In the quality of guest member of the Brussels-based think tank on innovation policy, the Science|Business Innovation Board AISBL, Maria da Graça Carvalho participated in its annual Academic Enterprise Awards and conference. This took place in the European Parliament.
Maria da Graça Carvalho participated in the opening and panel discussion on How to encourage spin-outs creation?. In this panel also intervened Nani Beccalli-Falco, CEO and President GE Europe, CEO, GE Germany; Roland Siegwart, Vice-President Research and Corporate Relations, ETH Zurich; and Joanna Drake, Director, SMEs and Entrepreneurship, DG Enterprise and Industry, European Commission. The moderator was Richard L. Hudson, CEO, Science|Business.
The Board is a not-for profit scientific association that performs original research on EU innovation policy, organises four conferences a year on innovation policy, and runs the annual Academic Enterprise Awards ACES to recognise Europe's top university entrepreneurs.
Members include Imperial College London, Microsoft, ESADE, BP, Aalto University, SKF, INSEAD, GE and Science|Business, a Brussels and London-based media and communications company. The Board's recent research has included studies of open innovation, start-up investment, university governance, university-industry relations and high-growth entrepreneurship across Europe.