Breakout sessions

A.

How IPRs can fuel open science and open innovation

Over the past decade, university researchers have increasingly been encouraged (and in some OECD countries required) by policymakers and legislators to commercialise their work via patenting, licensing and spin-offs. At the same time, they have also been encouraged to work together, share data and disseminate new knowledge quickly - that is, to adopt an open innovation model - in order to foster scientific progress, meet major challenges and maximise the impact of their research. Firms also are looking to universities and public research organisations for much of their basic or fundamental research, following an “open” or collaborative innovation process, but increasingly enforcing IPRs, including demands for “reach-through” rights and review of publications that were a result of collaborative work.

This session will explore how universities and public research institutions can better promote innovation and will examine the impact of the open innovation model on the daily work of researchers.

• Kazuyuki Motohashi, Professor, Department of Technology Management for Innovation, University of Tokyo, Japan
• Thomas Osburg, Director Europe - Corporate Affairs, Intel, Germany
  
• Marisol Quintero, Director of Innovation, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas, Spain
• Claudia Tapia, Director, IP Policy, Patent & Standards Strategy, BlackBerry, Germany
  
• Nikolaus Thumm, Chief Economist, European Patent Office

Moderator: Alberto di Minin, Tenured Assistant Professor, Istituto di Management, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy

Rapporteur: Bernd Ebersberger, Professor for Innovation Management & Economics, Management Center Innsbruck, Austria

B.

Incentives to encourage researchers to disclose ideas and inventions

Incentives for researchers to disclose their inventions and data to technology transfer offices, industry and future researchers have clearly a positive effect on the technology transfer process. But delivering the appropriate incentives to encourage researchers to disclose their inventions is a challenge.

This session will identify tools and incentives that help to increase the willingness of researchers to share and disclose inventions and research results for further commercial exploitation.

• Arne Krüger, Managing Director, Moving Targets Consulting, Germany
• Mats Lundqvist, Director, Chalmers School of Entrepreneurship, Sweden
  
• Joerg Traub, Managing Director, SurgicEye, Germany
• George Whitten, Vice-President, Patent Counsel, Qualcomm Europe, United Kingdom
• Maaike van Velzen, General Manager Philips Group Innovation, Philips Intellectual Property & Standards, The Netherlands
  

Moderator: Erkki Ormala, Professor, Department of Management and International Business, Aalto University, Finland

Rapporteur: Christian Hackl, Managing Director, TUM-Tech, Germany

C.

University-industry collaboration

• Richard Johnson, Chief Executive Officer, Global Helix LLC, USA
• Bernd Korves, Head of University Relations, Corporate Technology, Siemens AG, Germany
• Gudrun Maass, Policy Officer, Higher Education and Innovation, European Institute of Innovation and Technology
• Markus Perkmann, Senior Research Fellow, Business School, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
• Mirjam Storim, Coordinator, University Cooperations, BMW Group, Germany 
  

Moderator: Karl Klingsheim, Managing Director, Technology Transfer, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Rapporteur: Arno Meerman, Vice-chairman and Chief Executive Officer, University-Industry Innovation Network, Germany 

D.

Better IP policies for universities

IP policies and management practices vary from country to country. While efforts have been made to harmonise university policies, for example by issuing guidelines for IP management, the question remains whether these are either useful or necessary, bearing in mind that universities are embedded in different local and regional contexts. Other framework polices that impact university IP policies include ownership clauses in patent law, labour law and government contracting laws, and general innovation and science and technology laws.

This session will discuss the role of national policy-makers in establishing frameworks for efficient IP policies and management practices at universities.

• Mario Calderini, Professor, Strategy and Innovation Management, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
• Josef Glössl, Vice-Rector for Research and International Research Collaboration, BOKU - University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Austria
  
• Michel Morant, Chair of the Board, ProTon Europe, Belgium
• Michel Poireau, Advisor, Directorate-General Research & Innovation, European Commission
• Klaus Uckel, Director, Division Basic Policy Issues, Internationalization Strategy, Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany
• Maaike van Velzen, General Manager Philips Group Innovation, Philips Intellectual Property & Standards, The Netherlands

Moderator: Dietmar Harhoff, Professor, Director of the Institute for Innovation Research, Technology Management and Entrepreneurship, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany

Rapporteur: Catalina Martínez, Research Fellow, Institute of Public Goods and Policies, Spanish National Research Council

E.

Entrepreneurship in universities

Entrepreneurship in universities, mostly associated with research spin-offs, has received substantial attention from policymakers and higher university management. But university spin-offs also include alumni and student start ups as well as corporate spin-offs, many created by former university researchers. With high-growth university ventures representing a source of radical innovations, governments and some universities have set up specialised programmes to support financing or proof-of concept.

This session will discuss the role of the entrepreneur in universities and what policy-makers and technology transfer offices can realistically do to nurture research spin-offs.

• Seppo Laukkanen, Associate Vice-President, Aalto University, Finland
• Burton H. Lee, Lecturer, European Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Stanford Engineering School, USA
• Helmut Schönenberger, Managing Director, UnternehmerTUM, Center for Innovation and Business Creation at Technische Universität München, Germany
• Manfred Stefener, Managing Director, Elcomax/Elcore, Germany
• Peter van Dongen, Account Manager, Universities and Technological Institutes, The Netherlands Patent Office
  

Moderator: Karen Wilson, Senior Economist, Structural Policy Division, OECD

Rapporteur: Daniel Kupka, Economist, Country Studies and Outlook Division, OECD

F.

New forms and models of governance for technology transfer offices

Nowadays, technology transfer offices are seen as the primary driver of commercialisation efforts within universities. While most discussions have centred on performance characteristics such as size, age and expertise, less attention has been paid as to whether new governance forms of technology transfer offices are useful for university commercialisation activities.

This session will examine whether and to what extent universities have experimented with new organisational structures to enhance their commercialisation activities.

• Linara Axanova, Licensing Associate, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, USA
• Karl Klingsheim, Managing Director, Technology Transfer, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
  
• Karen Laigaard, Head of Technology Transfer, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
  
• Vincent Lamande, Director, Société d'Accélération du Transfert de Technologie Ouest Valorisation, France
• Laurent Malier, Chief Executive Officer, Laboratory for Electronics and Information Technology, France
• Carolyn Porter, Operations Manager, ISIS Innovation, United Kingdom

Moderator: Riccardo Pietrabissa, Professor, Department of Chemistry and Materials, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Rapporteur: Anja Schoen, Research Associate, Theo Schöller Chair in Technology and Innovation Management, Technische Universität München, Germany

G.

Raising awareness and understanding of IP in the university environment

Creating an environment that is supportive of IP can help increase the participation and involvement of universities in the commercial exploitation of their ideas.

This session will discuss the role of senior-level decision-makers at universities in creating an environment that fosters IP culture and management.

• Richard Flammer, Principal Director, Patent Information - European Patent Academy, European Patent Office
• Dap Hartmann, Associate Professor, Faculty of Technology, Strategy and Entrepreneurship, Technical University Delft, The Netherlands
  
• Dirk Meissner, Deputy Head, Laboratory for Science and Technology Studies, Higher School of Economics, Russia
• Matthew Rainey, Director, Innovation and Technology Division, World Intellectual Property Organization
• Fazilet Vardar Sukan, Professor, Science and Technology Centre, Ege University, Turkey
  

Moderator: Carl J. Sundberg, Head of Unit Bioentrepreneurship, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

Rapporteur: Laurent Manderieux, Adjunct Professor, Bocconi University, Italy