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National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos” 50 years of Excellence in Science

National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos” 50 years of Excellence in Science. National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos”.

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National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos” 50 years of Excellence in Science

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  1. National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos” 50 years of Excellence in Science

  2. National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos” “Demokritos” is the largest interdisciplinary Research Center in Greece in a campus covering an area of 600.000m2 with 55.000m2 building facilities. ATHENS WORKSHOP ON HORIZON 2020 - NCSR “DEMOKRITOS” - 05/02/2013

  3. The Demokritos center was established in 1960with the operation of the 5MW nuclear reactor ATHENS WORKSHOP ON HORIZON 2020 - NCSR “DEMOKRITOS” - 05/02/2013

  4. NCSR “Demokritos” at a glance ATHENS WORKSHOP ON HORIZON 2020 - NCSR “DEMOKRITOS” - 05/02/2013

  5. NCSR “Demokritos” at a glance ATHENS WORKSHOP ON HORIZON 2020 - NCSR “DEMOKRITOS” - 05/02/2013

  6. Unique Infrastructure of NCSR “Demokritos” Research Nuclear Reactor / TandemAccelerator / Clean room facilities / Dioxine Laboratory etc ATHENS WORKSHOP ON HORIZON 2020 - NCSR “DEMOKRITOS” - 05/02/2013

  7. Unique Infrastructure of NCSR “Demokritos” 7 KM3NeT (to search for extraterrestrial neutrinos in the depths of the Mediterranean) ATHENS WORKSHOP ON HORIZON 2020 - NCSR “DEMOKRITOS” - 05/02/2013

  8. Technology Transfer TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE PARK OF ATTICA “LEFKIPPOS” The Technology Park NCSR “D”, starts its operation creating know-how in the mentoring of spin-off companies (spin-off) and providing “incubator” services. NCSR Demokritos has 13 Spin Offs companies and hold 71 Patents. ATHENS WORKSHOP ON HORIZON 2020 - NCSR “DEMOKRITOS” - 05/02/2013

  9. Ministry Of Education, Religion, Culture and Sports General Secretariat Of Research And TechnologyNational Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos” Title of the presentation: The role of the research centers in promoting innovation and entrepreneurship Nick Kanellopoulos National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos” ATHENS WORKSHOP ON HORIZON 2020 - NCSR “DEMOKRITOS” - 05/02/2013

  10. Can Demokritos lay the path for becoming the “Greek Silicon valley” and thereby Greece “the start up nation” of Southeastern Europe? • In order to answer the question we compare Greece with Israel, which is considered to be the “start up nation” and has more start-ups than anywhere else outside Silicon Valley’. • Israel is a country of only 7.1 million people andproduces more start-up companies than such large nations as Japan, China, India, Korea, Canada and the United Kingdom, whereasGreece produces an extremely small number of start-ups and spin-offs. • The start-ups in Israel have been able to receive more than 2.5 times venture capital per capita than the US and 30 times as much as Europe, whereas in Greece there is a lack of venture capital and foreign investment. • In Israel there is a very strong cooperation with the diasporas' scientists, whereasGreece has a very weak interaction with the 10,000 Greek Scientists abroad. ATHENS WORKSHOP ON HORIZON 2020 - NCSR “DEMOKRITOS” - 05/02/2013

  11. Main SWOT findings Strengths for the Greek research centers becoming “growth engines” are: The competitiveness of the Greek researchers is considered to be themain competitive advantage, it is demonstrated by the fact that the Greek researchers in the past yearssucceeded into receiving three times higher funding than the European average. ATHENS WORKSHOP ON HORIZON 2020 - NCSR “DEMOKRITOS” - 05/02/2013

  12. Main SWOT findings Weaknesses for the Greek research centers becoming “growth engines” are: • Lack of an effective exploitation of innovation and technology transfer policy • Lack of venture capital • High cost of starting, running and in case of failure, closing a spin-off • Lack of financial support: less than 1% of GDP on R&D • Prevailing prejudice against the Researcher-Businessman • Geographical fragmentation ATHENS WORKSHOP ON HORIZON 2020 - NCSR “DEMOKRITOS” - 05/02/2013

  13. Effective Regional Integration The overcome the roadblocks of the fragmentation and the rest of aforementioned of the weaknesses we propose an effective regional integration of Research Centers ATHENS WORKSHOP ON HORIZON 2020 - NCSR “DEMOKRITOS” - 05/02/2013

  14. Virtual Integration Benefits of the Virtual Integration • Two of the major benefits of the proposed establishment of the virtual Integration Demokritos are: • The increase of synergies and the reduction of overlapping of the activities of the fragmented research activities • and • (b) the establishment of critical mass of infrastructure and expertise accessible to all the scientists from research centers, Universities and industry.. ATHENS WORKSHOP ON HORIZON 2020 - NCSR “DEMOKRITOS” - 05/02/2013

