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A Transnational TTO for ELI

Collaboration with CERN

J.-M. Le Goff

ELI-CTU-CERN meeting

ELI, Prague, January 29th-30th, 2014

HEPTech-CERN Collaboration

A transnational TT Office for ELI

(Extreme Light Infrastructure)

Jean-Marie Le Goff (CERN, CH)Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Workshop on the Danube Innovation PartnershipVienna 24-25 June 2014

Agenda• ELI ecosystem• HEPTech• Towards a transnational TT Office

Ecosystem• Definition

An ecosystem consists of all the organisms living in a community as well as all the abiotic factors with which they interact.

ELI ecosystem

• All the organisations acting within a community as well as the supporting/facilitating entities with which they interact.

• RI(s) centric!• Not just the ecosystem around the TT Office!

ELI ecosystem stake holders• Research Infrastructures

– Facility: Beams and supporting infrastructure for experiments– R&D&I

• Industry– Supplier– Commercialisation/Exploitation of R&D results

• University & Applied/Technical university– Interns to work in RIs– R&D&I

• Supporting/facilitating entities– Procurement Office– Funding agencies (Public/Private)– TT Office

Benefits for academia• RIs will find in the ecosystem:

– A network of high-tech industry capable of meeting their needs

• Procurement

– A network of high-tech industry capable of developing products/applications using research results

• Technology Transfer

– A network of Universities with expertise in the field of Lasers to contribute to the R&D (Laser, photon detectors, etc..)

• Collaboration Technology Transfer

– A source of people to be trained and staff the infrastructure• HR: Training and mobility

ELI-HEPTech Workshop

Benefits for industry• Industry will find in the ecosystem:

– A privileged access to information on call for tenders• Procurement

– A privileged access to know-how, technology & innovation

• Technology Transfer

– Academic expertise to help responding to call for tenders• Collaboration Technology Transfer

– A source of potential staff• HR: Training and mobility

ELI-HEPTech Workshop

Main issues for TTOs• Consistent IP Policy across all RIs in the ecosystem

– To regulate all IP related activities • (Procurement, TT, collaborations and Training & Mobility)

• TTO: Timely response to multiple needs– IP management, rights & access– Licences of technical results– Standard agreements for all kinds of collaboration– Standard agreements for services and consultancy– Synergy with procurement to foster exploitation of results– Support across the valley of death (during the transfer from lab industry)– Assistance to spin-off– Promotion & Marketing of ELI science & technology

• ELI (ERIC) specific: Transnational aspects– Integration in the ELI-ERIC– Moving from three independent TTOs to a single TTO with three branches– Capacity building

HEPTech: What do we do ?

• Help move results from fundamental research in physics to society– Industrial academic collaborations– Other academic disciplines

• Foster collaboration– Apply for grants: COST, H2020

• Share best practice in TT– Trailed new innovation platform

HEPTech Membership

23 / 15UNITEDKINGDOM

PORTUGALSPAIN

FRANCE ITALY

GERMANY

SWEDEN

ROMANIASWITZERLAND

CZECH REP

BULGARIA

GREECE

SLOVENIAHUNGARY

RD51Gaseous

Detectors

KTN_Photonics UK

HEPTech Interconnections

R&D on detectors

The 3 ELI infrastructures are HEPTech members Point of Contact with Major Players related with lasers & photon detection

Towards a transnational TT Office• Objectives

– Develop an IP policy • Agreed Modus operandi on IP/TT matters across ELIs used for interacting with the

ecosystem• Compatible with ELI RIs national laws

– Capability building• Develop capability in the 3 TTOs to address

– All TT specific matters– All ELI specific matters (technology valuation, marketing, etc.)

– Develop contract templates• Compatible with ELI RIs national laws

– Address ERIC related matter• Organisation and Governance,• TTO status• IP matters within an ERIC• Relations with national TT supporting structure (incubators, technopark, etc.)

– Establish transition measures and mechanisms

Towards a transnational TT Office• Proposal:

– Assist ELI RIs • in developing IP policy• Building capacity• Develop contract templates

– Launch a JRC/TTO Circle, HEPTech task force to work out concrete propositions to the transnational TTO

– Assist ELI RIs in developing transition measures• Timescale:

– ELI-ERIC with TTO operational in 2017

Where do we stand?• ELI-DC + Three Pillars must agree on a strategy

and a workplan• Look for regional funds to support TTOs• Synchronize with DG-regio.• HEPTech to provide assistance if and when

needed

HEPTech-ELI Collaboration

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