Collaboration and technology Transfer - European …...2013/10/29  · Mr Ian Tracey, Head of Entrepreneurship, European Organisation for Nuclear Research \(CERN\) and Secretary General

Collaboration and technology Transfer

Ian Tracey

HEPTech SecGen (STFC, UK)

Bucharest

29 Oct, 2013

Membership

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What do we do ?

• Help move Big Science results to society

– Industrial academic collaborations

– Other academic disciplines

• Foster collaboration

– Apply for grants: COST, H2020

• Share best practice in TT

– Trailed new innovation platform

– ..and from each other

Brief History

• Formed March 2008 • June 2012

– Elected Chair – Secretary General

• Common Purpose – Collaboration Agreement – Effective working structure

Board, working groups – Active & participative

RD51 IdeaLAB

Interconnections

Q4 2013 Events

Oct13: INFN-HH Forum: Open Innovation

ESS Workshop, Inkind Contribution

Oct 13: CERN AIME, Neutron Detection MPGDs

Nov 13: EPFL Workshop, Best TT Practices

DEC 13: Greece AIME: Controls for Accel & Dect.

Oct 13: INFN-HH Workshop: Open Innovation

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What is Open Innovation (Classic)

In Geek Speak

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There are five key elements in open innovation:

1. Networking

2. Collaboration (with partners, universities etc)

3. Corporate Entrepreneurship (start-ups,spin-offs..)

4. Proactive Intellectual Property Management

5. Research and Development.

What Makes Big Science Difficult

• It can take a long time • It generates a family of new products • It takes more than one organisation

to reach the goal

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What will the Higgs bring ?

Tuesday 8 October, 11:45 a.m

4 July 2012

A Real answer

Incubators

What’s Included?

The ideal package of knowledge,

financial and business support Access to 40

hours of CERN and 40 hours

of STFC technical expertise

Use of CERN IP at favourable

conditions

Collaboration and

Networking opportunities

Access to potential sources of financial support

through STFC’s links

£40,000 for use on IP

protection, design,

prototyping and market

studies

Areas of Impact Creating capability and advancing the UK’s skills base

• An estimated 26 million people followed coverage of the discovery of a new Higgs-like particle – a breakthrough where STFC played a prominent role.

Improving the performance of existing businesses • Oxford Instruments and e2v have enjoyed benefits worth an estimated £500-700 million

from collaborating with STFC and our university research communities.

Creating and nurturing new businesses • Portable X-ray scanners for on-scene emergency care and revolutionary graphics and

gaming software are just two valuable spin-offs from our science and technology.

Improving public policy and public services • Our research has deferred £3 billion of decommissioning and replacement costs by helping

to extend the lives of two of the UK’s nuclear power stations.

Attracting R&D investment from global business • A £20 million investment by a world leader in synthetic diamond supermaterials is set to

create over 100 jobs on the Harwell Oxford Campus.

Any Questions?

Ian Tracey @iantracey [email protected] +44 7734 111 22 3

Future Plans

• Apply for more grants

– EU, H2020, national / regional

– Build upon existing industrial pathways

• Industrial Coconveners, increasing industrial return

• Build Links to CERN BIC

• Develop and deploy communications toolkit

Overview