IEEE-IFR Joint Industry Forum on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Robotics and Automation (IERA'07)
Tuesday 10 April 2007
Aula 1
School of Engineering, S. Pietro in Vincoli
10:00-18:00
IEEE RAS and IFR have reached a common understanding that there is a need to strengthen the synergy between the industrial and academic sectors of the robotics and automation community in order to: foster innovation and entrepreneurship in robotics and automation, establish a closer link between theory and practice, and to create new opportunities for the industrialization of robotics and automation. The initial collaborations between the two organizations are the establishment of an Industry Forum on "Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Robotics and Automation (IERA)" and the creation of an "Invention and Entrepreneurship Award".
The IERA'07 Forum aims at promoting innovation and entrepreneurship, as well as synergy between academia and industry, in the robotics and automation community. It is divided into two parts.
In the first part outstanding entrepreneurs will present in a series of plenary lectures their story of the genesis of a successful innovative product in robotics and automation from its very inception to the final state of commercialization. The ultimate winner of the "Invention and Entrepreneurship Award" will be chosen by an evaluation board, consisting of distinguished individuals from industry and academia.
The second part of the Forum is a workshop on the "Robotics and Automation Industry of the Future: Perspectives from Commercial, Research and Policy Sectors". In a series of six talks from highly distinguished speakers from industry, academia and governmental organizations, the future of robotics and automation will be presented and discussed.
The venue is in Aula 1 at the School of Engineering of the Università di Roma "La Sapienza", S. Pietro in Vincoli, in parallel to the first day of tutorials and workshops of ICRA'07.
For more information on this event, including registration details and the call for applications for the IERA'07 Award, see https://isrc.skku.ac.kr/~IAB.