Economic Development for Physicists from Developing Countries
Workshop Programme, 27November – 1December 2006
The training workshop is composed of five one-day sessions of two/three lectures, given by selected experts covering the following topics
Day 1: Monday 27 November 2006
08.30 Registration & Coffee
09.00 Welcome
Chair,
09.05 – 10.05 General Aspects of Commercialisation (including 15 min Question & Answers)
Dr David Secher, CEO & Director, N8 & Praxis
10.10 – 10.40 Coffee Break
10.40 – 11.40 Group Discussion 1
- What do you consider the barriers to commercialisations in place of your work?
- Ranking within a group
- Feedback
11.40 – 12.30 Group Discussion 2
- Ideas & brainstorming barriers identified in group discussion 1
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch & Networking
13.30 – 14.30 Spin-out and SME’s
Prof Peter Dobson, Director, Begbrook Science Park, Oxford
14.35-15.35 Group Discussion 3
- Spin-out or License?
- When is the right time to spin-out?
- Fund raising for spin-outs
15.35-16.00 Tea/Coffee Break
16.00-17.00 Group Discussion 4
- Intellectual Property: patents vs trade secret
- Hypothetical role play model (take an example and work it through, with something simple such as “water purification”.
Day 2: Tuesday 28 November 2006
08.30 Registration & Coffee
09.00 Welcome
Chair,
9.05 - 10.35 Exploitation of IP- personalexperience of the route from university to start-up company
Dawood Parker, MD, Melys Diagnostics Ltd
- Licensing
- Consultancy
- Nursery unit
- Start-up company
10.35 – 11.00 Coffee Break
11.00 - 12.30 Doing Deals
Linda Baines Commercial Secretary CCLRC and Company Secretary, CLIK
Research Collaborations - How to reach agreement
University/Industry model research agreements (
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch & Networking
13.30 - 15.00 Technology Transfer - A case study - The Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (CCLRC)’ spin out vehicle: CLIK Knowledge Transfer (CLIK)
- Best practice in technology transfer business management
- Developing a more entrepreneurial culture
15.30-16.00 Tea/Coffee Break
15.30 - 17.00 - Technology Licensing – covering the issues and avoiding the common problems
Linda Baines and Dawood Parker
Day 3: Wednesday 29 November 2006
08.30 Registration & Coffee
09.00 Welcome
Chair,
9.05 - 10.35 Know your market
Jane List, The Technology Partnerships plc
- Understanding your market and placing your technology
- Commercial IP Assessment
- Researching potential markets
- Sources and techniques for company research
- Sources and techniques for market research
- Identifying prospects and competitors
10.35 – 11.00 Coffee Break
11.00 - 12.30 Group activity: Routes to market
- To include: Placing your invention* and assessing the merits of different market entry strategies
- (Attendees are invited to bring potential (non-confidential) ideas for assessment in this session)
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch & Networking
13.30 - 15.00 The VC model
Mr Gerry Fitzsimons , CEO, TTP Venture Managers Ltd
- The VC financial model; what our investors want
- What VCs look for in an investment proposition
- How TTP Ventures works with early stage proposition
- A venture capital deal; process and key terms
15.30-16.00 Tea/Coffee Break
15.30 - 17.00 Experiences in Supporting Patent Activities in a Public University in Mexico
David Fernandez Alvarez, TechnoCore, Mexico
Day 4: Thursday 30 November 2006
08.30 Registration & Coffee
09.00 Welcome
Chair,
9.05 - 10.35
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10.35 – 11.00 Coffee Break
11.00 - 12.30
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12.30 – 13.30 Lunch & Networking
13.30 - 15.00
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15.30-16.00 Tea/Coffee Break
15.30 - 17.00
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Day 5: Friday 1 December 2006
08.30 Registration & Coffee
09.00 Welcome
Chair,
9.05 - 10.35 10 years of commercialization in Scotland
Chris Gracie, CEO, Scottish Optoelectronics Association
10.35 – 11.00 Coffee Break
11.00 - 11.30 Case Study 1 & discussion
- Technology Transfer to a start-up
