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Deliverable 5.1 Community of Technology Transfer Officers created and trained Date: 10.05.17
HORIZON 2020 - INFRADEV Implementation and operation of cross-cutting services and solutions
for clusters of ESFRI
Grant Agreement number: 654008
Project acronym: EMBRIC
Contract start date: 01/06/2015
Project website address: www.embric.eu
Due date of deliverable: 30/05/17 / month 24
Dissemination level: Public
Document properties Partner responsible UPMC
Author(s)/editor(s) Pierre Colas, Arnt Fløysand, Stig-Erik Jakobsen, Douglas Robinson, Antoine Schoen
Version 1 Abstract Task 5.2 objective is to analyse the innovation ecosystems linked to the different
cluster nodes as well as the technology transfer (TT) practices that are currently
implemented or being developed. To this end, a restricted panel of TT officers
representing the different RIs has been assembled. In this deliverable, the advances
on the ultimate goal of this task, creation and training of a community of practice in
TT for the EMBRIC cluster, is reported. A community of practice is not only a space
where TT officers exchange about on-going practices, but also enables the building
of a referential of practices and their conditions of use. The community of practice
builds trust and enables each member to mobilize others when facing a problem. The
emergence of a community of practice was catalysed by the organization of periodic
workshops (the minutes of which are included in this deliverable) and by the creation
of an information system to facilitate multi-channel communications in collaboration
with WP1.
D5.1-CommunityofEMBRICTTofficerscreatedandtrained
Two groups within the community were assembled. The so-called “core group”
gathers people employed by those institutions that have received person-month
allocations to contribute to EMBRIC WP5: UPMC, UPEM, UiB1, CCMAR, FVB,
USTAN, CRBIP, HCMR. Some of these people are formal TT officers (or act as
such), whereas others act in an informal capacity and engage with TT offices to
contribute to the Work Package. Besides this “core group”, we have identified a
community of TT officers (or people acting as such) representing the different
participating organizations in EMBRIC.
Over the first two years of the project, the following meetings and events have been
organized in order to coordinate and further reinforce the EMBRIC TT officer
community and to undertake training actions. The minutes of these meetings can be
found in the annex of this document.
• WP5 kick-off meeting – Paris, Dec. 2015 - core group. Presentation of the
methodologies for tasks 5.1 and 5.3 – Presentation of TT strategies (licensing
vs spin offs) - Presentation of the variety of TT organizations and contexts
among core group member institutions – Definitions of WP5 timelines.
• General Assembly, Naples, Sept. 2016 – whole community. Roundtable
session sharing theoretical technology transfer case studies and experiences
in EMBRIC, following requests sent to leaders of WPs 3, 6-8. From the
information collected before and during the roundtable, TT predictive
scenarios have been built for WP6 and 7. No patenting activity is expected
from WPs 3 and 8, for which other forms of IP protection will be employed
(such as trade secrets).
• Workshop on TT practices, Bergen, Oct. 2016 – whole community.
Presentation of general concepts about regional innovation systems – Survey
on TT practices currently in place or under development among EMBRIC
1UPMC,UPEMandUiBareresponsibleforthedifferenttaskswithinWP5.
partners (see focus on next page) – Presentations of TT practices in EU vs
USA, the TTO of the UiB , a local marine biotech company, a microalgae pilot
facility, the seafood innovation cluster. Introduction to the BaseCamp
information system – Presentation of preliminary results of the territorial
embedding analysis of the Station Biologique de Roscoff – Presentation of the
Progress TT project – Discussions on the TT scenarios built after the G.A.
• Training Course on the CorText platform, Paris, March 2017 – whole
community. Course organized by UPEM, on a software platform dedicated to
textual corpus analysis and network graphical representations. During this
course, first analyses relevant for Task 5.1 (territorial embedding studies) were
performed.
• Workshop on territorial impact assessment, Roscoff, May 2017 – whole
community (WP5 core group meeting also planned). The workshop focused
mainly on the territorial embedding assessment approach developed by
UPEM to profile regional research driven clusters along multiple dimensions.
Other topics were addressed: advisory board comments on WP5, links with
PROGRESS-TT, first results of the TT survey, strategic importance of EU
projects in marine biology and biotechnology, regional (Bretagne) economic
and innovation landscape.
Implementing an efficient, collegial communication tool is key in the process of
building a community. A space dedicated to promote information exchanges within
WP5 has been created by WP1 using the BaseCamp platform. This space is used to
share documents, alerts on TT workshops, IP management training events, TT
opportunities and articles related to TT and innovation. Further potential uses are
being explored (such as sharing TT opportunities among the community).
To benefit from a wider range of TT training opportunities, WP5 is currently
collaborating with the Horizon 2020 PROGRESS-TT project that organizes
workshops and courses. Collaboration includes advertising training opportunities in
both communities and sharing best practices.
Additional WP5 meetings and workshops will be organized throughout the second
half of the project, to strengthen our nascent and growing community and to enhance
its sustainable growth and maturity.
FocusonthesurveyandtheanalysisofTTpracticesinEMBRIC
An online survey was desinge by the UiB partners to describe and analyse how
research outputs are “commercialized” among EMBRIC members, so that learning
points can be revealed and best practices can be shared within the community. The
survey can be found in:
https://response.questback.com/isa/qbv.dll/ShowQuest?ID=4872179-389475095-
Uvvpevnn-
&cont=2&sid=&lc=2899&frontpage=1&responseid=99603170&qual=468&rtcdx=&iid=
225688176
To facilitate quantitative assessment of TT practices, the UiB web-based survey
included several multiple choice questions. It also contained a number of open-ended
questions to allow for qualitative assessments of practices. Collection of data started
during the Bergen meeting (Oct. 2016) and the questionnaire has been distributed to
those partners who were not present. 15 EMBRIC partners have completed the
survey. The analysis, presented in Annex to this documents, reveals a great
heterogeneity in TT organizations and practices, which confirms that sharing best
practices is a very challenging yet relevant objective.
Annex
• EMBRIC WP5 kick-off meeting report, Minutes of the WP5 kick-off meeting –
Paris, Dec. 2015
• EMBRIC WP5 MEETING REPORT, Minutes of the General Assembly
meeting, Naples, Sept. 2016
• EMBRIC WP5 MEETING REPORT, Minutes of the Workshop on TT practices,
Bergen, Oct. 2016
• EMBRIC-RISIS Training Course: the CorText platform, Minutes of the Training
Course on the CorText platform, Paris, March 2017
• EMBRIC WP5 MEETING REPORT, Minutes of the Workshop on territorial
embedding workshop, Roscoff, May 2017
• UiB web-based survey in TT practices
• TT practice and regional innovation system: Lessons learned from TT practice
in the marine bio-economy
EMBRIC WP5 kick-off meeting report Nov 30-Dec 1, 2015
UPMC – Paris
Participants
Name Institute Research
Infra. Email address
Isabelle Buckle CRBIP MIRRI isabelle.buckle@pasteur.fr
Pierre Colas UPMC EMBRC colas@sb-roscoff.fr
Süzel Horellou UPMC EMBRC suzel.horellou@sb-roscoff.fr
Anne-Emmanuelle
Kervella
UPMC EMBRC
anne-emmanuelle.kervella@sb-
roscoff.fr
Georgios Kotoulas HCMR EMBRC kotoulas@hcmr.gr
Tiago Magalhães CCMAR EMBRC ltmagalhaes@ualg.pt
Alistair B. Main UPEM EMBRC abm4@st-andrews.ac.uk
Ilaria Nardello UPMC EMBRC ilaria.nardello@upmc.fr
Birgit Oppmann FVB
EU-
Ope
nScr
een
oppmann@fmp-berlin.de
Douglas Robinson UPEM RISIS douglas.robinson@esiee.fr
Antoine Schoen UPEM RISIS a.schoen@esiee.fr
Fanny Schultz UPMC EMBRIC fanny.schultz@upmc.fr
Trygve Serck-
Hanssen
UIB EMBRC
Trygve.Serck-
hanssen@sars.uib.no
Excused: Malgorzata Barczyk (UiB)
Agenda
Monday, Nov.30 (14h00-18h00)
• Brief introduction of all participants
• General introduction of the EMBRIC project (Trygve)
• General introduction of WP5 (Pierre)
• Tasks 5.1 & 5.3 (Antoine & Douglas)
• Presentation on TT strategy: Licensing vs Spin offs (Alistair)
• Presentations of Research Institutes and TT mechanisms (Pierre, Trygve)
