Programme

Tuesday 13 May

09.00 – 09.25 h Conference registration with coffee/tea (HU UAS Utrecht, Foyer see for the address: information)
09.25 – 09.35 h Opening (Conference room 4)
Conference chair dr. Joachim Hafkesbrink
09.35 – 09.50 h Welcome
King’s Commissioner of the Province of Utrecht Willibrord van Beek
09.50 – 10.15 h Speech 1 Innovative China?
Prof. Georges Haour
10.15 – 10.40 h Speech 2 The Transition towards a Green Economy
Prof. dr. Jacqueline Cramer
10.40 – 11.05 h Coffee break (Foyer)
11.05 – 11.30 h Speech 3 The Unlikely Entrepreneur: Social Innovation as a driver of inner city regeneration (Conference room 4)
Beverley Hurley CBE MSc
11.30 – 12.00 h Speech 4 Smart Sustainable Cities – Rapid Developments Required
Prof. dr. Ivo Opstelten
12.00 – 12.15 h Official launch of the TII China Chapter
Gordon Ollivere CBE and dr. Zhengping Liu
12.15 – 13.15 h Lunch break (Atrium)
13.15 – 17.00 h Four parallel sessions with presentations
 
Session 1
Smart Sustainable Cities: The Physical Transition
Session chair
Prof. dr. Ivo Opstelten
(Session room F1.26)
Session 2
Innovation across Continents (including China Chapter TII)
Session chair
Gordon Ollivere CBE
(Session room F1.27)
Session 3
Social Innovation and New Forms of Entrepreneurship
Session chair
Beverley Hurley CBE MSc
(Session room E-1.20)
Session 4
The Circular Economy
Session chair
Prof. dr. Jacqueline Cramer
(Session room E-1.12)

13.15

1-P1
Urban make over, the sleeping capital
 
2-P1
Causes and Consequences of City Growth in China
 
3-P1 Innovation business partnering models
Producing high-quality fertilizer using dust and plant waste
13.45
 1-P2
SmarterCity Karlsruhe: implementing smart movement
Lessons from doing TT between Europe-Asia 
 
Foresight Innovation Communities
Circular Rail System
14.15
Short break
Short break
Short break
Short break
 
14.30
Circular Cities
Overview of Chinese technology market and business opportunities
Cancelled
 4-P3
Agents in products
15.00
Resilient refurbishment
Technology transfer in Asia
 
Student-driven business incubation
 4-P4
The wise district lets sustainability flourish
15.30
Short break
 
Short break
Short break
Short break
15.45
Seasonal storage of thermal energy
EU-Chinese collaboration in technology transfer
Product Co-Created Centres (PC3) as Social Innovation Systems
An approach to stimulate reuse in equipment manufacturing
 
16.15
Excellence in industrialised extreme retrofitted houses
 
Discussion on the China Chapter
The role of social innovation in UK criminal justice reform
Towards a green economy in Utrecht
16.45
Wrap-up
by Session chair
Wrap-up
by Session chair
Wrap-up
by Session chair
Wrap-up
by Session chair
17.00 End of programme
18.30 Conference dinner ('De Winkel van Sinkel', a restaurant in the heart of Utrecht)

Wednesday 14 May

08.30 – 09.00 h Conference registration with coffee/tea (HU UAS Utrecht, Foyer see for the address: information)
09.00 –12.00 h Four parallel sessions with presentations
 
Session 5
Smart Sustainable Cities: Policy and Regulatory Transition
Session chair
Prof. dr. Kornelis Blok
(Session room F1.26)
Session 6
Science2Business for Smart Growth
Session chair
Ing. Arjan de Bruin
(Session room F1.27)
Session 7
Smart Sustainable Cities: The Social Design
Session chair
Prof. dr. ir. Remko van der Lugt
(Session room E-1.20)
Session 8
Open Innovation Accelerators
Session chair
Koen Verhaert
(Session room E-1.12)
09.00
 5-P1
The gap between science and decision-making
 
 6-P1
Capitalization INTERREG IVC projects
 7-P1
Musketeer: co-creating organisations with generations
 8-P1
Masters of Maintenance & Asset Management: catalysts for innovation in industry
09.30
 5-P2
Transforming
existing urban areas into sustainable living
quarters
 6-P2
Social Sciences and Humanities as innovation boosters
 7-P2
URBAN acupuncture
 8-P2
International Research Hatchery for Green Business
10.00
Short break
Short break
Short break
Short break
10.15
 5-P3
The CO2 Performance Ladder: a tool for improved corporate energy management
 6-P3
VC planning is irrelevant to successful science entrepreneurship
 7-P3
A collaborative co-evolution approach to Smart Sustainable Cities
 8-P3
Does Open Innovation imply Open IP in an R&D environment?
10.45
 5-P4
Up scaling in Smart Energy Networks
 6-P4
ANT: mapping green tech transfer paths
 7-P4
Strategic collaboration for sustainability: The Natural Step Framework
 8-P4
How open data can accelerate open innovation?
11.15
 5-P5
Can energy neutrality
of deep retrofitted residences be guaranteed?
 6-P5
Innovation funding - a black hole for SMEs?
 7-P5
How to encourage employees to travel by bike?
 8-P5
Technology transfer as innovation accelerator
 
 
 6-P6
The researcher in 2023
 
 8-P6
Valuation of early-stage technology business
11.45
Wrap-up
by Session chair
Wrap-up
by Session chair
Wrap-up
by Session chair
Wrap-up
by Session chair
12.00 – 13.00 h Lunch break (Atrium)
13.00 – 13.10 h Welcome back (Conference room 4)
Conference chair dr. ir. Anton Franken MBA
13.10 – 13.35 h Final speech Sustainable Buildings: One Planet Architecture
Thomas Rau
13.35 – 14.00 h Formal opening of the Centre of Expertise ‘Smart Sustainable Cities’
mayor of Utrecht, Thomas Rau, Menno de Jonge MBA, Ivo Opstelten and dr. ir. Anton Franken MBA
14.00 – 15.00 h Plenary conference wrap-up
Discussion with the eight session chairs, led by drs. Maurits Groen
15.00 – 15.15 h Conclusions
Dr. ir. Anton Franken MBA and dr. Joachim Hafkesbrink
15.15 h Formal end of the conference
15.15 – 16.30 h Reception (Foyer)
And: opportunities for networking and meetings in the foyer.