The 19th edition of the conference is organized by partners from two national consortia of knowledge and technology transfer offices, representing 13 public research organizations.
Conference topic:
Strengthening Industry-Academia Co-creation for more Efficient Knowledge Valorization.
19ITTC is organised within the campaign Mesec znanosti that is coordinated by the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Innovation.
Programme
7th of October 2026, event atrium at the Miran Jarc Library (details of location), please register.
08.30 – 09.00 | RegistrationEvent atrium of the Miran Jarc Library, Rozmanova ulica 28, Novo mesto |
| 09.00 – 09.30 | Welcome addresses |
| 09.30 – 10.00 | Key note (20 min for presentation, 10 min for Q&A) Paul Maguire, Head of Innovation & Knowledge Transfer; TU Dublin |
| 10.00 – 10.30 | Key note (20 min for presentation, 10 min for Q&A) Tomaž Blatnik, Management board member and Engineering Manager, Revoz Novo mesto |
| 10.30 – 11.35 | Round table Strengthening Industry-Academia Co-creation for more Efficient Knowledge Valorization TBC Paul Maguire, Head of Innovation & Knowledge Transfer; TU Dublin Chair: Simona Rataj, University of Ljubljana |
| 11.35 – 11.50 | Break |
| 11.50 – 13.40 | Best innovation with commercial potential: Pitch competition (in English) Chair: Mateja Košir, Slovenian National Building and Civil Engineering Institute |
| 13.40 – 14.50 | Light lunch |
| 14.50 – 15.10 | Award announcement: Best innovation with commercial potential (in English) Award announcement: WIPO National award for enterprises Award announcement: WIPO National award for innovators |
| 15.10 – 15.20 | Break |
| 15.20 – 17.00 | Paper presentations: scientific papers on technology transfer and intellectual property (in English) Chair |
| 17.00 – | Final networking |
To participate please fill-out the registration form.
For additional information please contact Organizing committee at Jožef Stefan Institute through the email: tehnologije@ijs.si.
International Technology Transfer Conference (ITTC) is a yearly event taking place in October in Slovenia. Our aim is to promote knowledge exchange between academia and industry, in order to strengthen the cooperation and transfer of innovations from research labs into industrial exploitation. Our goal is also further strengthening the knowledge base and experiences of technology transfer professionals at public research organisations. In the past events, we hosted more than 2600 participants, including investors, inventors, researchers, commercialization experts, start-up funders, industrial development experts etc. Part of the conference are competitions to award the technology with the best business proposition, which led to successful start-ups and licensing contracts.