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C-DAC, Pune Sept 1, 2005
Strategies for Economic Capitalization of
Research at the University of Udine Furio Honsell
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Current Challenges for Society at Large

• Innovative Technology, especially ICT
• Globalisation (globalism,glocalism)
• Competition
• Innovation, restructuring, quick adapting
• But we have to innovate our mentality, and often
  be brave enough to invent the rules along the way
  ethical issue

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Current Challenges for Universities

• Technology
• Globalisation
• Competition
• The fact that society has to face the same
  challenges
• Digital Learning for
• supporting traditional teaching and turn it into
  learning experiences
• distance learning
• Internalization
• Partnerships and alliances
• Strategies for economic realization of research

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ONLY OPTION

• Pursue a mutual benefit phenotype and genotype
• The regional economic systems and universities
  need to join forces
• Easier said than done!
• Applied vs Industrial research criticalities
• communication expertise vs problems
• objectives methodologies vs realizations
• behaviour dissemination vs privacy
• different time scales and horizons
• SMEs , districts

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THE UNIVERSITY OF UDINE

• Our (mythical) history
• Our Vision
• University as a strategic institution for
  social, cultural and economic development of the
  region
• Innovative knowledge and human capital have
  become strategic resources for sustainable
  economic growth
• Our three-fold mission
• higher education the human capital factory
• research the knowledge factory
• service to our local community the technology
  transfer and regional development factory

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KEY ACTIONSdirected towards students

• courses targeted to build human resources in
  innovative fields and emerging professions
• development of entrepreneurial skills
• Business Plan Competition STARTCUP
• foster mobility and internationalization
• multidisciplinary education, discipline mobility

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KEY ACTIONSdirected towards researchers

• foster Academia-Industry dialogue
• Establish Industrial Liason Offices
• synchronize significant part of research and
  teaching to the vocations and needs of the local
  community
• Promote technology transfer
• Is there still a distinction between pure and
  applied research?
• Researchers not educated solely for an academic
  career.
• direct research activity towards patents
  development
• creation of spin off enterprises

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KEY ACTIONSdirected towards the regional
economic system

• promote technology innovation transfer
• Research Awareness
• Technology Parks
• Knowledge Districts
• Incubators TECHNOSEED
• Industry-Academia mixed Laboratories
• Innovation Fairs INNOVACTION

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KEY ACTIONS

• All actions are deeply integrated, e.g.
  technology transfer, incubators, seed capitalists

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START CUP BUSINESS PLAN COMPETITION

• Turn an idea into a company!
• Current days researchers have an extra
  instrument the entrepreneurial instrument.
• Need to be aware of the management ed economic
  implications of their ideas and activities!
• Italian Innovation prize
• Udine University came first in the lat two
  editions
• Entrepreneurship classes in all curricula

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START CUP BUSINESS PLAN LOCAL COMPETITION

• Over 200 teams (500 people) in the three editions
• Open to non-academics
• Significant number of foreign teams and mixed
  teams
• Courses on Business Planning and Business
  Strategies have had extraordinary impact

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START CUP BUSINESS PLAN NATIONAL COMPETITION

• All major universities in Italy
• Udine won
• 2003 laser oftalmology
• 2004 tissue engineering

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TECHNOSEEDICT INCUBATOR

• Business Plan
• Business Idea
• Market analysis
• Competitors
• Management Structure
• Economic and Financial project
• TARGET 20 companies (out of 80 projects)
• Assistance in business planning
• Seed capital
• Facilities

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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PARK

• Logistics and production managemnt
• Metallurgy
• Environment technologies
• Food processing
• Information management
• Web technologies
• Rapid prototyping
• Grape genome sequencing

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JOINT LABORATORIES CERTIFICATION LABS

• Key concept difficult to realize
• Currently 2 such labs
• Hedonic values, olfactometry

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PATENTS

• Develop a Patenting awareness legal issues
• Currently 37 patents are owned
• 17 are actually commercialized
• The latest, in Biotech, sold for 700.000

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SPINN OFF COMPANIES

• Introduce a suitable set of rules
• Currently 7 active companies
• Seed capitals
• Risk capitals

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INNOVATION PRIZE

• There are no heroes!
• Tools for sustaining Innovation
• Ideas are an asset too often disregarded
• Need to increase probability of success
• Ideas Management Systems

