One more interesting event connecting actors in business and research in order to establish consortia for EU grat applications has been announced (see below).
On one hand, it reads very promising for researchrs who would like to enter the EU scene and become part of a consortium. On the other hand, I have my doubts whether experienced consortia leaders would go there in order to find new partners.
What do you think? Will someone other than newcomers join this event?
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Healthcare Brokerage Event MEDICA 2014
On the occasion of MEDICA 2014, the global No. 1 meeting place for the medical sector, ZENIT GmbH together with the Healthcare Sector Group of the Enterprise Europe Network will organise the international Brokerage Event. The aim is to assist enterprises, universities and research institutions in finding partners in Europe for product development, manufacturing and licensing agreements, joint ventures or other types of partnership.
This international Healthcare Brokerage Event at MEDICA fair has a tradition of more than 15 years now. In 2013 the brokerage event had more than 240 participants from about 30 countries with more than 800 meetings.
http://www.b2match.eu/medica2014
Probably yes .. apparently they have been runninng similar events for sometime now (15 years, they claim), attaracting impressive number of participants from several countries. I would consider, without a grain of salt, attending such an event.
It depends on the area of research and type of collaboration. The brokerage events are important for projects involving companies, research institutes and public authorities. When the stakeholders needed are not from the same cup of tea. In basic research at the level of specific subjects, academic links are usually well established. In this case I think the brokerage event may be useful. I have been in some requiring industry collaboration and yes there it is needed.
As a National Contact Point for FP7 and now Horizon 2020, I would say that - if properly organised (e.g. pre-scheduled meetings, short presentations, "speed-dates", academia-private sector interaction, etc) - then such Brokerage events are quite useful and could be fruitful in terms of creating partnerships for potential submissions to EU grants. For networking of the sort (that is; with the scope of creating potential consortia for EU proposals), it is also very good to consider the COST actions (http://www.cost.eu).
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