CDSAGENDA V.5 Entrepreneurship for Physicists and Engineers from Developing Countries

Entrepreneurship for Physicists and Engineers from Developing Countries

Cosponsor(s):

AREA Science Park, IOP, APS, IUPAP

Start Time:

17 March 2008 at 08:30

Ends On:

21 March 2008

Location:

Trieste - Italy

Venue:

AGH (Kastler Lecture Hall)

Organizer(s):

Dipali Chauhan (UK), Amy Flatten (USA), Giancarlo Michellone (Italy), Surya Raghu (USA), K.R. Sreenivasan (ICTP), Claudio Tuniz (ICTP)

Description:

Purpose and Nature: This one-week intensive Workshop is designed for physicists from developing countries who are interested in learning entrepreneurial skills to commercialize their scientific inventions. Such an educational program is missing in many of the developing countries for scientists working in universities and scientific institutions. The participants will benefit from the international perspective provided in this Workshop from both experts and co-participants from developing countries.

Goals and Objectives: The objectives of this Workshop are to introduce to the scientists the process of innovation, generation and protection of intellectual property, technology transfer and commercialization of inventions. The Workshop will consist of lectures by invited speakers, case studies, group discussions and role-playing sessions related to commercialization of a product.

Material:

Day 1 - Monday, 17 March

Room: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall

17 March 2008

08:30
10:00

Registration and Administrative Formalities

01h30'

Visitors are requested to register with the secretary in the Adriatico Guesthouse.
There will be a shuttle bus running from the Adriatico to the Fermi Building and back until 10 a.m. for those needing to go to the Finance office

10:00
11:00

Welcome Remarks

01h00'

K.R. Sreenivasan (Director, ICTP)
Giancarlo Michellone (AREA Science Park, Trieste)
Claudio Tuniz (Assistant Director, ICTP)
Dipali Chauhan (IOP, London)
Amy Flatten (APS, USA)

11:00
12:00

Participant self-introductions and expectations from the Workshop

01h00'

Moderators: David Secher and S. Raghu

12:00
13:00

Lunch Break

01h00'

13:00
14:00

Lecture 1 (tentative topic): Relation between scientific research, inventions and products

01h00'

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Peter Dobson
University of Oxford, UK

Chair: Andrea Vacchi, Director, INFN Trieste -
Open-ended research versus product oriented research, identifying technological needs of the society and market. University vs. industrial research.

14:00
15:00

Lecture 2: Institutional roles for commercialization

01h00'

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David Secher
N8 Research Partnership, Sheffield, UK

(Chair: Dipali Chauhan) - Role of the academic departments/sections, technology transfer office, the University and the government in encouraging scientists to commercialize inventions. SMEs. Interfacing with industry, strategic partnerships, inter-institutional and international agreements.

15:00
15:30

Coffee Break

30'

15:30
16:30

Lecture 3: Pre-Business feasibility analysis and opportunity assessment

01h00'

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Edward Caner
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Programs, Cleveland, USA

Chair: Amy Flatten

16:30
17:30

Group discussion Topic: Physicists as entrepreneurs: opportunities and challenges

01h00'

Moderators: Edward Caner and Dawood Parker

19:00
21:00

Dinner/Post-Dinner Informal Q&A Sessions

02h00'

Day 2 - Tuesday, 18 March

Room: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall

18 March 2008

08:30
09:30

Lecture 4: Concept of intellectual property and its significance

01h00'

Harry Thangaraj
London, UK

Chair: Surya Raghu - Patents, trade secrets and trademarks. Who is the inventor and who is not? Proper record keeping for patenting. Who owns the rights to an invention - you or your organization/company? Publications vs. patents.

09:30
10:30

Lecture 5: Basics of patenting

01h00'

lecture_notes

Charles Eloshway
Office of Intellectual Property Policy and Enforcement, USPTO, USA

Chair: Amy Flatten - General Patent Office Info, Patent and literature search, Classification, filing procedures, Process of examination and verification, communication with patent attorney/individual, help for individual inventors, etc.

10:30
11:00

Coffee Break

30'

11:00
13:00

Panel Discussion: Global IP Protection (USPTO, WIPO, EPO)

02h00'

20 minutes presentation each+discussion

Chair/Moderator: Peter Dobson

13:00
14:00

Lunch Break

01h00'

14:00
15:00

Lecture 6: Invention to product: Timelines and processes

01h00'

lecture_notes

Surya Raghu
Advanced Fluidics, USA

Chair: Dawood Parker

15:00
16:00

Lecture 7: IP management and Institutional IP policy for Universities and R&D Institutions

01h00'

Yumiko Hamano
Intellectual Properties and New Technologies Division, WIPO, Switzerland

Chair: Dipali Chauhan - Non disclosure agreements, licensing, various legal agreements between inventor, institutions and industries, licensing and technology transfer

16:00
16:30

Coffee Break

30'

16:30
18:00

Group Discussion: Topic 1: To patent or not to patent: Implications on business strategies and secrets, control on IP, moral and ethical issues, conflicts of "open science" vs. "secret science", Restrictive patent regulations. Topic 2: Working with Industry: How to deal with IP issues?

01h30'

Chair: Patrizia Tiberi Vipraio, University of Udine;
Moderators Topic 1: Peter Dobson and Charles Eloshway;
Moderators Topic 2: David Secher and TBA

19:00
21:00

Dinner/Post-Dinner Informal Q&A Session/Business Plan Development

02h00'

Day 3 - Wednesday, 19 March

Room: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall

19 March 2008

08:30
10:30

Lecture 8: Business Plan Fundamentals

02h00'

Richard Brooks
FD Solutions, London, UK

Chair - John Enderby - Financials involved in patenting (typical cost of provisional application, full patent application, maintenance fees, CIP costs). Marketing of an invention. How to raise capital for developing an invention into a marketable product. Preparing a business plan. Early-stage venture capitalists and angel investors.

