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Encouraging Research

Collaboration – A Global View

Rupert Osborn, IP Pragmatics Ltd

KTI Annual Conference

November 2016

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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

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Changing Landscape?

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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

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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

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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

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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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All respondents (n=145)

More

Same

Less

HE / Industry Interactions

Growth 2005 to 2013 - UK

IP Pragmatics Lambert Review 2013

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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

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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

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Importance of IP

PhD students

Collaborative Research

Knowledge Transfer

Partnerships (KTPs)(UK)

Consultancy

Contract ResearchCompany

University

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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

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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

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IP is still a perceived barrier - UK

Scale: -2 strongly disagree to +2 strongly agree

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IP is still a perceived barrier - UK

Scale: -2 strongly disagree to +2 strongly agree

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Barriers – UK

Scale: -2 strongly disagree to +2 strongly agree

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Top ten most highly cited barriers to

collaboration - UK

2015 The Dowling Review of Business-University Research Collaborations

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Top ten key success factors for a successful collaboration

- UK

The Dowling Review of Business-University Research Collaborations 2015

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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

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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.

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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

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Measuring Success?

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Average Income per Academic by

Country

Times Higher Education World University Rankings data (March 2016)

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Measuring

Success? - UK

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Benchmarking data gathering -

UK

AnalyseHefce

background work

International comparisons

Input from UK

UniversitiesPublished

studies

Analysis of available

data

Benchmark Options

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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?

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Careful what you measure…

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Potential benchmark example

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Potential benchmark example

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Average Income per Academic by

Country

Times Higher Education World University Rankings data (March 2016)

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Firms collaborating on innovation with higher

education or public research institutions

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

%Large firms SMEs

OECD, based on Eurostat (CIS-2010) and national data sources, June 2013

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Firms collaborating on innovation with higher

education or public research institutions

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

%Large firms SMEs

OECD, based on Eurostat (CIS-2010) and national data sources, June 2013

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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

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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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