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Jan Cornelis
Academic coördinator Knowledge, Innovation & Technology Transfer - VUB
Regional, University and Departmental strategies for Technology Transfer
ETROVUB-DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATICS
R&D government support. Which one?3 Regions
3 Communities1 Federal State
Where does the money come from?
6-4-2012 3
Science Policy and gov. funding sources in Belgium
Federal authorities:
- specific scientific domains and institutes
- programs involving community and regional institutes
Communities:- scientific research
in support of education
Regions:- research in support
of economy and society (e.g. innovation)
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Science Policy in Belgium:funding
R&D funding in Belgium (2006)
27%
22%
50%
1%
Federal authorities
French community + Wallonia Region
Flemish authorities
Brussels Capital Region
2006: 1929 Meuro; Higher education: 460 Meuro
Wealth intensity goes hand-in-hand with impact of research output
Source: DA King, Nature 430 (2004) 313 (15 July 2004)
Budget Science and Innovation –new government injectionsBudget science and innovation
2012: + 60 Meuro2013: + 70 Meuro (cumulative)2014: +70 Meuro (cumulative)
Some highlights budget 2012
Emphasis on fundamental research and internationali zation ( >1/3 budget)3 Meuro Odysseus; 3 Meuro international collaborations
Emphasis on industry and industry-university collab oration in innovation
Sketchy Technology/Knowledge Life Cycle: Research Types
Embryonic Potentialgrowth
Growth Mature Aging
Fundamental res.基础研究
Strategic res.战略研究
Applied R&D +TT应用研发与技术转化
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Thematic priorities
6 Technology Clusters
LOGISTECH ¦ Logistics, Transport, Supply Chain Management
I-HEALTHTECH ¦ ICT and Healthcare
MEDITECH ¦ Healthcare, Nutrition, Prevention and Treatment
NANOTECH ¦ New Materials, Nanotechnology and the Processing Industry
SOCIOTECH ¦ ICT for Socio-Economic Innovation
ECOTECH ¦ Energy and Environment
Six socio-economic Innovation crosspoints Transformation of industry by innovation
Eco-innovation
Green energy,
Innovation of “Care” - Flanders Care
Sustainable mobility amd logistics (e.g. Living Lab EV)
Social innovation
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Strategic research funding
Flanders
- IOF, Industrial Research funds: partitioned based on output; in support of university policy � program (road map) rather than project funding - concentrated injections in limited set of teams; (post doc) R&D middle management.
- SBO, Strategic Basic Research funds: competitive channel (universities & industry) organized by government agency IWT (selection criteria: scientific soundness, project quality AND utility indices)
- Strategic Research Institutes: thematic priorities of the government):
IMEC (centralized in Leuven); VIB & IBBT (virtual) ; VITO (centralized)
Brussels
- SOIB: spin off in Brussels: organized by government agency IWOIB/IRSIB
- Impulse financing (Environment, ICT, Health and Medical): organized by IWOIB/IRSIB
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Virtual research institutes
Virtual institutes, cherishing the best talents without fragmentizing or duplicating efforts and investments
Advantages
- light weight central administration dedicated to specific R&D theme
- research is done by university partners, residing in their local labs � talent creation for the sector
- the best from each research domain are involved - bridging gaps between different monodisciplinary research domains
- balanced/mixed leadership between industry and university
- Coherence of action
- Very high R&D performance
Dangers
- Unique entry point for all R&D � rules for new entries and exits of research groups
- Balance between internal competition and collaboration
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Living Lab as Innovation Platform
Ballon et al, 2005
� Living Lab� Local
� Experimental
� Safe
� Critical mass
� Living Lab as Innovation Platform
� Not solely technical
� Not solely the individual user
� Also communities and society
� Also non-ICT companies, SMEs and public organisations
� Also Policy Makers
A new early seed fund: Baekeland-BI3: Highlights …… ARKIV
