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IVANO FRANKIVSK, UKRAINE APRIL 22-23, 2015

Assoc. Prof. Nataša Urbančíková, PhD. Technical University of Košice, Slovak Republic

Faculty of Economics

Cross-border innovation network for technology transfer (CONTENT)

Promoting Knowledge Transfer in Science and Technology:

A Case Study of Technology Park in Kosice, Slovakia

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S Trio of the oldest and the most well-known STP in the world: Silicon Valley (USA) • pioneer in the development of science parks the world • Originally known as Stanford University Science Park, Silicon

Valley dates back to the early 1950s Sophia Antipolis (France) in Europe in the 1960s Tsukuba Science City (Japan) in Asia in the early 1970s.

TRENDS: • Rapid dispersion of the STPs (World STP now >1000s)

• Exponential growth in last two decades.

• Universities are taking a more active role in creating (smaller) STPs.

• More involvement from the private sector.

• Higher level of integration between

STPs and metropolitan/regional strategies

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Source: Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, LSE

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TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF KOŠICE

UNIVERSITY SCIENCE PARK TECHNICOM for innovative applications supported by

knowledge technologies

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Cities 2 (Košice, Prešov)

Campuses 3

Buildings 78

Area 302 hectars

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11 707 students,

4 677 graduates in 2013 (Bc . Ing. PhD.)

398 degree programs (Bc. Ing. PhD.)

979 pedagogic staff

881 other staff (administration, technical)

1. Mining, Ecology, Process Control and Geotechnology (1952) 2 088 894

2. Metallurgy (1952) 603 237

3. Mechanical Engineering (1952) 2 112 929

4. Electrical Engineering and Informatics (1969) 2 426 902

5. Civil Engineering (1977) 1 036 333

6. Economics (1992) 1 132 421

7. Manufacturing Technologies (campus in Presov) (1992) 1 124 489

8. Arts (1998) 288 73

9. Aeronautics (former University of military) (2005) 898 399 inte

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74,7 mil. EUR total revenue FY 2014:

▪ 41,2 mil EUR government support

▪ 33,5 mil EUR from other sources!

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PROJECT NAME: University Science Park TECHNICOM for innovative applications supported by knowledge technologies Is being sequentially created by the project under the Operational Programme for Research and Development and it is co-financed from Structural Funds guaranteed by the European Commission

ITMS: 26220220182

PROJECT COORDINATOR: Technical University of Košice (TUKE)

PARTNERS: Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice (UPJŠ) Prešov University (PU in Prešov)

BUDGET:

01/06/2013 – 30/06/2015 EXECUTION:

UNIVERSITY SCIENCE PARK TECHNICOM

MISSION:

• “Win to Win” collaboration between academic and public research

organisations

• Producing expected and required outcomes for technology transfer.

• Incubator for „Hi-Tech“ companies and Spin-off, Start-up initiatives.

• Management, development and operation issues are provided by the

University Centre for Innovation, Technology Transfer and Intellectual

Property Protection (UCITT).

• Consultancy, expertises, technical and technological support for the

transfer of research and development knowledge and products.

• Relevant support for education and training activities.

THE STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE OF THE PROJECT IS TO "BUILD USP TECHNICOM AS AN

INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED CENTRE OF RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER IN THE

FIELD OF INNOVATIVE APPLICATIONS SUPPORTED BY KNOWLEDGE TECHNOLOGIES"

USP TECHNICOM - MISSION

1) Organizational and managerial facilitation of the establishment and operation of USP TECHNICOM on the bases of high-quality science management.

2) Building the physical and functional infrastructure of the park as a sophisticated science and technology entity.

3) State-of-the-art applied research and development in the following five selected scientific areas (the selection of disciplines of the valid version of "smart specialization" for research and innovation in Slovakia has been taken into regard):

1. Information and communication technologies; 2. Electrical engineering, automation and control systems; 3. Mechanical engineering; 4. Civil engineering (construction, transport, geodesy); 5. Environmental engineering (mining, metallurgy, water management)

THREE SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT :

USP TECHNICOM - OBJECTIVES

The success and the expected impact of the project on establishing USP TECHNICOM are built on the concept, whose key strategy is based on the premise that "cutting-edge research in the consortium is able to identify, define and, with a support of the USP, implement so-called pilot projects that will generate outputs, products or services with a clear impact and will be applicable in social and economic practice”.

MAIN CONCEPT:

USP TECHNICOM – MAIN CONCEPT

36 PILOT PROJECTS WITHIN 7 MAIN PROJECT´S ACTIVITIES

KEY ACTIVITIES IN THE AREA OF SCIENCE AND RESEARCH

Activity 1: Pilot projects in the field of Information and Communication

Technologies (realized by Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics)

- UWB Sensor Systems and UWB Sensor Technologies, System for

automatic recognition and transcribing of meeting audio recordings, Virtual-

reality technology for 3D, Cloud technologies, applications and services,

Artificial intelligence, Non-destructive diagnostics of technological

processes, etc.

