SPICE Events 2010–2011
Add new informationThe following list provides an overview for the coming twelve months. Numbered events are "SPICE events", means SPICE Group is involved by helping to define the topics, to identify and attract speakers, to prepare and organize the event and/or by holding a SPICE Meeting — for members and invited guests only. Events in italic letters, without a blue background are recommended by SPICE, however do not have a specific involvement of SPICE Group.
Proposals to list further events are invited. Send your information to: spice@spice-group.de
Cairns, Queensland Australia | The three key Australian associations representing business incubation, support and training organisations Business Innovation and Incubation Australia (BIIA), Business Enterprise (BEC Australia) and the National NEIS Association (NNA) will jointly host their annual national conference. For the first time they will be joined by the Small Enterprise Association of Australia and New Zealand (SEAANZ), offering an opportunity for both the academic and practitioner arms of the business assistance community to mix and gain insight into business in Australia and the Asia-Pacific Region. The 2010 conference also incorporates the 15th AABI General APIN 5th Asia Pacific Conference on Business Incubation – a conference supported by all major players in the region. Contact: Paula Beare WWW: www.intent2010.com | |
Riga Latvia | The "Baltic Dynamics" is the annual conference of the business incubation asscoiations in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuanis taking place in turns in one of these contries. For the year 2010 Riga, Latvia is the place to meet. The conference topics are
o Sustainable Development of Innovation Systems o Education and Research as Components of Innovation System o Technology Transfer - Catalyst for Efficient Knowledge Flow f o Instruments to Support Added Value Production o The Role of Cooperation (Associations, Networks, Clusters, etc.) in the Development of Innovation System Additionally pre-conference seminarsa and wordhops will be offered - as well as a SPICE Group Workshop. WWW: http://www.balticdynamics.com Email: info@balticdynamics.com | |
Minnesota United States | The Association of University Research Parks, this year organizes the annual conference in Minnesota, USA: AURP 2010 International Conference - Building the Innovation Engine
Featuring pre-conference intensives and networking opportunities, the conference will focus on research park best practices and new opportunities to grow this emerging sector. Hosted by the University of Minnesota Academic Health Center in one of the country’s emerging life science centers, this conference will draw the brightest minds in innovation to collaborate on the future of research parks. Contact: Victoria Palmer WWW: www.aurp.net Email: vickiepalmer@aurp.net | |
Bautzen Germany | The annual conference of ADT, Germany Federal Asscoiation of Innovation, Technology, and Business Incubation Centers will be held in Bautzen, in South-Eastern Germany. Contact: Karola Kaptur WWW: www.adt-online.de Email: adt@adt-online.de | |
St. Petersburg Russia | The St. Petersburg International Innovation Forum 2010 and the Innovation Russia Exhibition this year it will be held September 28 ¬– October 1 in St. Petersburg, Russia as part of the Russian Innovation Week. The organizer, RESTEC Company was founded in1990 and today is one of the five leaders of Russian exhibition business. The 2010 Forum program covers all the market levels (from technology innovation to consumer goods) and reflects the Russian priority innovation trends, especially: ICT, manufacturing technologies; advanced materials and chemical products; fuel technology and environmental management and transport.
The Innovation Forum is a main scientific and technical and innovation event of St. Petersburg. The Forum is a complex umbrella event composing congresses, exhibitions, business and cultural programs. The Exhibition will feature Russian and foreign experience of creating and implementing innovative strategies. Contact: Kirill Pakhryaev Email: skandmarket@restec.ru | |
Heidelberg Germany | The 7th Annual Conference of the Technopolicy Network will be held in Heidelberg, Germany. Save the date. More information to follow Contact: Tanja Pijpaert Email: t.pijpaert@technopolicy.net | |
Poznan Poland | This conference will be held at the 15th Anniversary of Poznan Science and Technology Park, the first such park in Poland. Organized in cooperation with PBICA, the Polish Business and Innovation Center Association this conference will sum-marize experience form 15 years of active work in this field and discuss perspective for future development. Contact: Elzbieta Ksiazek | |
Cologne Germany | The 14th Annual Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurship Conference G-Forum 2010 will take place in Cologne in Germany October 20 – 22, 2010. Leading organizer of this year's conference are the Department of Information Systems University of Cologne and Cologne competence network for technology-and knowledge-based companies from universities as well as CENSET - Center for Scientific Entrepreneurship and Transfer. The objective of the two-day G-Forum is to encourage scientific sion and the exchange of ideas among entrepreneurship scholars, entrepreneurs and policy makers. The program of the conference will be extended by international renowned speaker Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Ketterle (Nobel Prize in Physics 2001) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA)
Contact: Richard C. Geibel WWW: www.gforum2010.de Email: geibel@censet.eu | |
Liverpool United Kingdom | The Best Science Based Incubator Award and Conference this year will be held for the nineth time. Topics of the plenaries and parallel workshop session, for example, are "Stimulating High-Tech Entrepreneurship in a Transition Economy", "Combining Technological Entrepreneurship with Creativity & Culture", "International Collaboration for the Incubator and its Clients", or "Creating A Financial Ecosystem".
