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To help change that culture, the first Europe-wide awards for
academic enterprise are being launched, with a coalition of leading
European universities, multinational corporations, foundations, and the
Science|Business
news service. The awards will be promoted at a series of events and
on-line
activities through 2008/9, and will be overseen by the Science|Business
Innovation Board. The programme will culminate in a conference and
awards ceremony
in Stockholm in December 2008. |
| Awards Themes
For founders of
successful spin-out companies, one each for:
For an individual who enabled campus enterprise The Bridge Award |
| Awards Rationale
The awards will give public recognition to
those researchers,
engineers, professors, students and government officials in Europe who
have done the most in Unlike other awards, these will focus on university enterprise and look across Europe – furthering efforts to improve the flow of ideas out of European laboratories and into the marketplace. The prizes are open to academic entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship enablers throughout Europe. Nominations may come unsolicited from individuals using the form (see the Nominations page), or from participating universities and sponsors. For more information on how your university or company can
join the ACES programme, please contact luca.segantini@sciencebusiness.net. |
| Starting Up! The
Conference on Academic Enterprise
2 December, 2008 – at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm It’s good to start a company on
campus – or is it? That’s a question being posed more frequently
these days on universities and research institutes across Europe, as
researchers push harder to get their discoveries developed and
adopted in society. This conference, linked to the ACES Academic
Enterprise Awards, provides an opportunity for researchers,
investors, university administrators and policy-makers to examine the
“start-up” trend – and get practical tips and contacts for
making a success of it. Read more
about this event and register for free |
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Come to the ACES Awards Dinner! 2 December, 2008. At the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering, from 19:00.
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2008 to foster
a culture of enterprise on campus.
This can be through taking the risk of launching a spin-out company,
developing a discovery into a marketable innovation (even at the risk
of the tenure-track publication record), or promoting policies that
create a receptive environment for entrepreneurship on campus.
Find out who are the top
university
entrepreneurs in Europe – as judged by the Science|Business
Innovation Board of leaders in industry, academia and policy. The
Board will be meeting privately during the day to make its final
decision on winners.