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INNOVACTION

• Fair of Knowledge, Ideas, Innovation
• Open to
• Inventors/to be entrepreneurs
• Start up Research Spinn offs
• Industrial Liason Offices
• Science and technology Parks
• Incubators
• University Researchers
• Problem Solving Companies
• Innovation Prizes
• Business-Angels
• Venture Capitalists
• Squares
• Of Ideas
• Of Knowledge

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INNOVACTION

• Kind of Innovation
• Product
• Process
• Service
• Market
• Radical
• Incremental
• Development stage
• Sector
• Motivation for taking part to the event
• UDINE MARCH 2006

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THE UNIVERSITY OF UDINEthe numbers

• 10 schools (facoltà)
• 17350 students
• 750 research and teaching staff
• 4540 non teaching staff
• 48 lauree triennali (bachelor degrees)
• 48 laurea specialistica (master degrees)
• 19 PhD Schools
• 40 master universitario degrees
• 28 departments
• 2900 students graduated in the academic year
  2003-2004
• 32 specialization schools
• a distributed campus 9 sites (Udine, Pordenone,
  Gorizia, Cormons, Gemona, Mestre,
  Tarcento,Tolomezzo, Lignano) (1 Hyderabad ?)
• 1720 MoUs with enterprises for internship
  activities
• Over 20.000 people involved altogether

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Università degli Studi di Udine

• Fully implemented the Bologna and
• Sorbonne Agreements since the
• academic year 2000-2001
• Laurea (bachelor) 3 years degree
• First level Master 1 year degree
• Laurea Specialistica 2 years degree
• Second level Master 1 year degree
• PhD 3 years degree
• Internazionalization and harmonization Joint
  degrees, joint supervisions

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Università degli Studi di Udine

• 1978
• 1 faculty/schools (Foreign Languages)
• 607 students
• 27 professors and assitants
• 34 administrative and technical staff

• 2005
• 10 faculties/schools
• 17.350 students
• 750 professors and researchers
• 450 administrative and technical staff

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Our Masters

• Information Technology
• Euroculture
• European Tranport Law
• Environment and Life
• Crop technology
• Language and Cultural Mediation for large social
  events
• Handicap
• e-learning
• Management of turistic enterprises

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Our international connection

• Proactive in implementing the Bologna Declaration
  and build a European Area of HE
• Over 80 MoUs with other universities all over
  the world, for mobility of students and teaching
  staff
• Were involved in various TEMPUS projects for
  offering advice in restructuring university
  offices
• Around 3 of our students take advantage of
  Socrates mobility programmes

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Key-concepts in internalization

• Develop joint degrees and coordinated curriculm
  planning
• Mobility and exchange of students
• Stay abroad becomes an integral part of the
  home studies
• Comparability and compatibility of of academic
  programs (ETCS)
• Common degrees

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The consortia and partnerships

• Friuli Innovazione together with Agemont,
  Assindustria, CRF, CRUP Bank for the transfer
  of the technological innovation to the local
  industrial sector
• Friuli Formazione together with Udines Chamber
  of Commerce for permanent and continuing
  education
• CIRMONT together with INRM for the
  technological innovation in the Mountain Regions

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The Faculties/Schools

• Economy and Business
• Educational Sciences
• Veterinary Medicine
• Law

• Foreign Languages
• Engineering
• Agricultural studies
• Science
• Humanities
• Medicine

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The PhD Programmes

• Computer science, Mathematics
• Life Sciences2
• Medicine and Surgery 2
• Agriculture and Veterinary Science 5
• Civil Engineering 2
• Mechanical and Electronic engineering 3
• Economical Sciences and Statistics 3
• History of Art, Languages 8

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Innovative Courses

• Public Relations and Central-Eastern European
  Languages
• Management engineering
• Food Technologies
• Computer Science
• Preservation of cultural Artifacts, Tourism
• Transplants, tele-medicine
• Banking and Finance
• Animal health
• International transport law

