National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos” 50 years of Excellence in Science

National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos” 50 years of Excellence in Science

ATHENS WORKSHOP ON HORIZON 2020 - NCSR “DEMOKRITOS” - 05/02/2013

National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos”

“Demokritos” is the largest interdisciplinary Research Center in Greece in a campus covering an area of 600.000m2 with 55.000m2 building

facilities.

The Demokritos center was established in 1960 with the operation of the 5MW nuclear reactor


NCSR “Demokritos” at a glance

Human Resources (2011)

PERSONNEL 763Scientific Personnel 515 Technical Personnel 127Administrative Personnel 87 Auxiliary Personnel 34

Financial Resources (2011)

TOTAL INCOME 25.655.600€ 100%Public Grants 14.913.360€ 58% Income from EU Programmes & Services 10.742.240€ 42%


NCSR “Demokritos” at a glance


Five Institutes – Poles of Excellence in Nanotechnology, Energy-Environment, Biosciences, ICT and Nuclear Physics

320 Research programs including

3 European Research Council (ERC) 3 NoEs 87 FP7 Projects out of which 25 are coordinated by NCSR “D” Staff (50 Collaborative Projects, 20 Marie Curie Grants, etc.)

61 NSRF Projects (National Strategic Reference Framework) from which: 11 Excellence in Research, 5 ESFRI, 12 Collaborative Research I&II, etc.)

Scientific Performance 30% of the total publications of the Greek Research centers

Publications in refereed journals 450Citations No 16.570

Publications Conference Proceedings 470Citations Impact 12,43

Education1.750 PhD theses supervised by NCSR “D” researchers

PhDs (2011) 27 Master Diplomas (2011) 30 Undergraduate Thesis (2011) 24 Practical Training (2011) 56

Unique Infrastructure of NCSR “Demokritos” Research Nuclear Reactor / Tandem Accelerator / Clean room facilities / Dioxine Laboratory etc


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KM3NeT (to search for extraterrestrial neutrinos in the depths of the Mediterranean)

KM3NeT (to search for extraterrestrial neutrinos in the depths of the Mediterranean)

Unique Infrastructure of NCSR “Demokritos”


Technology Transfer

TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE PARK OF ATTICA “LEFKIPPOS”

The Technology Park NCSR “D”, starts its operation creating know-how in the mentoring of spin-off companies (spin-off) and providing “incubator” services.

The Technology Park NCSR “D”, starts its operation creating know-how in the mentoring of spin-off companies (spin-off) and providing “incubator” services.

NCSR Demokritos has 13 Spin Offs companies and hold 71 Patents. NCSR Demokritos has 13 Spin Offs companies and hold 71 Patents.


Ministry Of Education, Religion, Culture and Sports General Secretariat Of Research And Technology

National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos”

Title of the presentation:

The role of the research centers in promoting innovation and entrepreneurship

Nick KanellopoulosNational Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos”


Can Demokritos lay the path for becoming the “Greek Silicon valley” and thereby Greece “the start up nation” of Southeastern Europe?

In order to answer the question we compare Greece with Israel, which is considered to be the “start up nation” and has more start-ups than anywhere else outside Silicon Valley’.

•Israel is a country of only 7.1 million people and produces more start-up companies than such large nations as Japan, China, India, Korea, Canada and the United Kingdom, whereas Greece produces an extremely small number of start-ups and spin-offs.

•The start-ups in Israel have been able to receive more than 2.5 times venture capital per capita than the US and 30 times as much as Europe, whereas in Greece there is a lack of venture capital and foreign investment. •In Israel there is a very strong cooperation with the diasporas' scientists, whereas Greece has a very weak interaction with the 10,000 Greek Scientists abroad.


Main SWOT findingsStrengths for the Greek research centers becoming “growth engines” are:

The competitiveness of the Greek researchers is considered to be the main competitive advantage,

it is demonstrated by the fact that the Greek researchers in the past years succeeded into receiving three times higher funding than the European average.


Main SWOT findingsWeaknesses for the Greek research centers becoming “growth engines” are:

• Lack of an effective exploitation of innovation and technology transfer policy

• Lack of venture capital• High cost of starting, running and in case of

failure, closing a spin-off• Lack of financial support: less than 1% of GDP

on R&D• Prevailing prejudice against the Researcher-

Businessman• Geographical fragmentation


Effective Regional Integration


The overcome the roadblocks of the fragmentation and the rest of aforementioned of the weaknesses

we propose an effective regional integration of Research Centers

Virtual Integration

Two of the major benefits of the proposed establishment of the virtual Integration Demokritos are:

(a)The increase of synergies and the reduction of overlapping of the activities of the fragmented research activities

and

(b) the establishment of critical mass of infrastructure and expertise accessible to all the scientists from research centers, Universities and industry..

