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1. Innovation & R&D Collaboration • With Industry Event? • Iyad Alzaharnah, PhD • Director-Innovation Centre 22 November, 2011

2. Outline • University Innovations – Impact & Why? • KFUPM’s Potential for Innovation. • KFUPM: Turning Potential for Innovation into Innovation – What is needed?

3. University Innovations Innovation Outcome/Research Resource • Innovation Exit Determines: • Innovation Strategy & Supporting Research Structure • Era of unquestionable university research has ended

4. University Innovations “Many don’t remember the time when university inventions were unlikely to benefit the American taxpayer. But I do”. Sen. Birch Bayh “Thirty years ago, 28,000 government-funded inventions were found gathering dust on shelves with not a single drug commercialized when the government owned the patent”. Association of University Technology Managers: The Better World Report: The Positive Impact of Academic Innovations on Quality of Life2010 Edition (www.betterworldproject.net):

5. University Innovations • The University of Delaware’s water treatment filter that has the potential to provide safe drinking water to reduce 3.4 million deaths worldwide. • The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s new lithium-ion battery makes batteries more energy efficient and more affordable. • More than 6,000 new U.S. companies were formed from university inventions. • Between 1996 and 2007 university patent licensing made: • ❍ $187 billion impact on the U.S. gross domestic product, • ❍ $457 billion impact on U.S. gross industrial output; • ❍ 279,000 new jobs in the United States. Makes Better Life Qulaity Added Value Economic Impact

6. KFUPM’s Potential for Innovation: Growth Last Update 20 November 2011 Invention Disclosures Filed Patent Applications Assigned Patents

7. Future • Success Rate for KFUPM’s Filed Patents: 86%. • 203 Filed Patents (till October 2011). • Average Period of Examination: 2.5 years (After Filing). 205 Filed Patents (mainly between 2009 & 2011) KFUPM stops inventing today 180 Additional Issued Patents 234 Additional Filed Patents Expected Between 2012 & 2014) (180 + 76) Additional Issued Patents KFUPM keeps inventing at same pace

8. Technology Patents: Quantity v. Impact KFUPM’s Balance Formula! Average Number of Patents for Top 10 Universities 78 Patents 131 Patents

9. DTV: More Potential for Innovation • Saudi Triple Helix Arrangement for the 21st Century • Largest Oil & Gas • Academic-Industrial • R&D cluster in the world • Schlumberger, USA • Yokogawa, Japan • TENARIS, Argentina • UOP, USA • GE, USA • Rosen Inspections, Germany • Dresser Rand, USA • Baker Hughes, USA • Honeywell, USA • Halliburton, USA • Weatherford, USA • Siemens, Germany • 750,000 square meter science park

10. Turning Innovation Potential into Innovation

11. Doing Research – How? 2005-2011 IP Portfolio Building Critical Mass of Technical Research Reactive Patent Registration Innovation Push 2012 Onwards Technology Road Mapping Innovation Push University Research Patenting Strategy: Quantity vs. Impact Application Pull • Research Nature: • Less focus on very applied research • More focus on fundamental/basic application-inspired research • Global Factors: • Research Expenditure • Innovation Management Efficacy • Research Volume • Research Technology Fields • Level of Collaboration with Industry

12. Academia-Industry R&D: Paradigm is Shifting

13. Collaborative R&D is So Good to Universities • 120 UK Universities • (2002-2006 Survey)

14. SA & Innovation: Need for Knowledge- Based Product Cycles • http://info.worldbank.org/etools/kam2/KAM_page5.asp • http://go.worldbank.org/39Z6SV9C80

15. KFUPM: Completing the Innovation Chain

16. DTV – A World Class Technology Cluster

17. Thank You