Kooperation mit KMU:

Nutzen für Wissenschaftler

Überblick

Lernziele:

Ziel des Moduls ist es, Wissenschaftlern einige bedeutende Nutzenaspekte der

Zusammenarbeit mit KMU aufzuzeigen.

• Möglichkeiten zur Überführung der eigenen Forschung in die Anwendung

am Markt.

• Steigerung der Publikationsmöglichkeiten für die beteiligten Forscher.

• Demonstration der praktischen Relevanz der eigenen

Forschungsarbeiten.

• Akquirierung zusätzlicher Finanzierung über Drittmittel.

Dauer: 1 Stunde

Begriffe: Ansehen der Einrichtung, Forschung verwerten, Veröffentlichungen,

Anerkennung, Fördermittel

Einführung

Nutzen-

aspekte

Publikations-

möglichkeitenAnerkennung

DrittmittelVerwertung der

Forschung

Einführung

Herausforderung

Forschung führt zu:

Entdeckungen

Erfindungen

Introduciton

KMU

F&E

Introduciton

European Commission: “Improving knowledge transfer

between research Institutions and Industry across

Europe”

Paradigm chance ()

Introduciton

Introduciton

Knowledge transfer between research institutions and industry

consist of a variety of activities, including, for example:

Research institution-industry

staff-exchange programmes

Gifts and endowments by

industrial partners

(eg. professorial chairs)

Collaborative and contract

researchConsultancy work

Introduciton

Reasons to be “personally important” (Yong S. Lee, 2000):

•To supplement funds

•To look for business opportunity

•To gain insights in the

area of one’s own

research

•To test the practical

application

•To create student

internships and job

placement opportunities

•To further university’s

outreach mission

•To gain knowledge about

practical problems useful for

teaching

•To secure funding for research

assistants

•To look for business opportunity

Research benefits

License

Royalties

May increase HEI

financial resource

Foster new

research areas

Develop new

teaching

opportunities

Benefits of Collaboration.

“LUT has a long history combining technology and business.

That’s a good basis for an environment for innovation.”

“Business excellence rarely centers around only performance.”

“Linking technological advances with commercial aspirations is

in the core of many innovations.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dYgQwUPaw0

Lets look at a best practice Lappeenranta University of Technology

Benefits of Collaboration.

What is your role in technology transfer?

Innovation is the complete process of ideas transforming into products:

IndustryHEI

Idea Technology

TransferDevelopment Diffusion

Benefits of Collaboration

HEIs and SMEs have always been on the same team, this process portrays

how the collaborations works and where the HEIs role is how important.

Commercialization of Research.

• Opens up a number of different opportunities for a HEI:

- create revenue

- make an impact

- can be stimulating for department and students

• Diversify funding base

- In the future: funding will be tied to measurable outcomes

• Informative video about the benefits of commercialization of

research: “From Research to Commercialization”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2RbujJ2Z0U

Publication Opportunities.

• Applying the research to real-world situations, adds a great

element to potential writing pieces.

• The opportunity for publication is beneficial to the professor,

the institution itself, as well as students:

– Such publications are a reference for students seeking to

pursue careers at a HEI or in a SME

– And gives them insight into how a successful economy

functions best

– Not to mention, provides an over-all understanding of a

necessary partnership in society

Publication Opportunities.

Scientific Productivity.

• Researchers who combine research and university-industry

relation activities obtain compared with those members who

concentrate only on research (Manjarrés et al., 2008):

• Higher scientific productivity

• Achieve higher status within their institutions

• Better opportunity to access state-of the art equipment,

artifacts and data to carry on their projects.

Funding

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R&D Contracts Technological support and consultancy

Training contracts

Mean values of contracts

University-Industry and Research

Just Research

Funding

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R&D Contracts Technological support and consultancy

Training contracts

Mean values of reserach projects

University-Industry and Research

Just University-Industry

Legitimacy

•Development of mutual trust between HEI&SME,

• The enhancement of research institutions research activities.

• Gaining status and prestige, resulting from successful partnerships

and products.

• The enhancement of research institutions teaching activities.

The main indirect benefits for legitimacy

(European Commission: “Improving knowledge

transfer between research Institutions and

Industry across Europe”):

Legitimacy

The main indirect benefits for legitimacy

(European Commission: “Improving knowledge

transfer between research Institutions and

Industry across Europe”):

•Attracting, retaining and motivating good scientists interested in

entrepreneurial aspects or in new professional career opportunities.

•Contributing to public authorities better recognising the socio-

economic relevance of publicly-funded research, potentially leading to

increased funding thereof.

•Facilitating exchanges of staff between the research institutions and

industry

Legitimacy

• Faculty who receives industry support are more likely to report that their

choice of research topic is influenced by the project’s commercial potential

(Blumethal et al., 1996)

•HEI active in “knowledge sharing” (highly valued and

supported)

• Positive recognition and vision of HEI as part of the

“solution”

• HEI as a symbol of public institution willing be a part of

innovate culture.

•The market and more importantly the community are

more likely to consider HEI because of their involvement

with other organizations.

Funding

• Government funding is declining.

• Rise in competitive external funding.

• Diversify funding base.

• Income generation via consultancy, services, commercialization, IP.

• Investment strategies.

Funding

The European Social Fund:

• Through European frameworks programmed is indented to encourage

innovation.

• The Framework Programmes also funds the intersectional mobility of

research staff, including university-industry exchanges.

• Increased emphasis on strengthening

research and innovation, particularly

through knowledge transfer.

Funding

New Competitive and Innovations Programs

•Complementing their own academic research by securing funds for

graduate students and lab equipment (Yong S. Lee 200)

• Desire of acquiring additional resources, relevant to choose the intensity

of collaboration (Tartari and Breschi, 2009)

• Fiscal budgets constraints encourage HIE to move towards more

competitive funding sources (Geuna and Nesta, 2006)

• Will support all forms of innovation, public-

private partnerships and measures to improve

access to finance.

Conclusions

67% 66%

56%

38%

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20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

Funds to support studenst and lab equipment

Gained insights into the academic research

Acquiring practical knowledge useful for teaching

Helpful in locating student interships and placement

Research Benfits (Subtanial and Considerable)

Conclusions

57%

37%

3% 3%

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

Expand Maintain Reduce Not Sure

Likelihood of furure research collaboration SME-HEI

Bibliography

• Blumethal D., Campbell E.G., Causiano N., Luois K.S. (1996), “Participation of

life science faculty in research relationships with industry” The New England

Journal of Medicine, Vol 335, No.23,pp.1734-1739

•European Commission: “Improving knowledge transfer between research

Institutions and Industry across Europe”

•Genua A. Nesta L.J.J. (2006), University patenting and its effects on academic

research: the emerging European evidence”, Research Policy, 35,790-807

• Manjarrés L., Gutierrez A., Vega J. (2008), “Coexistence of university-industry

relations and academic research: Barrier to incentive for scientific production”.

Scientometrics, Vol. 76, No. 3 (2008) 561-576

•Tartari V., Breschi S. (2009), “Set them free: scientists’ perception of benefits and

cost of university-industry research collaboration.”, CBS – Copenhagen Business

School Summer Conference.

•Yong S. Lee. The Sustainability of University-Industry Research Collaboration:

An Empirical Assessment