Tuesday, Dec.1 (9h15-13h15)
• Presentations of Research Institutes and TT mechanisms
(Georgios, Alistair, Birgit, Tiago, Isabelle)
• Task 5.2 (Trygve)
TASK 5.1: Analysing blue biotechnology regional research driven clusters TASK 5.3: Analysis of the added value of EMBRIC in promoting blue biotechnology
Tasks leader: UPEM – Involved partners: UPMC & UiB
Antoine and Douglas propose to combine Task 5.1 with parts of Task 5.3.
They present three entrance points:
• Broad aim to aggregate and develop useful intelligence for each EMBRIC
partner as well as for EMBRIC as a collective
• To assess added value in a useful way that captures value creation by
EMBRIC partners and makes it visible
• To adapt and tailor, for marine biotech projects, tried and tested tools and
approaches to understand impact
Work will focus on:
1- Regional dimensions: The goal is to understand the contribution of research
institutes to their cognate regions: Human resources & jobs, territorial links,
connections with local firms, policy makers, …
2- Exemplary projects: success stories in KT /TT will be analysed according to a
multi-dimension matrix. This will be used as a benchmark of good KT/TT
practices (connection to Task 5.2)
1- Territorial embedding assessments
Antoine and Douglas will coordinate the creation of territorial embedding
reports that will define a profile for each marine biology research institute.
These reports will highlight:
• Knowledge production (in the broad sense of the term)
• Human resources and jobs (number and origin of different categories of
people, mobility to other institutes and sectors, …)
• Connections with other actors (contract research, consultancies,
advisory boards of companies and political bodies, …)
These reports will contain, among other things, relational maps. They will allow
comparisons between different marine research institutes. Beyond EMBRIC
WP5, these reports will be very useful for the institutes, which can use them to
show to their cognate regional authorities how important they are for their
territories. In the EMBRIC project, the scope of the analysis is limited to
marine research institutes. However, non-marine EMBRIC partners could use
UPEM’s methodological framework for their own good.
Antoine and Douglas wish to test their analytical templates in Roscoff (mission
of 2 – 3 days, in January 2016). Then, they propose to perform similar on site
analysis in Algarve (CCMAR) and Crete (HCMR), in spring 2016. These two
EMBRC nodes have been chosen because they have been allocated only 3
person-months in the project.
2- Socio-economic impact assessment
The goal is to look at multi-dimensional impacts of innovation projects (beyond
the usual quantitative indicators such as number of publications, spin-offs
created, patents applications, etc.). Impacts on civil society, environment, policy
making will be also examined. This will allow the creation of a cross-community
assessment scheme allowing benchmarking and comparisons. This will also
contribute to the long-term impact assessment of EMBRIC (by comparing “pre-
EMBRIC”, “historical” projects with EMBRIC projects performed in the context of
the JDAs (Joint Development Activities, WP6-8) or the TNA (Trans-National
Access, WP10).
The methodology has been developed for the INRA (French national agronomy
research institute), and has been adopted by other research organizations. It will
be adapted to the specific requirements of the EMBRIC projects. The method
consists in:
- Defining a time line of key events occurring in the course of a given project
- Drawing impact pathways (presented as flowcharts)
- Formalizing the multi-dimensional assessment (analytical and empirical
output)
Each EMBRC site will be invited to identify 5 eligible “pre-EMBRIC” marine biotech
projects, with tangible socio-economical impacts. From this short list, 2 projects will
be selected (whenever possible, a “technology-pushed” project and a “market- or
society- pulled” project). It is specified that successful projects should be selected,
and not failed projects or projects with limited success.
3. Other aspects of Task 5.1
We will interact with Ibon Cancio (Bilbao) and Lucas Boser (CPMR) who are
assessing the importance of marine biotechnologies in the smart specialization
strategies (S3) of European maritime regions, in the context of the second
preparatory phase of EMBRC. Their work, combined to ours, may reveal differences
in the territorial embedding of marine biology institutes located in regions that have
selected marine biotechnology in their S3 vs those that have not made this choice.
TASK 5.2: Creating a community of practice in TT between EMBRIC RIs Task leader: UiB – Involved partners: UPMC & UPEM
We all consider that the idea of a “one-stop shop” for TT is probably unrealistic,
because of the highly fragmented landscape within EMBRIC (many different
institutions with their own policies, mechanisms, legal framework). This diversity has
been clearly highlighted by the different presentations during our meeting. However,
we should be able to:
• Share good TT practices
• Introduce TT in those institutes where it has not been (fully) developed yet
• Create a internet forum / information system for our TT community (to facilitate
TT activities in EMBRIC, alert on TT opportunities, …)
The first step is to build this community. The idea is to involve each EMBRIC
academic member (27 in total), who should send us a TT officer. NB: 15 of the 27
partner institutes are located in peripheral maritime regions.
Then, a meeting will be held in Bergen in May/June 2016. Trygve will outline the
content of this meeting. We may want to include a training dimension to it, so that we
could get money from WP9 to support traveling fees of participants. Fanny reminds
us that UGent (WP9 leader) is expected to list all training needs within the project.
We should thus communicate with them in due time.
Among other things, this meeting should aim at shaping the internet forum /
information system.
[personal comment]: It could make sense to seize the opportunity of this meeting to
organize a special session (restricted to our core group or not) dedicated to the
territorial embedding analysis and the impact studies ?
A second workshop should be organized in June 2017, prior to the deliverable of
month 24: “Community of EMBRIC TT officers created and trained”.
Suggested timeline/milestones for task 5.2:
5.2.1, (Oct/15) Create a restricted panel of TT officers representing the different Ris
5.2.2, (Nov/15) 1st meeting among the lead TTO representatives in EMBRIC
5.2.3, (June/16) 1st WP5 workshop (in Bergen) among participating TTOs, prepare:
ü "Forum of Exchange on TTO Activities and Practices"
ü internet forum/info system for comm. and TT opportunity alerts
5.2.4, (Oct/16) Establish the internet forum & information system for day-to-day
communications and TT opportunity alerts
5.2.5, (Feb/17) Monitor EMBRIC case studies (WP6-8) and, using these case
studies, try to establish “one-stop TT shops” that could be used for
further cases
5.2.6, (Feb/17) Groundwork on community of practices, and on how we can apply
the concept to our TT community
5.2.7, (Feb/17) 2nd WP5 workshop, discuss draft D.5.2 Report on Community of
Practice in Technology Transfer between EMBRIC Ris
Ø FINALISE D.5.1: Report on Community of Practice in Technology Transfer
between EMBRIC Ris – June 2017
TENTATIVE PLANNING - WP5 EMBRIC
2016 2017 2018 2019
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Tasks 5.1 / 5.3
Territorial embedding
Dev. framework -Test in
Roscoff
Visits to HCMR and
CCMAR
Guidelines sent to other
sites
Self-assessment by
EMBRC sites
*
Impact assessment
Dev. multidimensional
tool kit
Identification of eligible
projects
Selection of 2 projects /
site
*
Multidimensional impact
analysis
Diffusion of results to all
sites
Impact analysis of
EMBRIC projects
Tasks 5.2
Recruit TT officer
community
First meeting in Bergen
Building TT forum/TT
info. system
Second meeting
Submit Deliverable
*Bergen meeting – Session dedicated to Tasks 5.1 and 5.3 ?
EMBRIC WP5 MEETING REPORT
Tech Transfer Roundtable
Sept 14, 2016
Naples (during the G.A.)
Participants:
Ian Johnston (WP8 leader, USTAN - EMBRC)
Huanting Liu (WP3, USTAN-EMBRC)
Claire Jasper (WP7, MBA – EMBRC)
François-Yves Bouget (WP7, UPMC – EMBRC)
Cendrella Lepleux (WP6, DSMZ – MIRRI)
Fabbrizio Vecchi (SZN-EMBRC)
Philipe Brennecke (FVB– EU-OPENSCREEN)
Douglas Robinson (UPEM – RISIS)
Arnt Fløsand (UiB – EMBRC)
Pierre Colas (UPMC – EMBRC)
To prepare for this roundtable, TT scenario requests were sent to leaders of WPs 3,
6-8.
“Based on what is currently being done and on what you feel is most likely to happen
in your respective WPs, imagine realistic, successful projects from discovery phase
to transfer of molecules / processes / know-how to companies:
• The different contributing institutes (who each own or share IP rights involved)
• The opportunities to file patent applications (and/or protect know-how)
• The companies that might be interested in exploiting patent(s) (applications)
and /or know-how”
Below is a summary of the input received from the different WPs:
• WP8: no patenting – trade secrets only. Knowledge will be brokered towards
forum of aquaculture companies
• WP3- “concepts for the discovery and exploitation of marine products and
biomolecules”: no patenting expected; outputs will be opened to everyone (?)
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• WP7: no single pipeline. Some companies may want to screen extracts (e.g.
through TNA). NB: EU-OPENSCREEN screens “only” against anti-proliferative
and anti-oxidant compounds.
• WP6: DSMZ and David Smith (CABI) contributed a TT scenario, but also an
analysis of the challenges of our endeavor at the institutional, RI, RI cluster
levels.
The TT scenario produced by WP6 (and enriched from WP7 remarks) can be
schematized as follows:
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EMBRIC WP5 MEETING REPORT
Oct 6-7, 2016
Bergen
Participants: Arnt Fløysand, Stig-Erik Jakobsen, Thibaud Mascart, Anne-Sophie
Schillinger, Birgit Oppmann, Philip Brennecke, Douglas Robinson, Antoine Schoen,
Cendrella Lepleux, Pierre Colas, Alistair Main, Anders Goksøyr, Süzel Horellou,
Chantal Bizet-Pinson, Raquel Hurtado-Ortiz, Mery Piña, Malgorzata Barczyk, Ibon
Cancio, Gorka Artola, Antonio Villanueva, Liliana Anjos, Daniel Christiaen, Tiago
Magalhaes, Georgios Kotoulas, Andrea Basso, Randi Elisabeth Taxt, Rebecca Goss
Thursday 6th
October
MORNING
• Arnt Fløysand & Stig-Erik Jacokbsen welcomed us and presented the outline
of our workshop.�
• Jarl Giske (UiB Marine Dean, Prof. of Marine Biology) welcomed us and gave
a general presentation of the UiB and of its marine research. Bergen has the
largest national concentration in marine research centres and is becoming the
aquaculture hub in Norway with several companies moving in
(MARINEHOLMEN).
• Pierre gave a brief presentation of WP5 (objectives, tasks, deliverables,
progress report, goals of the workshop).
• Arnt & Stig-Erik presented general concepts about regional innovation
systems (RIS): importance of their geographical dimension, typology (thin vs
thick), role played by TTOs and other intermediaries. Then, they introduced
their questionnaire on TT practices and explained their expectations.
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• The participants started to fill in the questionnaire (which was posted online).
• Anders Haugland (Dir. BTO) gave a presentation on TT practices: USA vs EU,
historical evolution, conditions for successful TT (critical mass, staff
certification, ecosystem approach, from dissemination to impact, increasing
role of social sciences). A certification is available for TTOs by the Alliance of
Technology Transfer Professionals (ATTP), which recognizes the
accomplishments, roles, skills, knowledge, and deal-making expertise of
technology transfer professionals.
• Randi Taxt (V.P. BTO) presented the TTO system of the UiB: owners and
partners, numbers, missions.
• Christofer Troedson (CEO Tunichor) presented his company, whose business
is to exploit tunicate biomass for animal feed and cellulose applications. The
company and his founder have been accompanied by BTO for several years.
• Hans Kleivdal (Res. Dir. UiB) presented a pilot facility that was built to explore
industrial applications of microalgae. The pilot captures CO2 and heat from oil
and gas industry that are used to cultivate microalgae. It is a public / private
partnership that allowed the creation of a company: CO2BIO.
• Tanja Hoel (Dir. NCE seafood innovation cluster) presented the Norwegian
landscape in seafood production and the NCE seafood, a governmental
structure created to support innovation in this business.
AFTERNOON / EVENING
Field trip to visit Tunichor and Scalpro, followed by a boat trip to a memorable dinner
at Cornelius!
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Friday 7th
October
MORNING
• Mery Piña (scientific manager of EMBRIC) reminded us that WP5 needs to
support WP10, in advertising trans-national access (TNA). She also presented
BaseCamp, which can/should be used as an information/communication
platform for our TTO community.
• Douglas Robinson and Antoine Schoen presented the methodology of the
territorial embedding analysis they propose to perform for different EMBRC
nodes. They presented preliminary results of their analysis on the Station
Biologique de Roscoff, which they used as a test case. They presented these
results at the European Parliament on 13th October 2016 as part of WP5
dissemination activities.
• Andrea Basso (CTO MITO) presented the Progress TT EU project that he
coordinates. He introduced the general TT landscape in Europe and its
weaknesses, which motivated the Progress TT project (a pan-European TT
capacity building initiative). While personalized mentoring is restricted to
project partners, some training actions (webinars, workshops, bootcamps,,…)
are opened to external applications.
• Pierre Colas introduced the challenge of building joint TT offers and presented
the TT scenarios that have been produced or partially imagined by some
EMBRIC WPs during the General Assembly in Naples (Sept. 2016). A
roundtable discussion followed, during which it was agreed that:
o TT offers would remain the prerogative of the individual institutions
holding the intellectual property.
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o The Assemble (+) projects and pp2 EMBRC should be examined to get
inspiration from the framework agreements they may have put in place
for IP sharing.
o While joint TT offerings may not represent an achievable objective, the
ongoing building of our TTO community should facilitate and expedite
TT processes within the EMBRIC project (people will know and trust
each other more and more with time…).
AFTERNOON
Part of the team took up the challenge of hiking up Mount Sandviken via the
steep Stoltzekleiven path. A beautiful and memorable hike to the top, with
delicious beverages provided by Arnt on his terrace, once the mountain was
conquered !
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EMBRIC-RISIS Training Course: the CorText platform
March 9, 2017 – 09h30 – 17h00
Jussieu, Paris
Participants
Antoine Schoen antoine.schoen@esiee.fr UPEM
Antonio Villanueva antonio.villanueva@uvigo.es University of Vigo
Davide Di Coccio davide.dicioccio@szn.it SZN
Douglas Robinson douglas.robinson@esiee.fr UPEM-LISIS
Georgios Kotoulas kotoulas@hcmr.gr HCMR
Ibon Cancio ibon.cancio@ehu.es EHU
Marc Barbier marc.barbier@inra.fr UPEM-LISIS
Marc Vandeputte marc.vandeputte@inra.fr INRA
Nicolas Pade nipa@mba.ac.uk MBA UK
Pierre Colas colas@sb-roscoff.fr UPMC
Tim Verstraeten tim.verstraeten@ugent.be Universiteit Gent
Taking advantage of the participation of social scientists in the EMBRIC project
(UPEM, leader for two tasks in WP5), this training session offered the marine biology
community to discover state of the art scientometrics methods (based on social
network analysis) and to get access to, and training in the use of, the powerful open
access Cortext Manager platform dedicated to textual corpus analysis
(www.cortext.net). This platform makes possible the characterisation of the research
activities carried out within each research centre involved in EMBRIC (including
those involved in EMBRC which is one infrastructure within EMBRIC).
