TRANSACT Highlights in Hungary László Bacsa PAXIS Joint Final Conference Salamanca, June 2005

Transact Highlights in Budapest/Hungary Awareness Rising TrainingNetwork

Awareness Rising Articles in Newsletters Addressing of Student Organisations Other dissemination activities Business Simulation Competition

Awareness Rising Articles in Newsletters INNOTECH posted different articles in the university newsletter MÜHELY (published twice per month in 7,000 copies)

Awareness Rising Addressing of Student Organisations  EHK (Student Government of Budapest University of Technology and Economics, where all 8 faculties have to representatives)  Simonyi Károly Professional Student Organization

Awareness Rising Other dissemination activities  “IDEALAB conference” 25 th May 2004 Project presentation - introduction of the international business simulation competition. - lecture about the university's R&D and innovations status

Awareness Rising Other dissemination activities Interview of Prof. Dr. Risztics in “HEURÉKA! Megtalátam”, Duna TV, September 2004 Prof. Dr Péter Risztics, the director of Budapest University of Technology and Economics Centre of Information Technology (BUTE CIT) had an interview in the Hungarian Duna (Danube) Satellite Television. The 10 min-interview gave an overview about the BUTE CIT and summarised the point and the goal of the TRANSACT project and the TRANSACT conference in Budapest 11 th - 12 th March 2004 in BUTE CIT.

Awareness Rising Other dissemination activities Professional Workshop, 11 th March 2005 “Do competitiveness and effectiveness exist without informatics, information technology?”  To enhance the importance of university-industry relationship and the role of a knowledge and innovation centre in the BME.  About 70 participants

Awareness Rising Business Simulation Competition – The Idea -a computer based simulation for students interested in starting their own business - a model of company structures and business processes at reduced complexity -focus on reproduction of the typical phases a start-up company is going through facing business, technical and social challenges

Awareness Rising Business Simulation Competition – The Competitors 4 teams (each 4-6 participants) from - Romania (University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Bucharest, Faculty of Agriculture) - Estonia (Tartu University, Institute of Technology) - Hungary (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Centre of Information Technology) - France (CREALYS, Lyon)

Awareness Rising Business Simulation Competition in Budapest, December 2004 Due to the high number of applications even a pre-competition took place with 22 participants in Budapest. In the final competition the Hungarian team “BikeZone” won the 1 st prize!

Networking Outer Network: …was already established - Pest County Regional Development Agency - Hungarian Association for Innovation - Association of Industry Parks - Budaörs Industrial and Technology Park - INNOSTART (a BIC) - INSTITUTE for Strategy Research - Budapest Chamber of Industry and Commerce

Networking Outer Network: …could be strengthened and the good network relations resulted in common project proposals for national tenders: Establishing and operating University Based Knowledge Centres

Information Technology Innovation and Knowledge Centre (IT)  Networking

Networking – Awareness Rising Articles in Newsletters Addressing of Student Organisations Other dissemination activities Business Simulation Competition

Networking Internal Network: As a first step, professors have been addressed who seemed willing to support the idea of start-up support and who could act as multipliers Centre of Information Technology

Training INNOTECH included the idea to offer training courses for students, graduates and other would-be entrepreneurs in the field of entrepreneurship into the project proposal. It is part of the integrated approach of technology transfer. Main modules: - innovation management - Business plan - IPR issues

Laszlo Bacsa Innotech Innovation Park of the Technical University in Budapest Ltd., Hungary Thank you for your attention