Connection of early stage smart investors with technology-based start-ups in innovation ecosystems: 9th TTO CIRCLE plenary meeting, 26th 27th May 2016

摘要

This report summarises the key conclusions, proceedings and evaluation of the 9th TTO circle plenary meeting held in San Sebastian on 26&27 May 2016. This meeting was organised by JRC in collaboration with TECNALIA.All material pertaining to this event (including speakers’ presentations and background papers) is available at https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/event/conference/9th-plenary-meeting-european-tto-circle. The 9th Plenary Meeting of the European Technology Transfer Offices (TTO) Circle took place in San Sebastian (Spain). The 2 days meeting of the 9th edition of the annual plenary meeting of the European TTO circle was structured in the following 3 main sessions/round-tables:•The first session "Connection of early stage smart investors with technology-based start-ups in innovation ecosystems" explored effective ways to connect early-stage venture capital and technology-based start-ups within and across European innovation ecosystems; •The second session "Synergies among EIT and TTOs strategies in technology-based start-up generation" focused to identify European level actions that can be addressed jointly by KICs and TTOs to enhance effectiveness beyond what is being done by each of the entities in their scope. •The third session "Start-up creation and entrepreneurship" explored the TTO circle members' initiatives in fostering start-up creation and entrepreneurship.