Programme

9.00 - 10.00 Registration

10.00 - 12.00 How to approach investors and companies (Moderator: Boris Golob)

• Where the profits are going to be - trends and business models in medicine - Boris Golob, CEO STeP Ri
• How to present your innovation to multinational company - "big" company view - Dr. Dietmar Theis (ex Siemens Research Laboratories)
• Emerging biotechnologies as platforms for innovations in medicine and wellbeing - prof.dr.sc. Krešimir Pavelić, University of Rijeka Department of Biotechnology
• How to pitch angel - investors view - Nikša Tomulić, CRANE
• Venture fund prspective - Marko Makek, NEXUS Private Equity

12.00 - 12.30  Coffee break

12.30 - 14.00  Best practice / success stories in innovation, R&D and commercialization (Moderator: Neven Tamarut)

• Example of multidisciplinary approach (e.g., mechanical engineering or physics in medicine) - dr.sc. Sven Maričić, University of Rijeka Faculty of Engineering
• Success story - commercialization of innovation - dr.sc. Miroslav Vrankić
• Example of Proof of Concept program (Croatia) - dr.sc. Alen Protić, Clinical Hospital Center Rijeka

14.00 - 15.00 Lunch

15.00 - 17.00  B2B meetings

All participants will be invited to submit one page idea presentation of their innovation which will be presented on standardized posters in the conference room. Deadline is 30th November 2012.

Links:

1. Submit innovation - CROATIAN form / forma na hrvatskom

2. Submit innovation - ENGLISH form