The first objective of the course was to introduce participants to the uses of the
CorTexT/RISIS platform, a research facility in S&T Studies proposed under the RISIS
Infrastructure Project.
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The second objective was to make first analyses relevant for Task 5.1 in EMBRIC,
which involves a characterisation of EMBRIC research centres Territorial Embedding.
With this in mind the training included mentoring to be able to produce a series of
original maps specifically designed for answering strategic issues regarding thematic
priorities and patterns of collaboration.
Antoine Schoen provides an introduction to scientometrics
Participants received a step-by-step demonstration of how to use the CorTexT/Risis
Platform: database upload and parsing, Terms extraction, Statistics and demography
of entities, socio-semantic analysis. The training course followed a learning-by-doing
approach of using the various potentialities of the CorTexT/RISIS Platform, with
practical session.
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Agenda
09h30
- Arrival
10h00 – 11h00 : General introduction
- General presentation why CorText is relevant for EMBRIC (Douglas Robinson)
(15mins)
- Tour de table and feedback on the pp2-EMBRC maps where relevant (15mins)
- Presentation of CorText and RISIS (Marc Barbier/Antoine Schoen) (15mins)
11h00 – 12h00 : Presentation of the web-based Cortext platform
- Arrival of Coffee
- The logics and process of data gathering, cleaning and preparation (Antoine
Schoen)
- Examples of using three CorText scripts with the processed data:
× Corpus Explorer
× Demography
× Analysis (Networks)
12h00 – 13h00 : Practical session 1
- Creating a Cortext account (All participants)
- Uploading data (All participants)
- First visualisation (keyword - keyword) (All participants)
13h00 – 14h00
Lunch
14h00 – 16h00 : Practical session 2
- Working session with CorText (All participants)
- Coffee arrives around 15h00
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16h00 – 17h00 : Next steps
- territorial embedding assessment workshop : beyond publications (3-5 May,
Roscoff)
- the challenge of institutional name harmonisation
- opportunities offered by RISIS
- announcement of the next training session devoted to CorText for advanced use
- final remarks and close of the meeting
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EMBRIC WP5 MEETING REPORT
Territorial Embedding Workshop
May 3-5, 2017
Roscoff
List of Participants
Annie Audic Région Bretagne
Catherine Boyen UPMC (Roscoff)
Ibon Cancio Basque
Pierre Colas UPMC (Roscoff)
Davide Di Cioccio SZN
Arnt Fløysand UiB
Stig-Erik Jakobsen UiB
Georgios Kotoulas HCMR
Tiago Magalhaes CCMAR
Alistair Main USTAN
Birgit Oppmann FVB
Nicolas Pade MBA
Douglas Robinson UPEM
Antoine Schoen UPEM
Randi Taxt UiB
Nathalie Turque UPMC (Banyuls)
Eric Vandenbroucke
Technopôle Brest
Iroise
Antonio Villanueva Vigo
Red: WP5 core group members
Blue : External guests
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Wednesday 3 May
MORNING
WP5 core group meeting
• Welcome by Pierre Colas
• Where we stand in WP5
Antoine Schoen (Task 5.1), Arnt Fløysand & Stig-Erik Jakobsen (Task 5.2)
and Douglas Robinson (Task 5.3) presented the slides that they prepared for
the EMBRIC mid-term review in Brussels.
• Preparation of the G.A. in Faro (Sept. 2017)
It was decided to present a poster describing the methodology of the territorial
embedding analysis of research centers (with a first general view on the
analysis). Individual posters for each research centers could be shown in the
2018 G.A.
In Faro, a second poster on the analysis of TT practices (UiB survey) could be
shown.
