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Giuseppe Rossi, Francesca Tucci, Massimo Paturzo Liaison Office – Università della Calabria

The innovation environment at the. University of Calabria. Giuseppe Rossi, Francesca Tucci, Massimo Paturzo Liaison Office – Università della Calabria MANASKIN - September 24 – October 2, 2012. Summary. The University of Calabria The “third” mission of the University

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Giuseppe Rossi, Francesca Tucci, Massimo Paturzo Liaison Office – Università della Calabria

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  1. The innovation environment at the University of Calabria Giuseppe Rossi, Francesca Tucci, Massimo Paturzo Liaison Office – Università della Calabria MANASKIN - September 24 – October 2, 2012

  2. Summary • The University of Calabria • The “third” mission of the University • Its functional model • Which tools for innovation? • Liaison Office – the Technology Transfer Office • Pole of Innovations for ICT and Materials • TechNest – the Incubator

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  4. Technology Transfer to trigger a process of development of the Region Calabria The University of Calabria: • One of the few residential campus in Italy • 40 years old -> quick development • 14 Departments for teaching and research, 850 researchers/professors,750 administratives/techniciansabout 35’000 students • A “weak” territory The challenge of the research system in Calabria

  5. Università della Calabria • Engineering • ICT – Computer Science … • Hard Science • Nano-Science • Nano-Technology • Applications • Genetics 5

  6. The third mission of Universities The two traditional missions of Universities are Research and Teaching. Today, Universities are called to satisfy a third very relevant request: to act as aware engines for the economic and social development of a territory Exploitation of knowledge is a duty, not a right of public research centers

  7. To give value to research results Research/Development Critical phases Idea + evaluation Valorisation Intellectual Property Rights : patent, …

  8. Functional model Market opportunities Demandfor patent application State of the Art, priority 1° contact with inventors Commission for patents and spin-off External Consultants Research monitoring Research IDEA National / International patent applications,which belong to University Patent selling Contacts with industries Licensing Commercial valorisation SPIN-OFF/Start up 8

  9. Which tools for innovation and development? • High quality fundamental and applied researches • Intellectual Property (Culture of coded knowledge) • Support to develop new business (business competitions, mentoring, bp development …) • Spin Off/Start Up companies and first-mile incubators • Public system well recognized by private companies and investors • Companies which believe in innovation • Private risk funding (vc, ba, …) Goverments and administrators must work to provide an ecosystem suitable for growth Basic conditions to allow the development of innovative ideas and to obtain value from innovation processes Structures to facilitate innovation processes: TTO, KTO, …

  10. An integrated system for technological transfer CC ICT SUD CENTRO DI COMPETENZA ICT-SUD

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  12. TechNest: the nest of technologies TechNest is the UNICAL’s Academic Business Incubator (ABI), which was created in 2010. TechNest occupies a 2000 m2 area on UNICAL’s Campus and has 20 offices, meeting and conference space, with a well-developed ICT infrastructure It currently hosts 16 S&T-based firms, which were selected through the business accelerator programme, business plan competitions (Progetto Crescita, Start Cup Calabria) and the University Spin-off programme The incubator programme currently focuses on the following three priority areas: materials and nanotechnologies; quality of life and health; and information and communication technology (ICT)

  13. Start Cup Calabria 2011 Regional business competition managed by University of Calabria …in collaboration with Dpixel and Techgarage Period May-September 2011 Access to National Prize for Innovation (PNI) 200 partecipants50 business ideas First special prize (1 M€ in equity) for 2 business ideas: • Eco4Cloud • Altilia 14

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