Benefitting from your national and international networks

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Benefitting from your national and international
networks

• Karen Laigaard
• Acting Vice-President Research Innovation
• University of Copenhagen
• President of ASTP
• (Assoc. of European Science Technology Transfer
  Professionals)
• Sweden, 25th August 2010

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University of Copenhagen

• Founded 1472
• 5,500 researchers
• 37,000 students
• 2000 Patent Office established
• 2003 Tech Transfer Office established
• 2008 Dept of Research Innovation established

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The Danish national network of TT

• 2000 5 patent consortia with selected
  universities coordinating activities of each
  consortium
• 2003 Danish national network of TT mainly
  funded by the Danish Government and managed by
  one university
• 2009 Danish network now mainly funded by the
  universities (with a little government funding)
  managed by the Conferederation of Danish
  Universities

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Activities of Danish National Network

• Build and develop competencies and knowledge
• (courses, seminars, etc.)
• Develop methods
• (marketing, model agreements, patent exchange,
  metrics for TT .)
• Exchange best practise
• (formal and informal meetings on IPR, conflict
  of interest, licensing clauses, etc)
• Develop policies and lobbying activities

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Benefits

• Network of TT professionals in Denmark
• Development of best practise
• Useful in inter-university collaborations
• Big pool of colleagues for advice, ideas, etc.
• And
• Access to ASTP activities!

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Who are we ?
What is ASTP?

• ASTP Association of European Science
  Technology Transfer Professionals, established
  1999. Over 600 individual members from almost 50
  countries
• Goal Improve Technology Transfer by exchanging
  best practices training TT professionals
• Events Diversity in high quality events with
  almost 1000 participating professionals per year
• Tools www.astp.net / wiki.astp.net / e-mail
  mailing list
• Annual TT Survey
• ? Bottom-up, self-funded, practitioners based
  association, independent

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Growth of our membership
Members approximately 75 academic, 25
business
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Board 2010 - 2011

• ASTP Board members as per May 2009
• Karen Laigaard University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• Anders Haugland BTO Bergen, Norway
• Jörn Erselius Max Planck Innovation, Germany
• Kevin Cullen University of Glasgow, United
  Kingdom
• Sara Matt-Leubner University of Innsbruck,
  Austria
• Koen Verhouf Dutch Cancer Institute, The
  Netherlands
• Former board members from UCL / LBS EMBL-EM
  Institut Pasteur
• TTO Denmark IMEC VTT VIB and various
  universities throughout
• Europe

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Annual events

• Annual Conference Best practices in transfer
  of Science and Technology
• (200-250 people) Paris, Munich, Prague,
  Copenhagen, Budapest, Amsterdam, Turku,
  Heidelberg, Bergen, Ghent
• Site Visits Isis Innovations Oxford, Catholic
  University Leuven,
• (25 30 people) Cancer Research Technology
  London
• Masterclass Clinical Trial Agreements
  Amsterdam, The Other IP
• (25 30 people) Bergen, Inside the mind of an
  investor Venice

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Professional Education

• Training courses - last week of January
• - first / second week of September
• Basic Fundamentals of technology transfer
• (45 people)
• Advanced Strategic Marketing of Intellectual
  property
• (30 a 40 max) Advanced Lisensing Skills
• Building and Financing Spinouts
• Advanced Marketing and Deal Making Effective
  Negotiation in Technology Transfer
• RD Collaborations
• Courses held in Lisbon, Copenhagen, Dublin,
  Vienna, Leuven, Mallorca, Barcelona ...

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Other services to members

• Exchange of expertise Platform for exchange of
  best practices, yearly events, access to an
  online discussion forum
• Education Professional education, workshops, site
  visits
• Networking Being a member of the largest European
  TTO community
• Ample time for informal meetings at our events
• ASTP Linked-in group
• Information supply Newsletters, membership
  directory, ASTP Survey, conference reader
• Other services Reduction on registration fees for
  our events, reductions on publications
  materials of past events, discount on European
  TT events, group discounts at events for
  members from national networks

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Our strengths

• Exchange of best practise with international TT
  professionals
• A nice mix of experienced TTOs and new-comers
• For practitioners by practitioners
• No lobbying / political interference major aim
  is to support the
• professionals
• Informal settings time for networking,
  discussions and social
• Programmes
• A very open and friendly network where people
  like to exchange
• ideas and help eachother
• Almost 10 years of experience in the first and
  largest European
• network of TT professionals

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Collaboration

• Active collaboration with PRAXIS (TT training
  company in UK),
• KU Leuven, fellow tech transfer organisations
• ATTP an initiative set up by ASTP, AUTM, KCA,
  ATMT, UNICO to provide a global standard of
  professional achievement. Connects more than
  5,000 tech transfer professionals in 67 countries
  (visit www.attp.info to see how you can become a
  Registered Technology Transfer Professional
• Ad hoc partnerships with e.g. IPTEC, Bio Europe,
  EuroBio
• National networks Reseau Curie, Praxis-UNICO
  (UK), Norwegian Network, Danish Network, SwiTT
  (Switzerland), Snitts (Sweden)
• .. And soon Slovenia!!! -)

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Forthcoming Events

• 28 29 October 2010
• European tech transfer national networks meeting
• Zaandam, The Netherlands
• 2 3 December 2010
• Masterclasses on problem cases
• protection inventions
• negotiation
• Amsterdam (Schipol Airport, The Netherlands)
• 26 28 January 2011
• ASTP training courses
• Fundamentals of technology transfer
• Advanced marketing and deal making
• Leuven, Belgium

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• Thank you!
• Karen Laigaard
• Director of Research Innovation
• University of Copenhagen
• President of ASTP
• kala_at_adm.ku.dk