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Colloquium: Innovation & Entrepreneurship: From Planning to Doing?

Event Details:

  • Date: Thursday 16 November 2017
  • Time: 16:00 - 17:00
  • Venue: The Cyprus Institute – Guy Ourisson Building, Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Athalassa Campus
  • Speaker: Dr Nicos Rossides, The Cyprus Institute
* The colloquium will be in English, the event is open to the public, light refreshments will be served after the talk.

Abstract 
n rossides“9 out of 10 start ups fail” is an often quoted statistic in business and management.

Whilst the actual proportion can be debated, there is no question about the fact that the majority of start-ups fail in the real world. But why?

This colloquium will address the challenges and methods involved in the innovation and entrepreneurship process, from the initial idea and the problem it will solve, through to the refinement of the solution, scale-up and delivery as well as planning and execution.

The simplistic notion that the key to innovation and entrepreneurship is just coming up with a brilliant idea needs to be dispelled. However good an idea may be, the process of analyzing and market-testing the opportunity and coming up with a viable business model, needs to be systematic, iterative and evidence-based. Intuition by itself will not do!

About the Speaker
Dr Rossides is the owner of MASMI Research Group, an international research company with offices in 10 countries and the Chairman of the Advisory Board and co-owner of DigitalMR, an international digital marketing insights firm, based in London. He is also Senior Advisor to the Board at The Cyprus Institute, where he oversees, among others, knowledge exploitation and innovation activities.

In addition to owning three companies, Dr Rossides has lead, during his CEO career, more than 15 mergers and acquisitions.

Until July 2014, he was CEO of Medochemie, a global pharmaceutical company, prior to which he held senior management positions at three international companies: CEO of MASMI Research Group (2007 - 2012); CEO of Synovate’s Europe Middle East and Africa region as well as its Global Head of Solutions (2001 - 2007); CEO of MEMRB Research Group (which was acquired by Synovate) where he worked for nearly twenty years.

Prior to his managerial career, Dr Rossides was Senior Research Fellow at Kyoto University, where he received a Doctor of Engineering degree. A Fulbright and Mombusho scholar, he also received senior management training at MIT’s Sloan School.

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Additional Info

  • Date: Thursday 16 November 2017
  • Time: Starts 16:00
  1. August 2016
  2. September 2016
For the initial monitoring of the building the SUI CyI research team installed a weather station on the roof, placed sensors inside the building and performed a thermal comfort assessment survey.

1. Climate data monitoring

Exterior
A Vantage Pro2 weather station was placed on the building roof to collect data from the SUI area. Regularly updated information about the climatic conditions could be found on the station webpage: http://www.weatherlink.com/user/suitepakcy/. The weather station base was designed and installed by the CyI technical equipment development team.

Interior
Twelve (12) HOBO data-loggers were placed in the building, for collecting temperature, humidity and light data. The data are collected every 30 minutes and will be elaborated with the HOBOware software.

2. Thermal comfort assessment questionnaire

A survey on occupant comfort satisfaction with the indoor environment in summer was conducted. The questionnaire was based on templates proposed by the HSE (http://www.hse.gov.uk/temperature/index.htm). A third of the total employees were asked and complementary measurements were made using a Heat Stress WBGT (Wet Bulb Globe Temperature) Meter, both for the indoor and the outdoor climatic conditions at the time of the survey.

Images below, from left to right:
Left: The Vantage Pro2 weather station
Middle: HOBO data logger placed in the working place – 1st floor
Right: Completed questionnaire (first page) – Ground floor.

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1. Thermal imaging

Thermal images were taken using a T440 Flir thermal camera in order to find missing, damaged, or inadequate insulation, building envelope air leaks, moisture intrusion and other problems. Also, the main sources of radiant temperature were determined.

2. HOBO sensors data collection and analysis

The temperature, humidity, air movement and dew point data from the HOBO sensors were collected and analysed. The mean predicted vote (PMV) was calculated using the CBE Thermal Comfort Tool (http://comfort.cbe.berkeley.edu/EN). In all the spaces under monitoring the people are expected to be in thermal comfort, since all values are within the thermal comfort range of -0.7

Images below, from left to right:
Left: A thermal image from the mezzanine
Right: Graph. Thermal Comfort PMV

View the embedded image gallery online at:
https://www.cyi.ac.cy/index.php/sui-activities/sui-building-monitoring/colloquium-innovation-entrepreneurship-from-planning-to-doing.html#sigProGalleria1b1c874984

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