- Design & development in Scotland
- Prototype manufacture in Scotland
- Volume Manufacture in Asia
11.30 - 12.00 Case Study 2 & discussion
- Technology Transfer to a start-up from 2 sources
- Use of a Fabrication Incubator
- Volume manufacture model testing
12.00 - 12.30 Case Study 3 & discussion
- Technology Transfer to a start-up
- Use of University Incubator
- Internal generated growth
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch & Networking
13.30 - 15.00 What your researchers should know about intellectual property: how it can protect your research and let you exploit it
Speaker, tbc
- Patent requirements and procedure
- International registration
- Design rights in Europe
- Protection through copyright
- Confidential information
- Who owns the rights in the technology
15.30-16.00 Tea/Coffee Break
15.30 – 17.00 Workshop Review & Feedback
17.30END
Speakers Biography
Dr David Secher, CEO & Director, N8 & Praxis
David Secher graduated from the University of Cambridge with First Class Honours in biochemistry. His PhD work at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology was with the late Cesar Milstein (Nobel Prize-winner for discovery of monoclonal antibodies). Together with Derek Burke, Secher made and patented the first monoclonal antibody to human interferon. This work led to an interest in technology transfer and appointment as the MRC's first technology transfer officer.
He was involved with Celltech Ltd from its foundation in 1980, first as a consultant and later as full time director of the monoclonal therapeutics programme. From 1991 to 2000 Secher set up and directed the Drug Development Office of the Cancer Research Campaign (now Cancer Research UK). From 2000-2006, he was responsible for research funding (£180m pa) and technology transfer at the University of Cambridge. This year he was appointed Chief Executive of N8, a collaboration of the eight most research-intensive universities in the North of England. He is also a VisitingProfessor in the University of Sheffield.
As a consultant he has advised universities and individuals on commercialisation of intellectual property and acted as non-executive director of several high technology and investment companies. Together with Lita Nelsen of MIT, he founded Praxis, a successful technology transfer training company. Other interests include sailing, mountains and cooking.
Prof Peter Dobson, Director, Begbrook Science Park, Oxford
Professor Peter Dobson joined Oxford University in 1988 after a career at Philips Research Labs (4 years) and Imperial College (16 years) where he had lectured in the Physics Dept. In that period his research was concerned with surfaces and thin films of semiconductors and metals. At Oxford his research moved into the areas of nanoparticles, nanostructures, optoelectronics and biosensors.
In 1999 he spun-off a company, now called Oxonica that specializes in making nanoparticles for a wide range of applications, ranging from sunscreens to fuel additives and bio-labels. In 2000, with colleagues in Chemistry, he spun-off Oxford Biosensors that makes a hand-held device based on enzyme-functionalized microelectrode arrays. He has had wide experience serving on Boards of companies and acting as a technical consultant. He was appointed to his present position as the Academic Director of the University’s Begbroke Science Park in August 2002.
Dawood Parker, MD, Melys Diagnostics Ltd
Dawood Parker was Reader in Medical Physics and Director of the Biomedical Sensors Unit of Universty College London. He was appointed to a personal chair in Physics in the Universty of Wales ,Swansea. He has successively started a number of medical instrumentation companies, Physiological Instrumentation Ltd, Abbey Biosystems Ltd and Whitland Research Ltdwhich were all acquired by major international companies. Professor Parker is currently Managing Director of Melys Diagnostics Ltda company involved in the development of a device for the non-invasive measurement of tissue glucose concentration.He has been a consultant to many international companies andhas over 30 patents in his name.
