The HIVE (Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) Innovation for Knowledge-Intensive Entrepreneurship) project aims at strengthening the innovation and entrepreneurial capacity of the participating HEIs.

The HIVE (Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) Innovation for Knowledge-Intensive Entrepreneurship) project aims at strengthening the innovation and entrepreneurial capacity of the participating HEIs.

On their route towards becoming entrepreneurial universities, the HIVE partner-HEIs extensively cooperate and collaborate with each other in the frame of the project, including

  • an exchange of good practices in research commercialisation and technology transfer, entrepreneurial education and networking activities,
  • sharing and multiplying knowledge and understanding of innovation and business processes, incl. IPR management and protection,
  • institutional developments specifically dedicated to improving the commercialization innovation ecosystems in the research institutions and higher education establishments, and
  • developing a joint e-learning course on entrepreneurship and innovation.

The project’s wide scope and breadth of activities generated a substantial and eminent momentum in networking activities within the HIVE project itself, as well as spill-overs into new cooperation partnerships with other players of the so-called EIT Knowledge Triangle, i.e. Education, Research, and Business on top. As a result, an extraordinary number of 24 partnership and cooperation agreements could be reported as project KPIs to EIT Health so far, including new partnerships with EIT KIC partners, businesses, research organizations, governmental bodies, NGOs and other societal partners.

 

Highlights among the new cooperation partnerships include:

  • Membership agreement of TED University in the EU Robotics network,
  • Memorandum of Understanding between Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Bulgarian European Studies Association,
  • Membership of Riga Stradins University in the international association of knowledge transfer professionals ASTP,
  • The University of Latvia has joined the "New European Bauhaus" (NEB), a creative and interdisciplinary European Commission's initiative that connects the European Green Deal and includes a total of 764 partners,
  • Cooperation agreement by the Wiener Neustadt University of Applied Sciences and the Austrian Business Agency AWS,
  • Memorandum of Partnership and Cooperation between the Dnipro University of Technology and the Ukrainian Startup Fund,
  • Memorandum of Partnership and Cooperation between the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv and the Ukrainian Startup Fund,
  • Informal cooperation between the University of Coimbra and the INOVC+ Consortium, composed of 18 partners representing non-business entities of R&I,
  • Cooperation agreement between TED University and Coursera,
  • Cooperation between ESSEC Business School and CY School of Design,
  • Informal cooperation by Bukovina State Medical University to create a network of HEI participating in EIT projects and promote EIT programme in the Ukrainian HEI, and
  • Memorandum of Cooperation between the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague and the Prague Innovation Institute.

With a view towards ensuring project sustainability by continued collaboration of the partners in common projects and research activities in the future, the outlook for establishing even more cooperation partnerships during the remaining phase of the HIVE project looks equally promising!

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