“Call for Spin-outs” Conference on spin-outs from public research institutions. 31. oktober 10.00 – 16.30 Københavns Universitet, Nørregade 10, Udvalgsværelse 3. 1017 København K Danmark har brug for en stærk og international konkurrencedygtig biotekklynge i hovedstadsregionen. Skal målet nås, er det nødvendigt at centrale aktører (offentlige såvel som private) prioriterer og samarbejder. Vores vision er, at hovedstadsregionen skal være en af de 5 regioner i verden, der er bedst til at omsætte bioteknologisk forskning til nye levedygtige vækstvirksomheder. Copenhagen Spin-outs er en fælles satsning, hvor der sættes skub på kommercialiseringen af forskning og den innovation, som udspringer fra forskningen. I projektet fokuseres der på at styrke samspillet mellem teknologioverførselsenhederne, forskerparker og kapitaludbyderne, så der kommer mere fart på indsatsen for at fremme de gode ideer og omsætte dem til levedygtige biotekvækstvirksomheder. I den første konference, under Copenhagen Spin-outs-projektet, fokuseres der på ’best practice’ fra udlandet samt de erfaringer der allerede er gjort i Danmark. I samarbejde med ASTP, Association of European Science & Technology Transfer Professionals, har vi sammensat en spændende konferencepakke, som vi gerne vil gøre dig opmærksom på.
Konferencen foregår på engelsk og er gratis. Tilmelding sker med angivelse af: navn, arbejdssted samt mail-adr. og sendes til: gert.balling@adm.ku.dk Mvh. Gert Balling, Copenhagen Spin-outs
Programme for the conference: “CALL FOR SPIN-OUTS” 10.00-10-15 Welcome Karen Laigaard, Director, Tech Transfer Office at Copenhagen University
10-15-10.50 Between university and industry Jens Kristian Damsgaard, Director, Science Ventures Denmark Challenges in creating companies in the field between research and business
10.50-11.25 The value of Spin-outs Martin Bonde, Chairman Dansk Biotek and Copenhagen Spin-outs What is the societal value of public biotech Spin-outs? Where is the link to industry and how should central administration support it?
11.25-12.00 There is a need to strengthen and stimulate the cooperation between universities and industry. Thomas A. Christensen, PhD. Head of the Department for Innovation Policy and the Secretariat for the Danish Council for Technology and Innovation at the Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation Government perspective on bridging public research and industry
12.00-13.00 LUNCH
13.00-13.30 Sweden’s so called innovation system; a spin out creation system Henric Rhedin. Director of Sales & Marketing, Commercial Research & Development. Chalmers Industriteknik, Gothenburg In Sweden there has been a focus on creating spin outs as commercialization strategy. What are the advan-tages/ disadvantages with a “spin out creation system” compared to more regular “innovation systems”
13.30-14.40 Experience from the Netherlands in setting up University Spin-outs Wim Bens, Director, Bens & Partners Management en Advies, Eindhoven Business cases in setting up spin outs / high tech start ups in a regional open innovation eco system. Strategy and implementation from lab invention to successful enterprise through different stages, with different funding structures, with different teams and in different organizational settings.
14.40-15.00 COFFEE BREAK
15.00-16.10 The evolution of UK Spin-outs Jeff Skinner, Executive Director, Deloitte Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, London Business School The Spin-out has now become a natural route for UK academics who want to commercialise their technology. It's taken a long time to get to this position – and others can learn much from our experience - what works, what doesn't work and what simply takes time. This talk describes this journey and sets out how academics now go about creating their own ventures and the support they get from their university TTO and the wider ecosystem.
