Center for innovation research (CERINNO)

logo CERINNOAs the head of the Center for innovation research (CERINNO) @ Center of Excellence for Biosensors, Instrumentation and Process Control, I would like to announce a new webpage that we just released. We would like to serve as a hub for applied and basic innovation research at both micro and macro levels. Welcome to communicate and cooperate with us!

7. Slovenski forum inovacij – okrogla miza

Včeraj se je na Gospodarskem razstavišču v Ljubljani odvijal 7. Slovenski forum inovacij. Na (po moji oceni) zanimivi okrogli mizi smo izmenjali nekaj mnenj o inovativnosti. Takole so zapisali na spletni strani Foruma:

Dogajanje pa je popestrila tudi zanimiva okrogla miza z naslovom »Inovativna Slovenija – slogan, mit ali gradovi v oblakih,« na kateri je moderatorka Edita Cetinski Malnar s priznanimi podjetniki, ki so v praksi večkrat dokazali, da je inovativnost ključ do uspešnega podjetja, razpravljali o izzivih inovativnega življenja. Miha Škerlavaj, raziskovalec in predavatelj z Ekonomske fakultete, Rok Uršič, ustanovitelj visokotehnološkega podjetja svetovnega razreda Instrumentation Technologies, d. d., kreator slovenskega superavtomobila Aljoša Tušek, Tushek Supercars, d. o. o., elektrotehnik z mednarodnim podjetjem Marko Lotrič, Lotrič meroslovje, d. o. o in Devid Palčič, Primorec, ki skrbi za razmah zelenih tehnologij, Robotina, d. o. o. so vsem inovativnim položili na srce, naj bodo proaktivni in drzni, naj jih prav nič ne ustavi, naj neuspeh jemljejo kot motivacijo za nove poskuse, predvsem pa naj zaupajo vase in ohranijo otroško radovednost.

Avtorica: Anja Garbajs

US trip

Over the following 10 days or so, I’ll be on a trip around USA to talk with and learn from the responsible people from top notch US business schools on their experience with executive and MBA education. It is a part of benchmarking as related to the endeavours of the Center of excellence in biosensorics, instrumentation and process controlLaboratory fo Open Innovation Systems to develop a specalized programme MBAR for researchers and developers in need of business-related knowledge and skills. I’ll have an amazing opportunity to meet experts from MIT, Berkeley and UCLA.

Mini MBAR kick-off

Today we started with the mini Master of Business Administration in Research, which is led by myself and prof.dr. Aleš Groznik and tought by prof.dr. William Barletta and prof. Marko Hočevar and hosted by the Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana. The 40-hour program within the framework of Center of Excellence for Biosensors, Instrumentation and Process Control is specially designed to meet the needs for business knowledge of managers with background in technical or nature sciences, working in research and development organizations. Here is the link to some photos and some more details.