Activity 2: Pilot projects in the field of Electrical, Automation and Control

Systems (realized by Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics)

- Design of electromechanical drive systems and their applications of

actuators and drive modules, Design of electromechanical drive systems

Engineering and certification body for mobilization and development of

innovation in the field of electrical engineering and electronics, etc.

36 PILOT PROJECTS WITHIN 7 MAIN PROJECT´S ACTIVITIES

KEY ACTIVITIES IN THE AREA OF SCIENCE AND RESEARCH

Activity 3: Pilot projects in the field of Mechanical Engineering

- Numerical and experimental modelling of mechanical and mechatronic

systems, Reconfigurable robots, Innovative research and development

services for flexible technology and reconfigurable manufacturing, Rsk

management in the field of machine safety, occupational safety, etc.

Activity 4: Pilot projects in the field of Civil Engineering (realized by Faculty

of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Economics and Faculty of Arts) :

- Intelligent load-bearing systems and transport structures, Intelligent

buildings based on so-called green architecture, Intelligent equipment for

buildings and their transformation into nearly zero energy buildings,

Intelligent design and construction of buildings, Smart software

applications, Intelligent architectural designs , Financial and economic

decision-making in the field of investment activities, etc.

36 PILOT PROJECTS WITHIN 7 MAIN PROJECT´S ACTIVITIES

KEY ACTIVITIES IN THE AREA OF SCIENCE AND RESEARCH

Activity 5: Pilot projects in the field of Environmental Engineering (Faculty

of Mining, Ecology, Process Control and Geotechnologies and Faculty of

Metallurgy) Efficient processing of carbon-bearing raw materials, Rubber

products testing, Processing of steel dust containing zinc and heavy metals,

etc.

Activity 6: UPJS pilot projects in the field of Information and

Communication Technologies Parallel and distributed computing, Methods

and tools for virtual collaboration, Human-computer interaction, Intelligent

data analysis, geo-processing in geospatial technologies and services, etc.

Activity 7: PU pilot projects in the field of Environmental Engineering

Applied research in pedophysics and environmental pedology, Revitalization

of soils primarily damaged by extractive industries, Materials research in the

area of magnetocaloric cooling, Environmental aspects of coal processing,

This strategy is strongly supported by: 1. Participation of the consortium universities in European R&D

programmes. 2. Long term tradition of the R&D collaboration with industrial practice. 3. Pre-incubator for “start-up” or „spin-off“ companies.

USP TECHNICOM operates as a legal body from 1. February, 2015.

Till end of the project (30. July, 2015) -period covers testing and verification of a management performance developed in the framework of the project.

Expected number of researchers in 2015 (employees of USP TECHNICOM in

the first year after its construction): approximately 50 R&D staff

- Of which current employees of TUKE working in the USP at the same time: 43 persons - Of which new employees: 7 persons (TUKE + partner universities) + Employees of Associated centres to USP TECHNICOM (KC ZATIPS, VUKONZE, VRP ZaSS)

USP TECHNICOM STRATEGY:

USP TECHNICOM - STRATEGY

Efficient Transfer of knowledge from successful FP6 and FP7 projects with USP TECHNICOM support as:

• INERTIA (Integrating Active, Flexible and Responsive Tertiary Presumes

into a Smart Distribution Grid);

• Adapt4EE (Occupant Aware, Intelligent and Adaptive Enterprises);

• I2MINE (Innovative Technologies and Concepts for the Intelligent Deep

Mine of the Future);

• KNOWBRIDGE (The Cross Border Knowledge Bridge in the Renewable

Energy Sources Cluster in the Eastern Slovakia and North Hungary);

• iNTeg-Risk (Early Recognition, Monitoring and Integrated Management

of Emerging, New Technology Related Risks); and so on.

1. SUCCESSFUL PARTICIPATION OF THE CONSORTIUM OF UNIVERSITIES IN EUROPEAN R&D PROGRAMMES ( 6TH AND 7TH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMMES)

SUCCESSFUL FP6 AND FP7 PROJECTS

INTERNATIONAL NETWORKING

List of Top 20 (IST based on funding) UNIVERSITY OF BUDAPEST JOZEF STEFAN INSTITUTE UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY ČESKÉ VYSOKÉ UČENÍ TECHNICKÉ V PRAZE UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS HUNGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES INSTYTUT CHEMII BIOORGANICZEJ PAN HOLOGRAFIKA EGYENI CEG

TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF KOŠICE UNIVERZITA KARLOVA V PRAZE IBM - CZ SLOVENSKÁ AKADÉMIA VIED AGH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITY OF POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF KRAKOW UNIVERSITY OF WROCLAW POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AKADEMIE VĚD ČESKÉ REPUBLIKY VYSOKÉ UČENÍ TECHNICKÉ V BRNĚ

PARTNERS OF THE TUKE FROM FP7 PROJECTS

„ASSOCIATED“ RESEARCH CENTRE TO USP TECHNICOM

IPM SOLUTIONS- R&D activities in

areas of CAD/CAM/CAE solutions and products .

