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Partner Network: Innovation Board -The leadership forum to help Europe innovate
Broadcasts
Can EU = Entrepreneurship Union?
It's a fact: ambitious entrepreneurs have a harder time in Europe than in some other parts of the world - but things are changing. In this conference, we look at some new, EU-supported approaches to entrepreneurship.
Q&A on Eco-Innovation with Commissioner Potočnik
Watch the recording of the live Q&A with Commissioner Potočnik and Innovation Board Members about the EU's Eco-Innovation Action Plan
Board publications
Making industry-university partnerships work
This study, built on a growing pool of academic research about the state of industry-university collaboration, offers concrete lessons and recommendations from experienced managers on both sides of the divide.
Investor Driven Innovation
What can we learn from the way professional investors spot 'winners'?
Towards a more innovative Europe
Yearbook of the 2011 Academic Enterprise Awards
Open Innovation and Public Policy in Europe
Government databases could be a powerful new spur for innovation
Time for university reform – with market principles
The Science|Business Innovation Board calls on the EU to push for universities that are more flexible, responsive and autonomous actors in the knowledge marketplace
Recognition for Europe's Innovators
Yearbook of the 2009 Academic Enterprise Awards
Towards a more innovative Europe
Yearbook of the 2008 Academic Enterprise Awards
Stimulating Innovation
A global review of the innovation programmes in $2.8 trillion of economic stimulus
Clustering for growth
How to build dynamic innovation clusters in Europe
Born to Grow
Born to Grow: How to harness Europe’s most innovative entrepreneurs – to create jobs and prosperity
Making Clusters Happen
High-Growth Entrepreneurship

Innovation is vital to Europe’s future - and the Science|Business Innovation Board AISBL is a non-profit scientific association formed to improve the climate for innovation.

Its members are some of Europe’s leading innovators, in industry, academia and policy. They meet regularly with key EU and national officials to discuss important aspects of innovation policy. They commission policy research from leading academics. They support Europe’s best university spin-outs with annual prizes. And they speak and write regularly on the results of their work – all with the intent to broaden and deepen the policy debate in Europe over innovation. The Board is a source of new ideas, backed by deep personal experience, to sharpen Europe’s innovation agenda.

The Board, which began meeting in 2007, was founded by international business school INSEAD, ESADE Business School, and Science Business Publishing Ltd., with the support of Microsoft Corp. and BP PLC. Its membership has broadened to include Imperial College London, SKF and some key individual innovators.

Science|Business Innovation Board
  • Board Members
  • Guest participants
  • News & Views
  • About Us
Alan Begg
Senior Vice President, Technology Development and Quality, SKF Group
"Nani" Beccalli-Falco
President and CEO of GE Europe & North Asia; CEO GE Germany
Pat Cox
Former President of the European Parliament
Jean-Philippe Courtois
President, Microsoft International
David Eyton
Group Head of Technology, BP
Rouget F. Henschel
Partner, Foley & Lardner LLP
Dipak C. Jain
Dean, INSEAD
Sir Keith O’Nions
Rector, Imperial College London
Alfons Sauquet
Dean, ESADE Business School
Tuula Teeri
President, Aalto University
John Wood
Secretary-General, Association of Commonwealth Universities

The Innovation Board regularly invites distinguished guests to its private meetings. They have included:

