Sheikh-Bahai Technopreneurship Festival
9 - 11 May 2015
11th Sheikh-Bahai Technopreneurship Festival
TEHRAN—IRAN
Introduction
SUPPORTED BY:
ISTT
&
IRIS
SHEIKH-BAHAI FESTIVAL
Sheikh-Bahai Technopreneurship Festival is to foster the
culture of creativity, innovation and technopreneurship,
Isfahan Science &Technology
Town (ISTT) is pleased to
host the 11th Sheikh-Bahai
Technopreneurship Festival.
The festival is also supported
by IRIS, category 2 center of
UNESCO for Incubators and
Science and Technology
Parks development.
The Festival will be held in
Tehran, the capital city of
Iran, this year for the first time
ever in the history of the
festival.
and to identify and encourage technopreneurs through out
the world. The Festival encompasses
all technopreneurial fields including
technical and engineering, hygienic
and medicine, basic sciences,
agriculture, humanities, culture and
art, services, etc.
May 9 —11, 2015
Tehran, IRAN
FESTIVAL OBJECTIVES
x Foster the culture of creativity, innovation and technopreneurship
x Identify and encourage Iranian technopreneurs through out the world
x Encourage, introduce and praise the superior technopreneurs in society
x To enhance cooperation between technopreneurs and investors as well as
introduce new technologies and innovated ideas to investors and visitors.
Highlights on this year event
Importance
of the Event
The Sheikh-Bahai Festival is the most important event in the field of
entrepreneurship/technopreneurship in the region. This festival is a
place where technology holders/owners of ideas and investors meet
each other, introduce their novel ideas and innovative technologies,
show their potentials and interests, and participate in the sideline
exhibition and workshops in an interactive atmosphere.
VIP Guests
The top governmental authorities and officials as well as
representatives from international organizations are our very
important persons proudly will join us and give some speech during
the event.
Supporters
SHTF is hosted and organized by Isfahan Science & Technology
Town (ISTT), Ministry of Science, Research and Technology
(MSRT), Isfahan Regional Center for Technology Incubators &
Science Parks Development (IRIS) (under the auspices of UNESCO),
as well as UNESCO.
Location
According to the strategy of festival for this year, the event of 2015
will be held in Tehran, capital city of Iran. SHTF was used to be held
in the city of Isfahan since its first round in 2005 until the last year
event. The place of this year event will be in I.R. Iran International
Conference Center, Tehran, to encourage attendance of more
innovative k-based companies, major industries, high-ranking
officials and more importantly the international participants.
Technological
Exhibition
An exhibition will be held to represent technopreneurs’ achievements
from different fields of activities & technologies at the sideline of the
festival. This exhibition is a very good and suitable platform for
foreign companies to explore and achieve the big Iranian market.
Business
Match
Meeting
SHTF has had a very good experience in business matching and
roundtables for technology holders and investors during the past
years. This section is one of the most interactive parts of the event in
which many investors meet with owners of ideas, technologies and/or
products and sign cooperation agreement.
The Festival Structure
The structure of the Sheikh-Bahai Technopreneurship Festival is based on
two general sections, Competition and Non-competition. Identifying the
best technopreneurs, the best business planners, and the best technopreneur
sponsors will be carried out in the competition section.
The non-competition section includes Exhibition, Idea Exchange Market
and Training Seminars/Workshops.
Competition section
x
x
x
The best Business Planners
The best Technopreneurs
The best Technopreneur Investors
Non-Competition section
x
x
x
Exhibition
Idea Exchange
Training Seminars and workshops
Non-Competition section
Exhibition
An exhibition will be held to represent the technopreneurs’ achievements at the sideline of the 11th SheikhBahai Technopreneurship Festival. The technopreneurial innovations and achievements are to be showcased
in this exhibition. The exhibition will be held in the city of Tehran on 9th to 11th of May 2015. The booths
will be designed by space frames and they will be well equipped with necessary equipment. Besides, the
technopreneurial innovations will be represented at this exhibition, the major industries in the country,
knowledge-based companies in STPs, private companies and R&D units from Iran and other countries will
also be represented at this exhibition, where they can meet their partners and can be visited by a significant
number of technical visitors who are their potential customers as well.
The exhibitors can enjoy and explore the big Iranian market.
Idea Exchange and Business Matching
The idea exchange market has been held for 10 rounds during the years 2004 to 2014 at the sideline of the
festival. The 11th festival in 2015 also will enjoy an idea exchange market in which technopreneurs and
business planners meet each other and investigate possible ways of cooperation. In technology bourse
market the investors, business planners, technopreneurs, and owners of the new technology-based ideas
come together and negotiate on the ways of commercializing the existing technology-based businesses
(semi-industrial/pilot plans) or creation of new knowledge-based businesses. The companies can also meet
with their partners and investigate possible ways of cooperation.
Training Seminars and Workshops
In order to disseminate and develop the culture of technopreneurship and to increase general skills in
technopreneurship as well as promoting skills of technopreneurs and Science and Technology Parks and
Incubators’ managers, one or two training seminars will be organized during the Sheikh-Bahai
Technopreneurship Festival with national and international skillful and experienced instructors.
The instructors will be outstanding international STP experts. The participants are also from different
countries. The title of the workshop and the name of the speakers will be announced soon. This year`s
workshop will mostly focus on Commercialization of Technology and methods of attracting investors for
companies.
Festival Schedule
First Day:
9:00
May 9th, 2015
10:00
Exhibition
Opening
Ceremony
11:00
12:00
13:00
14:00
15:00
16:00
17:00
18:00
Exhibition
Lunch
Time
Exhibition
Idea Exchange &
Business Matching
Lunch
Time
Idea Exchange &
Business Matching
Business Planners - Final Judgment
Lunch
Time
Business Planners - Final Judgment
Lunch
Time
Technopreneurship - Final Judgment
(Only for members)
Technopreneurship - Final Judgment
(Only for members)
International Training workshop
Lunch
Time
(Only for members)
(Only for members)
International Training workshop
Lunch
Time
Second Day:
9:00
IRIS Board Meeting
(Only for members)
May 10th, 2015
10:00
11:00
12:00
13:00
14:00
15:00
16:00
Exhibition
Lunch
Time
Exhibition
Idea Exchange &
Business Matching
Lunch
Time
Idea Exchange &
Business Matching
Business Planners - Final Judgment
Lunch
Time
(Only for members)
Technopreneurship - Final Judgment
(Only for members)
International Training workshop
Third Day:
9:00
19:00
17:00
19:00
Scientific Council
Pitching Competition
Lunch
Time
18:00
(Only for Members)
Lunch
Time
May 11th, 2015
10:00
11:00
12:00
13:00
14:00
15:00
Exhibition
Lunch
Time
Exhibition
Idea Exchange &
Business Matching
Lunch
Time
Idea Exchange &
Business Matching
16:00
17:00
18:00
Closing Ceremony
Workshop Titles:
Day I:
“ Commercialization of innovations through Science and Technology Parks” ,
“ How to interact with investors on commercialization of innovations?”
Day II:
“STPs Development and Management, and the case of China”
19:00
Sheikh-Bahai Technopreneurship Festival
Address:
Sheikh-Bahai Technopreneurship Festival Secretariat, Isfahan Science & Technology Town (ISTT),
Isfahan University of Technology Blvd., Isfahan, IRAN - P.O.BOX: 84155/666
Telephone:
+98 31 33860619
Fax:
+98 31 33871750
Email: [email protected]