Roundtable Discussion on Triple Helix Interactions
(University – Industry – Government)
Organized by the Triple Helix Association Chapter of Greece
ICEIRD 2014 6 June 2014, 12:00-14:00, Hilton Hotel, Nicosia, Cyprus
Coordinator: Panayiotis H. Ketikidis, President of the THA Chapter of Greece
Panellists
Thomas Parisis, RTD Talos Ltd
Marilena Paraskeva, Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation
Despina Martidou – Forcier, Director of Higher and Tertiary Education, Ministry of Education and Culture
Georgios Peroulakis, Senior Desk Officer in EC-DG Regio
Tim Vorley, Senior Lecturer, The University of Sheffield, UK
Key Issues for the roundtable discussion (Indicative Questions)
To all Panellists
– Who is leading, policy or practice ?
– What are the University Business Collaboration barriers and drivers in your specific case? (A barrier provides a hindrance or obstacle to do something, while a driver provides the motivation to do that)
– How you could cross university-industry boundaries in Cyprus? – How can the Triple Helix approach build ‘the enterprising state’ in which universities, businesses and governments co-innovate to solve the global economic challenges?
Industry
– Why is there a limited cooperation with academia?
– What is the bridge to the academia?
– What are your business needs in respect to the profile of non-Business graduates?
Academia
– How can you pro-actively collaborate/communicate with the industry so that your expectations from industry are met? “Academics do not have enough benefits from cooperating with industry”
– What is the bridge to industry?
– Do we need Entrepreneurial courses in the non-Business Academic Curricula?
Government
– How the involvement of the government could assist triple helix interactions/relations?
– How the policy specifically supports university-industry collaborations?