Giuseppe Rossi, Francesca Tucci, Massimo PaturzoLiaison Office – Università della Calabria

MANASKIN - September 24 – October 2, 2012

The innovation environment at the

University of Calabria

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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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

Technology Transfer to trigger a process of development of the Region Calabria

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Università della CalabriaEngineering ICT – Computer Science …Hard ScienceNano-ScienceNano-TechnologyApplicationsGenetics

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

Research/Development

Idea+

evaluation

Intellectual Property Rights : patent, …

Valorisation

To give value to research results

Critical phases

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National / International patent applications,which belong to University

State of the Art, priorityDemand

for patent application

Market opportunities

1° contact with inventors

Research monitoring

Research IDEA

Patent selling

Licensing

SPIN-OFF/Start upCommercial valorisation

Contacts with industries

Commission for patents

and spin-off

External Consultants

Functional model

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 processesStructures to facilitate innovation processes: TTO, KTO, …

An integrated system for technological transfer

CC ICT SUDCENTRO DI

COMPETENZA ICT-SUD

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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 infrastructureIt 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 programmeThe incubator programme currently focuses on the following three priority areas: materials and nanotechnologies; quality of life and health; and information and communication technology (ICT)

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Start Cup Calabria 2011Regional business competitionmanaged 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