FEB Zagreb as an project partner won EC Leonardo two years grant for the project” Stimulating Learning for Idea-to-Market, within the EC call Transfer of Innovation
Faculty of Economics and business in Zagreb (Professor Marina Dabić) as a partner of the project Leonardo da Vinci won two years grant for the project” Stimulating Learning for Idea-to-Market“.
The project participants are The Manchester Metropolitan University, as grant holder and partners Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb, European Foundation of Management Development- EFMD, University of Rijeka, Warsaw School of Economics jointly with associate partners Arenda, UK Federation of Small Business, Science and Technology Park of the University of Rijeka and BTM Mazowsze Ltd Poland . Project coordinator is professor Marina Dabić, PhD.
MMU Business School brings extensive experience of working with business start-ups, and development of the diagnostic tool, which it will transfer. The Warsaw School of Economics will adapt and transfer their Intellectual Property Management course. The University of Rijeka and The University of Zagreb will work with Croatian companies, to test and disseminate the e-learning course, and EFMD will contribute, through its pan-European network of academics and practitioners, contacts to experts in individual fields. Tangible outcomes will be focused on both the businesses and the VET systems of the partner countries. The ecourse will be produced in all partner languages, and will be accompanied by a set of supporting materials for the businesses undertaking the training, and for the VET systems implementing it. Intangibly, we aim for businesses to take their ideas to market much more effectively, and for VET systems to improve their engagement with business. Associated partners in the UK, Poland, and two in Croatia, will add crucial real-world SME experience to our activity, steer the project, and promote and disseminate its uses and benefits.
This project has been developed to bridge this gap in Croatia, and create two way innovation transfer between all partners, which has been designed to meet the emphasis in Lisbon to encourage the central role of education and training as a key way to grow human capital and to support long term economic well being.
The result of VET and the world of work cooperation will provide tailored educational tool – ecourse, enabling SMEs to commercialize their ideas while protecting their knowledge.