First joint university VC fund in Brussels/Flanders– Covering 56% of academic research capacity in Flanders (VLIR
2009: KuLeuven = 40%, UHasselt = 4%)
– Cross-institutional approach increases critical mass & potential for high quality ventures
• Focus on High Tech spin-offs from VUB, UGent, UA– Deal flow enlarged through collaboration with Flemish Strategic
Research Centers (SRC’s- IMEC VIB IBBT), University Hospitals, Selection of “Hogescholen”
• Other partners: Banks, Government (Federal, Brussels, Flanders), International investors
IOF within the Flemish Governement: investment fund agencies
€ 50-500KInternal Sources
€€ 5050--500K500KInternal SourcesInternal Sources
Research
Pre-IncubationIndustrialProof of Concept
IncubationCommercial
Proof ofConcept Startup
MarketGrowth
FUNDINGCHASM
€ 2-5MVenture Funds
€€ 22--5M5MVenture FundsVenture Funds
EarlyMarket
Penetration
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IOF within the Flemish Governement: investment fund agencies – ARKIV, SOFI. TINA
IndustrialResearchFund (IOF)
University
Research funding
Mechanisms
Research
Pre-incubationProof of Concept Incubation Startup
EarlyMarketPenetration
MarketGrowth
ResearchFunding
Pre-seedFunding
SeedFunding
StartupFunding
1st RoundFunding
2nd RoundFunding
- Product development
- Team in place
- Early customer
- Product development
- Team in place
- Early customer
- Prototyping
- Early team in place
- Business Plan
- Prototyping
- Early team in place
- Business Plan
BAEKELAND-BI3 Fund (VUB-UGent-UA)
SOFI (via IMEC, IBBT, VIB)TINA (Consortia Industry- Knowledge Institutes)
Incorporation
Universities
GAP Funding provided by
BAEKELAND-BI3
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Main points of concern
- Increasing control and steering in the educational and R&D processes� academic independence (guaranteeing free inquiry) from the governments is a far more pertinent problem than indepence from industry
- Increase in available funding does not follow the increase in R&D actors � partitioned R&D activities of an increasing number of initially weak actors � danger for excellence
- Partitioned funding sources associated to specific regulations based on governmental decrees � danger of lack of critical mass
- Balance between output performance funding and financing of needs is crucial to avoid distortions in R&D publishing behaviour, reluctance to go into new and high risk research
� Stimuli inherent in the government funding mechanisms have to be mitigated by university management in internal fund allocations
Government funding of blue sky and goal oriented research
SOURCE: INVESTEREN IN KENNISGRENSVERLEGGEND ONDERZOEK IS INVESTEREN IN DE TOEKOMST, Jan Cornelis, Koen Debackere en Elisabeth Monard, 12 juli 2010
开放自由式研究开放自由式研究开放自由式研究开放自由式研究
目的导向式研究目的导向式研究目的导向式研究目的导向式研究
The University R&D management How can a
university react structurally to government incentives and funding?
VUB, facts & figureswww.vub.ac.be
Revenues from collaboration with private sector23,5%
Own research means18%
Flemish governmental support for fundamental research13%
Projects funded by governments45,5%
75,000,000 Euro 2009
Sketchy Technology/Knowledge Life Cycle: Research Types and Inductive research Model
Embryonic Potentialgrowth
Growth Mature Aging
Fundamental res. Strategic res. Applied R&D +TT
Formalised research types: funding sources & types of steering and actors needed
Research Types
Funding channels in interuniversity competition
Intra-university funding channels
Steering Normalized budget per project or program (a)/ amount of projects or programs (b)
Type of players/ results
Fundamental research
FWO(grants & projects)
BOF (grants and projects)
No thematic steering; only quality control
1 euro / 100 Explorers/Discoveries & Knowledge expansion
Strategic research
SBO(society and industrial impact) , “Steunpunten”, Impulse progams (Innoviris)
IOF(economic impact)
Thematic steering based on university policy
10 euro / 5 Inventors/ Innovation &Knowledge structuring
Industrial & Applied research
IWT, Innoviris, contract research
-- Economic and society steering
100 Euro / 1 Developers/ Products, Services & Knowledge consolidation
Program funding
-IOF excellence: 220.000 euro/year for 5y.
-IOF growers: 110.000 euro/year for 5 y.
