The ACES, now in their fourth year, are the only pan-European awards for enterprise in university and public research institutes. They give public recognition to those researchers, engineers, professors, students and government officials in Europe who have done the most in 2010 to foster a culture of enterprise on campus. This can be through taking the risk of launching a spinout company, developing a discovery into a marketable innovation, or promoting policies that create a receptive environment for entrepreneurship on campus. They draw nominations from all sectors, disciplines and countries in Europe, and are judged by the Science|Business Innovation Board, a leadership panel co-founded by Science|Business, business schools INSEAD and ESADE, in association with Microsoft and BP.
ACES Conference and Gala Awards
The awards culminate in a gala dinner and conference on academic enterprise, to take place in February 2012. Click here to find out more about the event.
The Science|Business Innovation Board AISBL
To encourage public dialogue about innovation policy in Europe, Science|Business began organising in 2007 a blue-ribbon panel of leaders in industry, academia and policy. The board was incorporated as a not-for-profit association in 2009, with business schools INSEAD and ESADE in association with Microsoft and BP. The Science|Business Innovation Board meets twice a year to debate important aspects of European innovation policy, and to formulate recommendations for policy action. It also names the winners to the annual ACES awards.
For more information, see www.sciencebusiness.net/innovationboard
The ACES awards programme offers sponsorship opportunities at a variety of levels, tailored to the needs of sponsors.
They are an ideal way of positioning your organisation as an innovation leader in the European marketplace.
By being associated with the programme's founding universities, sponsors obtain very high value in terms of brand recognition.
For more information on sponsorship contact:
Maryline Fiaschi
Project Director, Science|Business
Tel: +32 (0) 2304 7577
Fax: +32 (0) 2304 7572
maryline.fiaschi@sciencebusiness.net
