Emerging industries have a considerable potential to reshape Europe’s industrial landscape, contribute to growth and ensure long term competitiveness. Evolving from new industrial value chains or from the transformation of existing industries, emerging industries are driven by key enabling technologies (KETs), new business models or societal and environmental challenges. To ensure long-term competitiveness of Europe’s Industrial base, European industries must continue to innovate and define a long-term strategic agenda for the development of their competitiveness, building on their existing know-how but also on collaboration with companies both within their traditional value chain and beyond.
However, in order to capitalise on the high growth potential of emerging industries it is necessary to better understand them, provide them with a favourable policy framework and respond to their specific business needs. Against this background, the conference “Rinascimento: Emerging Industries – A New Engine for Growth” offers an opportunity to discuss, assess and showcase the state of affairs in emerging industries in Europe. Following a threefold objective, the conference will introduce stakeholders to the most important developments within emerging industries, present successful and promising policy support frameworks and provide room for discussion on business support measures and entrepreneurs’ needs. The conference shall target an audience from a policy level, a business support practitioners’ level as well as from an entrepreneurial level, including:
- Policy makers in the fields of industrial, SME, entrepreneurial and economic policy
- Representatives of cluster organisations, business organisations, industry federations, chambers of commerce and SME support and innovation agencies
- Entrepreneurs, SME representatives, academics and other practitioners and experts in the field of emerging industries
- This conference is free of charge for participants and is organised by the Region of Lombardy in cooperation with the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry in the framework of the Italian Council Presidency.
14:00 – 14:30 Registration, welcome coffee & tea
I. Opening plenary session: Emerging industries as engines for Europe’s growth
14:30 – 15:15 Introduction and welcome by the moderator, Laura La Posta, journalist at Sole 24 Ore
Innovation in Emerging Industries – Innovation in Lombardy
President of Regione Lombardia, Roberto Maroni
Minister Enterprise, Research and Innovation of Regione Lombardia, Mario Melazzini
Emerging Industries Driving Forward Competitiveness in Italy
Director General for Internationalisation and Trade Promotion at the Italian Ministry of Economic Development and SME Envoy of Italy, Giuseppe Tripoli (vdc)
Emerging Industries and their role in Europe’s Industrial Renaissance
European Commission’s Directorate-General Enterprise & Industry, Director for SMEs and Entrepreneurship and Deputy Special Envoy for SMEs, Joanna Drake
15:15 – 16:00 Panel discussion and Q&A session with audience
Vice-President of Assolombarda, Alessandro Spada
President of UEAPME, Gunilla Almgren
Vice-Chair of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) of the European Parliament, Patrizia Toia (vdc)
Chief Innovation Officer at Gruppo Rold, Paolo Barbatelli
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break
II. Plenary session: What is there for Europe’s industrial renaissance? Understanding emerging industries and the innovations which drive them
16:30 – 17:30 Introduction by the moderator, Laura La Posta, journalista at Sole 24 Ore
Scene setter: Emerging Industries: Features, Drivers and Potentials
Manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Laurent Frideres, LUX
3 Case Studies
- A New Industrial Revolution? The Potential behind 3D Printing
Executive Vice President of Materialise, Bart Van der Schueren, BE/Flanders - Resource Efficiency – A Driving Force behind Cross-Sectoral Cooperation, Director at International Synergies – Industrial Ecology Solutions, Rachel Lombardi, UK
- Tastes Good – Emerging Food Industries
Latteria Ugolini, Vice-President Intl di Latteria Ugolini, Francesco Cesario, IT
From Rinascimento to Emerging Industries – Foresight analysis on the impact of Emerging Industries
President of Future Concept Lab, Francesco Morace, IT
17:30 – 18:15 Panel discussion and Q&A session with the audience
Manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Laurent Frideres, LUX
President of Future Concept Lab, Francesco Morace, IT
Executive Vice President of Materialise, Bart Van der Schueren
BE/Flanders Director at International Synergies – Industrial Ecology Solutions, Rachel Lombardi, UK
Vice-President Intl at Latteria Ugolini, Francesco Cesario, IT
Conference dinner
20:30 – 22:30 Conference dinner and surprise entertainment at Palazzo Lombardia
09:00 – 09:30 Registration, coffee & tea
III. Plenary session: What can policy do? Creating a favourable policy framework
09:30 – 09:45 Introduction and recap by the moderator, Laura La Posta, journalist at Sole 24 Ore
09:45 – 10:30 Emerging industries, open innovation and innovation policies
