Anilkumar Dave

Background

About Anilkumar Dave

My friends call me Anil. I started my career in late ‘90s as Project Manager of ICT projects between Italy and India, then moved to European Commission funded R&D and Technology Transfer (TT) projects thus representing public and private bodies focusing interaction between Research and Industry before taking duty in 2005 as “SMEs Innovation and TT policies” officer at the Institute for Industrial Promotion (aka Italian Ministry of Economic Development). I worked in/with sectors spamming from textile/clothing to footwear, from logistics to households, from FMCGs to agro-food. The two main themes that characterize my professional life, Innovation and Internationalization led me to design and lead for 10 years, the “Research, Technology Transfer and International projects” Unit for the largest innovation agency in Italy helping companies (mostly SMEs) being more innovative and accessing European and public funds (25+ M€). The sexiest job ever, has been my post as Head of “Innovation and Transfer of Technologies” for the Italian Space Agency and in charge of New Space Economy aspects like start-ups and incubators, risk finance, technology transfer, patents, IPR valorization etc. Now it's time for a new challenge as partner of a private backed INNOVATION HUB and also responsible of the SPACE ECONOMY advisory unit. Proud speaker at the first edition of UN "Multi-stakeholder Forum on STI for the SDGs" as well as TEDx events, I am a former member of EXPO WATER 2015 scientific committee of SATTO (Space Agency Tech. Transf. Offices) platform and of INSME board (International Network for SME). In the past I acted as Strategy Advisor for Research organizations in pediatrics hemato-oncology and micro-nano fabrication. Education in US and Italy, born-and brought-up-out-of-India, frequent traveler by passion, sports lover, desserts addicted, mecha-anime and sci-fi fan- KEYWORDS Technology Transfer for SMEs and large industry - R&D projects fundarising - International operations and Innovation management adviser - Local (territorial) development (i.e. districts, meta-clusters)- international operations Advisor - Fundraising (CVC, etc), CxO level interaction - Space Tech Transfer - innovation ecosystem - startups/incubators/accelerator ecosystem - public speaker