Elaborating and Implementing Technology-Transfer- Strategies in North Rhine-Westphalia

1. Elaborating and Implementing Technology-Transfer- Strategies in North Rhine-Westphalia - Building Bridges between Science and Economy - INTERRA 2011 H. Pausewang Ministry of Innovation, Science and Research, North Rhine-Westphalia 22.9 – 24.09.2011

2. Topics • NRW in the heart of Europe • Science and Research Landscape NRW • Facts and Figures: The Key Role of Technology-Transfer • Technology-Transfer-Strategies: Supporting People and Providing Infrastructures • Support of Entrepreneurship and University Start-up‘s • Patent Exploitation Initiative • Supporting Technology-Transfer-Structures: InnovationAlliance 2

3. 150 million consumers within about a 500-kilometer radius North Rhine-Westphalia: a significant share of Germany - population: 18.1 Mio. (22 %) - GDP: € 489 billion (22 %) - area: 34 000 sq km (9.5 %) - exports: € 160.4 billion (18 %) - imports: € 170.9 billion (23 %) 3

4. North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) - a prime location for global players - 26 of the 50 top-selling German companies are based in NRW- more than 700 000 SMEs are based in NRW source: NRW.INVEST GmbH 4

5. Düsseldorf – Capital at the Rhine 5

6. Bielefeld Lemgo Münster Detmold Paderborn Nordkirchen Gelsenkirchen Dortmund Bochum Witten Essen Iserlohn Düsseldorf Hagen Wuppertal Mönchen-gladbach Cologne Sankt Augustin Brühl Siegen Aachen Bonn Universities Alfter Bad Honnef Universities of Applied Sciences Bad Münstereifel University Landscape in NRW - locations of public and private universities - 67 universities public universities • 14 universities • 18 universities of applied sciences • 7 universities for fine arts and music The largest concentration of universities in Europe. 6

7. Research Centre Jülich DLR, German Aerospace Centre 14 Institutes of the Fraunhofer Society 12 Max-Planck Institutes 10 Institutes of the Leibniz Gemeinschaft Research Institutes in NRW 7

8. Main fields of innovation in NRW • Energy and Environmental Research • Biotechnology • Micro- and Nanotechnologies, New Materials • Medical Research, Medical Engineering 8

9. Facts and Figures about Technology-Transfer Third-party-funding • Acquired third-party-funds are a measure of the quality of research and it‘s practical relevance • Third-party-funds acquired from universities in direct cooperation with industry: 166 Mio. € in 1999202 Mio. € in 2004 (+ 21%)267 Mio €. in 2009 (+ 61%) Inventions and Patents • 350 - 400 inventions by scientists from NRW-universities every year • 130 - 150 patent-applications by NRW-universities in 2008 (38 % ) 9

10. Facts and Figures about Technology-Transfer (II) Entrepreneurship and university start-ups • 7.000 foundations of scientific-related enterprises each year in NRW • In 4.200 of these enterprises scientists were engaged as entrepreneurs • 750 - 800 of these enterprises are university start-ups Source: Prof. Spielkamp, FH Gelsenkirchen (2005): Studie zum Gründungsgeschehen in NRW 10

11. Technology-Transfer Strategy of NRW Politics of Innovation and Fostering Technology-Transfer: Main Objectives: • meet the needs of economy and society • speed up know-how transfer • build up transfer-networks • internationalise R&D and Tech-Transfer 11

12. Tech-Transfer in NRW: Building bridges between Science and Economy • Substantial package of measures with intention: • better interlock between science and economy • funding science-/technology-based entrepreneurs • patent-filed R&D-results and utilise inventions • support co-operation between universities and SMEs • Target-groups • entrepreneurial scientists • application-oriented universities • explorative SMEs 12

13. Promoting entrepreneurial Spirit and supporting University Start-ups Entrepreneurial Universities build up a Culture of Entrepreneurship • Motivation to be an entrepreneur • information • marketing of best practises • Generating of business ideas • Education and training • workshops • Advise and support of start-ups • business adviser • tech-transfer offices Regional Networks are essential for success. 13

14. Gründung.NRW Entrepreneurship-Network Competition Objectives • Funding infrastructure to motivate and to give advice to interestedstudents and academic staff to become entrepreneurs • raise awareness, create new ideas, give support, … • Give entrepreneurs / start-ups a suitable entrepreneurial environment • Build up an efficient entrepreneurship-network • universities, R&D-Institutes, consulting-firms, banks, chambers of commerce, venture-capitalists, incubators, … General Conditions • First Call in 2008, projects started at the end of 2009 • Funding aid: 6 Mio. € in 3 years 14

15. Patent Exploitation Initiative Change of German law relating to inventions of employees(§42 ArbEG, Feb. 2002) • „Property-owner“ of academic inventions are the universities Public funded „Patent Exploitation Initiative“ • Establishment of a professional patent and technology licensing infrastructure at universities • Establishment of an university-IPR-policy Foundation of patent licensing offices at all German universities • PROvendis GmbH as a patent marketing agency for 23 universities of NRW offers companies exclusive access to inventions and patents of over 20.000 scientists 15

16. Patent Marketing Agency • 23 universities are shareholders of the enterprise • Largest European patent and technology licensing office for academic IP range of services • Consulting inventors from NRW universities • Evaluating inventions (patentability, commercial exploitability) • Applications for IPR • Marketing and licensing IPR • Drafting and negotiating licensing agreements • Established: October 2001 • Legal Form: GmbH (equiv. to Ltd.) • Location: Muelheim / Ruhr 16

17. Science-to-Business PreSeedTechnology-Transfer Competition Objective To bridge the gap between academic research and application in industry by funding the utilisation of university inventions, based on excellent R&D-results: • financial aid for R&D inside the university • evaluation of inventions and concepts, prototyping • grant aid of patent application • support of entrepreneurs and start-ups outside the universities • General Conditions • One call each year (next call will start in March 2010) • 4.3 Mio. € financial aid for the last two calls 17

18. InnovationAlliance – supporting Technology-Transfer Mission: Enhancing efficient Technology-Transfer through networking and cooperation Largest transfer-network in Germany driven by 27 NRW-universities (TTOs) access to all areas of technology and over 20.000 scientists registered association (e.V.) public-private funded 18 InnovationsAllianz of the NRW Universities

19. InnovationAlliance (II) Tasks: Unique platform for stronger co-operations of institutes, researchers and industry interdisciplinary cooperation, cooperation between various types of universities Offering a single access point access to the competences of 27 universities Direct interfaces for requests professional contact to scientists, R&D-results and IPR Offering access to public financial aid “Innovation-Vouchers” (financial aid to scientific consulting and R&D-projects) 19 InnovationsAllianz of the NRW Universities

20. Thank you very much for your attention! Hartmut Pausewang hartmut.pausewang@miwf.nrw.de 20

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