16.10-16.30 Learnings - Do’s and Don’ts (Wrap up) Wim Bens, Director, Bens & Partners Management en Advies, Eindhoven
Moderator of the conference: Wim Bens, Director, Bens & Partners Management en Advies, Eindhoven
Bio for speakers:
Karen Laigaard, Director, Tech Transfer Office at Copenhagen University
Karen Laigaard joined the University of Copenhagen in March 2003 to set up and manage Copenhagen University’s Technology Transfer Office. The University has six faculties 37,000 students and 8,500 employees (of which 5,500 researchers). The Tech Transfer Office staff (12 people) are responsible for the identification, the protection and the commercialisation of Copenhagen University’s research results. The Office receives around 60 invention disclosures per year, it entered 21 licensing agreements in 2011 on behalf of the University and the office also assists academic staff with a considerable amount of research collaboration agreements. The Office’s newest initiative is the project, “Copenhagen Spin-outs”, a collaboration between three TTOs and central stake holders who will work together to create more biotech spin-outs from academia. The project has a total budget of 5.4 EUR.
Karen lived and worked in the United Kingdom from 1992 to 2001. She was employed for six years with the University of Glasgow’s commercialisation office, Research & Enterprise. As the office’s International Marketing Manager she was responsible for the international promotion of the University’s research expertise. Prior to joining Research & Enterprise, Karen worked at The British Council, Scotland, on an export promotion project funded by the UK Department of Trade & Industry and Scottish Trade International. From 2007 to 2011 Karen was a member of the board of ASTP (Association of European Science & Technology Transfer Professionals) and was the President of ASTP from May 2009 till May 2011.
Jens Kristian Damsgaard, Director, Science Ventures Denmark
Jens Kr. Damsgaard has worked behind almost all tables in the technology transfer industry during the last 20 years. He has been head of technology transfer at a federal lab (Risø) and at a University + university hospital (SDU/OUH). He has been working in Bruxelles for the European Commission introducing technology transfer instruments in EU framework programmes. He has also been advicing
ministries and universities in Denmark, China and Czech Republic on developing and implementing technology transfer and spin-out programmes. He has been - and is - CEO and cofounder of several university spin-out companies (eg. Krill A/S acquired by Norwegian AKERgroup, Fionia Lighting A/S acquired by Nielsen & Nielsen Holding - a Danish industry conglomerate. He is currently CEO of Othonia Curing Technology A/S co-founded with a public listed leading technology company. Since 2006 Jens has worked with corporate venture. He serves as CEO of Science Ventures Denmark A/S (University of Southern Denmark) and CEO of Energy Invest Fyn A/S (Energi Fyn -a regional utility company) He holds a M. Sc Economic and a Master of Public Management from University of Southern Denmark. He has also completed the Executive Management Programme at INSEAD and holds a Executive Certificate - including the Entreprenuership Development Programme - from MIT.
Martin Bonde, Ph.D, B.Comm. Chairman Dansk Biotek and Copenhagen Spin-outs * CEO, Epitherapeutics ApS (www.epitherapeutics.dk) * Serial entrepreneur, founded and managed several companies in Denmark and the US (Aros Pharma ApS, NatImmune A/S, Combio A/S, CelTor Inc., Torsana Biosensor, Osteometer Biotech) * Fronted several successful exits over the last decade (NatImmune A/S to IPC, Combio A/S to Arpida AG, Torsana Biosensor A/S to Celtor Inc) as well as significant out-licensing deals, acquisitions, in-licensing, collaborations, etc. * Engaged as board member in Orphazyme ApS (www.orphazyme.com) (Chairman) and Danish Association of Biotech Companies (www.danskbiotek.dk) (Chairman).
Thomas A. Christensen, PhD, Head of the Department for Innovation Policy and Secretariat for the Danish Council for Technology and Innovation at the Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation
Thomas Alslev Christensen has worked as Head of the Department for Innovation Policy at the Danish Ministry for Science, Innovation and Higher Education since 2005. He is also the Head of Secretariat for the Danish Council for Technology and Innovation.
He has previously worked in the Nordic Council of Ministers, The Ministry of Economic Affairs and the Prime Minister’s Office where he was an advisor to the prime minister in European economic and monetary integration and international economic affairs. He has been external associate professor at the University of Copenhagen, and he has also written text books in economics, trade theory and exchange rate theory as well as articles and studies on international taxation, cluster policies and impact assessments of research and development intervention in business. Thomas Alslev Christensen has a Masters in Economics from the University of Copenhagen and took his PhD in 1992 in international finance and economics at the Copenhagen Business School after studies at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.