Project funding
-POC: max. 50.000 euro/year – project
funding
IOF within the university: guidelines have changed
2009 2010 2011
parameter 1
(PhDs) 0,23 0,19 0,15
parameter 2
(publ. & citations) 0,23 0,19 0,15
parameter 3
(contractincome) 0,14 0,22 0,30
parameter 4
(EU FP) 0,10 0,10 0,10
parameter 5
(patents) 0,11 0,13 0,15
parameter 6
(spin-offs) 0,11 0,13 0,15
Research Excellence
Centers of excellence (Strategic research)- Applied Physics and Photonics (TONA-B-PHOT)
- Electronics and Informatics (ETRO)
- Electrochemical and Surface Engineering (SURF)
- Chemical engineering and Industrial Chemistry (CHIS)
- Industrial Microbiology and Food Biotechnology (IMDO)
- Diabetes Research Center (DRC)
- Biotechnology - Structural Biology
Research Excellence
Runners-up
Molecular and Cellular Therapy (LMTC)
Toxicology, Dermato- cosmetology and Pharmacognosy (FAFY)
Mechanical Engineering and Robotics (MECH)
R&D types
Embryonic Potentialgrowth Growth Mature Aging
R&D department
Fundamental Res. Strategic res. Applied R&D +TT
The University Technology/Knowledge) Transfer Interface
Creating impact …•Science communication•Policy preparing and supporting research•Collaboration with non profit sector•Creation of new economic value•Industrial collaboration
Technology Transfer Interface
To
Gateway between the university’s research & expertise and industrial partners
From idea to business plan
Operational structureR&D Department: Technology Transfer Interface
Gateway between the university’s research & expertise and industrial partners
• Funding for applied research
• (Legal) advice concerning contract research and administration
• Protection of intellectual Property and technology offers
• Business development of the IP-portfolio
• Preparation Spin-offs
• (co)-management of the university start-up fund
• Spirit of entrepreneurship: seminars, …
• Industrial Network- CROSSTALKS
• Management Business Incubators: IICB – ICAB
• Management of the Industrial Research Fund
Operational structure R&D Department: Technology Transfer Interface
Patent portifolio: more than 100 patents!
• 40 patent families (application) VUB
• 65 patent families (application) with partners, such as
Interuniversity institute for Micro-electronics (IMEC)
Flemish Interuniversity institute Biotechnology (VIB)
• Several patent families (application) with other research institutions and industry
More information on technology offers: www.vub.ac.be/technologytransfer
Spin-off portfolio in a various range of domains
Symbion
http://www.vub.ac.be/english/infofor/industry/spinoffs.html
Business Incubators Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Brussels: ICAB
Incubatiecentrum Arsenaal Brussel
Flanders: IICB
Innovatie & Incubatie Centrum Brussel (Zellik)
Two Research Parks
Industry-University network
• Creating a new exchange dynamics
• Interdisciplinary & Bottom-up Approach
• Encouraging cross-talking and stimulating innovation
• Through different formats (workshops, round tables)
• And international publicationshttp://crosstalks.vub.ac.be
International role of universities and knowledge centres Innovation
University Involvem
ent
•Education•R&D•New technology
Technology transfer
Innovation
IncubatorScience &
Technology Park
Econom
ic Actors Involvem
ent
•Education•R&D•New technology
Technology transfer
Innovation
IncubatorScience &
Technology Park
NEW
Region/City in Belgium Region City in China
Multilayer Innovation Partnership多层次的创新伙伴关系
The Department of Electronics and Informatics
ETRO
Turning new ideas in good ideas•Fundamental research: everything is possible - quality•Strategic research: More is less -impact•Implementation of inventions: do, don’t talk – economic value
ETROVUB-DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATICS
ETRO’s innovation funnel
• 3D TOF sensors: Optrima
• JPEG2000 licensing
• Document Management: Universum Digitalis
• Speech recognition services to industry
• Technology licensing to Melexis
• Watermarking
• Forensics
• Q-switched lasers
• Emotional Dialog
• Personal health svs
• ...
• Scalable codecs: OBMEC
• SW suite for medical and dental processing
• Audiolab:NoseyElephant
• mm-wave sensors for food sector
• TLMS device
• ...