Policy
Máire Geoghegan-Quinn
European Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science
Janez Potočnik
EU Environment Commissioner
Esko Aho
President, SITRA and former Prime Minister of Finland
Jean-Noël Durvy
Director of Innovation Policy, European Commission
Peter Dröll
Head of Innovation Policy Development, DG Enterprise, European Commission
Marion Dewar
Member of Geoghegan-Quinn Cabinet for Innovation
Andy Wyckoff
Director, Directorate of Science & Technology, OECD
Patricia Kelly
Deputy Secretary, Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Australia
Boni Mehlomakulu
Deputy Director-General, Science & Technology Directorate, Republic of South Africa
Georg Winckler
Rector, University of Vienna, former president, European University Association
Industry
Roch Doliveux
CEO and Chair, UCB SA
Marc de Garidel
Vice President, Amgen International
Helmut M. Schühsler
Managing Partner, TVM Capital
Denis Payre
CEO, Kiala (and co-founder, Business Objects)
Alexander von Gabain
Founder and CSO, Intercell AG
Joachim von Heimburg
Director, Corporate R&D EMEA, Procter & Gamble
Javier Pujol Artigas
CEO, Ficosa International
Albert Esteve
President, Esteve Quimica
Susan Searle
CEO, Imperial Innovations Group PLC
Academia/NGO
Harriett Wallberg-Henriksson
President, Karolinska Institutet
Georg Winckler
Rector, University of Vienna
Sir Richard Sykes
Rector, Imperial College London, and former CEO, GSK
Erna Möller
EIT Governing Board Member, Executive Director, Knut & Alice Wallenberg Foundation
Bruno Lanvin
Executive Director, INSEAD e-Lab
Hans Martens
CEO, The European Policy Centre
Xavier Mendoza
Deputy Director-General, ESADE Business School
Maria Nowak
President, ADIE
Prof. Pontus Braunerhjelm
KTH-Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden)
Prof. Erkko Autio
Imperial College London
Prof. David Gann
Imperial College London
Prof. Jonathan Haskel
Imperial College London
Vice Dean (Research)Jonathan Wareham
ESADE Business School
Associate Prof. Filipe Santos
INSEAD
News & Views

The Board contributes to the EU innovation-policy debate by publishing influential reports and by contributing to the media.

Can EU = Entrepreneurship Union?
News article, sciencebusiness.net
4 December 2012
Open Innovation trumps not invented here
News article, sciencebusiness.net
18 October 2012
Waste not, want not: Eco-innovation action plan targets radical shift in use of resources
News article, sciencebusiness.net
27 September 2012
Long-term industry-university partnerships work best to drive innovation
News article, sciencebusiness.net
18 June 2012
Seven entrepreneurial start-ups from across Europe recognised in double awards ceremony
News article, sciencebusiness.net
21 February 2012
UK companies lead finalists for European spin-out awards
News article, sciencebusiness.net
14 December 2011
Government data can create jobs, innovation expert says
Press release
5 December 2011
Time for university reform – with market principles
Board Statement, sciencebusiness.net
30 August 2011
La innovación como modelo de negocio
Board interviews, in ABC (Madrid)
10 October 2010
The EU's new innovation plan is vital
Board statement
6 October 2010
Invest in R&D now, panel urges Commission
Board meeting report
2 July 2010
Scientific knowledge as a public good and the role of public policy
Imperial College research for the Board
1 July 2010
Boosting R&D spending and university research will allow Europe's economies to recover faster
Imperial College research for the Board
25 June 2010
Europe's academic innovators recognised in ACES awards
Board meeting report
11 December 2009
Needed: A new approach for research and innovation in Europe
Board statement
7 December 2010
Time for a 'Bretton Woods' of innovation
Board statement
3 June 2009
Towards a more innovative Europe
Yearbook of the Academic Enterprise Awards.
1 June 2009
How to Drive Innovation in Europe
Board statement, in the Wall Street Journal Europe
12 February 2009
ACES winners announced
Board meeting report
3 December 2008
Finalists named in university spin-out awards
Board meeting report
12 November 2009
Europe: a piquant recipe for a Silicon Valley
Board statement, in the Financial Times
July 16 2008
First pan-European awards programme for enterprise on campus launched
Board meeting report
11 June 2008
Wake up and smell the competition, says Potocnik
Board meeting report
13 December 2007

The Wall Street Journal Europe
Reprinted with permission of The Wall Street Journal © 2009 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All rights reserved.

About Us
*Presentation
*Belgian royal decree
*Board statutes
*Annual Accounts

The Board is managed by Science|Business 197 Rue Belliard, Bte 12 1040 Brussels, BE +322 304 7577

President: Richard L. Hudson
Secretary: Steven Maisel

The Science|Business Innovation Board is a Belgian association internationale scientifique sans but lucrative (AISBL), created by Belgian royal decree, No. 0822.108.553.

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