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5th meeting of the European TTO Circle
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Technology Transfer at CERN
Enrico Chesta
Head of CERN Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property Management Section Knowledge Transfer Group, FP Department
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How can CERN have an impact beyond fundamental physics?
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Beam energy:
Linac 2: 50 MeV
Proton Synchrotron Booster (PSB): 1.4 GeV
Proton Synchotron (PS): 25 GeV
Super Proton Synchotron (SPS): 450 GeV
Large Hadron Collider (LHC): 4 TeV per beam After LS1 (2015): 7 TeV per beam 14 TeV total collision energy
Selling beam time to industry is not an option…
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Core Technology Areas
Cryogenics (1.9 K)
Vacuum (10-12 Torr)
Super-conductivity (13kA, 7MJoules)
Magnets (10 T)
Very high performance detectors and electronics
Data processing (15 PB/year)
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CERN technology portfolio • ~200 TT cases (40% open) • ~20 invention disclosures per year • ~45 patent families (50% exploited)
cern.ch/knowledgetransfer
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KT Group @ HR Induction
Technology Transfer Support to External Partners
Collaborative R&D model: set-up partnerships with industry to use CERN competences in support of innovative applications and creation of joint IP
Licensing Approach: give access to CERN technology portfolio for scientific and commercial use
Intellectual Property Management Services for CERN Community
Legal advice on IP issues Patentability studies Market assessments Industrial needs monitoring Contract negotiation Promotional activities Technology scouting Financial support to KT projects Assistance to spin-off creation
Dual-mode service-oriented approach
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TRLs Definitions:
Technology Readiness Levels
Simplified Definition
1 Technology application formulated and basic concept demonstrated
2 Functional validation in laboratory environment
3 Representative prototype fully qualified (technology ready to transfer)
Technology Readiness and “Exploitation” Levels
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Example: Medical Applications Particle accelerators for hadron therapy
Particle detectors for medical imaging
Grid computing for medical data management and analysis
Photons Protons Photons Protons
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CERN Open Hardware License A legal framework to facilitate knowledge exchange across the electronic design community. In the spirit of knowledge and technology dissemination, the CERN OHL was created to govern the use, copying, modification and distribution of hardware design documentation, and the manufacture and distribution of products. Hardware design documentation includes schematic diagrams, designs, circuit or circuit-board layouts, mechanical drawings, flow charts and descriptive texts, as well as other explanatory material.
• CERN OHL v1.1 Launched in 2011, great interest from the worldwide community
• More than 50 hardware designs licensed under CERN OHL
• 16 companies involved! • The license is being used by people
outside our community as well (and for any kind of hardware)
• Thanks to the interactions with the community, we are improving the license and preparing v1.2
• Visit: http://www.ohwr.org
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• Increase the probability of having the technology transferred
• Significantly enhance the
commercial value of the technology
• Ensure CERN’s recognition as the originator of an invention
Patents are taken in order to:
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First «Touch-Screen» First «Mouse»
TT: not a trivial process…
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Example of an effective TT tool: the KT Fund
• Financial tool introduced 2 years ago, using resources generated by the exploitation of CERN IP portfolio (1/3 of generated revenues)
• Typically, it can be used to fund internal projects to build proof of concepts or prototypes; overall target: bringing CERN technologies closer to the market
• The requests are evaluated by a Committee composed by all the Department Heads
• 6 projects were approved and financed in 2011, 6 more in 2012 • Requests can be submitted anytime, the selection committee usually
meets in Autumn • Can be considered as an incentive tool
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CERN Business Ideas Accelerator (BIA) Concept
-Part-time support from CERN inventors -Use of Lab facilities and CERN infrastructure -Business Creation and IP support
Network of European Universities providing technical students
BIA Admission Conditions: -1 year max -no revenue generation -pre-incubation contract
BIA Outcome: -Business Plan -Demonstrators
National incubator 1
UK-STFC
Projects flow
National incubator n
Investors
Spin-off companies
National incubator 2
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National Innovation Funds
CERN pre-incubator
Individual entrepreneurs including staff from CERN or partner organizations
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CERN KT INET/ENET
Importance of TT professional networks
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NEG
• Non-Evaporable Getter thin film coatings
• Used to create and maintain ultra-high vacuum in accelerators by absorbing gas molecules in vacuum chambers
• Have multiple other applications in addition to accelerators
Traditional Getter Pump – LEP (CERN) NEG thin film coating
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NEG
• CERN most successful patent!
• 8 non-exclusive licenses
• 3 Service/Consultancy agreements
• 1 Spin-Off Company
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SRB Energy • Spin-off company
• Uses NEG to create ultra high vacuum flat panel solar collectors
• Captures diffused or indirect light
• Solar thermal with very high temperatures up to 300 degrees
• Six additional patents filed and jointly owned by SRB Energy and CERN:
Device for vacuum tight soldering an evacuated solar collector Solar panel collector with cooling conduits comprising thermal expansion means Protective device for a solar panel collector
High efficiency evacuated solar panel Evacuated solar panel with non evaporable getter pump Sealing mechanism for an evacuated device
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Evacuated Solar Panels for Geneva Airport
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Project MEDICIS (Medical Isotopes Collected from ISOLDE)
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- Innovative isotopes for PET imaging, brachytherapy, targetted a-therapy - Innovative protocoles Carrier-free, ~ 500 MBq, pilot batches:
Note: Alpharadin® by Bayer, based on 223Ra, should get approval from FDA next year for treatment of prostate/breast cancer with bone metastasis
47Sc from natural Ti targets 61Cu from Y2O3 nanostructured targets 149Tb for targetted alpha therapy, in a second phase
MEDICIS expected results
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Medipix • A family of single photon counting integrated
circuits used in Hybrid Silicon Pixel Detectors
• The Medipix collaborations (around 20 institutes) contributed to the development and dissemination of the technology
• A good example of how (fundamental) science fosters innovation which can be transferred to society… and back!
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Mars Bioimaging Color CT X-ray scanner based on the Medipix technology
(courtesy of MARS Bioimaging Ltd)
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PANalytical • Dutch company
• Partnership and license agreements
• X-ray diffractometer for material analysis
Images: PANalytical