"Report on the Winter School ""Boosting innovation at UMCS"", incl. practical guidelines on collaboration between academia and non academia"

Report on the Winter School organised in M23 in Lublin. Participants of the Winter School will be UMCS researchers and local stakeholders identified in subtask 2.2.1: its aim is indeed to provide them with the knowledge and soft skills, needed to get ready for the joint collaboration within the Venture Lab. This experience, indeed, represents, for most of the attendants, who would need the right mindset and attitude, a brand new kind of collaboration. The Winter school programme will include the following topics: innovation management, innovation ecosystems, open innovation, how to address commercial exploitation and IPRs issues in collaborative projects, soft skills such as team building and problem solving. At the end of the task, practical guidelines on how to collaborate within an innovation ecosystem will be elaborated.