OIPEC
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OIPEC – Open Innovation Platform for University-Enterprise Collaboration
is a capacity-building project, co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union, which aims at transferring the best European practices in university-enterprise collaborations to Russian and Chinese partners.
The project started in October 2015 and lasted 36 months.
OBJECTIVES
The ultimate goals of the project are:
- the creation of a platform that supports partnerships between universities and enterprises by providing easy access to universities’ expertise for small and medium enterprises;
- the increase of the collaborative activities between universities and enterprises, with the aim of generating novel products/services or improving existing ones.
The platform consists of three main pillars:
- arranging a training course and an executive program to improve competences of enterprises’ staff in innovation management and new product/service development;
- establishing and managing the “Collaborative Open Innovation laboratories” (COILabs), integrated facilities at partner universities with the following functional areas:
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Concept development area, centered on design thinking and raw prototyping
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Rapid prototyping area, providing both design and operational skills
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Entrepreneurial area, to support the development and validation of business concepts
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sharing the expertise acquired among European, Russian and Chinese universities.
PARTNERS
- Politecnico di Milano (Italy) (project coordinator)
- Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble Inp) (France)
- Hebei University of Technology- HEBUT (China);
- Lappeenranta University of Technology-LUT (Finland)
- M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University- MSU (Russia)
- Tianjin University (China)
- Vladimirskiy Gosudarstvenniy Universitet (Russia)