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  • bonita Transfer Model is well underway

    First audits to take place this week

    bonita Transfer Model is well underway - First audits to take place this week

    This week, from Tuesday, Aug 24, 2010 through Saturday, Prof. Antanas Mitasiunas and Jonas Mitasiunas fro University of Vilnius, and Saulius Aurelis from Visoriai Information Technology Park, also in Vilnius, will be coming to Bremen to perform the first audits using the bonita Transfer Model.

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  • Technologiepark Bremen holds successfull After Work Party

    The Technologiepark Bremen is a sub-contractor of the Ministry of Economics and Ports, Bremen which is one of the bonita partners.

    Technologiepark Bremen holds successfull After Work Party - The Technologiepark Bremen is a sub-contractor of the Ministry of Economics and Ports, Bremen which is one of the bonita partners.

    On June 17, 2010 the first After Work Party was held in Technologiepark Uni Bremen, Germany. With perfect weather, good music, delicious snacks and cool drinks, the participants enjoyed a relaxing atmosphere. Since the After Work Party was entitled „Giveaway-Tauschparty“ (Giveaway Exchange Party), participants also used this opportunity to make new contacts and exchange their own promotional literature.

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  • De Magneet

    Children experience the fascination of technology

    De Magneet - Children experience the fascination of technology

    Technology Transition is core business for the people at the Hanzehogeschool Groningen - a University of Applied Science in the Netherlands, and partner to the bonita project. This means not only they bring innovation to companies, but they have a role also in ensuring a good innovative and technology driven environment, which starts at primary school. Therefor the technology departments of the Hanze has together with the school of education developed 'De Magneet', where children from primary school experience the fascination of technology. Within the platform companies play an active role, in this stage mainly as sponsor and co-developer. For the future, the platform will also be used to bring new technologies to companies.

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Baltic Organisation and Network of Innovation Transfer Associations

„Interregional development by turning university research into business value”

Research cooperation as well as knowledge transfer between public research organisations and industry is insufficiently developed within the European innovation system. To develop the Baltic Sea Region into a high-tech region the available scientific knowledge needs to be successfully transferred into practice. Even though universities are important developers of new technologies and products their innovations often are not transferred for commercialization. This can be explained by lack of facilitating structures and underdeveloped commercial mindsets of academic staff. At the same time vast innovation potential of SMEs is not exploited due to missing resources.

The bonita project addresses these deficiencies by bridging the knowledge gaps between universities, laboratories, industrial actors and policy makers. The project consortium represents a mix of institutions responsible for regional technology transfer from 8 countries in the Baltic Sea Region. The project has been financed by the European Union’s Baltic Sea Region Programme 2007-2013 with almost 2 million Euros.