PicoSEC-MCNet combined trainings on "The route to market: how innovation moves from laboratory to product" and "Intellectual Property Rights"

Scientific Programme

SMEs

• Feedback from SME entrepreneurs on the subject;
• Roundtable based on experiences from Fibercryst (J.M Fourmigue), SurgicEye (T. Wendler) and Kloé (P. Coudray).

Innovation: what is it?

Intervention of Pr. Michael Friebe:

• Presentation + exercises (3-4h) : “Innovation : what is it ?” (TBC);
• short interactive exercises and focus on Medical Imaging and MedTec products and services.

Intellectual Property

Understanding IPR (concepts, different types of IPR):

• Patents (rights conferred, what can be patented, patenting processes, content of a patent);
• Trade secrets;
• Copyright (right conferred, use of copyright for software);
• IPR management in collaborative research;
• IPR as a tool for technology transfer.

European collaborative projects

• Why European collaborative projects?
• The benefits of being in several fetching experts, reduce risk, multidisciplinary ...
• European scale: A +: market opportunities, multicultural aspects ...
• The added value of public-private partnerships, technology transfer, accelerated recovery
• Financing solutions: the R & D programs, mappings, how are they organized?, dealing with what?
• H2020: architecture, themes, instruments
• LIFE +, COST, ERDF, EPI INTERREG ...
• Intergovernmental Eureka, Eurostars, Era-Net, Clusters