Programme & Courses

The 2009 edition's programme

DAY 1 | Context definition

•Opening Speech

          •Session 1: Bruno Van Pottelsberghe: « What do we            mean by Innovation? »  

          •Session 2: Bruno Van Pottelsberghe or Nicolas Van           Zeebroeck: «Comparison of different Innovation policies              in the world and challenges for Europe » 

          •Session 3: Marc Goldchstein: « Entrepreneurship at the            heart of Innovation »

           Session 4: Thomas Crispeels: « Academic Innovation:              the case study of Albynx »

DAY 2 | Innovation at the individual level

• Session 4: Patricia Garcia Lopez : « Innovation, Innovators & Leadership »

• Session 5: Fons Trompenaars: “ Multiculturality in Innovation and development of an “Innovative” state-of-mind ” (creativity exercise)  

• Afternoon: cultural visit at Bruges – Ostende or Antwerp

DAY 3 | The Academic Level

      •Session 6: Christian Blümelhuber  «  Innovation in              Marketing and new ways of doing marketing »

       •Session 7: Hugues Bersini « Innovation in new                       technologies »

       •Session 8: Freddy Van den Spiegel « Innovation in                Finance, in financial markets»

        •Session 9: Eric de Keuleneer « Financial Regulation » 

DAY 4 | The Business Level

• Session 9: Michael Dooms: “ The management of Innovation” followed by a case study of Toyota

• Session 10: Nicolas van Zeebroeck «  Open innovation »

• Session 11: Elvira Haezendonck: « CSR from an innovating management perspective »
• Visit of a company illustrating the concept of innovation (choice between IBM – Microsoft – Google – Antwerp Seaport and Solvay SA)    

DAY 5 | European Day

•Visit of the European Commission

• Session 11: Karel de Gucht (TBC)

• Session 12: André Sapir « How the UE innovates and fosters innovation »

• Session 13: Mathias Dewatripont (TBC)

For more details, download the brochure(2009)