Innovation and Impact -A Magnet for Wealth Creation

6 June 2012

The Gateway to the World

• Global Students and Graduates

– 22,000 students

• 3,000 international• 100+ countries

– 5,000 graduates each year

– 250 degree programs

– 200,000 alumni

• World Leading Faculty & Staff

– 5,000 staff

– 200+ research groups

– £100 million – research expenditures

• Top 10 employer in South East England

– £billion to local economy

A Research Intensive & Enterprising University

• Research Assessment Exercise

– Top 3 in Engineering

– Top 3 in Medical Sciences

– Top 3 in Social Policy, Music, European Studies

• World Leading in Spin-outs & Commercial Engagement

– Top 3 in world for spin-outs

– Top UK university in working with SMEs

– More than 1,000 commercial collaborators

Research Strengths

Working across the globe on climate change

Optoelectronics Research Centre: Invented the optical amplifier enabling high speed global communications

Web Sciences: at the forefront of developing the World Wide Web

Instrumental in making aircraft & their engines quieter and more efficient

Institute of Developmental Sciences: world leader in linking mothers’ diet and lifestyle and the health of children into adulthood

UK Sport Innovation partner for the Olympics

An Enterprising University• Accomplishments of the University’s alumni are the greatest form of

Knowledge Transfer.

• Entrepreneurial university – global leader in start-up companies

– Over 50 spin-outs since 1970

– 15 spin-outs since 2000

– 4 floated on AIM - £200M valuation

• 40+% of research programmes have commercial partners.

• Top UK university in working with SMEs.

• 7 consultancy units with 125 dedicated staff for immediate access .

• KTP (Knowledge Transfer Partnerships) - rapidly growing portfolio.

• 1000s class projects & interns in external organisations each year

• National champions (past 2 years) – Student Entrepreneurs

Why Does Industry Want to Work with

The University?

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Industry’s Reasons for Working with The University

• Mine the University for future employees

• Access to leading edge technology, knowledge, & policy thought

– Industry must innovate to survive & prosper

– Industry desires academia to shape policy & standards to their benefit

• Leverage funding

– Industry partners with academia to get access to government funds

– Do NOT view industry as an open checkbook

• Access and share research facilities

• Outsource skills shortage to world-class experts

• Share risk

Why Does Industry Hate to Work with The

University?

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Working with The University Is Hard Work

• No sense of urgency!

• Get treated like a cash cow

• Lack of understanding of industry’s needs

• Overvalue of academic contribution

– Too focused on IP

– Do NOT understand what it take to commercialize

• Inflated egos

• Too loose lipped

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Cultural Differences/Prejudices

Business

– Culture of the collective

• Team playing is important

• Collective responsibility

– Want to get things done

– Commercial savvy

– Wants outcome

– High service expectations

– Good influencing skills

Academia

– Culture of the individual

• The University is just a “landlord”

• Personal credibility key

– Want to be right

– Subject expert

– Interested in the problem

– Focus on publications

– In-depth subject knowledge

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Key Methods for Industrial Funding

• Sponsored & Collaborative Research Programmes

• Consultancy

• Knowledge Transfer Secondments

• Continuing Professional Development (CPD)

• Sponsored Studentships

• Philanthropy

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Types of Relationships with External Organisations• Research Funding

– Company investment– Co-operative funding in conjunction with RC

and other consortia– In-kind

• Publications with joint authorship

• Consultancy

• Licenses

• Visiting Professorships

• Secondments – both directions– Company to University– University to company

• Seminar/Lectures – both directions– Company employees at the University– University employees at the company

• Events – both directions– University events attended by company

personnel– Company events attended by University

personnel

• Advisory Boards – both directions– University advisory boards – externals on

University boards– External advisory boards – University

representatives on external boards

• Employer Engagement - Curriculum – Undergraduate curriculum– Postgraduate curriculum– CPD

• Employer Engagement - Studentships– KTP– EngD– Interns– Class Projects– Scholarships– Studentships– Prizes– Awards– Mentoring– Work shadowing

• Recruitment of graduates– Career fairs– Employer presentations– Employability skills workshops– Advertising openings to potential

recruits

• Alumni

• Philanthropy

• Students (at University) who are children of key employees of company

• Purchases from company (procurement)

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The Innovation Gap

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Bridging the Innovation Gap

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Spin-out

Catapult Centres

Photonics & Nanofabrication Cluster

Aerospace & DefenceBlue Sky Thinking & Doing

Maritime & Oceanography Centre of Global Excellence

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Southampton Marine & Maritime Institute

University of Southampton

Lloyd’s Register

International academic society

International industry

SouthamptonMarine & Maritime

Institute

World-Beating University

A culture of Invention, Innovation and Impact pervades, resulting in the most

Entrepreneurial and Enterprising environment –

a magnet for Wealth Creation

Don SpalingerDirector, Research & Innovation Services

University of Southampton

+44 (0)2380 592392

d.spalinger@soton.ac.uk

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Don SpalingerDirector, Research & Innovation Services

• Serial entrepreneur – 5 start-ups – SPI, T3plus, Connexus, ONI, and Kylex

• Executive in large companies – Exxon, Texas Instruments, Gartner Group, Racal, DSC Communications

• 30 years in Silicon Valley

• Track record of converting IP into businesses

World beating research• Optoelectronics

• Web science

• Sound and vibration

• Maritime research

• Oceanography

• Population research

• Human genetics

• Respiratory diseases

• High performance sports

Centres of Excellence

• Mountbattan Institute– Nanotechnologies – electronics, photonics, bionics

• Institute for Web Science

• Open Data Institute

• Institute for Sound & Vibration

• Southampton Marine & Maritime Institute

• National Oceanography Centre-Southampton

• Geoscience Advisory Unit - Radioanalytical

• Institute for Population Research

• Centre for High Performance Computing

• Medical School & Teaching Hospital

• Institute for Life Sciences

• nCATS – Tribology

• Centre for Operational Research, Management Science & Information Systems

University Strategic Research Groups – Multi-disciplinary with Global Impact• Energy

• NanoScience

• Digital Economy

• Ageing & Lifelong Health

• Health Technologies

• Institute for Life Sciences

• Neurosciences

• Southampton Marine & Maritime Institute

• Global Uncertainties & Security

• Sustainability Science at Southampton

• Complexity in Real-World Contexts

• Work Futures Research Centre

• Computational Intensive Imaging

• Population Health

Centre of Innovation – Focus for business

growth

– Supportive environment

– Flexibility for small companies

Community– Entrepreneurial

– High tech

– Business oriented

– Focus for events

Network– Business clusters

– University links

– Regional focus

– Leading edge IT

University of Southampton Science Park, Chilworth