From research results to marketsConference

Draft programme

28-29 June 2017Esch-Alzette, Luxembourg

Wednesday, 28 June 2017

Moderator: Riccardo Pietrabissa, Professor, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

13.30 Registration

14.00 Welcome Sasha Baillie, Deputy chief of staff to the Deputy

Prime Minister, Minister of Economy, Ministry of Economy, Luxembourg

Yves Elsen, President of the Board, University of Luxembourg

Jean-Michel Zilliox, Director IP Programme, European Patent Academy, European Patent Office

14.15 Benefits of patent information for researchers Serge Quazzotti, Intellectual Property Institute

Luxembourg GIE, Luxembourg

14.45 Patent or publish Katrin Hussinger, Associate Professor in Strategy

and Organisation, Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance, University of Luxembourg

15.15 Choosing the right protection of research results Sigmar Lampe, Counsel IP and Licensing, Technology

Transfer Office, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

15.45 Coffee break

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16.15 Panel discussion: Commercialisation of research results

Silke Meyns, Head of Team Patents and Licensing, ETH Transfer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Thomas Carell, Technical University Munich, Germany

Antonio Lopez-Carrasco Comajuncosas, I & D Department, Telefonica, Spain

Ulf Petrusson, Director CIP, University of Gothenborg, Sweden

17.30 End

18.00 Visit of Belval Campus Industrial culture heritage tour 19.00 Gala dinner hosted by the Intellectual Property Office,

Ministry of Economy

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Thursday, 29 June 2017

Moderator: Tom Hockaday, Technology transfer consultant, Technology Transfer Innovation,

United Kingdom

09.00 Best practices: Ownership of results – how to manage co-ownership

Eric Tschirhart, Special advisor for technology transfer and fundraising, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Alexandros Papaderos, Head Patents and Licenses, Technical University Munich, TUM ForTe – Office for Research and Innovation, Germany

Arne Jacobsson, Chairman of the Association of Swedish Universities Intellectual Property Professionals, University of Linköping, Sweden

10.00 Best practices: Entrepreneurship Diego de Biasio, CEO, Technoport, Luxembourg

Martin Guerin, CEO, nyuko, Luxembourg

10.40 Q&A session

11.00 Coffee break

11.30 Assessment of market opportunities Hannes De Wachter, Helix 3D, Belgium

12.00 Proof of concept Andreea Monnat, Head of Unit Innovation

Programmes, Luxembourg National Research Fund, Luxembourg

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12.30 Access to finance – developing a start-up with venture capital

Alain Rodermann, Expon Capital, Luxembourg

13.00 Lunch

14.00 End of the conference

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Notes

Organised byEuropean Patent AcademyEuropean Patent OfficeMunich, Germanywww.epo.org

Supported by

Venue“Maison du Savoir” (MSA) MSA 3.500, 3rd floorUniversity of Luxembourg Campus Belval2, avenue de l’Université4365 Esch-sur-AlzetteLuxembourg

Seminar referenceAC03-2017