ETRO: Crossing boundaries with visionary electronics & ICT
LAMI IRIS DSSP
Horizontal Research
IBBT IMEC
TechnologyIndustryMore than Moore
SocietyEnd to End SystemsICT Services
AVSP
ETRO: the “area approach”strategic research is clustered
3 transdisciplinary areas
goal is to exceed the level of component innovation and to attack the E2E system-level
area 1
combined physical image generation and image processing for superior
imaging systems
area 2
audio-visual signal processing for man-
machine communication
area 3
systems and applications based on wired/wireless
communication on broadband networks and adhoc sensor networks
LAMI - IRIS DSSP - IRIS IRIS
in valorization, we have learned lessons from area approach
lessons learned
� E2E system design is essential to fully understand the ecosystem in which the ETRO technologies can be exploited� SRP 2012
� E2E system value chains are very complex and involve many powerful players
� ETRO valorization should be focused on
– ICT component level
– providing specific services
Fit with ETRO’s overall processes
Yearly Strategic Review Meeting
Thematic Concertation
Meeting
Portfolio Review Meeting
Portfolio Review Meeting
Thematic Concertation
Meeting
Thematic Concertation
Meeting
1. ETRO Raad
2. Seminar3. Group
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Meeting
Jan Mar Jun OctApr May SeptFeb Jul Aug Nov Dec
Calender: Thematic concertation meetings::09-03-2011& 08-06-2011Portfolio rev. meeting: 20-04-2011
Etro innovation club:Maarten Kuijk, Peter Schelkens, Johan Stiens, Werner Verhelst, Hichem Sahli, Roger Vounckx,Kevin Douven, Jan Cornelis
ETRO: Crossing boundaries with visionary electronics & ICT – structural collaborations
• Interuniversity Micro Electronics Center (IMEC: www.imec.be)
- mm-wave and Terahertz sensing & imaging - “More than Moore” experimental imaging devices, sensors and Body Area Network technologies.
• Institute of Broad Band Technology (IBBT: www.ibbt.be)
• Multidisciplinary R&D from idea to business IBBT’s R&D touches all areas of society, and types of IT
users. • (1) iLab.o (Open innovation in ICT) • (2) iLab.t (Technology center) • (3) iLab.u (User experience design & evaluation)
VUB: Multilayer Innovation Partnership
University Involvem
ent
•Education•R&D•New technology
Technology transfer
Innovation
IncubatorScience &
Technology Park
Econom
ic Actors Involvem
ent
•Education•R&D•New technology
Technology transfer
Innovation
IncubatorScience &
Technology Park
西北工业大学西安交通大学
新创
深圳布鲁塞尔
BRUSSELS XI’AN
西安布鲁塞尔?
Research ExcellenceFaculty of Engineering
Electronics & ICT: Latest spin-offs
Optrima enables fully immersive, transparent and intuitive user experiences by providing 3D real-time hardware for interactive Digital Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Fitness/Health equipment and Industrial manufacturers.
www.optrima.com
EqcoLogic stands for Equalizers for communication, low power, and general-purpose integrated circuits. Applications for the product are in any system where there is a needfor sending digital data at high speed or over longdistances.
www.eqcologic.com
Universum Digitalis develops solutions for the management of multimedia databases and provides generic data-exchange interfaces for distributing data to various client applications.
www.universumdigitalis.com
A particular technology package -Medical Image Processing and Personalized Health Systems
Turning new ideas in good ideas: A few examples in the innovation pipeline
ETROVUB-DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATICS
ETRO: innovation funnel
• Collaboration opportunities• Personal health svstems
- revalidation games- gait analysis
• Scalable codecs: OBMEC- Endoscopy
• SW suite: medical image proc.- Advanced segmentation- Lung nodules- Liver tumours
• Capacitive sensing- Dental caries- Implantology- Industrial applications
“Crossing boundaries with visionary electronics and ICT”
Personalized Health Systems: gait analysis - 3D cameras and accelerometors (1/2)
• Subject Prevention: fall risk rather than fall detection
• Technology capabilities - Detection of instability & irregularity during walking. - Fall risk assessed (based on single walk of 20
meters) by wearable sensor).
• Valorization potential Results transferrable to continuous home monitoring
– Fall reduction with associated reduction in hospital admission, hip fractures, …– Longer (partial) independence of senior citizens
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Personalized Health Systems: Revalidation games for cp children (1/2)
• Subject Cerebral palsy children - muscle spasticity. Without continuous exercising, spasticity worsens and bone
deformation occurs. Continuous and intense therapy without progress results in motivational problems.
• Technology capability ICT4Rehab (Innoviris, 2011-2014, ULB/VUB): computer game based
on 3D camera and wireless body worn sensors.
- Scalable game in exercise difficulty, cognitive req. and visualcomplexity.
