InnoCult at a glance

As there are four key conditions for a successful innovation process: a common development strategy, strong partnerships, the concentration of technologies with a high market potential, national and international visibility, InnoCult tailored to meet all the above keys focusing in the public domain and the research community.

Using the awareness campaign to trigger the problem recognition and improving the concepts in addition to establishing a national innovation system spreading the innovation spirit and educate the public and research community concepts of innovation, Supporting share of information, best practices and the best use of resources, Changing the mindset of the public towards innovation and creativity, teach the public the innovative culture and provide sustained support to public towards the national intractable economic and social problems.

InnoCult interested in challenging these individuals to apply their skills and creativity to these issues to come up with new and innovative solutions and inspire others to do the same.

The InnoCult provides a platform for the development of ‘National Innovation Strategies' towards the public and the exchange of best practices nationally between academia and industry which in its turn leads to the innovation and transnational as well in promoting the regional and European expression of interest for collaboration and InnoCult also develops methodologies to benchmark regional strategies.

InnoCult will act as gateway to competitiveness and innovation for the public sector. It assists businesses by raising awareness and by providing access to information needed to develop a business: how to obtain funding, where to find business partners, or how to participate in European programmes, how I can collaborate with the academia, who share the same vision and I can collaborate with. Furthermore, InnoCult team can advise about EU legislation. As InnoCult proposal promotes innovation also it assists industry to quick solve its problem by encouraging industry to collaborate with academia and by sharing research results and cooperation opportunities to trigger new ideas and possibilities. Promoting transnational technology cooperation and ensuring access to innovative technologies is another priority.

The main mission is to establish an social interactive network and a network of Egyptian Companies, universities, government agencies including public as a main domain in Order to increase the economic and Social cohesion in and to promote the Transfer of Academia-generated knowledge and Technology to industry for the Benefit of society and the economic development of the Nation and facilitate the Industry problem introduction to the academia sector.

InnoCult journal and the creation of national platform for innovation is a valuable Tool for achieving these objectives through the provision of practical and Structured Information concerning current progressive status and the EU funding opportunities.
InnoCult collects the most up-to-date and relevant information regarding the current/previous innovation ideas, initiatives and projects in addition to funding Budgetary period of the European Union. Reading this journal or Visiting InnoCult portal will enable public as well as researchers from the Industry and academia to better understand the new structure, funding opportunities and programmes fostering innovation. This site will be updated regularly and will help educate researcher with special emphasis On Researchers from the industry sector on how these new opportunities and concepts will affect their future. The main mission will be spreading the innovation spirit to the public.
Therefore the outputs will be focused around

• Recognition of the Innovation concept by the public and the research community in addition to the economic importance of knowledge, the increasing use of systems approaches and the growing number of institutions involved in knowledge generation and utilization

• InnoCult will work as a social dynamically innovative platform in the public and research community, the proposal encourages local industry to participate in international cooperation, utilize international R&D resources and enhance innovative capacities and momentum. InnoCult proposal combines existing networks and experiences in International Projects with related government bodies and R&D partners to increase EU funded programmes participation.

• Obtaining synergy between the national organizations.

The InnoCult should raise the awareness for the importance of Innovation and the jointly collaboration between industry and academia , promoting organizations from both sides and provide assistance all over the collaboration process itself including the pre-knowledge/technology transfer process, transfer and what is after collaboration, Basically, if we look at a technology transfer process, we have the pre-transfer process. That is the creation phase of technology, how researchers will create. And this creation is actually how INNOCULT help this in the industrial relations, whereby INNOCULT have a group of Officers actively meeting with industry understand their needs and try to establish Industrial collaborative projects with academia. And then, if the research project is Forthcoming, then they will assist drafting the agreements and set up all the terms of the Collaboration with the faculty members. That is the industrial relations.
Next, the process of the knowledge/technology transfer, we have creation, then we have the
Protection, and then you have the management and the exploitation. The latter of the
Three is managed by the IP management. IP management officers (having technology and scientific background) are trained to Provide assistance in this regard.

InnoCult activities includes (but not limited to)

Promoting R&D capabilities of the research community through several interrelated actions and also raising awareness of public towards the innovation capabilities. activities planned includes Mapping activities of resources and capabilities, Identification and Matchmaking of national and international partners, establishment of integrated portal fostering innovation ,assistance, and respond to researchers and public inquiries,,Establishment of journal and other guiding/supporting documents, and creation of web brokering environment for innovative ideas.

Activity 1: Strengthening innovation capacities and mapping of resources
 
Creating the Conditions for Public Innovation will be held with the aim of generating awareness of innovation and elaborating the role of supporting entities including the funding bodies (the European commission and others) in creating the conditions for the future spread of innovation in the public sector.
Including mapping activities of resources and capabilities from a Health related applications. Environment, Food and agriculture. Biotechnology including biotechnology in agriculture, and pharmaceuticals, Water and Energy themes and make it visible to the public.

Activity 2: INNOCULT Journal

There is a need for journal spreading the innovation spirit to the public in addition it should gather all researchers and public needs towards innovation in one place Information, guidelines, vacancies, opportunities, tips & hints and links.
InnoCult Journal is a free electronic edition distributed in Adobe Acrobat format (In addition to soft copies, Hard copies will be published and distributed), published on a monthly basis by the ENSTINET, Subscribers receives simplified informations can be easily perceived by the public

Activity 3: INNOCULT Portal
InnoCult is advancing the state-of-the-art in an online platform. Promoting new innovative ideas, encouraging the innovation power in the public minds, strengthening and improving public perceiving towards innovation and It promotes collaboration between researchers in academia and industry by giving access to information on European research Projects funded by the EU.
Specific innovative feature will be added to the portal in the latter stage of the project, it includes statistics and reporting for each organization and it will be automated for instant reporting need .such comprehensive reports providing a detailed project based picture on research activities.
In addition the InnoCult measure the extent and intensity of the ties of academic with industrial researchers, and apply social network analysis to reconstruct the network of collaborations

Activity 4: Awareness campaign.

The campaign expanded its messages to educate public about the benefits of innovation and where are the innovation capabilities and resources. It will also focus on the innovation concept and the value of working in groups and share information and best practices.
Innovation day will be organized in latter phase