Glossary
Index:
- Academy
- Awards
- Community
- Get Involved
- Innovation Cycle
- MyBoard
- Publications
- SIBs
- Strategic Forum
- Summits
The Innovation Academy is a distinctive body within the European Alliance for Innovation. The Academy’s purpose, and encompassing focus, is to promote innovation through recognition of excellence in research and practice alike. Members of the Academy will represent renowned thought leaders and experts from around the world, who made fundamental contributions in promoting research and science as conduit for innovation.
Awards are conferred by the Academy to recognise excellence in Innovation.
The Awards are:
- Young Leadership in Innovation Award
- Distinguished Innovation Achievement Award
- SME Research & Technology Transfer Award
- Innovation Best Practices Award
- Best Innovation Services Award
- Personal Leadership in Innovation Award
The EAI Community is the ensemble of the EAI individual participants and is where an engaged membership base actively works together to change the insular mindset and wide-spread fragmentation that impedes innovation in Europe.
You can join the EAI Community for free signing up as EAI member using the box on the right.
The Get Involved section is where you can find all the opportunities to get involved with the EAI Community and EAI activities. You can filter the opportunities by Innovation Cycle Segment and user profile and find out the ones that best suit your interests.
The Innovation Cycle represents a framework for classifying the different stages and stakeholders related to the development of innovation.
The Innovation Cycle is composed of the six segments representing the EAI vision of activities perceived as fundamental to Europe’s innovation based competitiveness.
More about the Innovation Cycle
The six segments are:
- Education and Professional Enhancement
- Dissemination and Personal Recognition
- Research and Technology Transfer
- Intellectual Property and Standards
- Funding and Business Development
- Market Trends and Society
Once logged in into EAI you will be imemdiately taken to MyBoard: MyBoard is the single entry point to access the EAI Community and discover what we think might be interesting for you. The information you provided us completing your profile will help us understand your interests and suggest you activities and other opportunities from the EAI network.
You can also use the Sidebar to use the EAI Community tools in one click.
The European Alliance for Innovation is developing a comprehensive publication portfolio in support of innovation. EAI publications utilize novel collaborative concepts to achieve shorter “time to market” with higher-review-quality publications, while providing a significantly increased impact by utilizing web technologies to obtain massively-connected diffusion systems.
EAI Publications include:
SIB stands for Science, Innovation and Business (SIB) Councils. SIB Councils bring together key players interested in ICT innovation around a thematic focus allowing Community members to apply their diverse expertise and experience to collaborate more effectively in a particular area.
Current SIBs Include:
- Internet as Innovation Eco-System (SIB-IIES)
- Green World (SIB-GW)
- Development for peace (SIB-Dev)
- Security and Safety (SIB-SEC)
- Wellbeing (SIB-WB)
The Strategic Forum is the strategy and advocacy body of EAI. The Forum is where leading minds with insight and influence in industry, society, and government come together to engage in the mission of advancing innovation in Europe through EAI and its many facets. The Forum is made up of individuals representing organizational members who bring findings to, interact with, and establish the direction of innovation through the Forum’s Steering Board, Advisory Board, General Assembly, Committees and Working Groups.
EAI Summits are multi-day events that bring together leading experts and key players from industry, private investment, academia, research, governmental, and non-governmental organisations to present, discuss, and recognize the state of the art in ICT related innovation.
The Summits are organized by Science, Innovation and Business (SIB) Councils, which represent EAI’s engaged individual member-community organized into thematically targeted groups. Each SIB Summit is also organized in to Tracks that coincide with the Innovation Cycle Segments.
There are 6 Summits Tracks: