Building National Infrastructure for

Supporting Technology Transfer

in Slovakia

Dr. Shearman Adriana

Department of Technology Transfer/TTC

Slovak Centre of Scientific and Technical Information

Lamačská cesta 8/A

811 04 Bratislava

Slovak Republic

adriana.shearman@cvtisr.sk

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REASONS TO SMILE

Academic community is an inexhaustible source of:

knowledge / experience

imagination / invention

curiousity / speculation

enthusiasm and dedication

These features are waiting to be materialised and the results fully

exploited for the benefit of the whole of the society and all the

parties involved through technology transfer - the process of transferring

scientific findings from one organisation to another for the purpose of further

development and commercialisation – as defined by the AUTM (Association of

University Technology Managers http://www.autm.net/Tech_Transfer/2979.htm )

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REASONS TO ACT

AWARENESS OF IPRs within the academic

community IS RATHER LOW

IP LAWS BREACHED FREQUENTLY with no

apparent consequences for such a breach

PATENT APPLICATION and PATENT maintenance

FEES TOO HIGH (min. € 5,365.5 for 20 years)

Investigators work preferably for external

companies who have means to fund

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REASONS TO ACT

LACK OF INFORMATION

LACK OF MOTIVATION

POOR INFRASTRUCTURAL CONDITIONS / environment for KT

TT SCARCE as well as TT Offices (five TTCs in Slovakia established within projects, their future uncertain – questionable funding sources)

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National infrastructure for supporting

technology transfer in Slovakia – NITT SK

To propose and put into effect the national

infrastructure to support technology transfer,

and thus contribute directly to more intensive

and efficient state support to research and

development. Supporting research in Slovakia / Project co-financed from the EU funds

Strategic goal of the NITT SK project

National project http://nitt.cvtisr.sk

Principal Investigator/ Beneficiary : the Slovak Centre of

Scientific and Technical Information in Bratislava

Operational programme : R&D

Co-financed by : European Regional Development Fund

Budget : € 8,234,571.17

Duration : June 2010 – December 2014

Target group : academic community at SK universities, SAS,

public research institutes

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Activities planned

Awareness raising of IP and technology transfer

Promotion of Slovak R&D organisations, their competencies

and results

Evaluation of science and research performance

Support of science community in the process of IPR

protection and TT

Marketing of research results and searching partners for their

commercialisation

Support in negotiation and signing the licensing agreements

Assistance with establishing TTC at universities and RD

institutions and providing methodological support

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Activities planned - continuation

Building and operation of integrated system of supportive

services in area of ICT infrastructure for R&D activities and

TT processes

Acquisition and access to specialised electronic information

sources and literature

Organisation of conferences, seminars, workshops

Creation and administration of the National portal for

technology transfer

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The project’s activities are focused

on achieving the following

three specific objectives:

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OBJECTIVE 1

co-ordinator miroslav.kubis@cvtisr.sk

Establish and operate

Technology transfer centre at the SCSTI,

propose and implement a national system for

supporting technology transfer

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Public HEIs

Public RIs

SAS

Other?

PO SR, excellence centres, clusters, incubators

National

technology

transfer

centre

NTTC

A proposed model of national system for supporting TT

Infrastructural services via

national system for supporting TT

Mem

ber

s Assessment of patentability

Assessment of applicability on the market

Selection of the most appropriate IPR

protection

Support to IRP in Slovakia and abroad

Marketing

Seeking commercial partners for TT:

-consultations

-contractual research (res. agreements)

-collaborative research

-licensing

Support to concluding contracts/agreements

Support to licensing

Support to selling IPRs

TTC SCSTI (21st March 2011)

NITT-SK project

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Facilitation of TT process

Agreements on collaboration with the Institute of Electrical

Engineering; Inorganic Chemistry, Institute of Physics of the SAS – on

services (patent evaluation, commercialisation, licensing, marketing)

(up to € 5.5 thousand from the state budget outside the NITT SK

project allocated via SCSTI, Patent Fund proposed as a means for

covering patent and expert fees)

Inventors: Švec, P., Janičkovič, D., Haasz, M., Švec, P., Hoško, J.:

Multilayer materials/strips prepared by rapid cooling of melt

Inventors: Šoltýs, J., Cambel, V., Frohlich, K., Hušeková, K., Šatka, A.,

Karapetrov, G.: Hard tip for scanning microscopy and method of its

preparation (patent application No 5041-2010)

Inventors: Šajgalík, P., Hnatko, M., Pánek, Z.: Laboratory hot press

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NITT – SK project web domain http://nitt.cvtisr.sk launched in 2010

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NPTT web

domain

currently in

preparation,

in testing

phase

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A licence contract to access two

databases signed with Thomson Reuters

on 24th August 2011 up to 31-12-2014

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InCites analytical tool for

strategic planning of research

institutions (individuals, strenghts

in scientific field, national and

international collaboration) based

on bibliometric and scientometric

analyses (number of citations –

an impact of an article on the

academic community)

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World patent database – complete multisource db information from

national, regional patent offices, and WIPO; information on a number

of citation of a patent. In 2011, 41 specialised searches /20 patents

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Literature on TT (books, DVDs) – purchased from the NITT SK project

payment-free long-term loan agreements concluded with CU,

TUKE, SAS libraries as of 30-3-2011up to 31-12-2014

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OBJECTIVE 1 - current state

Preparation for public procurement for provision of expert services

associated with each step in TT process (call in July 2012). Expert services

will be provided to the Slovak academic institutions payment-free from the

NITT SK project budget, later from the Patent fund

Analysis of feasibility of operation of the national system for supporting

TT via NTTC at the institutional level

Preparation for the introduction of systematic provision of services for

retrieval of information from patent (and other IPR subjects) db, db of

technology offers and demands as requested by the academic community

in individual stages of R&D and TT processes

Preparation of methodology and a sw tool to assess the potential of R&D

institutions for TT (monitoring and competition for funding).... and more

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OBJECTIVE 2

co-ordinator daniel. keblusek@cvtisr.sk

Create and administer a specialised system of integrated

services in the ICT environment to support research,

development and technology transfer

Provide the scientific community with an easy , user-

friendly and efficient access to high-capacity data

storage and high-speed hardware for modern specialised

scientific software applications

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20-1-2012 VASP (Vienna Ab-initio Simulation Package) - a computer program for atomic scale materials modelling, e.g.

electronic structure calculations and quantum-mechanistic

molecular dynamics

24-12-2011 Bioinformatics - a software platform for

data-basing and analysis of 1D patterns, 2D protein gels,

phenotype arrays, and DNA/protein sequences. It combines

information so as to provide data-basing, integrated networking,

data mining, clustering, identification and statistical tools

In association with Data Centre project activities, a licence to

use scientific computational programs have been granted

OBJECTIVE 3

co-ordinator andrea.putalova@cvtisr.sk

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Raise awareness of scientific/academic community

of IPR protection and technology transfer

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EVENTS

27-2-2012 Intellectual property and design – talents of Academy of

Fine Arts at intersection with practice (SCSTI co-organiser) –

exhibition up to 5th April 2012

23-1-2012 Regional support to innovations and

technology transfer (SCSTI co-organiser)

10-11-2011 Intellectual Rights Protection at Universities III

(SCSTI co-organiser)

11-10-2011 Conference NITT 2011 – Technology Transfer in

Slovakia and Abroad

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EVENTS

6-10-2011 Information Resources in Biotechnology and

IPR (SCSTI co-organiser) – seminar

27-9-2011 Multidisciplinary e-resources

of IGI Global Publishers – seminar

14-9-2011 Examples of Good Research Collaboration between

Academia and Industry (SCSTI co-organiser) – conference

22-6-2011 Patent analyses with visualisation,

monitoring, patent application – seminar

11-6 - 2011 Workshop NITT SK 2011 – workshop for Slovak TTC

managerial staff

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EVENTS

A large number of other R& D and technology

transfer popularising events, media

programmes, exhibitions available on web

domain of NITT SK project

http://nitt.cvtisr.sk

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Acknowledgement

Collaboration and advice from my colleagues

Bilský Ľubko

Kubiš Mirko

Kučera Michal

Noge Juraj

Števková Olinka

is highly appreciated

CONTACT

SCSTI

Lamačská cesta 8/A

811 04 Bratislava

Slovakia

: +421 2 69 253 133

e-mail: adriana.shearman@cvtisr.sk

web: www.cvtisr.sk

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