TU Delft

5 March 2009

Challenge the future

DelftUniversity ofTechnology

TU DelftPartner in Innovation

Paul Althuis, Valorisation Centre

September 2009

Partner in Innovation | 2

TU Delft research for society

‘Established in 1842 for the education of engineers for the service of the country as well as industry and trade’


Largest university of technology in Netherlands

• 15.000 students• 3000 new students each year• 14 bachelor’s programmes• 41 master’s programmes

• 2.700 Academic staff• 55% international PhD’s• >200 PhD-theses each year• >5.000 Scientific publications p/y

• 36 Technostarters• 9 technostarter spin-offs

• 8 Faculties• 160 sections• >350 professors

• Worldwide research cooperation• >200 running EU projects

TU engineers & technology utilized world wide


Valorisation is key activity

Education Research Valorisation

Key activities TU Delft



Research partnerships

• Strategic partnership• Long term

• Thematic research programmes

• Consortium• Multiple partners

• Private and/or public partners

• Contract research• Short term

• Few partners focus on single project

Options



• Long term partnership with company• ‘Interactive science’

• Cooperation multiple faculties and research groups

• Sharing of research facilities

• Sharing of people

• Match between market needs and innovative knowledge

• Network forming based on concrete business proposites

Strategic partnership



• Cooperation on• Up- & Down stream

• Renewables

• Talent & Training

• E.g. Sustainable Mobility Program• Identification of new research area

• Focus on sustainability

• 4 years

• €3M Shell + €1,5M TU Delft

Strategic partnership



• Focus on specific theme• Multiple public and private partners from entire chain• Long term cooperation• Open innovation• Integration in education• Market oriented research• Initiate new business activities

Consortium



• Identify new high potential product-market combinations in Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems

• Public and private partners from entire chain• 10 universities/research institutes

• 23 companies

• TU Delft is co-ordinator

• 4 research clusters• Micro satellite (Delphi C3)

• Smart microchannel technology

• Microfactory

• Fundamentals, Modelling and Design of

Microsystems

Consortium



• Research focus on specific question• Short term• 1-1 relationship with scientist or group• Possibilities for subsidized funding• Possibilities for expansion to other areas of expertise

Contract research



• Gaspedal with haptic feedback• Force feedback of gaspedal and automatic breaking

• Research results used in Infinity• Continued R&D for haptic steering wheel

Contract research


Entrepreneurship

• Commercialization of technological findings• Creation of business cases for patent application• Development with external partners

• E.g. SME, Technostarters

• Entrepreneurship in education curricula

• Incubator YES!Delft• Stimulation of entrepreneurship

• Support and guidance for technostarters

Applying knowledge for society


Entrepreneurship

• Invention of computer operated mould for free formed glass panels• Increase shaping freedom

• Decrease cost

• TU Delft patent

• Partnership for development with Tetterode Glas (SME)• License agreement

• Direct market application for partner

• Continued R&D at TU Delft

Development with an SME


Dutch Climate Delta

• Regional: sustainable environment frontrunner in Clean Tech innovations potential key project ‘Randstad Urgent’

• National: key area Climate

• Europe: central role in realization Knowledge & Innovation Communities

• Global level: connected to other Clean Tech knowledge clusters – specially MIT in Boston and SE AsiaDutch Climate Delta

Key area Climate

Knowledge and Innovation Communities

Global knowledge clusters

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Strenghten position in knowledge clusters


Dutch Climate Delta

Dutch Climate Delta as crucial node in Climate KIC...

• A realistic pilot environment in exsisting (living)area

• Closing the gap between lab and practice through knowledge development, pilots and valorisation

• Measure effects of innovations and improve by using knowledge networks

• Integrate Clean Tech themes

… with special position as "living lab"…

… contributing to the success of the KICExperience with open innovation

• Operational experience with open innovations• Housing of PPS, like BE-BASIC, ‘Living with

Water’

High ambitions

• Ambitious climate targets, even more then NL/EU

• Active policy to achieve this (incl. launching customer, less regulation, co-investment)

Available pilot

• (Pilot) space where ideas and projects of the KIC can be tested, showed and scaled

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Central role in Knowledge & Innovation Communities (KIC’s)


Entrepreneurship

• Foldable container • Folded < 1 minute to ¼ size

• TU Delft patent

• Alumni started development

• Development in cooperation with industry partners• Shipping line

• Manufacturer

• End user

Development by a technostarter


Executive education

• TU Delft has state of the art knowledge in business & technology combined with real life cases• In-company training

• 11 Executive Master programmes

• 10 Management courses

• For professionals• Working in the field

• Ambition to work at strategic level

• Over 1000 master alumni

• 85% of alumni made major career step

Delft TopTech

Fields

• Energy

• Information Technology

• Telecommunications

• Safety, Health &

Environment

• Space Technology

• Transport & infrastructure

• Industrial Ecology

• Petroleum Engineering

• Public Safety

• Retail

• Security Science &

Management


Science park

• Create synergy between universities and companies

• By establishing companies with high R&D• Sharing research facilities

• Sharing of network

• Sharing of people

• Cooperation between municipalities of Delft and Rotterdam• 120 ha next to TU Delft campus: Technopolis

• Next to Rotterdam: Nature and Businesspark

Schieveen

Science Port Holland


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