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Provincia di Mantova
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European Commission DG Enterprise
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Thematic network:
VERITE
Virtual Environment for Innovation Management Technologies
Conference on
Innovation Management Technologies and New Product Development
Mantova, Italy, 17-18 October 2002
Session 1: Regions and new product
development
- "New Product innovation and development on local
territory: the role of new technologies" by Gialuca Momoli, external
Consultant of the Province of Mantova and Head of the Society ASI (Azienda
Servizi informativi), Italy
- "Digital cities and Intelligent Regions: NPD in
context culture" André
Jean-Marc Loechel, President
of the European network of digital cities, France
- "New Product Development in the Automotive Supply
Chain: challenges for SMEs and regional support frameworks" by Martin
Rhisiart, Observatory of Innovation and Business Development, Cardiff Business
School, Cardiff University, UK
- "Local industrial districts and new tecnologies", by Olga Formigoni, Resposible for the Production Activites – Province
of Mantova, Italy
- "New Product Development Strategy as Catalyst
for Regional Welfare Formulation & Implementation The case of Thessaly"
by Vangelis Katsaros, Chemical Engineer, PhD Candidate University of
Thessaly, Greece
Session 2: New product development tools
- “A roadmap for the definition of New Product Development
Processes” by Passas Isidoros, URENIO Research
Unit, Greece
- “Practical Process of Product Development by SMEs.”
by Tony Haynes, Chief Executive, Yorkshire & Humberside Regional
Technology Network, UK
- Making your product fit your customer’s needs: Tools
for market adaptation in early product development stages – an SME case study”
by Björn
- Westling, IVF Industrial Research and Development Corporation,
Sweeden
- “From handmade prototypes to milled 5 axis-models in one day” by
Norbert Blaha, Westcam Datentechnik, Austria
- “CIRTES, as a European centre for Rapid Prototyping
and Rapid Tooling” by VELNOM Laurent, France
- “Product and Process
Innovation in the Chemical Fibre Industry: Patenting in Microfibres” by
Dr Amanda Lindsay, London Metropolitan University, UK
Friday 18 October 2002
Session 3: Virtual environments for NPD
- LinEx project”, by Luis Casas, "e-Extremadura", Regional authority of Extremandura, Spain
- The Innovation BOOSTER project”, by Mauro Paolini, UCM, Italy
- EPINETTE, virtual
platform of help to the technological development to the service of the small
and medium enterprises in the fields of wood
- industry” by Hervé VAN OOST, CRITT Bois, France
Session 4: Generation of ideas for NPD
- Generation of Ideas for New Product Development” by Cynthia
Morgan, BIC Eryri, Wales, UK
- Triz and inverse Triz: methodologies for design and
technology transfer.” by Vincent BOLY, Ecole Supérieure en Génie des systèmes
industriels of Nancy, France
- The holistic view of the front end of innovation”,
by Dipl.-Wirtsch.-Ing. (FH)
Lars Deppe, Dipl.-Wirtsch.-Ing. Stefan Kohn, Dr.-Ing. Francesca Paoletti und Dr. Andreas Levermann