Commercialisation of Research Results Hungarian Norwegian conference on the EEA mechanisms, Budapest

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Commercialisation of Research Results Hungarian
Norwegian conference on the EEA mechanisms,
Budapest, June 10th, 2005
Kathrine Myhre, Chief Information Officer,
Birkeland Innovation
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Outline

• Birkeland Innovation AS
• Why set up
• Organisation
• Strategic goals
• Lessons learned
• How can Birkeland Innovation contribute to the
  Hungarian Norwegian cooperation?

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Birkeland Innovation AS

• Technology Transfer Office (TTO) at the
  University of Oslo (UiO)
• Responsible for commercialization of research
  results from UiO. Our task is to secure the IPR,
  to build and stimulate an innovative culture at
  the university and to do technology transfer to
  industry and build new companies
• Birkeland Innovation AS was established January
  1th 2004, organized as a company 100 owned by
  UiO
• All Norwegian Universities have established TTOs.

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University of Oslo

• Traditional Humbolt University focus on basic
  research, only a few research groups focus on
  applied research
• Rated as 61. university in world, 3. in
  Scandinavia
• 2500 faculties, 5000 employees altogether
• 32.000 students
• 8 fakulteter/colleges Medicine, Natural
  scienses, Deontology, Theology, Social science,
  Human science and art, Law and Pedagogic
• 75 of research is in Medicine and Natural
  Sciences

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Background - I

• Beginning of 2000 - Norwegian government put
  focus on how to create new jobs and industry from
  research and technology
• Change of law in 2002 put in to effect in 2003
  
• Law of Inventions (lærerunntaket
  Arbeidstakeroppfinnelsesloven)
• 2 in the University Law (universitets- og
  høyskoleloven)
• Universities and colleges got the right to
  commercialise research results

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Background II

• Universities and colleges where obligated to set
  up Technology Transfer Offices to secure
  Intellectual property rights (IPR) from the
  Universities and to make sure that research
  results also are used as basis for building new
  industry and creating new jobs.
• Licensing to existing industry
• Establish new companies
• All the Norwegian universities established TTO
  offices in 2003/2004.
• The researcher used to have the right to
  commercialize research results by them selves
  big expectations to the universities that they
  build good, effective TTOs.

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Main task - Birkeland Innovation

• Secure Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) for the
  University of Oslo
• Stimulate researchers to technology transfer and
  build an innovative culture at the University of
  Oslo
• Do technology transfer through licensing and
  creating new companies

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Organisation

• Birkeland Innovation established January 1th 2004
• Birkeland innovation Team
• Chief Executive Officer Dr. Frank Larsen
• Dr. philos medical gene technology, 10 years
  academic research, founder of GenoVision, more
  than 10 years experience from international
  biotech industry (Dynal, GenoVision, Qiagen)
• Chief Information Officer Kathrine Myhre
• Patent Advisor Dr. Pål Rongved
• Project Manager Ivar Bergland, IT materials
• Project Manager Kristin Sandereid, Biomedicin
• Project Manager Dr. Glenn Gundersen, Biomedicin
• Innovation Advisor Dr. Katrine Rese Shadidi,
  Medical Faculty
• Innovation Advisor Dr. Egil Olsen, Inst.
  Molecular Bioscience
• Board - 3 from industry, 4 from UiO

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Strategic goals

• Build an innovative culture at the University of
  Oslo
• Build research-based industry develop
  competence and create new jobs
• Within 5 -10 years - financially go breakeven
• BIO IT valley - Participate in the
  development of biomedical and IT industry cluster
  around University of Oslo.

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Birkelands business areas
5 8 3 6 2 3

• Biotechnology Food quality and safety
• Medicine (diagnostics, equipment and therapy)
• Information Technology (IT)
• Chemistry, materials and Nanotechnology
• Energy and Environment
• Culture and Society

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Strategy - Birkeland Innovation

• Evaluate ideas from all disciplines at the
  University of Oslo
• Main focus on building competence in Biomedicine
  and Information technology
• Other focus areas Chemistry, materials,
  nanotechnology, energy and environment
• Cooperation with other TTOs in Norway/Scandinavia
  on commercialization projects where Birkeland
  Innovation has lesser competence reaching the
  marked
• Priority Establish new companies
• Licensing of technology

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How do Birkeland innovation help

• Competence in commercialization and securing IPR
• Financing innovation projects at an early stage
  (250.000 - 2 mill NOK or 30.000 250.000 Euro)
• Use university facilities reduce the risk in
  the projects
• Networks national, Scandinavian and
  international (research, TTO, industry and
  innovation/VC)
• Evaluate projects money from Innovation Norway
• IFU/OFU contracts
• Etableringstilskudd
• Proof of concept money from Norwegian Research
  Council
• Presentation for seed fund and VC

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Ideas projects 2004

• 85 ideas
• 25 selected as projects
• 10 patent applications

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Birkeland Innovation Goals 2005

• 80 new ideas
• 10 patent applications
• 1-2 licenses
• 1-3 new companies
• Cgene Mousemodel for in vivo gene studies tool
  for develop pharmaceuticals and studies of food
  quality, environment etc.
• Symphonical project management system
• SoniTrack use of ultrasound to manage
  information technology equipment as i.e computers
  hygienically in laboratories

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Lessens learned - I

• Little or no criticism from the researchers on
  the governmental and university initiative -
  wanting more competence, new industry, jobs and
  innovation out of the research results
• No contradiction between being a basic research
  university and wanting technology transfer
• Researchers that used to be innovative,
  commercialising ideas themselves has waited
  and see how Birkeland will do it Now they comes
  to Birkeland..
• Birkeland represent competence in a field where
  the researchers became small by their own - in
  i.e negotiations with industry when licensing
  technology or setting up a company on technology
  from the researcher/university

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Lessons learned - II

• Excellent researchers/groups are also the most
  innovative researchers/research groups
• Direct dialogue with researchers, scouting after
  ideas and stimulating innovative culture helps
• More and higher quality on the ideas
• Researched based ideas and good dealflow is a
  very strong driving force in innovation

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Medicin
Innovation
Biotech
IT
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Birkelands contribution I

• Birkeland Innovation will hereby invite
  Hungarians to work in Birkeland Innovation
• Learn how we set up our TTO
• Learn how Birkeland do technology transfer,
  include building networks to industry and build
  an innovative culture at the university
• You pay the living costs and salary
• We offer TTO-learning, work space, competence and
  an most inspiring environment and cases

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Birkeland contribution II

• Work on Birkeland-projects
• Scandinavians eager to test and start using new
  technology Good first marked for Hungarian
  commercial projects and products
• Bring with you your research results with
  commercial potential to Birkeland innovation, and
  we will help evaluate the ideas and bring them to
  success if possible
• Birkeland innovation can also help by investing
  our money and work hours on your commercial
  projects - on standard commercial criterias

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Contact information

• http//birkeland.uio.no
• kathrine.myhre_at_birkeland.uio.no
• Tel [phone]