Scientific Committee of the Lombardy Region, Co-Director of the Master in Open Innovation and Knowledge Transfer, Politecnico di Milano University, Paolo Landoni
Policy strategy and support measures in Lombardy
Deputy General Manager at the Lombardy Region Directorate for Enterprise, Research and Innovation, Armando De Crinito
The example of the Vanguard Initiative regions
Representative of the Vanguard Initiative, President of ANI – Agência Nacional de Inovação, José Carlos Caldeira Pinto de Sousa, PT
10:30 – 11:10 EU policy actions
EU policy actions in support of emerging industries
European Commission’s Directorate-General Enterprise & Industry, Policy officer in Unit SMEs: Clusters & Emerging Industries, Lisbeth Bahl Poulsen
- Service Innovation – A Key Ingredient in Emerging Industries
European Service Innovation Centre, Rambøll Management, Kimmo Halme, FI - The Canary Islands as a model demonstrator region
General Director of the Canary Islands Agency of Research, Innovation and the Information Society, Juan Ruiz Alzola, ES
11:10 – 11:50 Panel discussion and Q&A session with the audience
Representative of the Vanguard Initiative, Chairmen of the European Forum for Clusters in Emerging Industries, Lennart Svensson, SE
Deputy General Manager at the Lombardy Region Directorate for Enterprise, Research and Innovation, Armando De Crinito
General Director of the Canary Islands Agency of Research, Innovation and the Information Society, Juan Ruiz Alzola, ES
11:50 – 12:00 What happens next? Short introduction to parallel sessions by the moderator
Richard Tuffs, director, European Regions Research and Innovation Network
(ERRIN)
Break
12:00 – 13:45 Exhibition, E-Merging Café & Walking Buffet
IV. Parallel sessions: What do entrepreneurs need? Providing the right business support
Parallel session A: Clusters and SME intermediaries
Auditorium Testori
13:45 – 14:30 Introduction by moderator, Anna Traylor, Project Manager at WSX Enterprise, LoToNo, UK
Voucher schemes as a key to cross-sectoral cooperation
Project Manager at Austria Wirtschaftsservice Gesellschaft, Vouchers in Creative Industries (VINCI), European Creative Industries Alliance, Christina Koch, AT
Clusters as brokers for emerging health industries Coordinator Contactpoint Care Economics at Flanders Enterprise, Nano4Health, Lieve Apers, BE/Flanders
Project Manager at Région Rhône-Alpes
Health2Care, Laurence Minne, FR
Project Coordinator at Saxon State Ministry for Economic Affairs, Labour and Transport, C3-Saxony, Joerg Wylegalla, DE
Parallel session B: Access to finance and bankable proposals
Sala 5 (first floor)
13:45 – 14:30 Introduction by moderator, Claudio Maviglia, Head of Projects & Product Development Department, Finlombarda, IT
Match made in heaven – What does a business angel want?
LVenture Group, Board Member, Roberto Magnifico, IT
Teaching banks of the potential of creative industries
General Manager at St’Art – Investment Fund for Cultural and Creative Industries, Wallonia European Creative District, Virginie Civrais, BE/Wallonia-Brussels Federation
Experiences in attracting investment
KINEMATIX, CEO, Paulo Ferreira Dos Santos, PT
Parallel session C: Internationalisation and access to international markets
Sala Marco Biagi (first floor)
13:45 – 14:30 Introduction by moderator, Antonio Santangelo, Expert on Communication and technology transfer
Helping SMEs accessing international markets – The WIINTECH Network experience
WIINTECH – Plastipolis, Director General, Patrick Vuillermoz, FR
Enterprise Europe Network services for SME internationalisation
Representative of Enterprise Europe Network, Finlombarda, Guido Dominoni
Internationalisation within the Feeding the Planet European Cluster Partnership
Senior Project Manager at Regional Development and Innovation Oost NV, Feeding the Planet, Linze Rijswijk, NL
14:30 – 15:00 Panel discussion and Q&A session with the audience, Rapporteur Dario Barbieri, Consultant at Business e Persone, IT
14:30 – 15:00 Panel discussion and Q&A session with the audience, Rapporteur Angelos Manglis, Owner of Atlantis Consulting, EMMINVEST, GR
14:30 – 15:00 Panel discussion and Q&A session with the audience, Rapporteur Darja Radić, Manager at PROVOBIS Business Consulting, Poly4EmI, SI
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break
V. Plenary session: Reporting back from the parallel sessions
15:30 – 16:15 Reporting back from parallel sessions followed by reactions from business panel
SME Envoy of the Lombardy Region, Roberto Albonetti
YES – President of the European Confederation of Young Entrepreneurs, Dimitris Tsigos
StartMiUp, Manager at StartMiUp, Marina Calcagno Baldini
VI. Plenary session: Lessons to take home and Closing
16:15 – 16:30 Review of the Conference: Lessons to take home
Richard Tuffs, director, European Regions Research and Innovation Network
(ERRIN)
16:30 – 16:45 Closing addresses
European Commission’s Directorate-General Enterprise & Industry, Head of Unit SMEs: Clusters & Emerging Industries, Kirsi Ekroth-Manssila
Director General of Éupolis Lombardia, Institute for Research, Statistics and Training of the Region of Lombardy, Alessandro Colombo