In cooperation with CSES the incubation conference also hosts the annual “Best Science Based Incubator Awards”. Please, contatc the conference organizers for more information. Contact: Ying Ying Lau Email: y.lau@technopolicy.net | |
Minsk Belarus | The International Conference of Applied Science “2nd Belarusian Innovation Forum” will be held to summarize and review national and foreign theories and experience in innovation-related activity. For organizing this event a number of Belarusian and foreign institutions work together.The objectives of the Forum are to appraise the present status of the innovation system; to exchange best experience; and to inform the national and international public about innovation-related activity across Belarus, the CIS and CEI countries.
WWW: www.konferencii.ru Email: spice@spice-group.de | |
Perth, Western Australia Australia | The 2010 IASP-ASPA Joint Conference on Science and Technology Parks will be held under the title "The Asia-Pacific Region's Innovation Hot Spots - Opportunities for Sustainable Collaboration" WWW: 2010iasp-aspa@commerce.wa.gov.au Email: aspa@cyber-aspa.org | |
San Jose, CA United States | San Jose, right in heart of the Sili-con Valley with numerous busi-ness incubators of different kind around and not far from San Francisco: This is the place for NBIA’s next annual conference. As the twenty-five conferences before this event certainly One more time will be the meeting place for business incuba-tion professionals from around the globe. Preconference semi-nars and parallel conference sessions, roundtables, and work-shops will offer a wide range of topics to discuss and to learn about the basics and the future of business incubation.
Contact: David Monkman WWW: www.nbia.org Email: dmonkman@nbia.org | |
Helsinki Finland | Building on the Global Forums held in India in 2004 and 2006, and in Brazil in 2009, infoDev announced the dates for the 4th Global Forum on Innovation & Entrepreneurship. With its strong national innovation policy and strategic international networks, coupled with the country’s “Living Lab” concept to bring together private and public sector actors on the innovation agenda, Finland presents a stimulating platform for infoDev’s global community of innovation & entrepreneurship practitioners, thought-leaders, stakeholders and donors. WWW: www.idisc.net/en/Article.38991.html Email: spice@spice-group.de | |
Copenhagen Denmark | A Call for Paers has been publsihed for the 2011 IASP World Conference on Science and Technology Parks “Roadmaps for future navigation”. For more details, pelase see the conference website.
The deadline for submission is October 15, 2010 and proposals should be sent to iasp2011papers@iasp.ws.
Contact: Ebba Lund WWW: www.iasp2011cph.com Email: lund@iasp.ws | |
Perth Australia | A Call for Papers for the 3rd International Conference of Fashion Incubators was published by the conference organizers. This Fashion Incubator Conference will offer new opportunities for fashion business educators and fashion trade events from around the globe to network, discuss best practice and expand global designer marketing and promotional opportunities. It will reveal Perth on the international fashion stage. and will also launch an International Fashion Incubator Organization that will form strategic alliances, share networks.
