Achieving Success in Academia-Industry Matchmaking Events

1. How to organise a successful Academia Industry Matching Event www.heptech.org

2. What is an AIME? Objective • Get Academic & Industrial specialists to discuss together on a particular technology topic • Invite TTOs to watch and create opportunities Methodology • AIME • Topical Events (very focused) • Needs of communities (HEP and others) • Capability of Industry • Two half-day events with booths, posters, long coffee breaks • Networking dinner Statistics

4. Some statistics • 611people attended these events with an average of 87 participants per event • 101 Companies attended the seven events for an average of 14 companies per event • MPGD, RPC  Small industrial community supporting the activity • Technologies where Europe could meet the needs of academia EU industry is about 90% or above. • Percentage goes down to 70% when the leading industry for a technology topic is in the US and/or Asia. • 3-D interconnections Advanced European Infrastructures for Detectors at Accelerators

5. It’s not black or white! • Interactions between academia and industry strongly depend on the type and readiness level of the technology and its use in detectors. • Early collaborations with industry are essential. But academic needs depend on the detector technology: • Industry alone can manufacture critical components • 3D-interconnections, Position Sensitive Solid State Detectors • Development of an industrial process to meet physics requirements • Prototypes, characterisation, academic feedback to industry • Industry has developed technologies for commercial applications that can be used for detectors with some optimizations. • RPC, TGC • Ex: PCB, coolant in gas mixtures • Improvement of existing materials to meet physics requirements • Specific productionin limited quantities  Risk of cost increase

6. Researchers need industry! • Early collaborations with industry are essential. But purpose depends on the detector technology: • Industry alone can manufacture critical components • 3D-interconnections, Position Sensitive Solid State Detectors • Aim at including our needs into processes that can address a larger market • Manufacturing of very large detectors no longer possible without the involvement of industry • RPC, TGC • No market outside PP • Applications outside PP are important to convince industry to invest in equipment (ex: Ore mining with TGC-based detectors) • Interesting market for education

7. AIMEs so far (17) • Si-Photomultipliers (CERN, Geneva, 2011) (AIDA kick-off, HEPTech) • Vacuum & Cryogenics (GSI, Darmstadt, 2011) (Jointly organised with ASPERA) • Position Sensitive Solid State Detectors (DESY, Hamburg, 2012) • Beam monitoring (GSI, Darmstadt, 2012) • Micro Pattern Gaseous Detectors (IN2P3/LAPP, Annecy, 2012) • 3D-IC (INFN, Frascati, 2013) • Super conductivity (CIEMAT, Madrid, 2013) (HEPTech) • Industrial applications of accelerators (STFC, Daresbury, 2013) • Neutron detection with MPGDs (CERN, Geneva, 2013) (Jointly organised with RD-51) • Control Systems (Demokritos, Athens, 2013) • RPC and TGC (Vienna, 2014)(jointly organised with HEPTech) • High Energy lasers (DESY, 2014) • Applications of Lasers (ELI-beamlines, Prague, 2015) • Big Data (Wigner, Budapest, 2015) • Neutron detection with MPGDs (CERN, Geneva, 2015) (Jointly organised with RD-51) • Photon detection with MPGDs (CERN, Geneva, 2015) (Jointly organised with RD-51) • Cryogenics (CEA, Grenoble, 2015)

8. Depending on maturity Enhance industry involvement in R&D for curiosity driven research Foster collaborations between academia and industry Promote the use of research results in industrial applications or other research Adjust to the technology readiness Pre-commercial procurement Application oriented 3D-IC Industrial Applications Accelerators 3D Interconnection event (Frascati) 8

9. What is it for TTOs? Prior to event Careful assessment of technology maturity Assess impact Establish a strategy to invite industry players During the event Engage with researchers and companies After the event Follow-up strategy From the research perspective From the TT angle

10. Keys to success Identify a topic (At least 6 months before an event)  Needs from research community  Many technologies/developments available in labs Set up an organising committee of interested members Build an agenda (Iterative update) Assess the TT contribution Invite prominent industrial and academic speakers  Maturity  Impact Budget and funding Announce the event widely but wisely Limit the event to 150 attendees max Press release

11. Communications We have a funded press officer based in Sofia, supported by DESY. Significant contributor to the increase in Symposium attendance.

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14. Follow-up European Cryogenics Society (ECS) has formally expressed the interest to collaborate annually to organise the Cryogenics day Annual event: showcasing support technologies for large scale photonic based science RD51:Work Package dedicated to Academia-Industry Matching Events Building into a growing annual work programme with trusted partners

15. Summary AIMEs: • A very powerful tool • Appreciated by researchers • Useful for TT  But could expect more! • Building annual work programme with trusted partners • Growing international recognition • Could industry sponsorship increase industry involvement?