CAROTS Conference

Scientific Programme

This conference aims at spreading the word on improving research-industry cooperation and showcasing intermediary companies and how they work. The event will address the importance and conditions of this new type of enterprise acting as intermediary between industry and academic research, showcase successful intermediary companies and the business models that made them excel, show which public support programs for intermediary companies already exist within the Baltic Sea Region and explore which additional examples of financing could help to support new intermediary companies and hence boost innovation and encourage entrepreneurship in the BSR. The speakers are: -Caterina Biscari, Director ALBA Synchrotron -Bernhard Hesse, CEO of Xploraytion GmbH -Simon Jacques, Managing Director of Finden Ltd -Johannes Klumpers, Head of Research and Industrial Infrastructures Unit at European Commission -Ernst Lutz, President of EIRMA (European Industrial Research Management Association) -Anna Stenstam, CEO of CR. Compentence AB.