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7 May 2013
Around 300 senior representatives of industry, academia and government gathered at a two day-conference organised jointly by the EPO, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the Technische Universität München (TUM) to look at how to create markets out of research results. Held at the EPO headquarters in Munich, the conference focused on how governments, universities and business can better work together to exploit scientific knowledge by fostering solid management of intellectual property (IP) in universities, and strengthening collaboration between academia and industry.
EPO Vice-President Raimund Lutz
Yves Leterme, Deputy Secretary-General of the OECD
TUM President Professor Wolfgang A. Herrmann underlined the openness of his university to the needs of society: "Through their inventions, scientists at TUM provide the basis for technological innovations that add value to the economy. Being a public university, we want to protect our research for the public good. Universities should use IP properly. The TUM has established an IP policy to integrate research results into the value chain and thus promote the continuous development of innovative products and technologies. We encourage entrepreneurial thinking and acting while remaining very research-oriented," said Professor Herrmann. Currently, the university holds 211 patent families (with 365 first patent filings overall) and can claim more than 220 university spin-offs since 2002.
Georg Schütte, State Secretary of the German Ministry of Education and Research; Professor Wolfgang A. Herrmann, TUM President; Raimund Lutz, EPO Vice-President; Yves Leterme, Deputy Secretary-General of the OECD; Richard Flammer, EPO Principal Director Patent Information - European Patent Academy
Through plenary sessions, expert presentations and panel discussions, the conference "Creating Markets from Research Results" examined the various channels for enhancing the transfer and application of the knowledge generated by academic research such as university-industry collaboration, entrepreneurship, IP management and policies, new models for technology transfer organisations, and also looked at the effect of open science on innovation.