• Advisory Board comments on WP5
Pierre Colas presented the comments issued by the Advisory Board on WP5,
during their first meeting (Paris, March 2017). Further to these comments, P.
Colas briefly introduced open innovation concepts, and presented the Deltares
company and the Columbus EU project. He then presented a reminder of the
IP scenarios collected during the G.A. in Naples (oct. 2016). It was decided to
introduce the concepts of open innovation and open IPR policies during the
next G.A. in Faro, and to present how they could be applied within EMBRIC.
• Links with PROGRESS-TT
Pierre Colas summarized the recent Skype meetings that were held with
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Andrea Basso (coordinator of PROGRESS-TT), and that identified two ideas
of collaboration (presented in a short document sent to the core group). The
core group voiced no opposition against Andrea’s proposition to analyse the
typology and geography of investors in the marine biotechnology sector, but
most people are not willing or able to dedicate resources (time, staff) to this
project. The core group expressed a good interest in the second idea, which is
to use our community to advertise patent / knowhow licensing opportunities for
IP objects that have not been exploited yet. Different modalities of
implementation were discussed (use of BaseCamp to upload patent
application front pages, “live pitch” of patents through multi-channel skype
meetings, …). Discussions with Andrea Basso will be pursued, and
propositions will be presented during the G.A. meeting in Faro.
Wednesday 3 May
AFTERNOON
Plenary meeting
• Welcome by Pierre Colas
• Where we stand with the territorial embedding analysis (TEA) – �
Antoine Schoen & Douglas Robinson�
• Characterising economic aspects (contracts)
• Results of the TT survey – Arnt Fløsand and Stig-Erik Jakobsen
UiB presented a first, partial analysis of the TT survey they have designed.
They will present their work in a forthcoming meeting in Dublin (June 2017).
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Thursday 4 May
MORNING
Plenary meeting
• Strategic importance of EU projects in marine biology and biotechnology –
Catherine Boyen (UPMC). Catherine presented an insight into European
marine networks, with a focus on Euromarine regional and national activities.
She advocated these networks in their ability to gain visibility and impact in a
very complex landscape.
• Characterizing Science (Projects and Publications)- Antoine Schoen &
Douglas Robinson. The importance of normalizing institution names was
explained and illustrated with the EMBRC France case study. Participants
were enthusiastic about mobilising CorText and other opportunities within
RISIS for further exploration of each centre's publications (suggesting a further
training session on CorText for advanced applications). In addition, interest in
exploring and comparing each centre's European Project activities through
RISIS was voiced. Therefore, UPEM will explore options to support these
further training opportunities based on the EMBRIC partners demands and
interest.
• Political aspects
Annie Audic (Higher education and Innovation, Région Bretagne) and Eric
Vandenbroucke (Head of Technopôle Brest Iroise) presented the regional /
local socio-economic and innovation landscape, and the Campus Mondial de
la Mer (a clustering initiative in western Brittany in marine sciences and
technologies). The importance and impact of marine biology research
institutes such as the Station Biologique de Roscoff for regional innovation
landscapes was discussed.
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• Roscoff site visit
Pierre Colas briefly presented the Station Biologique de Roscoff and the Blue
Valley project (a marine biotechnology park in Roscoff). Then, participants
visited the marine biological resource center (guided by Ian Probert) and the
multi-purpose building in Blue Valley (where Algolife, a public/private
collaborative project on macro-algae, was presented by Robert Larocque).
Local beers were then tasted on a beautiful, sunny beach in Blue Valley.
Friday 5 May
MORNING
• TEA of training and societal activities
Douglas Robinson led a discussion to determine the content of the analysis
that will be performed on the training activities of research centers and on their
societal activities (i.e. their interactions and impacts on society and political
authorities). A compromise was found between asking for a reasonable
amount of data (sometimes difficult to collect) and obtaining meaningful,
informative content that shed light on territorial embedding of research
centers.
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