UiB Innovation Festival: From research to change
UiB Innovation Festival is a meeting place for researchers, students, innovators, and businesses from the region to explore how research can be transformed into real societal changes.听
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The festival will bring insights into the breadth of innovation coming from the university, exploring current issues around innovation, such as how to balance publishing with protecting intellectual property and what the role of UiB is in Vestland鈥檚 green transition.
- Registration to UiB Innovation Festival 2024
- Registration to UiB Innovation Festival 2024
Register for lunch and snacks during the day. You are also welcome to attend any part of the programme without registering for the innovation festival.听
As a part of , the UiB Innovation Festival promotes collaboration between academia, industry, and the public sector to create groundbreaking solutions.
We look forward to welcoming you to a day filled with inspiration, learning, and networking.
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Check out these stands at the Innovation Festival:
In Nordre Allmenning (to the right from the entrance):听
- TVEPS - Centre for Interprofessional Workplace Learning听
- Magnetic brain stimulation machine听
- , a mixed reality narrative educational game on climate game, UiB Id茅 project from 2023
- and , two educational games adapted from SLATE鈥檚 Erasmus+ project 听
- - UiB's technology transfer company
- , a UiB student spin-off that received UiB Id茅 funding in 2023
- University Library 鈥 check if your work has been cited in patents听
- Communication division at UiB 鈥 glow up your Linkedin profile听
- Photographer - Take a professional profile picture for better online presence
In S酶ndre Allmenning (to the left from the entrance):听
- 3d bone printing bioreactor听
- 鈥淭he road ahead鈥 exhibition about climate change
- Innovation pilots at UiB
- Division of Research and Innovation at UiB 鈥 chat with us to glow up your academic CV听
- UiB Ferd Career Center for Early-Stage Researchers 鈥 chat with us about career guidance and courses for researchers
- - chat with us about career guidance and courses for students
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Programme:
Coffee and light breakfast
08:30 - 09:00
Festival opening and keynote speech
09:00 鈥 09:30
(in English)
"Building social impact at scale: experiments in arts, humanities and social science commercialisation at the University of Cambridge"
Dr. ,听Senior Associate Commercialisation Director, Cambridge Enterprise, University of Cambridge
Since 2018, the University of Cambridge has invested in creating new innovation pathways for researchers in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Within the UK's "impact" landscape, commercialisation is figured as a way to scale and sustain the societal benefit of publicly funded research. 听Dr Emma Salgard Cunha, Associate Commercialisation Director for Arts Humanities and Social Sciences (AHSS) at Cambridge Enterprise, will talk through Cambridge's journey to shape and embed a new offering for researchers, enabling innovative and entrepreneurial routes to impact.
Innovation relay
09:30 鈥 10:15
8 pitches on different types of innovation at UiB (in English):
- 鈥Oil and gas electrification through offshore wind: Legal Innovation trends鈥, , Professor at the Faculty of Law
- 鈥Boosting the blue and sustainable economy in Western Norway: Innovation opportunities with EIT KIC on Water, Marine and Maritime Sectors禄, , PhD, Science adviser to the project: EIT Knowledge and Innovation Community 鈥淲ater, Marine and Maritime Sectors and Ecosystems鈥
- 听鈥Bergen 1320 鈥 Time travel with modern technology鈥, , PhD, Researcher at the Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural 大象传媒 and Religion, Faculty of Humanities
- 听鈥The Road Ahead鈥 , professor of Visual Communication at the Department of Design, Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design
- "Novel Double Functionalized Nanodiamonds for Targeted Treatment to Prevent Oral Cancer Recurrence"听, Professor at the Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine
- "The Value of shared Knowledge"听, Head of Section at the University Museum of Bergen
- "From Nestun to the World: NordicNeuroLab 鈥 a global actor in neuroscience",听, Professor, Deputy Dean at the Department of Biological and Medical Psychology, Faculty of Psychology
- 鈥Quantum sensing for detection of cancer鈥 , PhD, Researcher at the Department of Physics and Technology, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Coffee break and stands
10:15 鈥 10:45
Parallel sessions 1
10:45 鈥 11:15
(in English)
Session 1 in Storsalen 鈥 How to balance publishing and protecting intellectual property (IPR)? w/, senior innovation adviser at the Division of Research and Innovation, UiB,听, senior adviser for innovation and research at the Faculty of Medicine, UiB,听, senior innovation project manager at VIS and听, Senior Associate Commercialisation Director, Cambridge Enterprise, University of Cambridge
Session 2 in听S酶ndre Allmenning 1听鈥 Student Innovation: resources and tools for success听w/ Stine Lines and Johannes Helleve, at UiB
Session 3 in Nordre Allmenning 3听鈥 Effective use of AI: crash course in prompt writing听w/听, Senior Adviser at the Division of Research and Innovation, UiB听
Lunch and exhibitions
11:15 鈥 12:15
Parallel sessions 2
12:15 鈥 12:45
(in English)
Session 1 in Nordre Allmenning 3 鈥 Do you work at UiB and have an innovative idea? Learn how to proceed and what resources are available to you听w/ , senior innovation adviser at the Division of Research and Innovation, UiB,听, manager for TILT - researcher entrepreneurship & senior innovation project manager at VIS and Prof.听听at the Faculty of Medicine, UiB
Session 2 in S酶ndre Allmenning 1 鈥撎Mini-design sprint 鈥 innovation tool for quickly creating and testing new solutions听w/ Stine Lines and Johannes Helleve, at UiB
Session 3 in Storsalen 鈥 Responsible innovation - what is it and how to do it?听w/听, Researcher at the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities, Faculty of Humanities, UiB听
Coffee break and stands
12:45 鈥 13:15
Panel discussion
13:15 鈥 14:00
Innovation for green transition and UiB鈥檚 role in the region (in Norwegian)
Moderator: , Professor, Director, Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation (CET)听
Panelists:听
, Head of project Greenspot Mongstad
, Senior R&D Advisor, GCE Ocean Technology
, Project leader Green Region Vestland, Innovation Norway听
, Professor, Vice-Rector for Innovation, Projects and Knowledge Clusters, UiB听
Award Ceremony for UiB Id茅 2024 and end of the program
14:00 鈥 14:30
With project presentations (in Norwegian)
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