Žilinská univerzita - The University of Zilina is unique in Slovakia as it has a long tradition of providing education in the fields of transport and communications. During the last period the University became an educational and research institution with a broad profile in areas of science, technology, economics, management, and recently, educational and natural sciences. The Faculty of Mechanical Engineering is the partner of KC ZATIPS

ELCOM – SME with R&D activities in

application of information and

communication technologies and

support systems for SMEs

Prešovská univerzita v Prešove - The University of Prešov has provided the highest standards of academic s across a wide range of studies in the fields of humanities, natural, theological, and managerial sciences, health and sports.. In the KC ZATIPS the University is reperesented by the Faculty of Humanities and Natural Sciences with the Department of Geography and Regional Development .

CEIT SK - research SME, R&D

activities, projects and products

mainly in bioengineering, bionic,

digital and virtual enterprises and

intelligent control for production systems and smart products

T-Systems Slovakia – daughter

company of Deutsch Telecom with

research oriented on field of cloud computing

ZTS VVÚ – research oriented SME

with orientation on development and

production intelligent mobile robotic systems.

Technická univerzita v Košiciach -

The Technical University of Kosice

is holder and coordinator of the KC

ZATIPS . Relevant departments from three Faculties (the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, the Faculty of Manufacturing Technologies with a seat in Prešov) are leaders I of eight research laboratories .

ANTIK Telekom - SME with R&D

activities in internet and

telecommunication services,

technologies and systems . v oblasti doručovania internetového

ITKON – SMEs with R&D activities

in customer driven applications of

ICT manly in different areas of water resources management

KC ZATIPS COMPETENCY CENTRE FOR KNOWLEDGE TECHNOLOGIES APPLIED AT INNOVATION OF PRODUCTION SYSTEMS FOR INDUSTRY AND SERVICES

KC ZATIPS IS THE RESULT OF SUCCESSFUL PROJECT SUPPORTED FROM STRUCTURAL FUNDS EU

Main R&D activities are oriented to:

• Technologies of the biomass utilisation in energy sector;

• Solar energy and technologies for hydrogen utilisation and storage;

• Efficient exploitation of the geothermal resources;

• Selected materials and technologies for renewable energy sources;

• Efficient integrations of different renewable energy (smart low energy building);

• Intelligent control and distribution systems ;

• The integrated support for the risk’s life-cycle management.

RESEARCH CENTRE FOR EFFICIENT INTEGRATION OF THE RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES

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VUKONZE IS THE RESULT OF SUCCESSFUL PROJECT SUPPORTED FROM STRUCTURAL FUNDS EU

JOINT TUKE - INDUSTRY LABORATORIES and TRAINING

Laboratory ABB METROTOM Carl Zeiss Laboratory IBM

CISCO IPv6 Lab CISCO Telepresence VW robotic cell

2. LONG TERM TRADITION OF THE R&D COLLABORATION WITH INDUSTRIAL PRACTICE

UVP TECHNICOM - R&D collaboration agreements

2. LONG TERM TRADITION OF THE R&D COLLABORATION WITH INDUSTRIAL PRACTICE

KOŠICE IT VALLEY ASSOCIATION

2. LONG TERM TRADITION OF THE R&D COLLABORATION WITH INDUSTRIAL PRACTICE

1. Regional and local government 2. University 3. Business community Košice IT Valley integrates all the major players

EASTERN SLOVAKIA DESPERATELY NEEDS ! 1. to improve the quality of life 2. to make region more atractive

Founding Members (10), year 2006:

▪ Universities (TUKE, UPJŠ)

▪ Košice Region

▪ ICT companies (T-Systems, NESS, Siemens PSE, VSE IT, Cisco Systems, ST, Microsoft)

- at present ... more than 30 members

- about 5000 new ICT job positions !!!

An activity guaranted by the Business acceleration system at USP TECNICOM is pre-incubator for

“start-up” or „spin-off“ companies. Currently, The Startup Centre headquarters and also offices for some of the startup companies,

operating within the centre, are located in the building of the Technology Innovation Centre.

The activities of TUKE Startup Centre fully cover the areas related to the USP TECHNICOM. The idea is ‘to trigger’ a process that will help the participants to develop their ideas and support turning

their ideas into innovative and commercially utilizable products or services.

