Valorisation and protection of your research and innovations: real cases of success and failure

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Subject

Common policy goal of HEIs is to increase the commercialisation of research results produced by the public research in order to support economic growth. The process involves the transfer of knowledge and products produced by public research organisations and individual researchers to private sector businesses or government agencies. Among others, the policies to encourage knowledge transfer are:

• establishment of knowledge transfer offices (KTOs) at universities and public research institutes. 
• support for open publication 
• close collaboration between universities/public research institutes and businesses.

Relevant practices may include:

• activities to create an institutional culture that supports knowledge transfer;
• establishment of institutional strategies for knowledge transfer and commercialization, such as rules for transparency in contract negotiations and protection of intellectual property (IPR);
• incentives for staff to disclose inventions and support knowledge transfer by working with potential licensees;
• encourage academic startups, accelerators and spinoff companies as joint ventures with business, provision of finance and supportive infrastructure (incubators and science parks).

The webinar tries to address the important inferences made by the SWOT analysis of the Green Transition Survey executed within the framework of the UNIgreen Green Strategy, namely ‘ineffective process of knowledge and innovation transfer due to the outsource of the Knowledge Transfer Unit‘, ‘knowledge transfer includes mainly informal (or mainly formal) channels’, ‘available public funding for research and development, but difficult access to funding for spin-offs and start-ups’, and ‘lack of regular meetings, mini conferences, seminars for knowledge sharing’.

Agenda

• Welcome and introduction by Chrystian Chomontowski.
• Valorising Your Research and Innovation Results and Protecting your Intellectual Property.
  • Topic of Alexandro Ulrici: A case study: the path to reach the market along the idea, research product, prototype, patent, TRL increase, and valorization strategies.
    Following by Q&A session
  • Topic of Valeria Bergonzini: Intellectual property right management and exploitation.
  • Topic of Stéphane Grade: From a research project to the creation of a spin off company; there is only a few steps from researcher to entrepreneur.
  • Topic of Chloé Joly and Audrey Magnin: Presentation of B4C activities. Focus on EU projects for which they are partners, linking them to societal challenges in each sector of the bioeconomy.
• Q&A 
• Conclusion and closing

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