Benefits of the Virtual Integration


Development phases of the Metropolitan Innovation Campus at Demokritos

Nuclear & Particle Physics

Nuclear & Particle Physics

Institute of Nuclear Physics

Institute of Nuclear Physics

Institute of Radioisotopes & Radio-diagnostic

Products

Institute of Radioisotopes & Radio-diagnostic

Products

Institute of Materials Science

Institute of Materials Science

Institute of Informatics & TelecommunicationInstitute of Informatics & Telecommunication

Institute of Microelectronics

Institute of Microelectronics

Institute of Physical Chemistry

Institute of Physical ChemistryInstitute of BiologyInstitute of Biology

Institute of Nuclear Technology & Radiation

Protection

Institute of Nuclear Technology & Radiation

Protection

Energy / Environment


Nano-technology

Nano-technology I.C.T.I.C.T.Life ScienceLife Science

Integration into national globally competitive Institutes or “poles of excellence”



Proposal to establish integration funding to establish sustainable“local virtual Institutes” industrial clusters In FP8 instead of the “distributed virtual Institutes” of FP6

Nuclear Particle Physics

Nuclear Particle Physics

Energy / Environment/Space

Energy / Environment/Space

Nano-technolo

gy

Nano-technolo

gy

I.C.T.I.C.T.

Life Science

Life Science

Establishment of globally competitive clusters of SMEs “effectively integrated with the corresponding local virtual Institutes” following the successful examples of clusters abroad ( IMEC cluster)

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Cluster Cluster Cluster

ClusterCluster

for each “pole of excellence” it is important to match the “academic competences” with the “industrial needs “ of relevant industries

e.g. for the Energy CLUSTER operated according to the successful IMEC

CLUSTER model in Belgium

Smart specializationEstablishment of strategic

roadmap focusing on a few areas where Greece presents competitive

advantages

“Cluster” of “Energy” Metropolitan

Scientists

“Cluster” of Energy Industries

• Natural gas technologies • Clean coal and clean lignite

technologies • Desalination • Solar Energy etc


Metropolitan Innovation Campus at Demokritos (MIC)


HORIZON 2020



SME

Spin-off

Spin-off

SME

SME

Cluster

Spin-off

LARGE

LARGE

LARGE

LARGE

IP IP

IP

Technology specific cooperation within the cluster

Solar Energy

Desalination

Achieving Technology Transfer within the clusters, depending on the direction of EU-HORIZON 2020

Natural Gas

Development phases of the Metropolitan Innovation Campus at Demokritos

Regarding the technology transfer policy a close cooperation with successful innovation hubs abroad is needed

“Arizona Technology Enterprises” which has succeeded in the past three years to:

o multiply the number of Start-ups by sixo multiply the number of Licenses by fouro multiply the number of Patents by three

Arizona Technology Enterprises

Arizona State University

IntellectualProperty

Revenue


Integrated Intellectual property Exploitation Plan

Proof of Concept Unit

One-stop-shop for scientific & technological consultation services

Exploitation of patent portfolios in cooperation with IP portfolios agencies

Business Angels & Venture Funding

National Research labs

Intellectual Property

Revenue

Metropolitan Innovation Campus SA

4th Generation potential Spin-Off Incubator

Effective “clusters” following the successful effective IMEC model

IP exploitation companies

(Intellectual Ventures)

The spin-offs will acquire independent legal status only and when they obtain external funding


Proposal to fund “Techno polis” initiatives in FP8

The goal is to bring together industry and academia and achieve critical mass of both human and infrastructure resources following the international trend of establishing high cost “Technology parks” . The Demokritos location is ideal (proximity to highway, metro and airport) This proximity is very important for instance bio- and nano- research activities, which require the same relatively large facilities, e.g. TEM, SEM, NMR etc. These facilities should be readily accessible in one location, instead of being scattered in different sites.

SISPARK, building area of 1.57 million square meters and investment of more than RMB 4 billion Yuan

Vision


Aims of the Metropolitan Innovation Campus at Demokritos

In summary the Metropolitan Innovation Campus “Demokritos”

will further enhance the scientific excellence and at the same time will become an Intellectual Property

Technology accelerator

by propelling breakthrough ideas from the lab to the market and attracting foreign investments.


Can the virtual Metropolitan Innovation Campus at Demokritos become a “Greek Silicon valley”

The answer is YES, the proposed Metropolitan Innovation Campus if we apply the right technology transfer policy can become a growth engine of the Greek economy attracting foreign investment and sustaining knowledge based jobs in Greece.


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National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos” 50 years of Excellence in Science