Expected area of incubator (TUKE Startup centre + USP TECHNICOM pre - incubator): over 3 000 m2

3. PRE-INCUBATOR FOR “START-UP” OR „SPIN-OFF“ COMPANIES

TUKE STARTUP CENTRE

TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION CENTRE

TUKE Startup Centre offers: • favourable conditions for the physical location of a startup company, • expert and mentoring support, • support in the utilization of specialized institutions, laboratories and

other TUKE facilities for the implementation of project objectives, • assistance with the acquisition of partners from the commercial

sector and business plan development. The following startups are currently active within TUKE Startup Centre - App@Eat, Apt Elements, CEELABS, EFEOS, Galileo, getFarmer, GRID, SchoolTab, Virtuálna prehliadka TUKE

startupcentrum.tuke.sk

USP TECHNICOM will consist of: 1. Estimation: 60 - 80 laboratories, 2. Estimation: 200 new facilities.

Infrastructure purchased from the project USP TECHNICOM - worth 13 240 000,00 EUR (ICT) and 8 595 000, 00 EUR (measuring and laboratory instruments, prototypes, material).

3. Construction costs of the USP TECHNICOM buildings will amount to approx. 8 700 000,00 EUR.

On the grounds of the mentioned strategy for UVP TECHNICOM development, seven research centers of excellence of the consortium are indirectly (through participation of their

universities in the project consortium) connected to the project implementation through a specialized selection of 36 pilot projects of targeted applied R&D.

With reflect to the current situation lots of existing modern facilities were procured from EU

resources (during programme period 2007 – 2013) and used for R&D in relevant areas (situated in centres of excellence).

KEY INFRASTRUCTURE :

USP TECHNICOM - KEY INFRASTRUCTURE

USP TECHNICOM - visualization

CONSTRUCTION PHASE

RESEARCH IN BUILDING AND PROJECTING AN AUTOMATED AND ROBOTIC SYSTEMS

DETECTION AND TRACKING PEOPLE MOVING IN SHORT DISTANCE USING UWB RADAR SYSTEM

DESIGN OF CUSTOMIZED INTEGRATED CIRCUITS

Key infrastucture and laboratories

DEVELOPING ADAPTIVE „TENSEGRITY“ CONSTRUCTIONS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS

Key infrastucture and laboratories

3D LASER SCANNER

DIGITAL MICROSCOPE

3D VIRTUAL CAVE

STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAYS AND SYSTEMS

WIRE CUTTING MACHINE

Key infrastucture and laboratories

TABLETOP MICROSCOPE

THERMOMECHANICAL ANALYZER

Key infrastucture and laboratories

MULTIROTOR AERIAL SOLUTIONS - QUADCOPTER

STRAIN AND STRESS MEASUREMENT X-RAY DIFFRACTOMETER

ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND GREEN BUILDING MODEL

EQUIPMENT FOR

LABORATORY ROLLING OF

SAMPLES

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RESEARCH AND CONTROL OF TECHNICAL, ENVIRONMENTAL

AND HUMAN RISKS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF

PRODUCTION AND PRODUCTS

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Challenges for STPs in Emerging Countries

• Lack of world class, research-intensive universities (not rank in the top 300 universities) • Investment in R&D low in comparison with developed Countries • Governments and universities responsible for a large proportion of R&D investment • Weak innovation culture and poor supporting R&D infrastructure • Cultural and legislative barriers to R&D for many years

• Insufficient incentive mechanisms • Disconnection between research and industry • Barriers to academic entrepreneurship

Source: Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, LSE

Characteristics of Successful STPs

Success is evident, can be predicted

• Strong (lasting and coordinated) government support at all levels. • Financial autonomy and sufficient management independence

(avoids the temptation to degrade entry criteria to meet secure funding).

• Durable linkages with leading research intensive institutions (universities, research centres, or ‘anchor tenants’/foreign multinationals).

• Proximity to cities with pre-existing supplies of skilled labour and knowledge-intensive firms (areas that are able to retain talented

workers).

• Start-up incubation and support for new technology-based firms) to become self-sustaining (either within the park itself, or the territory).

Exceptions are few and far between.

Challenges – YOU NEED 5 ELEMENTS

Regional Entrepreneurship,

Networks, Clusters; local industrial policy

Incubation, Science Parks, Transfer Desks

Entrepreneurial Ecosystems,

Infrastructure for Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship Education

Triple Helix Paradigm

Prof. Dr. Sean Patrick Sassmannshausen, University of Wuppertal and OTH Regensburg, Germany

Don‘t do one or some without

the others! “full package

approach”

LESSONS TO BE LEARNED – COMMON MISTAKES

• No clear vision and mission • Short on human resources (management unable to provide support to start-ups and growing ventures) • No supportive network created around the center No alignment and lack of communication between center management, municipal authorities and other share- and stakeholders => turned into a kind of for-profit real estate business

Have explicit goals and values shared by all stakeholders

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