Henric Rhedin, PhD, Director of Sales & Marketing, Commercial Research & Development. Chalmers Industriteknik, Gothenburg
Chalmers Industrial Technologies (CIT) is Sweden´s oldest technology transfer organization and dates back to 1984. Henric works since nine years back for the largest unit at CIT, 35 people out of a total of 75 people employed by CIT. The unit, Commercial R&D, provides expertise in all kinds of areas of technology including technology management and related services. Henric is board member for several start up companies as well as organizations. In addition to this Henric is active in innovation system networks on the national as well as on the international level including Association of Science and Technology Transfer Professional (ASTP), HEP TTN a CERN centered network for technology transfer activities for high energy physics, Swedish Network for Innovation and Tech Transfer Support (SNITTS) and Nordic Tech Transfer Network Health (NORTTH). Henric has also worked in the Swedish defense industry and has a PhD in Theoretical High Energy Physics.
Wim Bens, Director, Bens & Partners Management en Advies, Eindhoven Since 1988, Wim held several main positions as head of the IT department of Erasmus University, founder and managing director of the commercial / knowledge transfer organization of the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus Business Support Center, founder and managing
director of Media Plaza, the Internet demonstration and experience center and managing partner of Multimedia Skills, a management consultancy firm. In 1996 Wim started is own management & consultancy firm Bens & Partners and from that time he worked in several positions via this company. From 2003 until early 2010 Wim was founder and managing director / director knowledge valorization of the Eindhoven University of Technology / TU/e Innovation Lab. In this role he was overall responsible for all knowledge transfer activities of the University, including all collaborations and contracts with industry (large multinationals and small and medium sized enterprises) and all subsidy programs of the University. Besides he was responsible with his group for all education in entrepreneurship and all incubator activities of the University. As part of this role, he was also the managing director / program manager of Incubator3+, a high tech startup and incubator program in the South East of the Netherlands, in which several knowledge institutes and partners worked together in stimulating, facilitating and funding high tech and design startups in the region. From end 2009 until mid 2012, Wim was Founder and Managing Director of the new Dutch Top Technology Institute Dinalog, Dutch INstitute for Advanced LOGistics. Next to this Wim had and has several side positions such as, chairman of the national network of University Incubators, member of the supervisory board of the Eindhoven Fiber Exchange etc. Wim’s specializations are in the field of Open Innovation, (New) Business Development, Commercial Strategy & Account Management, Knowledge Valorization and Setting up New Businesses.
Jeff Skinner, Executive Director, Deloitte Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, London Business School
Jeff Skinner is the Executive Director of the Deloitte Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at London Business School. He also directs a variety of MBA entrepreneurship electives and cocurricula student activities at the School. He is visiting lecturer on Technology Transfer at University College London and at the Graduate School of Economics in Barcelona. Prior to this, as Commercial Director at University College London, he conceived, built and ran UCL’s Technology Transfer division - including the creation of two early-stage seed funds and separate units managing consultancy, collaborative research and new venture creation. Working alongside research students and academics he has co-founded over thirty technology-based spin-
outs that have, in aggregate, raised over £30 million first round finance and returned over £20 million to UCL. He is past President of and remains closely involved with the leading UK & European Tech Transfer Associations (PraxisUnico & ASTP). He teaches and consults widely throughout Europe in the field of technology commercialisation. He Chairs the Professional Recognition panel for the worldwide ‘Alliance of Technology Transfer Professionals’. Before joining UCL he was Technical Marketing Manager at Hoechst Celanese Corporation in New Jersey and prior to that, Photonics Research Manager at General Electric. His first degree was in physics. He holds a PhD in thin-film photonics from University College London and an MBA from London Business School.
Conference location: Nørregade 10. Udvalgsværelse 3:
- Udvalgsværelse 3 (C)