June 8, 2010
This year’s German Multimedia Congress DMMK (Deutscher Multimedia Kongress) will share the stage with Create10 on November 10 and 11, 2010.
At Römerkastell, Stuttgart’s exciting creative centre, the creative scene will be linked to the digital economy.
Advertisers, designers, programmers, communication professionals and marketing experts will be get together with thought leaders in the European digital industry and forge direct contacts with industry representatives.
“By uniting DMMK 2010 with Create10, MFG will make an important contribution towards strengthening the international competitiveness of the region as a creative centre”, explains MFG CEO Klaus Haasis.
For more information read press release (pdf).
May 26, 2010
Create10, the European Future Conference for Digital Trends in the Creative Industries, will be staged for the first time on November 10 and 11, 2010.
Media pioneers, creative thought leaders and IT experts from all over Europe are expected to attend Create10 in Stuttgart, Germany.
The conference will be divided into three parts. The CReATE Forum will introduce the five most promising research fields that will play a leading role the European creative industries in the next ten years (CReATE is an EU research project led by MFG). Various interactive workshops will present outstanding trends in the digital creative industries and collaboratively develop new ideas.
Read more in MFG’s press release (pdf).
May 12, 2010
Following the example set by Heidelberg Innovation Forum, the National Research Council Canada (NRC-IIT) organises the matchmaking event for the third time. This year they are working together with New Brunswick Information Technology Council (NBITC) and the Canadian Digital Media Network (CDMN).
The overarching theme of New Brunswick Innovation Forum 2010, taking place on 5th and 6th October 2010 in Saint John/Canada, is the Digital Economy. A selection committee will review the submissions and choose eight panelists in each of the following streams:
• Looking for technology transfer opportunities
• Offering collaboration opportunities
• Looking for funding
• International opportunities – this category is reserved for International researchers and companies that are offering business opportunities to Canadian companies.
MFG Baden-Württemberg is a partner of NRC-IIT and therefore happy to support you in taking part in New Brunswick Innovation Forum. If you’re interested in presenting your business idea and/or R&D results in front of Canadian investors, don’t hesitate to contact us!
Call for Proposal is open until 25th June 2010.
April 29, 2010
Attended by some 100 researchers, businesses and investors, the 9th Heidelberg Innovation Forum concluded with an awards ceremony for the most compelling business ideas. Winner of the best business idea award from the Baden-Württemberg: Connected –bwcon – initiative was H2Hybrid, which was submitted by Dominik Lembke and his team from the Bavarian Elite Academy.
The bwcon award for best international business idea went to Dr. Dileep Agnihotri for his energy storage solution based on double-layer capacitors with a high energy density, which are less bulky and costly than current versions.
To support the winners in their efforts to bring their products to market, their prize is personal business coaching as part of bwcon’s “Coach & Connect+” programme. The aim of this programme is to provide targeted, industry-specific advice and assistance to new and expanding high-tech companies and founders throughout the various start-up phases – from establishing the company to expansion.
Read more (pdf)
January 20, 2010
The Call for Proposals for the ninth Heidelberg Innovation Forum is open right now. Until 8th of February 2010 you’re invited to submit your business ideas focussing on Cleantech and Green IT – to participate in the convention for funding of technology-based start-ups and financing of research projects.
The forum will cover a broad sprectrum in the field of cleantech industries. Topics may range from Green IT and ICT innovations, Energy Efficiency, Energy Storage, Renewable Energies and White Biotech over Sustainable Mobility to Product Recycling. But other ideas from your subject area are also possible.
At the forum each panellist has 8 minutes to present his idea to investors and decision makers. Then in the breaks it is time to "Meet the Panellists" and engage in transfer business. Top industry representatives and researchers are expected to attend.
The Heidelberg Innovation Forum, taking place on 22nd of April 2010, is organised by MFG Baden-Württemberg mbH in collaboration with the European Media Laboratory, established by SAP co-founder Dr. h.c. Klaus Tschira.
Find out more…
October 22, 2009
The 8th Heidelberg Innovation Forum is now over. On the 20th October 2009 the street of scientists and investors have crossed once again on the top of Heidelberg’s hills in the suggestive location of the Studio Villa Bosch. As usual, this crossroad has raised a lot of new ideas and aroused expectations for promising results.
The formula is the one successfully tested in all the previous editions: bringing researchers and companies together, offering them a platform for the transfer of researchs close to the market. A matchmaking event created by MFG Baden Württemberg in collaboration with European Media Laboratory, which allows promising scientific results and new brilliant business ideas to be presented to a wider audience of investors, business angels and decision makers of European industry.
The focus of 8th edition was on Visual Computing, Simulation and Digital Media. 33 Business Ideas where presented: each speaker had only eight minute to offer a short insight in his project and let people taste what the future of innovation could be like. A very short time, indeed, but enough to raise curiosity, exchange ideas and networking. Yes, because this is the core of Heidelberg Innovation Forum: connecting people and ideas.
As usual the Forum has been opened with the Keynote of a successful speaker: this year was the turn of Ruprecht von Buttlar, Director of the CONNECT’s Commercialization and Finance Programs. In this capacity, he directs the execution and development of the Springboard program, which helps and support entrepreneur in their start-up phase. His speech has once again underlined that innovation always need financial and business support to became truth.
After the open speech, two different panels have hosted the short presentations of a very wide spectrum of innovative business ideas. Among them: the Wii Spray, a touch screen to realize digital graffiti; Meetable, a multitouch collaborative table but also photorealistic rendering of very large dynamic 3D models and solutions on how to use thermography for visual effects in film.
Wii Spray
This.Play - Demonstration
During the closing dinner in the heart of Heidelberg old town the Best Business Idea has been rewarded with the Bwcon Prize – an initiative of the Region Baden-Württemberg, Germany. This year the prize has been assigned to Professor Christoph Cremer from the Kirchhoff Institute for Physics, Heidelberg, for the invention of “Vertico SMI”, the fastest high-resolution light-optical microscope of the world. The prize includes a personal Business-Coaching offered in the framework of the “Coach & Connect” Initiative in order to support a further spread of the idea into the market.
Now we just have to wait until April to see what brilliant, new, innovative business ideas will give live to the next edition of the Heidelberg Innovation Forum.
Prof. Cremer awarded by Klaus Haasis, CEO of MFG
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