- Data are fed in clinical data base of hospital biomechanics revalidation department – clinical relevance is tested.
• Valorization potential
Transferrable to other revalidation programs and clinical trials
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ETRO: innovation funnel
• Collaboration opportunities• Personal health svstems
- revalidation games- gait analysis
• SW suite: medical image proc.- Advanced segmentation- Lung nodules- Liver tumours
• Capacitive sensing- Dental caries- Implantology- Industrial applications
“Crossing boundaries with visionary electronics and ICT”
• Scalable codecs: OBMEC- Endoscopy
Wireless Capsule Endoscopy 256x256 5HzMotion JPEG – IBBT DVC (1/2)
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Motion JPEG
185 kbps
39.1 dB
IBBT DVC
185 kbps
39.6 dB
BD-rate-6.1%
DVC: OBMEC technology of ETRO (IBBT)
Current status:
• Market scan done• Wireless Capsule Endoscopy• Prototype being built at VUB• Testing on medical data
ongoing
Next steps:• If test yields positive results,
enter negotiations with major company
Valorisation potential (partner search ongoing)
- Wireless video cameras- Wireless low-power surveillance- Mobile document scanner- Mobile video conferencing- Mobile video mail- Disposable video cameras- Visual sensor networks- Networked camcorders- Multi-view video entertainment- Wireless capsule endoscopy- Wireless distributed multimedia streaming- Lightweight point of view cameras
ETRO: innovation funnel
• Collaboration opportunities• Personal health svstems
- revalidation games- gait analysis
• Scalable codecs: OBMEC- Endoscopy
.
• Capacitive sensing- Dental caries- Implantology- Industrial applications
“Crossing boundaries with visionary electronics and ICT”
• SW suite: medical image proc.- Advanced segmentation- Tumor detection and follow-
up (Liver and Lung)
Medical image processing:Tumor follow-up via DCE imaging (1/2)
Technology•Temporal CAD system based on the quantitative measurement of chemotherapy on volumetric dynamic CT-scans.•Underlying algorithms: Deformable registration, 4D/5D segmentation, classification•Voxel-level Functional parameters avoiding spatial averaging.
Subject• Rapid diagnosis of chemo-/radiotherapy outcome for lung/liver tumors
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Tumor follow-up via DCE imaging (2/2)
� Early and accurate evaluation of progression, regression or stability of disease
� Efficient use of expensive anti-tumoral therapies� Early switch to other anti-tumoral therapy if needed.
� Improvement of patient prognosis, decrease of side-effects and shorter hospital stay.
Valorization path
• Markettable system for quantifying tumor progression
Required partnering
• Radiology departments and pharma companies: Clinical validation (comparison to current RECIST criterion)-
• Imaging instrument vendors for incorporation of our techniques into clinical workstations.
• Government agencies funding the multidisciplinary and long term R&D trajectory.
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Tumor follow-up via DCE imaging (2/2)
Subject
CAD system for lung nodule detection
Possible valorisation strategy
• Partners for further clinical validation
• CAD companies and equipment vendors
Technology capabilities
• Our CAD system performs better than other methods.• Novel Algorithms: nodule center detection, nodule features that are
based on invariants, feature-selective classifier.
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Lung Nodule Detection
Advanced segmentation methods
Technology capabilities• Segmentation based on level sets• Able to cope with arbitrary topologies.
• Trade off between edge strength, regional statistical properties and object shape
• Novel vessel tracking strategy
• High robustness.
• Generic applicability: organ & tumor segmentation, vessel tree or bronchii tracking.
• Applications: detection of stenosis, vessels for surgical planning and radiotherapy • To be done: interactive steering of methods. Algorithm speed.Valorisation• Sell method as an off-line processing package or as a readily integratable library or module by
medical image processing vendors.
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ETRO: innovation funnel
• Collaboration opportunities• Personal health svstems
- revalidation games- gait analysis
• Scalable codecs: OBMEC- Endoscopy
• SW suite: medical image proc.- Advanced segmentation- Lung nodules- Liver tumours
“Crossing boundaries with visionary electronics and ICT”
• Capacitive sensing- Dental caries- Implantology- Industrial applications
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Electrosensing ...
The black ghost knifefish [Apteronotus albifrons]uses an electric organ and receptors distributed over the length of their body, in order to locate insect larvae in dark or murky water using a technique called electrosensing.
