular risk research and diabetes was held in Madrid. The event, organized by the company Moving Contents, with the academic collaboration of the CreaInnova ™ Institute and the sponsorship of Novo Nordisk, was attended by 40 invited participants who worked in work teams to assimilate the current knowledge in diabetes and cardiovascular risk and build the new paradigm of the 21st century.

With the integration of presentations and work teams, the attendees conceptualized the content of the expert lectures of the experts and developed and structured their knowledge in group sessions, through simple and creative tools that allowed them to organize and assimilate the information in a way pleasant and innovative.

Finally, they shared the work of the teams, which allowed attendees to receive a constructive feedback, offering the opportunity to obtain a 360 degree view of the concepts of diabetes and cardiovascular risk [Access]

Last Events - International best practices for new STPs: presenting the NED Technology Park project

Join our online symposium from 9:30-11:30am on March 4th, where science parks from around the world will share examples of global best practices, and the new NED Technology Park project will be presented.

System of Innovation (our consulting business unit) is delighted to be providing consultancy services to NED University, in partnership with La Salle-URL, La Salle Technova, EY and IASP, for the construction of a new technology park in Karachi, Pakistan, and to organise this international symposium.

Hear from experts in the NED Technology Park Global Alliance, established by NED University Karachi (Pakistan) as they share experiences and link ecosystems of innovation with knowledge-sharing presentations, a round table discussion, and Q&A from the audience.

You can register to join us on Zoom, or watch live on YouTube: Zoom registration, YouTube livestream.
Date: 4 March 2021. Country: Online. [Access].

Last events - GLOBAL REACH MARKETING FOR THE INDIVIDUAL PROFESSIONAL

For the third consecutive year the CreaInnova Institute was present at the Bizbarcelona 2017. On this occasion, on May 31st, we gave the workshop 'Global reach marketing for the individual professional'. Practical workshop on the implementation of inbound marqueting techniques in an individual and collaborative manner and with the main objective of focusing on customers and providing solutions. With a capacity of 100 professionals, the initiative that was aimed at self-employed workers participating in the different editions of the Consolida't program was sponsored by the 'General Director of Social Economy of the Generalitat de Catalunya [Access]