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Knowledge Transfer | Accelerating Innovation
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KT Mandate
Maximizing the
technological and
knowledge return to the
Member States industry and
society
Promoting CERN’s image as
a center of excellence for
technology
Key words are
dissemination and impact
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KT: one of CERN’s missions
Push back the frontiers of
knowledge in nuclear
research
Develop new technologies
for accelerators and
detectors
Train scientists and
engineers of tomorrow
CERN
Uniting People
Research
Unite people from different
countries and cultures
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The KT group: facts and figures
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One of the 3 groups of the Finance,
Procurement and Knowledge Transfer
Department
• 2 Sections (IP Dissemination and Life
Sciences)
• The KT group also integrates CERN’s
Development Office
• 15 staffs, 4 fellows, 5 students, 11 different
nationalities, 46% women
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KT Modes
Easy Access
IP
Business
Incubation
Licensing
Open Source
Software
Open
Hardware
Procurement
Service and
Consultancy
EU Projects
Training
R&D
Collaborations
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INET and ENET
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2 networks to help the information flow
between the KT Group and the inside and
outside of CERN
INET: one or more KT representative for
CERN department
ENET: one KT representative per member
state (often, the ILO)
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The KT Fund: bridging the
« valley of death »
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The KT fund
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CERN’s incentive scheme to help transferring our Knowledge and Technologies to
Society
25 projects have been financed with amounts from 16 k to 160 k CHF and are being
followed up
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KT implementation ways
Market Pull
Transfer to Existing Companies
Technology Push
Creation of New Companies
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Spin-Off Support
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Business Incubator
Centres of CERN
Technologies
Established incubators:
UK
STFC-CERN BIC
Netherlands
NIKHEF-CERN BIC
Norway
NTNU-CERN BIC
Greece
Technopolis-CERN BIC
Austria
accent-CERN BIC
Advanced pipeline:
France and Finland
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Turning CERN technologies into
new business opportunities
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Financial Times, 19.10.2012
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STFC – CERN BIC
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The STFC - CERN Business Incubation Centre (BIC) pilot scheme
will support businesses and entrepreneurs in taking CERN
innovative technologies and know how from technical concept to
market reality.
A very efficient and highly visible way to transfer technologies.
STFC provides:
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Funding: Accompanied technical visits to CERN + 40.000 GBP per company
Access to expertise at STFC
Business support (which may include advice on business planning, investment fund
raising, finding collaborative partners)
CERN provides:
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Use of CERN IP at favourable conditions
Use of the “CERN Technology” and “CERN Spin off” labels
Access to expertise at CERN – up to 40 hours free access to technical expertise and
facilities (subject to availability)
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How does it work in practice?
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Potential applicants submit “expression of interests”
STFC and CERN evaluate them and decide who to invite to a
technical visit at CERN (funded by STFC)
KT co-organizes the visits and put the potential applicants in
contact with technical experts at CERN who could help
If the visit at CERN is successful, potential applicants are invited to
formally submit an application to the scheme (this includes a
business plan)
A committee composed by STFC, CERN, a Venture Capitalist and
ESA evaluates the requests
The selected applicants are admitted to the incubator (sometimes
with some caveats)
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CERN-NTNU Screening Week
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Screening Week
7 sessions until now in total
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28 technologies screened
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174 students visited and worked
with the KT Group
Providing a large exposure of CERN
Technologies to Norwegian Industry
2 Spin-off companies have been
established based on the screening
week
Discussions on potential new startups from this years edition are in
progress
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CERN Easy Access IP
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CERN Open Hardware Licence
A legal framework to facilitate
knowledge exchange across the
electronic design community.
In the spirit of knowledge and
technology dissemination, the CERN
OHL was created to govern the use,
copying, modification and distribution
of hardware design documentation,
and the manufacture and distribution
of products.
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Medical Applications Office
Creation of the Office led by
Steve Myers - January 2014
CERN to become established
as an important facilitator of
medical physics in Europe
Bring all the diverse medical
physics activities at CERN
together under a single
umbrella, ensuring that our
efforts are optimised
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12 years of ENLIGHT Collaboration
CERN philosophy into health field
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Common multidisciplinary platform
Identify challenges
Share knowledge
Share best practices
Harmonise data
Provide training, education
Innovate to improve
Lobbying for funding
> 150 institutes
> 400 people
> 25 countries
Coordinated by CERN
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(with >80% of MS involved)
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ENLIGHT platform projects
• Marie Curie
Initial Training
Network
• 12 institutions
2008-2012 • 29 trainees
2010-2014
• R&D on
medical
imaging for
hadron therapy
• 16 institutions
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13/06/2013
• Infrastructures
for hadron
therapy
• 20 institutions
2009-2014
• Marie Curie
ITN
• 12 institutions
• 16 trainees
2011-2015
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February 10 – 14, 2014 (CICG, Geneva)
2 days devoted to physics, 2 days to medicine, 1 day of overlapping topics
Chairs: Jacques Bernier (Genolier) and Manjit Dosanjh (CERN)
Key Subjects:
• Biology
• Pre-clinical & clinical strategies
• Nuclear medicine
• Detectors & Imaging
• New Technologies
• Radiotherapy
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400 participants from 31 countries
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KT on KT
Two different training courses were organized in 2014 (and will
be repeated in the future):
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Introduction to KT tools (Introductory course on IP Management, KT
legal documents and Entrepreneurship)
Building up and writing proposals for EU H2020 projects (in
collaboration with CERN’s EU Office)
In depth trainings will be organized on IP Management and
Entrepreneurship
The KT group regularly hosts Marie Curie Fellows and Trainees,
providing them training on KT related topics
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Organization of promotional events
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KT Annual Reports
Communicating KT at CERN in a comprehensive and coherent way
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IdeaSquare
“IdeaSquare is a pilot project that brings together physicists,
engineers, industrial partners, early-stage researchers and
cross-disciplinary teams of students to work together on
detector upgrade R&D technologies. The purpose is to codevelop new technologies for research purposes, and at the
same time, create a fruitful environment for socially and globally
relevant new product ideas and innovation.”
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IdeaSquare and KT
Idea Input
Prototype – Test – Refine
New Ideas
IdeaSquare
Universities,
Research
institutions
Towards Commercial
Products
KT
Student teams,
companies,
startups
Student teams as catalysts
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European KT Networks
Forum for European Intergovernmental Research Organisations
EEN, Enterprise Europe Network
TTN, Technology Transfer Network (aka HEPTech)
TTO Circle - European Technology Transfer Offices Circle
The European Network for LIGht ion Hadron Therapy
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Council then approved the creation of a Technology Transfer Task Force
in 2007, and of a Technology Transfer Network (HEPTech) in 2008
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and CERN KT
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HEPTech is composed by Technology Transfer Offices of public research
organizations active in particle, astro-particle and nuclear physics. CERN
is the founding member and is represented by the KT group
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HEPTech provides a forum for exchanging ideas and best practices on
Technology Transfer, and organizes several events with Industry (AIME –
Academia-Industry Matching Events). The activites of HEPTech are
reported to Council every year in September
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The actual Knowledge Transfer is done by the “KT groups” of the various
members
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HEPTech is not the ENET, which is CERN network of KT representatives
in the member states
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Sinergie con l’INFN
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L’INFN: partner ideale per ospitare
l’incubatore di tecnologie CERN in Italia
Aiuto nello scouting di potenziali partner
industriali per collaborazioni (tripartite)
Coinvolgimento in HEPTech and ENET
Patent-pooling
Partecipazione in progetti europei (su KT)
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Grazie per l’attenzione!
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