Linda Baines, Commercial Secretary CCLRC and Company Secretary, CLIK
As Commercial Secretary, CCLRC (The Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils,) Linda is responsible for developing CCLRC's external relationships and facilitating corporate and strategic knowledge transfer activities. This includes research collaborations and the underpinning commercial and contractual arrangements, including the joint ventures, exploitation of IP, with a wide range of outside organisations, industry, government and academia in the UK and overseas. As company secretary of CLIK, CCLRC’s wholly owned technology transfer company, Linda develops the contractual framework and arrangements around CLIK's deals and spinout companies, and manages CLIK's governance arrangements. She is also secretary of the Rainbow Seed Fund.Linda is MCIPS qualified (Member of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply) is a member of the Council of AURIL (Association of University Research and Industry Links), a director of the Institute of Knowledge Transfer, and a member of UNICO."
Jane List, Consultant, The Technology Partnerships plc
Jane is TTP's senior information analyst. She is responsible for both commercial and patent information provision and analysis at The Technology Partnership. She holds degrees in Chemistry and Information Science and has a Certificate in Intellectual Property Law. Within TTP Jane plays a core role in many projects undertaking IP searching and market analysis for clients across all industry sectors.
Prior to joining TTP in 1997 Jane worked at DataStar(now part of Thomson Scientific) as a trainer, presenting courses on database content and searching techniques, and subsequently in the database design and documentation team. Jane also worked in information roles at Wellcome Foundation (now GSK), European Molecular Biology Laboratory and the British Library and as an Analytical Chemist at Thames Water where she was also involved with administration at WaterAid.
Gerry Fitzsimons, CEO, TTP Venture Managers Ltd
Gerry has been CEO of TTP Venture Managers, an early stage VC firm, since 2003. He has a degree in Jurisprudence from Oxford University and has nearly 20 years experience as external counsel to high technology companies and their VC investors in the Cambridge cluster. He has experience of a wide range of venture capital deals and also of exit - trade sale and IPO - transactions. Gerry is currently a director of two of TTP Ventures portfolio companies, Teraview Limited, which is devoted to the commercial exploitation of terahertz light and Oxford Diffraction which develops, manufactures and supplies instruments for X-ray crystallography.'
David Fernandez Alvarez, Director, TechnoCore, Mexico
25 years of experience in the fields of R & D, along 7 years at Mexican Petroleum Institute. Business and Technology Consultancy, as project manager for 7 years in INFOTEC (a technological information and consultancy services public institution in Mexico) and from 1994 as consultant and partner of SESTRA-Wilson Learning (business consultancy firm)Currently he is Director of TechnoCore, a small consultancy firm created in 1994, and from 2001 mainly focused to services related with patents and technology management. Services include training in patents, patent information searches, strategy in patents, patentability analysis, patent filing and patent translation. Within consultancy he has supported independent inventors and Mexican companies in food, chemicals and non-metal industries. Currently serving the largest patent law firms in Mexico with patent translation services.
Starting on 2005, he has been teaching Industrial Property Basis for Innovation at a Master Program in Technological Change Management and Policy at National Polytechnic Institute in Mexico City.
Chris Gracie, CEO, Scottish Optoelectronics Association
Chris gained his wide experience of the optoelectronics industry during 30 years experience at Ferranti, (which has passed from GEC Marconi to BAE SYSTEMS), latterly as Manager of the Displays Division. The Division designed and manufactured Head down Displays, Head Up Displays, Head Mounted Displays and Video Recording Equipment primarily for military aircraft. During his time at Ferranti Chris gained extensive knowledge of Product development, productionisation, supply chain management and customer relations. The division’s customer base stretched throughout the world.
The Scottish Optoelectronics Association was founded in October 1994 and has seen many changes to that Industry and its funding mechanisms. The mid 1990s in Scotland witnessed a focus on commercialising technology held in its internationally recognised Universities. Support mechanisms have been developed over the past 10 years that a new company can access at whatever stage the company finds itself. A number of business models have been adopted by these emerging companies. SOA performs a number of services to its members, who currently number 90, in addition to operating projects under contract to Scottish, UK and European government agencies.
Chris is currently Chairman of IET South East Scotland, secretary of the UK Consortium of Photonics and Optics and a founder member of the ICOIA (International Coalition of Optoelectronics Industry Associations). Hence has a broad knowledge of Science based global industry and academia