Building an ELI-centric academia-industry ecosystem

1. Building an ELI-centric academia-industry ecosystem J.-M. Le Goff ELI-Beamlines Prague Harfa Office Park, 5th floor, Českomoravská 2420/15, 190 93 Praha 9 April 7th, 2014 ELI-HEPTech Workshop

2. Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) HEPTech-ELI Workshop • RI across three countries • CZ: ELI Beamlines & HiLASE • HU: ELI ALPS • RO: ELI NP • Administrative headquarters: ELI DC • Reporting to the Commission • Status: Construction phase • During operation • ERIC structure encompassing the three RIs • A fraction of the operational budget must come from income

3. Ecosystem ELI-HEPTech workshop • Definition  An ecosystem consists of all the organisms living in a community as well as all the abiotic factors with which they interact.

4. ELI ecosystem / cluster ELI-HEPTech Workshop All the organisations acting within a community as well as the supporting/facilitating entities with which they interact.  Not just the ecosystem around the TT Office!  RI(s) centric!

5. Ecosystem prerequisites ELI-HEPTech Workshop • Attractive  Inescapable • Communication • Benefits • Privileges with joining? • Structure(s) (Loose  Binding) • Supported by RIs? • Ex: Cluster, Network, Collaboration • Subscription to pay for community services?

6. Community focus ELI-HEPTech Workshop • Q1: What is the focus of the Community? • ELI? • Advanced Laser facilities? • CILEX?, ATTOLab? • Advanced photon research facilities • XFEL?, ESRF?, DIAMOND? • Criteria • Coherent and clear focus • Broad enough to ensure sustainability

7. Stakeholders of the ecosystem ELI-HEPTech Workshop • RIs • Beams and supporting infrastructure for experiments • R&D&I • Industry • Supplier • Commercialisation of R&D results • University & Applied/Technical university • Interns • R&D&I • Supporting/facilitating entities • Procurement Office • Funding agencies (Public/Private) • TT Office

8. Academia in the ecosystem ELI-HEPTech Workshop • Mission • Research Infrastructure and R&D • Education and Training • Transferring Knowledge and Technology • Q2: Is the ecosystem expected to provide support to the full mission?

9. Activities within the ecosystem ELI-HEPTech Workshop • Supporting activities • Procurement • Collaboration • Internships and people mobility • Focus may evolve when moving from construction to operation • Facilitating entities must: • Anticipate • Adapt • Q3: How to ensure that the ecosystem is the main focus of the supporting activities?

10. Benefits ELI-HEPTech Workshop • RIs will find in the ecosystem: • A network of high-tech industry capable of meeting their needs •  Procurement • A network of high-tech industry capable of developing products/applications using research results • Technology Transfer • A network of Universities with expertise in the field of focus of the ecosystem to contribute to the R&D (Laser, photon, etc..) •  Collaboration • A source of people to be trained and staff the infrastructure • HR: Training and mobility • Q4: Are all the above part of the RIs’ expectations?

11. Benefits ELI-HEPTech Workshop • Industry will find in the ecosystem: • A privileged access to information on call for tenders •  Procurement • A privileged access to information on research results • Technology Transfer • Academic expertise to help responding to call for tenders •  Collaboration • A source of potential staff • HR: Training and mobility • Q5: Are all the above known to industry? • Q6: CERN ecosystem is essentially focused towards procurement and collaborations. Should the ELI ecosystem be more balanced? • More TT prospects? •  Communication

12. Benefits ELI-HEPTech Workshop • Universities will find in the ecosystem: • A network of high-tech industry to team with •  Collaboration • A network of high-tech industry capable of developing products/applications using research results • Technology Transfer • A source of people to be trained and staff the institution • HR: Training and mobility • Q7: Are all the above part of the Universities’ expectations? • TT tends to be overlooked • Communication

13. Main issues for Researchers ELI-HEPTech Workshop • Have a proper framework for RIs and University across the ecosystem to: • Access instruments • Use workshops • Purchase equipment • Offer services and consultancy • A coherent recognition scheme that accounts for all research activities and not only publications

14. Main Issues for procurement ELI-HEPTech Workshop • Meet the needs of researchers with minimum bureaucratic burden • Toward a recognised European Market? • More attractive to industry • Prone to EU/national funding •  Projects more appealing to academia • Pooling call-for-tenders (Pre-commercial procurement) • RIs: Streamlining procurement rules? • One RI to act on behalf of others for specific call-for-tenders? • Besides RIs construction should procurement look into: • Academia/industry procurement via partnership • (Mixt of procurement and in-kind)  Can complement RI’s budget • BUT: Accounting and IP issues

15. Main issues for TTOs ELI-HEPTech Workshop • IP Policy across the ecosystem that regulates all activities (Procurement, TT and Training&Mobility) • IP:  Very fast respond to multiple needs • Licences of research results • Complex IP ownership • Standard agreements for all kind of collaborations • Standard agreements for services and consultancy • Join IP strategy with procurement to foster exploitation of results • ELI (ERIC) specific: Transnational aspects

16. Recommendations ELI-HEPTech Workshop • Setting up an ecosystem is not an easy tasks • It is essential than: • All stakeholders agree on: • The scope • The objectives • The expectations • The means • This is a kick-off workshop  work plan and timeline will strongly depends on the above!

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