Closing date for papers: January 31, 2011. Papers are to be sent to conference@tcfglobal.com Contact: Clarisse Reynoso Email: conference@tcfglobal.com |
Earlier Events of SPICE Group
| 1 | Annual ADT comnference / First ICECE Meeting Berlin, Germany 20 November 1991 | 109 | 11th Global Summit of Business Incubation Associations Baltimore, United States 15 May 2005 | |
| 67 | Lviv, Ukraine 2 – 5 March 2001 | 110 | Regional Innovation and Incubation Capacity Building Workshop Kiev & Bila Tserkva, Ukraine 9 – 11 June 2005 | |
| 68 | Almaty, Kazakhstan 24 – 27 April 2001 | 111 | 111th SPICE Meeting at the BALTIC DYNAMICS 2005 Tallinn, Estonia 23 August 2005 | |
| 69 | Chicago, United States 25 – 28 April 2001 | 112 | 3rd APEC Incubators' Forum DaeGu, South Korea 26 – 28 August 2005 | |
| 70 | Budapest, Hungary 27 – 28 April 2001 | 113 | Networking of Business Incubators Bratislava, Slovakia 20 – 21 September 2005 | |
| 71 | Itzehoe, Germany 13 – 16 May 2001 | 114 | XVIth annual conference of PBICA Belchatuw, Poland 22 – 24 September 2005 | |
| 72 | 4th Global Summit at the Annual NBIA conference San Jose, California, United States 20 – 24 May 2001 | 115 | KOBIA-SPICE Leqdership Program Birmingham, United Kingdom 26 – 27 October 2005 | |
| 73 | Bilbao, Spain 11 – 13 June 2001 | 116 | Business Incubation and Innovation Support Yerevan, Armenia 4 – 5 November 2005 | |
| 74 | Tallinn, Estonia 16 – 19 June 2001 | 117 | 12th Global Summit at the 7th Annual UKBI Conference "Future Success" - Sheffield, United Kingdom 27 – 29 November 2005 | |
| 75 | Riga, Latvia 14 – 16 September 2001 | 118 | Regional Innovation and Incubation Capacity Building Workshop Casablanca, 31 January – 3February 2006 | |
| 76 | Bucharest, Romania 23 – 24 September 2001 | 119 | VI. Innovation Salon Moscow, Russia 5 – 9 February 2006 | |
| 77 | Lviv, Ukraine 27 – 29 September 2001 | 120 | 13th Global Summit at the NBIA conference "Cultivating the Seeds of Innovation" St. Louis, United States 30 April – 3May 2006 | |
| 78 | Poznan / Kiekrz, Poland 11 – 14 October 2001 | 121 | Asia Pacific Forum on Innovation and Incubation Shanghai, China 17 – 19 May 2006 | |
| 79 | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 23 – 26 October 2001 | 122 | BALTIC DYNAMICS‘ 06 Vilnius, Lithuania 24 – 26 May 2006 | |
| 80 | Kiev, Ukraine 16 – 18 November 2001 | 123 | Special SPICE Workshop and PBICA Conference Poznan, Poland 26 – 27 October 2006 | |
| 81 | Vincovci, Croatia 22 – 24 November 2001 | 124 | Second Global Forum on Business Incubation Hyderabad, India 5 – 10 November 2006 | |
| 82 | Tallinn / Tartu, Estonia 21 February – 23 2002 | 124 | 14th Global Summit of Business Incubation Associations Hyderabad, India 11 November 2006 | |
| 83 | Bratislava, Slovakia 11 March 2002 | 125 | Best Practices in Science Based Incubators Copenhagen, Denmark 7 – 8 December 2006 | |
| 84 | Paris, France 21 – 23 March 2002 | 126 | 10th AABI Assembly Auckland, New Zealand 12 – 15 March 2007 | |
| 85 | IASP Conference Toronto, Canada 28 April – 1May 2002 | 127 | 21st NBIA conference Seattle, United States 1 – 4 April 2007 | |
| 85 | 5th International Summit of Business Incubation Associations Toronto, Canada 28 April 2002 | 127 | 15th Global Summit at the 21st Annual NBIA conference Seattle, United States 1 – 4 April 2007 | |
| 86 | Prague, Czech Republic 6 – 9 June 2002 | 128 | 16th Global Summit at the BALTIC DYNAMICS 2007 Riga, Latvia 12 – 14 September 2007 | |
| 87 | Tallinn, Estonia 9 – 11 June 2002 | 129 | Advancing Innovation ECA 2007 Yerevan, Armenia 17 – 20 September 2007 | |
| 88 | Madeira, Portugal 24 June – 26July 2002 | 130 | 17th Global Summit of Business Incubation Associations Shanghai, China 23 September 2007 | |
