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Managing Research Dynamics ETH Zurich

Managing Research Dynamics ETH Zurich. Dr. Regula Altmann-Jöhl. The world has changed. Awareness: research results have an economic value! The US have done it for a long time – Bay-Doyle Act

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Managing Research Dynamics ETH Zurich

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  1. Managing Research DynamicsETH Zurich Dr. Regula Altmann-Jöhl

  2. The world has changed ... • Awareness: research results have an economic value! • The US have done it for a long time – Bay-Doyle Act • Assumption of the public and some parlamentarians: research at the universities cost a lot of tax payer money and the transfer of the results into products is not effective enough • Discussions with industry: industrial partners are less interested in „published knowledge and know-how“– universities on the other hand should and must publish. Since confidentiality is difficult at the universities intellectual property has to be protected. ... and the legislator has reacted :

  3. Technology transfer has become an obligation Federal Law about the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology (Law of ETH) 21. March 2003 The council of the Swiss Federation … decides: ... Art. 2 Purpose • The ETH and the research institutes shall: • Educate students and specialists on scientific and technical topics and guarantee a permanent continuing education; • Enhance scientific insight through research; • Foster the new scientific generation of talents; • Offer scientific and technical services. • Render public relations; • Exploit its research results.

  4. graduates contractually bound partners in the private sector education publications private sector research partnerships scientific excellence currently unused research results core of the „new“ technology transfer academia Core of the Relationship Between the Private Sector and Academia: Technology Transfer Andreas Steiner, Marina de Senarclens, UWS 2004

  5. Different options that we offer for partnerships with the private sector • Research collaborations based on projects • Framework agreements with defined amount of money spent per year • Joint workshops focused on current research • Joint workshops focused on future trends • Sabbaticals • PhD thesis • Sponsored professorships / institutes / centers • Joint location

  6. ETH Zurich: Key Figures 2004 Professors 358 Thereof Assistant Professors 57 Students 12’505 Diplomas 1167 Doctorates 471 Staff positions (full time equivalents) 5984 Federal budget CHF 959.2 Mio Third party funds CHF 160.0 Mio Total expenditure CHF 1’119.2 Mio

  7. Expenditure on R&D (2002) OECD in Figures 2004

  8. Expenditure on R&D

  9. Easy Indicator: Money Fluxes at ETH Zurich Budget for Research Projects (2002)  40 %

  10. Thank you! • Contact: Regula Altmann-JöhlETH ZurichRamistrasse 1018092 Zurich+41 44 632 20 85altmann@sl.ethz.ch

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