10:30
11:00

Coffee Break

30'

11:00
12:00

Lecture 9: Taking science to the market: insights, models and experiences from NCL, India

01h00'

V. Premnath
National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India

Chair: Dipali Chauhan

12:00
12:30

Lecture 10: Success Story 1. Innovation Centre and Mexican Venture Capital Fund for High Technology

30'

Graziano Bertogli
ICS, UNIDO, Trieste, Italy

Chair V. Premnath

12:30
13:00

Lecture 11: TBD

30'

13:00
14:00

Lunch Break

01h00'

14:00
15:00

Lecture 12: Success Story 2. Opportunities for developing countries in the post-oil era

01h00'

lecture_notes

Fernando Galembeck
UNICAMP, Brazil

Chair: Amy Flatten

15:00
16:00

Lecture 13: TBA

01h00'

TBA

16:00
16:30

Coffee Break

30'

16:30
17:30

Lecture 14: Success Story 4.

01h00'

lecture_notes

Dawood Parker
Melys Diagnostics, UK

Chair: Fabio Ruzzier (University of Trieste)

17:30
18:30

Group Discussion (continued). Topic 1: To Patent or Not to Patent. Topic 2. Working with Industry.

01h00'

Moderators: Charles Eloshway
Chair: Surya Raghu

19:00
21:00

Dinner/Post-Dinner Informal Q&A Session/Business Plan Development

02h00'

Day 4 - Thursday, 20 March - Venue: AREA Science Park

20 March 2008

08:30
08:30

Bus to AREA Science Park - Program at AREA Science Park, Padriciano

All participants will meet at the bus stop in Grignano (by the sea), where a private bus will depart to the AREA Science Park, Padriciano.

10:00
10:30

Lecture 15: Evaluating business opportunities arising from technology commercialisation

30'

lecture_notes

Steve Taylor
SRI Consulting - Business Intelligence

Location: Auditorium, Building C, Area Science Park

Chair: Steve Taylor
Methodologies used for global business intelligence gathering, and filtering and for technology monitoring and opportunity identification and assessment

10:30
11:00

Lecture 16: Introduction to Science Parks: Innovation policies and innovative start-ups

30'

Gabriele Gatti
AREA Science Park, Trieste

Chair: Steve Taylor
The role of science and technology parks in developing and managing innovation as a tool for enterprise creation and growth. Innovation policies and practices tailored to facilitate the regional investment in RTD and technological innovation. Showcasing the practices adopted in AREA Science Park and presentation of success stories achieved and of the NovaRegio toolkit.

11:00
11:30

Lecture 17: Introduction to Innovation Network (TM) and Innovation Factory (TM) toolkits

30'

Paolo Mander
AREA Science Park, Trieste

Chair: Steve Taylor
Fostering the creation of high growth potential innovative companies by technology assessment and transfer: the regional network of competence centers for managing and diffusing technologies and innovation, exploring the commercial feasibility of an idea and bringing research to market. Hi-tech business incubation for innovative start-ups from academic research. Two valuable tools: Innovation Network (TM) and Innovation Factory (TM)

11:30
12:00

Lecture 18: Introduction to the enterprise creation and acceleration experience of BIC-FVG

30'

Elena Colonna
BIC-FVG, Trieste

Chair: Steve Taylor
BIC-FVG is a "best practice" European business incubator/accelerator. Several approaches and methods have been developed to support venture creation. For example, the "lead Users" and "collaborative entrepreneurship" methods are being successfully adopted to accelerate company growth, compress time to market, reduce risk - and attract private investors. BIC-FVG is leading a US-Italy partnership program to network high-level Italian Business Angels co-investing with Venture Capital Funds.

12:00
13:00

Visit to AREA Science Park "Virtual Show Room"

01h00'

13:00
13:00

Departure by bus from AREA Padriciano to Sincrotrone Basovizza

13:30
14:00

Self-service buffet lunch in Basovizza Cafeteria

30'

14:00
16:00

Visit to AREA Science Park Laboratories and Facilities (Basovizza site)

02h00'

16:00
16:00

Departure by bus back to the ICTP

19:00
21:00

Workshop Dinner

02h00'

Room: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria

Day 5 - Friday 21 March - (Good Friday, ICTP administrative offices closed) (Good Friday)

Description: Participant idea/business plan presentations to a panel of experts for critique
(Invited Speakers, Science Park, Trieste Group)
(Make sure you have clearance from your home Institutions for disclosure of IP)

Room: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall

21 March 2008

08:30
09:00

Introduction of the Panel (Confirmed panellists: Joseph Niemela, Antonio Sfiligoj)

30'

Chair: Beth Taylor, IOP

09:00
10:30

Session I

01h30'

Chair: TBA

9:00 - 9:30 - Group 1
9:30 - 10:00 - Group 2
10:00 - 10:30 - Group 3

10:30
11:00

Coffee Break

30'

11:00
12:30

Session II

01h30'

Chair: Joseph Niemela, ICTP

11:00 - 11:30 - Group 4
11:30 - 12:00 - Group 5
12:00 - 12:30 - Group 6

12:30
14:00

Lunch Break

01h30'

14:00
15:00

Session III

01h00'

Chair: TBA

14:00 - 14:30 - Group 7
14:30 - 15:00 - Group 8

15:00
16:00

Concluding Remarks

01h00'

ICTP Director, Workshop Organizers, Beth Taylor IOP