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WORKSHOP AGENDA AND CONTENTS
PROGRAM
| Duration |
3:30 h
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Learning
goals |
- Identify key factors for successful innovation;
- Understand how to perform IP ownership clearance;
- Understand how to search for prior art and position owned technology;
- Find viable applications for your technology.
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Covered
topics |
- Drivers of innovation and the main phases of the technological innovation process;
- What is Innovation and what is Open Innovation;
- SCAMPER Analysis of your tech;
- Resources to evaluate of tech trends: S-curve/Gartner Hype Curve/ Magic quadrant;
- Searching for prior art beyond publications;
- TRL vs market readiness;
- IP ownership clearance and due diligence;
- IP Protection options; patents.
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Hands-on
activities |
- Create a Category Map/Magic quadrant for my tech;
- Position Tech on Hype Curve;
- Do a live Patent Search of Prior Art for my tech; Create a patent landscape using classification codes.
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What you need to
know to maximize
your learning |
- Have a real technology in mind;
- Be able to describe the technology in lay person’s terms ( the Granny Test).
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SPEAKER John Whelan, Ph.D.
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John Whelan, Ph.D.
Commercialization Manager
Trinity College Dublin
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Currently ICT Commercialisation Manager at Trinity College, University of Dublin. Founder of a three tech start ups two of which raised 7 figure venture capital rounds. One of these stratups, Alatto traded for 9 years with sales averaging over €1m per year.
More recently consultant to Vodafone Ireland and then in 2008 became Technology Transfer Case Manager at Trinity College, Dublin responsible for commercialisation of ICT research. While In Trinity I set up and ran Trinity College's start-up accelerator LaunchBox.
While Executive Director of Blackstone LaunchPad at Trinity College, Dublin designed and secured European funding to implement Trinity’s Connected Health accelerator “Validator”. BSc in Applied Physics and Electronics, and PhD in Geophysics. |
PROGRAM
| Duration |
3:30 h
|
Learning
goals |
- Understand the concepts of market driven research and how it can be applied;
- Learn how to describe and analyze your innovation from a market and raw material industry perspective;
- Learn how to formulate key hypotheses on market needs to enable fast validation.
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Covered
topics |
- What is market driven research and development: How is it applied in raw materials industry and research?;
- Break-down of IP into an easy market communicable tech brief;
- Describe what the IP is and what it does in 30-50 words;
- Formulate the basic need your IP is addressing;
- Identify which features of your IP produces which benefits;
- Make a first competitive benchmarking of your IP;
- Testing the Customer readiness level maturity of your IP;
- Build and refine hypotheses of use areas and potential target markets;
- Finding validators and constructing core questions: capture the necessary;
- Conduct interviews, iterate and conclude on next steps.
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Hands-on
activities |
- Apply framework and templates to break down own IP-case into a market communicable brief - not longer than maximum 2 pages;
- Construct draft of potential target markets, validators and core questions for validation.
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What you need to
know to maximize
your learning |
- Experience with commercialization or industry-near applied research;
- A case; a tech idea or IP that can be elaborated upon during workshop.
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SPEAKER Kent Mrozek
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Kent Mrozek
LTU Business
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Kent Mrozek is a senior business developer at LTU Business. He has worked with tech transfer for over 10 years and is one of the founders of our core method ‘Innovation Due Diligence’, the core process used to manage the idea flow. Prior to joining LTU Business, Kent has started several successful businesses based on research from Luleå Technical University.
LTU Business AB is the largest innovation management company in northern Scandinavia, currently with 35 consultants. In addition to being the official Technology Transfer Office and Industry Liaison Office for Luleå University of Technology, we serve clients from both private and public sector. Each year LTU Business performs analyzes of over 200 ideas sprung from the academy, and additionally 50-100 from external companies and organizations. |
PROGRAM
| Duration |
3:30 h
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Learning
goals |
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Learn how to identify business opportunities by assessing current and future market needs related to raw materials;
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Establish and validate the viability of our business opportunity ideas;
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Incorporate cooperation and feedback mechanisms involving TTO personnel, potential clients, investors and final users in the raw materials value chains;
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Build a team to develop business opportunities around the initial idea.
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Covered
topics |
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Identification of potential technology-based business ideas: How do we identify new ideas related to raw materials?;
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Work with TTO personnel. The key to market-oriented research;
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Potential impact of R&D (business model, current and future competitors, financial/market/legal risks, the need for a business plan, etc.);
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The entrepreneurial ecosystem and the necessary communication mechanisms for successful raw-materials related technology transfer;
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Building the team for the development of the business opportunity;
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Learn about the different commercialisation models within raw materials.
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Hands-on
activities |
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What you need to
know to maximize
your learning |
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SPEAKER Unai Calvar Aranburu
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Unai Calvar Aranburu
Tecnalia Ventures
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Unai Calvar Aranburu has worked at Tecnalia since 2007 in different positions: as researcher in the field of Innovation Policies, where he provided strategic advice to public institutions on the definition, implementation and assessment of innovation policies, strategies and programmes that promote technology-based competitiveness and generate optimal environments for economic and social development; as visiting researcher at the Joint Institute for Innovation Policies; prior to this he worked closely with the Basque Government in different projects related to the development of the Information Society in the period 2007-2013.
He is experienced in the design, development and management of workshops related to transferring knowledge, especially within the ICT sector. He has participated in the design of the Basque Government’s strategic plan for the Information Society, defining programmes and initiatives which aim at bridging the digital gap in society and SMEs. |
The workshop will feature small classes of selected attendees who will bring their own IP cases to maximize learning. It is mandatory to attend to all the three modules. Workshops are free of charge for EIT Raw Material Partners; 100€ access fee for externals. The workshop will be replicated in various locations in EU until end of 2020. All workshops attendance costs are eligible under EIT RawMaterials funded KAVAs (e.g. Up-scaling projects). To know more about this read this FAQ
