Second meeting of the Coordination Committee 29° November 2010 - Palermo Main issues of the National Research Council CNR is a scientific institution and

Second meeting of the Coordination Committee29° November 2010 - Palermo

Main issues of the

National Research Council

CNR is a scientific institution and its activities for the knowInG project aim to stimulate Knowledge sharing and capacity buildings of individuals and SMEs.

It covers the Italian level of the activities.

Think tank

Laboratory of creativity

Resource Centre


Think Tank

Think Tank aims to share methodologies, strategies, theories and

experiences on the “Knowledge economy for the Mediterranean

regions” contributing and integrating them.

•How to obtain this ?

with the promotion of meetings, close examinations, debates and

exchange of ideas on the project themes aimed at supporting the

creation of innovation and new knowledge.


Think Tank

•What are its potential contents ?

documents, contributions, information on conferences,

multimedia material, etc.

•Who are the target actors?

National and local actors involved in the project topics, decision-

makers, politicians, industrialists, operators in the knowledge

economy.


Resource Centre

What the Resource Centre will be

The Resource Centre will be:

the virtual place where SMEs, Universities, research

Institutions, Innovation centres, and Public authorities

share tools, promoting business alliances, improving local

governance


Think Tank

•How Think tank will be build?

Tink tank will use information and data from pilot projects,

information about curricula and skills of people and SMEs in

production and services sectors with high innovation and

knowledge content.

This activity is related to the communities of practice, their

network and their dimention in order to promote these

communities using newsletter and other tools; in fact, sharing

knowledge and innovation can require the involvement of civil

society.

Launch ConferenceNovember 30, 2010 - Palermo


•Where the laboratory of creativity will be developed in Italy?

Milan is the location for the laboratory of creativity in the Italian

case study.

The selected area represents a very rich area of SMEs collecting

some relevant experiences for the Made in Italy; the Fashion

district represents a flagship.

Fashion Cluster in Milan, collects the characteristics and needs

of creativity, capacity building and knowledge sharing.



What the laboratory of creativity in Milan will stimulate?

•Stimulate convenience and opportunity

•Stimulate the need of sharing knowledge

•Stimulate networking capacity for SMEs

•Stimulating services supporting networking and knowledge sharing for SMEs

•Stimulating the production of good practices


Resource Centre

The Resource Centre:

Knowledge repository

Networking

Communication

Collaboration

Decision support


Resource Centre

The different steps/sections of the Resource center

Document management

Profile management

Advanced services


Thank you for your attention

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Second meeting of the Coordination Committee 29° November 2010 - Palermo Main issues of the National Research Council CNR is a scientific institution and