  15. Development phases of the Metropolitan Innovation Campus at Demokritos Integration into national globally competitive Institutes or “poles of excellence” Institute of Radioisotopes & Radio-diagnostic Products Institute of Nuclear Technology & Radiation Protection Institute of Nuclear Physics Institute of Informatics & Telecommunication Nuclear & Particle Physics Life Science Energy / Environment Nano-technology I.C.T. Institute of Biology Institute of Physical Chemistry Institute of Materials Science Institute of Microelectronics ATHENS WORKSHOP ON HORIZON 2020 - NCSR “DEMOKRITOS” - 05/02/2013

  16. Proposal to establish integration funding to establish sustainable “local virtual Institutes” industrial clusters In FP8 instead of the “distributed virtual Institutes” of FP6 Establishment of globally competitive clusters of SMEs “effectively integrated with the corresponding local virtual Institutes” following the successful examples of clusters abroad ( IMEC cluster) SME SME SME SME Cluster Cluster Cluster SME SME Nuclear Particle Physics Energy / Environment/Space I.C.T. SME SME SME SME SME SME SME SME SME SME SME SME SME SME Cluster Cluster SME Life Science SME Nano-technology SME SME SME SME SME SME ATHENS WORKSHOP ON HORIZON 2020 - NCSR “DEMOKRITOS” - 05/02/2013

  17. Metropolitan Innovation Campus at Demokritos (MIC) for each “pole of excellence” it is important to match the “academic competences” with the “industrial needs “ of relevant industries e.g. for the Energy CLUSTER operated according to the successful IMEC CLUSTER model in Belgium Smart specialization Establishment of strategic roadmapfocusing on a few areas where Greece presents competitive advantages “Cluster” of Energy Industries “Cluster” of “Energy” Metropolitan Scientists • Natural gas technologies • Clean coal and clean lignite technologies • Desalination • Solar Energy etc ATHENS WORKSHOP ON HORIZON 2020 - NCSR “DEMOKRITOS” - 05/02/2013

  18. HORIZON 2020 Achieving Technology Transfer within the clusters, depending on the direction of EU-HORIZON 2020 Cluster Solar Energy Energy / Environment SME LARGE Spin-off IP IP IP Natural Gas Spin-off LARGE Desalination LARGE SME SME Spin-off LARGE Technology specific cooperation within the cluster ATHENS WORKSHOP ON HORIZON 2020 - NCSR “DEMOKRITOS” - 05/02/2013

  19. Development phases of the Metropolitan Innovation Campus at Demokritos • Regarding the technology transfer policy a close cooperation with successful innovation hubs abroad is needed • “Arizona Technology Enterprises” which has succeeded in the past three years to: • multiply the number of Start-ups by six • multiply the number of Licenses by four • multiply the number of Patents by three Arizona Technology Enterprises Intellectual Property Revenue Arizona State University ATHENS WORKSHOP ON HORIZON 2020 - NCSR “DEMOKRITOS” - 05/02/2013

  20. Integrated Intellectual property Exploitation Plan IP exploitation companies (Intellectual Ventures) Business Angels & Venture Funding Exploitation of patent portfolios in cooperation with IP portfolios agencies 4th Generation potential Spin-Off Incubator The spin-offs will acquire independent legal status only and when they obtain external funding Proof of Concept Unit One-stop-shop for scientific & technological consultation services Effective “clusters” following the successful effective IMEC model Intellectual Property Metropolitan Innovation Campus SA National Research labs Revenue ATHENS WORKSHOP ON HORIZON 2020 - NCSR “DEMOKRITOS” - 05/02/2013

  21. Vision • Proposal to fund “Techno polis” initiatives in FP8 • The goal is to bring together industry and academia and achieve critical mass of both human and infrastructure resourcesfollowing the international trend of establishing high cost “Technology parks” . • The Demokritos location is ideal (proximity to highway, metro and airport) • This proximity is very important for instance bio- and nano- research activities, which require the same relatively large facilities, e.g. TEM, SEM, NMR etc. These facilities should be readily accessible in one location, instead of being scattered in different sites. SISPARK, building area of 1.57 million square meters and investment of more than RMB 4 billion Yuan ATHENS WORKSHOP ON HORIZON 2020 - NCSR “DEMOKRITOS” - 05/02/2013

  22. Aims of the Metropolitan Innovation Campus at Demokritos In summary the Metropolitan Innovation Campus “Demokritos” will further enhance the scientific excellence and at the same time will become an Intellectual Property Technology accelerator by propelling breakthrough ideas from the lab to the marketand attracting foreign investments. ATHENS WORKSHOP ON HORIZON 2020 - NCSR “DEMOKRITOS” - 05/02/2013

  23. Can the virtual Metropolitan Innovation Campus at Demokritos become a “Greek Silicon valley” The answer is YES,the proposed Metropolitan Innovation Campus if we apply the right technology transfer policy can become agrowth engineof the Greek economy attracting foreign investment and sustaining knowledge based jobs in Greece. ATHENS WORKSHOP ON HORIZON 2020 - NCSR “DEMOKRITOS” - 05/02/2013

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