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Research

• 28 Departments (50 laboraories)
• 5 Interdepartmental Centres CIRD ( EDUCATION),
  CIFRA ( ENVIRONMENT), CARTESIO (GEOGRAPHICAL
  INFORMATION SYSTEMS), CIFI ( FLUIDODYNAMICS) ,
  CIRF (FRIULIAN LANGUAGE and CULTURE),
• International Centre on Multilingualism
• Experimental Farm (ca 1000 ha)
• Clinical Hospital (10 clinics, 312 beds)
• Centre of di excellency MATI on human physiology
  (muscular palsticity under stress, aging,
  microgravity, training)
• Rigenerative medicine and tissue engineering
• Bioremediation
• Vegetal Platform for molecular synthesis

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Excellencies

• Public Relations and Central-Eastern European
  Languages
• Logistics and industrial management,
  (micro)mechanics, energy, environment
  technologies (waste management, recycling),
  geographical information systems (GIS)
• Food Technologies, genomics, agronomy, ecology,
  environmental certification, bioremediation,
• Information filtering, VV, Operations Research,
  WEB technologies, Immersive VR
• Sound and image restoration, paper technologies,
  archaeology
• Transplants, tele-medicine
• Observatory on economic convergence of CE Europe,
  Banking Techniques, Enterprise strategies in
  industrial districts
• Fish pathology, nutrition
• European transport law, Communitary Law

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IT in Udine

• Udine University was the 5th University in Italy
  to establish a course in Computer Science, after
  Pisa, Torino, Bari, Salerno
• Currently we have 22 courses in the field
• Computer Science
• Web Technologies and Multimedia
• Multimedia Sciences and Technologies
• Public Relations curriculum

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e-activities in Udine

• Mission Activities
• Network based services to students
• Online payments (tuition fees)
• Examination-cycle
• Students Identification card
• Information services (curricula)
• E-learning
• On line class documents and other materials
• E-library
• Online Public Access Catalogue
• Automated Loan procedures
• Online access to CE-Rom archives
• Online magazines and reviews

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e-activities in Udine

• Information and cognitive filtering
• Web personalization the infofactory project
• HCI
• 3D Web sites
• Virtual reality
• Information visualization, visual data mining
• Wireless Web, mobile devices
• E-governement
• Civic portal design (with local authorities)
• Online museums adaptive interfaces
• Web portal of the Public Library Serives of the
  FVG Region

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e-activities in Udine

• E-commerce
• Adaptive interfaces
• Wireless system interfaces
• E-learning
• Software and design specifications
• Distance learning for Public Safety Corps
• E-health
• National network in telepathology
• Quality assessment of remotely acquired images
• Call centre for telecare
• Online localization of emergency services
• Online clinical records

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Informatics in Udine

• Verification and Validation
• Software dependability
• Theoretical Computer Science
• Language Theory, Type Theory, Semantics
• Algorithms
• Foundations and models of Computation
• Neural networks
• Image processing

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Mountain regions and their criticalities

• handicaps vs advantages of reduced
  accessibility
• marginality, isolation, population decrease
• lack of infrastructures
• but
• resistance to homologation and cultural
  mass-globalization,
• quality of life is potentially better
• Possibility of learning from the experience of
  others in the area of environment sustainable
  growth

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Mountain Regions

• In the knowledge and digital information society
  and economy.
• It can play major roles (e.g. free-time economy)
• Increase its attractiveness
• IT technologies and e-enabled activities can
  reduce the impact of its handicaps, capitalizing
  precisely on its reduce accessibility
• Human capital and network infrastructure for
  building a net-community active in the
  net-economy e-governement, distance learning,
  remote sensing, distance e-services, distance
  e-work, teleassistance, e-commerce
• promotion, animation

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E-Mountain Region projects

• Advanced internet applications
• 3D websites for tourism promotion
• Applications for preservation and study of
  mopuntain environment
• GIS
• Intelligent system for integrating and assessing
  satellite and aerial images with image and
  temporal databases for environment monitoring and
  natural disaster prevention
• telemedicine

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A case for Verification and Validation

• Life, environment or business critical software
  applications
• Digital woes e.g. Y2K, Ariane, Patriot failures,
  Pentium Bug, bugs in mass produced software or
  widely distributed software
• Rigorous validation using logic based formal
  methods

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A case for non-technological skills in IT-enabled
activities

• Before hardware innovation we need innovation in
  mentality and consequently in the software design
• Simplification, reorganization, reengineering,
  reinventing
• Goal is bridging distance, non-hierarchical
  structures, interactive
• Standards, codes
• in Udine we are (preparing to) form such human,
  social, design skills