Technology inspired by nature
Biomimetics @ work: capacitive sensing
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Electrostatic sensing & imaging …
–Capacitance sensors are ultra-high impedance amplifiers, capable of detecting extremely small charge displacements, and can be deployed individually as well as in an array configuration.
–Capacitance measurements are non-invasive, and completely non-hazardous.
–When operated over wider frequency ranges, electrostatic sensors are capable of accurately resolving material composition.
–Multi-sensor arrays can detect minute displacements of conductive as well as insulating objects, such as for localization and surface profiling applications.
–Electrostatic sensors also can be arranged in a tomographic configuration, such as to visualize internal structures.
Electrical caries diagnosis (1/2)
– The capability to detect caries at its earliest stages, when the decay can be arrested or reversed, would be a substantial advance, since it would offer the prospect of eliminating or reducing the need for restorative treatment.
– Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy has been established experimentally as a remarkably sensitive tool for revealing caries decay in whole tooth samples (based on the phenomenon that dental enamel, consisting hydroxyapatite, has a high electrical impedance, which is reduced dramatically after demineralization).
Innovation: Tomographic imaging technique, based on capacitive measurements taken across a plurality of electrodes.
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Iterative low-resolution tomographic reconstruction of a dentinal lesion.
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Valuation aspects (2/2)
Key stake holders:
– Diagnostic (dental) equipment manufacturers: non-hazardous adjunct to existing X-ray or fluorescence technology.
– Development status:
� Extensive numerical modeling and simulation.
� Development of dedicated image reconstruction algorithms.
� Proof of measurement concept.
� Laboratory validation studies.
– Search for partnerships:
� Commercial product development.
� Scientific feasibility studies.
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Intra-operative monitoring of minimal invasive sinus floor augmentation (1/2)
Successful stabilization and integration of dental implants in the posterior maxilla often is compromised by an insufficient bone volume.
– Maxillary sinus floor elevation procedures, have expanded the indications for oral implant based treatment, to include a sizable population of edentulous patients.
A minimally invasive balloon-assisted sinus floor augmentationreplaces the risky instrumental detachment of the Schneiderian membrane by a safer hydraulic elevation using a balloon expander.
Thinning sinus floor Balloon expansion Osteotome removal Bone grafting
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Innovation (2/2)
Development of a guided balloon-assisted sinus floor augmentation concept, based on correlating preoperative 3-D CT scans, with locally acquired intra-operative tomographic data derived from contact-free capacitive measurements.
– Real-time imaging of the interface between the air-filled sinus cavity and the grafted subantral space, promises to transform minimally-invasive sinus floor augmentation into a fully monitored procedure.
Elaboration of this concept involves the developmentof a capacitive array sensor technology, and thederivation of numerical algorithms for tomographicreconstruction from sparse capacitance measurements.
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Valuation aspects …
Key stake holders:
– Dental implantology companies, Implant instrumentation manufacturers (supplementing balloon technology), Dental imaging equipment manufacturers (non-hazardous alternative to intra-oral X-ray and cone beam).
– Development status:
� Extensive numerical modeling and simulation.
� Development of dedicated image reconstruction algorithms.
� Prototype manufacturing.
� Proof of measurement concept.
– Search for partnerships:
� Commercial product development.
� Scientific partnerships.
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Derived Business cases
• Commercial vehicle blind spot accident avoidance� Proof of principle demonstrated
• Fish migration monitoring� Pilot sensor installed in river
• Moisture sensors for deployment in manure processing � Search for partnerships:� Commercial product development.
� Integration of technology in waste treatment plants.
� Scientific feasibility studies.
• Security and intelligence monitoring – through wall imaging� Search for partnerships: Commercial product development
ETRO: innovation funnel
• Collaboration opportunities
-(1) Bart Jansens-(2) Adrian Munteanu-(3) Rudi Deklerck-(4) Bart Truyen
-http://www.etro.vub.ac.be/
• (1) Personal health svstems
- revalidation games- gait analysis
• (2) Scalable codecs: OBMEC- Endoscopy
• (3) SW suite: medical image proc.
- Advanced segmentation- Lung nodules- Liver tumours
• (4) Capacitive sensing- Dental caries- Implantology- Industrial applications
“Crossing boundaries with visionary electronics and ICT”
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