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Encouraging Research
Collaboration – A Global View
Rupert Osborn, IP Pragmatics Ltd
KTI Annual Conference
November 2016
Our Perspective Company founded in 2003
Sydney office opened 2010
Edinburgh office opened 2015
Management consultancy company specialising in:
Intellectual property
Technology
Clients:
60% UK
40% Rest of World
Changing Landscape?
HE / Industry Interactions
Complex Landscape
Competing (or just different) aims?
Public good (Impact) versus profit
Many different types of interaction:
Funded PhD students
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs)
Collaborative & Contract Research
Consultancy
Size (finance/period) and complexity vary
External Factors
Are the old models for Tech Transfer still relevant and do they work?
Only 2-4% of the external income leveraged by UK HE establishments comes from licensing and sales of shares in spin-outs E.g. Oxford University Innovation (Oxford) raised £6.4m in
revenue in 2012 compared to over £500m of university research income
Changing Landscape
Rise of University Venture Funding
Cambridge Innovation Capital (CIC)
£50m fund launched October 2013
Why?
Solexa bought by US-based Illumina for $650m in 2007. The university invested £100,000 and achieved only a 1.65x return
Fund will follow on its own investments
Research
New
Knowledge
Teaching
Networking/
Events
Consultancy
CPD
Collaborative
Research
Contract
Research
Licensing
Company
Creation
Knowledge
£
$
ALL SORTS OF
OTHER FACTORS
Start-up
Spin-out
Society
Government
Policy-makers
Small Co’s
Big Co’s
ALL SORTS OF
OTHER FACTORS
Jobs
New Products
New services
Turnover
Profit
R&D
expenditure
% turnover from
new products/
services
RESEARCH OUTPUTS KE ACTIVITIESECONOMIC
ACTIVITY
KE
ECONOMIC
IMPACT
Publications
Processes
Technology
Know-how
Innovation
Skills
Materials
Researchers
Knowledge Exchange Model Source: Kevin Cullen
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More
Same
Less
HE / Industry Interactions
Growth 2005 to 2013 - UK
IP Pragmatics Lambert Review 2013
Challenges within Europe
Competition has grown
Universities across Europe becoming more active
Engaging companies earlier (e.g. collaborative R&D)
[EP patent system expensive]
Uncertainty how the unitary patent will change this
Some overseas patented technology not extended to cover Europe at national phase
Same old hurdles?
Companies are still looking for new sources of technology
How do you find each other?
Witty Report recommendation: central database
Personal relationships and legwork still the key to success
But need to ‘play’ the system
Time & Timing
Importance of IP
PhD students
Collaborative Research
Knowledge Transfer
Partnerships (KTPs)(UK)
Consultancy
Contract ResearchCompany
University
Importance of IP
CompanyUniversity
Know-HowHuman ResourcesFacilitiesMaterials
Funding
$$$
Data, Knowledge, IP
Opportunities to protect new IPCommercial Access rights
Opportunities to publishFuture research use rightsFEC funding or notLeverage of other fundingDiligent exploitation
Importance of IP
CompanyUniversity
Know-HowHuman ResourcesFacilitiesMaterials
FundingKnow-how, MaterialsIP(Facilities, People)
$$$, Data, Knowledge, IP
Data, Knowledge, IPOpportunities to protect new IPCommercial Access rightsJoint IP – how to handle?University access and use of Company Background IP
Opportunities to publishFuture research use rightsFEC funding or notLeverage for other fundingDiligent exploitationMixing of University and Company Background IP
IP is still a perceived barrier - UK
Scale: -2 strongly disagree to +2 strongly agree
IP is still a perceived barrier - UK
Scale: -2 strongly disagree to +2 strongly agree
Barriers – UK
Scale: -2 strongly disagree to +2 strongly agree
Top ten most highly cited barriers to
collaboration - UK
2015 The Dowling Review of Business-University Research Collaborations
Top ten key success factors for a successful collaboration
- UK
The Dowling Review of Business-University Research Collaborations 2015
Know your opportunity
IP status, patent landscape, third party rights etc
Technology status and development timelines etc
Non-confidential versus confidential materials
Know the market and how it operates (supply
chain etc)
Deal benchmarks
Not being prepared
University Industry Demonstration
Project (UIDP) - USA
The purpose of UIDP is to enhance the value of collaborative partnerships between university and industry in the United States
An organization of universities and companies
a forum for university and industry representatives to meet and discuss operational and strategic issues such as contracting, intellectual property, and compliance matters.
University Industry Demonstration
Project (UIDP) - USA
Contract Accords
For each party to gain a greater understanding and provide mutual benefit during the negotiation and implementation of collaborative research agreements.
Provide an intellectual anchor for a collaboration reference tool to facilitate the negotiation of research agreements between industry sponsors and universities.
A wiki-type reference of the completed Contract Accords plus other relevant material is being considered
Measuring Success?
Average Income per Academic by
Country
Times Higher Education World University Rankings data (March 2016)
Measuring
Success? - UK
Benchmarking data gathering -
UK
AnalyseHefce
background work
International comparisons
Input from UK
UniversitiesPublished
studies
Analysis of available
data
Benchmark Options
Benchmarking Conclusions
No one right answer, depends on the question
Data levels and sources differ for each type of KE
Quality and robustness of data also varies depending on purpose for which it is collected and used
How to measure “good” KE – eg income vs Impact
Rankings less useful than customisable comparisons
Comparators – trends, geography, research intensity groupings, choose your own peers?
Normalisers – total FTE, type of FTE (research, teaching), research income, student no?
Careful what you measure…
Potential benchmark example
Potential benchmark example
Average Income per Academic by
Country
Times Higher Education World University Rankings data (March 2016)
Firms collaborating on innovation with higher
education or public research institutions
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10
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30
40
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60
70
80
%Large firms SMEs
OECD, based on Eurostat (CIS-2010) and national data sources, June 2013
Firms collaborating on innovation with higher
education or public research institutions
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70
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%Large firms SMEs
OECD, based on Eurostat (CIS-2010) and national data sources, June 2013
Shared ambitions
Australia
Japan
UK
Ireland
Government desire to grow university / industry interactions
Underpins industrial growth strategies
Focus on regional / SMEs as well as international partners
Lots of reasons to be optimistic..
Government desire is also shared by Universities and industry
Growing awareness and confidence from academic researchers
Driven in part by new funding schemes
A ‘new breed’
Lots to play for….
Even in the US less than 5% of industrial R&D spending is with academic partners
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