Best practice Title technology transfer IP and Sub-title

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Example: SC INDA ELTRAC SA Title of the presentation | Date |0 • At the begining: 4 persons / limited financial resources • Performed Services: Consulting Projects attract financing, joint product and business / consulting or technology transfer, access to communications infrastructure, national and international Participation in events (Including TIB), consulting ISO 9001 certification. • Results: • Export to EU partnership with companies in Germany, Austria, • Modernisation of nine Trams in Craiova • Access to FP 7 / Civitas, Innovation and Structural Funds • Member of the cluster Dorothy – Urban Logistics • Turnover: Euro 3. 4 million / 56 people

Success Story in Romania - TTT Title of the presentation | Date |0 • Upgrading urban public transport vehicles with electric traction based on an integrated chopper • Developer: IPA Craiova (with patent) • Technology Transfer at: INDA Eltrac • Recipient: RAT Craiova • Type of agreement: Technology Agreement • Results: - Energy saving up to 30 -40%; - Increased reliability; - Assisted maintenance - Increased operational safety & comfort.

Developed static power converters for driving urban transport vehicles Title of the presentation | Date |0 It designs, makes and tests a modularly driving electric vehicles for urban transport (inverter) for a wide range of vehicles (trams, trolleys), without affecting the structural strength. Industrial property rights are obtained on equipment for driving. Sectorial Operational Programme "Increase of Economic Competitiveness” Priority 2: Research, Technological Development and Innovation Operation projects in partnership between universities / research institutes and businesses.

Inda Eltrac member of the Urban Logistic Cluster and Dorothy Title of the presentation | Date |0 Network Dorothy Cluster is targeted to develop the potential of innovation and research in four European Regions: • Tuscany - Italy, • Valencia - Spain, • Lisbon and Tagus - Portugal , • Oltenia – Romania. in the field of Urban Logistics. Partner Regions

Title of the presentation | Date |0 Cluster’s products

Short History Title of the presentation | Date |0 • In 2000 Inda Eltect don’t protected under IP his products. • The main shareholder decide to organise other company and to patent in this company all the products of the Inda Eltrac company. • In this moment Inda Eltrac had not the objet of the tenders and offers on the market. • Base on the hystory of the Inda Eltrac products, service manuals and manuals of products we solved the problem in benefit of Inda Eltract and the National Body for IP (OSIM) canceled the patents of the new company • Inda Eltract have patented his products and produce in this moment.

Result: Craiova European Innovative City Title of the presentation | Date |0 In 2010, Malmo, Sweden, Civitas Forum, Craiova was nominee as European Innovative City for technological innovation in urban transport.

Links with IMP³rove Title of the presentation | Date |0 • In 2011 we signed with A. T. Kearney Gmb. H, as the lead contractor of IMP³rove, a Memorandum of Understanding. • The Romanian Authority for Scientific Research and Innovation and Eva Dietrich, as IMP³rove Project Manager, signed a Letter of Intent for Trans-national transfer of novel practices in Innovation support. • IMP³rove provides innovation facilitators with new and better services in support of innovation management to effectively consult enterprises on innovation management issues. • IMP³rove has been initiated in 2006 by the European Commission for developing and testing better support services for SMEs in Innovation Management.

Evaluation of the innovative capacity of SMEs Title of the presentation | Date |0 • Objectives: To develop several support services including the IMP³rove online benchmarking platform with the online assessment on Innovation Management, the consulting services etc. IMP³rove stands for IMProving Innovation Management Performance with sustainable IMPact. • Tools: IMP³rove has developed from an online assessment tool for SMEs to a comprehensive approach for improving the competitiveness and profitable growth of EU SMEs. • Experience has shown that it is not sufficient to provide SMEs with a well-founded Innovation Management assessment tool. • It is essential that there are qualified service providers in place to render effective support to SMEs in Innovation Management.

Innovation assessment - Evaluation Title of the presentation | Date |0

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Dimensions that have been evaluated Title of the presentation | Date |0 • Innovation Strategy – gives direction, focuses all innovation management activities for maximum impact, ensuring that the most promising innovation projects are pursued. • Innovation Organisation and Culture - covering the gearing of organisation towards innovation management, and the embedding of innovation management in the firm's culture. • Innovation Life Cycle Processes - covering the integration and management of innovation life cycle processes including idea management, product/service, process development. • Enabling Factors - IT, project management, IPR or human resource management that can be leveraged for increasing the business impact of innovation management. • Innovation Results - the output of innovation management activities, the impact on indicators of business success, e. g. income from sales and operational profit.

Innovation Management Performance Title of the presentation | Date |0 • Inda Eltrac firm has an overall score of 56% on innovation management performance. • The score is compared with the Growth Champions and the average for benchmarking class. • Innovation Management Performance. The assessment report shows firm's performance

Innovation Management Performance Score Title of the presentation | Date |0 • 45% in the dimension Innovation Strategy. • 64% in the dimension Innovation Results. • 63% in the dimension Innovation Organization and Culture. • 54% in the dimension Innovation Life Cycle Processes. • 55% in the dimension Enabling Factors.

The company’s situation and recommendations based on report Title of the presentation | Date |0 • Innovation Strategy: the firm seeks a clear innovation strategy continuously investing in leadership team, motivation employee’s, investing in innovation projects in transport area, electrical engineering etc. • Innovation Organization and Culture: there is organization and innovation networks; the company collaborate with specialist such as researchers, electrical and mechanical engineering’s, experts from transport field. • The company is always in competition with the companies from area, national and international level, always trying to put with news from the field to be able to respond at opportunities presented by their existing customers/consumers, understand the features of their product/service identified new costumers/consumers.

The company’s situation and recommendations based on report (2) Title of the presentation | Date |0 • Innovation Life Cycle Processes: there are innovative products/services, processes development; are allocated funds for financing of innovative projects, products development etc. It has patented products obtaining silver or gold medals at international inventions events. • Innovation Results: in the firm exist innovation activities (example: equipment’s, methods, processes) affecting the impact of business success, e. g. income from sales and operational profit.

The company’s situation and recommendations based on report (3) Title of the presentation | Date |0 • Enabling Factors: in the firm exist intellectual property rights or human resource management that can be leveraged for increasing the business impact of innovation management, but can be improved. • The company must invest into the personal formation from management (including management of projects, structural funds, research projects – specially Horizon 2020, Eureka/Eurostars), professional (including financial) and research-innovation point of view.

Title of the presentation | Date |0 Thank you for your kind attention Gabriela Canureci Gabriel Vladut office@ipacv. ro