DO NOT MISS OUT! AMAZING THINGS ARE COMING!

Stop wasting effort on compromising with non-engaged project consortia without results!

What if you could guarantee that all partners of your innovation project are fully committed to delivering all results? What if you never have to compromise and can reach all results desired for each innovation project you engage in?

Join our group training:
"The art of Win Win Collaboration""

Finding the right partners for a project can be a real hassle. 
How do you define what you need, track them down, and get them on board? 
It's tough to keep them fully engaged: partners don't contribute as expected, leaving you to write the project solo. 
Even worse, they might drop out just before the deadline, wasting all your hard work.

These are signals that your approach needs tuning. But don't worry, you can learn to nail this process effortlessly.

Specially designed for

innovator tired of
  • Compromising own goals for the project
  • Partners that don’t deliver
  • Collaboration overhead
Academics searching for
  • Effective consortia delivering all efforts promised
  • Ways to onboard partners supporting your ideas
  • Achieving publications and research funding in collaboration with industry
R&D managers looking for
  • Partners to accelerate innovation plans
  • Innovation funding with minimal overhead
  • New opportunities to innovate 
  • How to handle IPR for collaboration

 

Speed up your innovation strategy based on highly effective collaboration projects, establish consortia with engaged partners to secure all results.

Two day, Live session - Limited spots available

MENEN, March 25-26, 2025
menen, November 13-14, 2025
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What to expect

Together with like minded innovators and entrepreneurs you will 

  • Find collaboration opportunities using information already available in your organisation
  • Make the difference between stakeholders, subcontractors and partners
  • Learn to identify and utilize the differences in people’s strengths to build a strong partnership team that delivers great results
  • Use our vast experience to your advantage, discover common pitfalls and learn how to avoid them for your partnerships
  • Not settle for compromises but define win win goals instead
  • Adapt your communication approach using the PCM framework for more effective interaction with your partners and team
  • Deploy the proven win win methodology and tools to set up your partnerships, consortium goals and see the project structure.
  • Practice to turn around potentially negative conversations and situations into positive actions.
  • Learn different partnership models to protect your intellectual property and approaches for negotiating
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Course Program

DAY 1

  • Collaboration framework
  • Finding strategic collaboration opportunities 
  • Evaluating collaboration options
  • Finding the best partners

DAY2

  • Pitching for collaborative success
  • Smoothening the collaboration
  • Collaborative goal setting in practice
  • Wrap-Up action points

Timing: 9:00- 17:30
Coffee & lunch breaks included

 

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Meet the trainer
Piet Verhoeve

Innovation leader with proven track record & published expert

I followed my heart when I started a PhD in engineering in the nineties, driven by a passion for innovation. It created groundbreaking insights and launched my career in the dynamic field of open innovation. My interdisciplinary approach and ability to build collaborative networks have been recognized internationally, earning me the "Best Open Innovation Practice" award twice. I've published scientific publications and books, disseminating my advanced innovation strategies to maximize changes for success.

Throughout my career, I have consistently delivered impactful results in various high-level innovation projects, collaborating with renowned organizations like imec, UGent, KU Leuven, and Televic. As CTO of Televic, I cultivated an innovation culture that created significant growth and successfully transformed the company into a multinational leader. Additionally, I have founded several successful ecosystems, including PRoF, Hangar-K, and Medvia, which unite diverse partners to achieve collective and individual objectives effectively.

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Your investment for this valuable live training is

€ 2500

 

Flemish SME that are eligible for support by the KMO-Portefeuille,
can save up to 30% on the full amount, reducing the investment to only

€ 1750 

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