Session info

This session is about the integration of cleantech in other industries through open innovation. Cleantech is not only about technological solutions, but also about adopting sustainability in core values of all businesses – in new and creative ways that are suitable for modern organizations. We will need to rely both on big corporation capacities but also on the creativity and innovative spirit of small-medium size companies integrated in supply chains. Clusters have an essential role in order to connect all competences available, increasing the critical mass, bridging technological gaps and creating new opportunities.

The central question for this DC panel is “How to build collaboration in a highly competitive environment?”

• Jan Lepoutre (Assistant professor of Entrepreneurship and Strategy Vlerick Management School, Flanders)
• Anders Sahl Hansen (Project Manager BioMeme, Central Denmark)
• Alberto Ribolla (President Lombardy Energy Cluster, Lombardia)
• Bernard Soulage (European coördinator of the cleantech program between the 4 motors from Europe and from Mercosur, Rhônes-Alpes)