| 89 | Shymkent, Kazakhstan 10 – 15 September 2002 | 131 | Shaping the Future through Innovation Bahrain, Bahrain 21 – 24 October 2007 | |
| 90 | Kiev, Ukraine 25 – 28 September 2002 | 132 | Forum on Developing and Supporting ICT Based Entreprenurship Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 21 – 24 November 2007 | |
| 91 | Mierzecin, Poland 9 – 12 October 2002 | 133 | BI 9: Innovation and Entrepreneurship - The Global Challenge Brighton, United Kingdom 28 – 30 November 2007 | |
| 92 | Tartu, Estonia 10 – 12 October 2002 | 134 | 18th Global Summit of Business Incubation Assoications San Antonio, Texas, United States 4 May 2008 | |
| 93 | 6th International Summit at the Annual ADT conference Dortmund, Germany 17 – 18 November 2002 | 135 | First Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship Skopje, Macedonia 8 – 10 May 2008 | |
| 94 | The Hague, Netherlands 5 – 6 December 2002 | 136 | Promoting Innovation and Entrepreneurship effectively through Business Incubation Bangkok, Thailand 27 – 29 July 2008 | |
| 95 | BALTIC DYNAMICS '03 Vilnius, Lithuania 15 – 17 May 2003 | 137 | 19th Global Summit at the 20th Annual ADT conference Berlin, Germany 21 – 23 September 2008 | |
| 96 | 7th International Summit at the NBIA Conference in Richmond Virginia, United States 18 – 21 May 2003 | 138 | 7th MENAinc Workshop Ifrane, Morocco 29 – 30 October 2008 | |
| 97 | IASP Conference Lisbon, Portugal 1 – 4 June 2003 | 139 | Best Science Based Incubators Paris, France 11 – 12 December 2008 | |
| 98 | 20 years of business incubators in Germany Berlin, Germany 28 September – 1October 2003 | 140 | International Incubator Conference Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 16 – 17 March 2009 | |
| 99 | Business and Innovation Centers within Programs of the European Community Kalisz, Poland 10 – 13 October 2003 | 141 | Women Business Incubation Workshop Bishkek-Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan 9 – 16 April 2009 | |
| 100 | 8th International Summit Kitakyushu, Japan 14 November 2003 | 142 | 20th Global Summit at the NBIA International Conference 2009 Kansas City, Missouri, United States 19 – 22 April 2009 | |
| 101 | New Zealand Business Incubation Summit Christchurch, New Zealand 10 – 11 March 2004 | 143 | 20th Annual Conference of PBICA Gdynia, Poland 14 – 16 May 2009 | |
| 102 | Three Country Association Meeting Tgerwilen, Switzerland 2 – 4 April 2004 | 144 | St. Petersburg SPICE Meting St. Petersburg, Russia 6 – 8 July 2009 | |
| 103 | 5th International UBICA Conference Kiev, Ukraine 23 – 25 April 2004 | 145 | 2nd International Business Extreme Forum: Innovation. Personality, Growth Petrozavodsk, Karelia, Russia 9 – 11 July 2009 | |
| 104 | 9th International Summit of Business Incubation Associations Atlanta, Georgia, United States 25 April 2004 | 146 | Baltic Dynamics 2009 Vilnius, Lithuania 30 September – 3October 2009 | |
| 105 | Country Gateways Global Network Meeting Bonn, Germany 25 – 28 June 2004 | 147 | 3rd infoDev Global Business Incubation Forum Florianopolis, Brazil 26 – 30 October 2009 | |
| 106 | BALTIC DYNAMICS 2004 Riga, Latvia 9 – 12 September 2004 | 148 | 8th Best Science Based Incubator Award and Conference Stockholm, Sweden 18 – 20 November 2009 | |
| 107 | Annual Conference of PBICA Mielec region, Poland 14 – 16 October 2004 | 149 | Annual NBIA conference Orlando, United States 16 – 19 May 2010 | |
| 108 | infoDev Global Incubation Symposium New Delhi, India 14 – 19 October 2004 | 149 | 21st Global Summit to be held in Orlando, USA Orlando, United States 16 May 2010 | |
| 108 | 10th International Summit of Associations New Delhi, India 20 October 2004 | 150 | "Beethoven, a Castle, a Park, and Delicacies" - The Third SPOAC Budapest, Hungary 23 – 25 July 2010 | |
| 109 | 19th International NBIA Conference Baltimore, United States 15 – 18 May 2005 |