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KT Metrics Report 2020 | FY 2018
The ASTP Annual Survey provides an unique view of the European knowledge transfer landscape. We are pleased to share the results of the survey conducted on financial year 2018 data.
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Study highlights economic benefits of owning IP rights
Released by the EPO and the EUIPO, this study shows that companies which own at least one patent, registered design or trade mark generate on average 20% higher revenues per employee than companies which do not own any of those intellectual property rights (IPRs).
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Tea with ASTP: Policies for Spin-out
Most KTOs work with the spin-out route as a way of commercialising inventions from our research institutions: there are different models and policies in place at different KTOs. Marjan Kraak (Head of Spin-Off Group, ETH Transfer at ETH Zurich) take us through ETH Zurich's models and processes.
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World Intellectual Property Indicators 2020
The World Intellectual Property Indicators 2020 report covers 2019 data, predating the human and economic shock of the COVID-19 pandemic. What this year’s WIPI documents, however, is a strong foundation of IP activity that will serve as a base for new advancements as the pandemic subsides.
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Tea with ASTP: Corporate Partnerships
Ben Soffer, Head of Corporate Partnerships Kings College London presents ouon Corporate Partnerships.The MedTech Accelerator will act as a vehicle for the commercialisation of MedTech innovations. The Accelerator will be set up as a limited company based on a shareholder agreement and, in parallel, the parties are looking to facilitate the creation of a venture fund. The Accelerator has the ambition to position itself as the best place in the UK for MedTech Innovation to flourish successfully.
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EPO: Valorisation of Scientific Results 2020
Valorisation of scientific results Patent commercialisation scoreboard: European universities and PROs”, finds that licensing is by far the preferred channel of commercialisation (accounting for 70% of the commercialisation of inventions), followed by R&D co-operation (14%) and the sale of patents (9%).
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Tea with ASTP: Open Hardware
Andrew Katz will explore the dynamics of open technologies, and consider whether open hardware has the potential to be as successful as open source software.
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Tea with ASTP: Negotiating Licensing Terms
In this webinar recording, Anja Zimmerman, discusses how knowledge and technology transfer can happen in numerous ways, from publication of research results to collaborations between scientist, between research organisations, between academia and industry or by creating companies.
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Tea with ASTP: Technology Marketing
Sometimes universities and research organisations fail to turn research results into marketable products or services, not because of lack of scientific excellence or technical innovativeness but, because of non-technological barriers such as economic, environmental, social, regulatory, or legal obstacles.
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Tea with ASTP: Knowledge Transfer for a Data Economy
The ever-increasing digital transformation of our society and economy is bringing along the generation of a wealth of data with high value-add potential through the extraction of useful insights.
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Digital Innovations SIG | October 2020
The Digital Innovations community met online in October 2020 to discuss IPR Lifecyle Management, Software License Deal Terms Survey, Open Source Software Management and a new action line on Data Management and GDPR compliance.
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Tea with ASTP: KT Metrics New
In the summer of 2020, an expert group convened the EC Joint Research Centre (JRC), published the “Knowledge Transfer (KT) Metrics’ Report” on knowledge transfer metrics. The study was part of the MoU between ASTP and the EC-JRC and for this webinar, we have invited two of the experts to unpack the findings.