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