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Lars Högdahl Chairman of the Regional Growth Committee, Swedish Ministry of Industry:

"inno assisted the Regional Growth Committee in its task aiming to strengthen long-term economic development in exposed labour-market regions in parts of mid-central Sweden. The strategy of inno combining competence mapping with foresight methodology successfully enabled the region to find new areas of development. The most exciting result of inno´s work was the initiation of co-operations disregarding from geographically administrative boarders and traditional sector definitions."
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Bent Sternfeld studied law at Regensburg and Kiel Universities and served as an articled legal clerk for various public and private organisations before registering at the Berlin Bar in 1999. He has additionally completed a bank traineeship and received certified vocational tax and financial training. Until 2002 he worked mainly in the field of Intellectual Property Rights, Venture Capital negotiation and contract design before joining the management consultancy inno AG, which is active all over Europe.
From 2002 to 2003 he coordinated the establishment of PVA-MV AG, a regional commercialisa-tion unit set up in Public-Private-Partnership in Mecklenburg Western-Pommerania. From 2004 to 2005 he worked as a Director for inno Austria and since 2006 he belongs to the management board of the engage AG, a further subsidiary company of inno AG. engage operates as a mar-ket-oriented commercialisation structure for Higher Education and Research Institutions in the Karlsruhe-Pforzheim region in the scope of a Public-Private-Partnership. Furthermore, he is currently Managing Director of Science Foundation Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
Mr. Sternfeld has broad experience in intellectual property commercialisation/valorisation, Ven-ture Capital, start-up initiatives and knowledge-related Regional Innovation Strategies. In the field of establishment of regional commercialisation units he was significantly involved in the design and the realisation of several innovation and infrastructure projects and worked with nu-merous Research Organisations and Intermediaries. His competence covers private and public mechanisms in financing and transferring know-how and he has notable expertise in connecting both sectors. Furthermore, Mr. Sternfeld gained extensive experience in numerous European countries and regions (including NAC), Russia as well as in cooperation with the EU (SF/further programmes).
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