ATTRACT - Bridging Public and Private Funding for Innovation in Detection & Imaging

Europe/London
John Wood (ATTRACT Chair, Advisory Board)
Description
ATTRACT is a Pan-European initiative in detection and imaging to create an unique ecosystem of opportunities for serving the European Research Infrastructures and their R&D communities in their mission, while better extracting industrial and societal value out of fundamental science and stimulating the talent of young professionals. More about ATTRACT: www.attract-eu.org The purpose of this Workshop is: First, how to resolve the inherent conflict between the public sector interest in IPR which is funded by public money being made available for all (‘Open Science’) with the normal private sector requirement, when investing in the commercialisation of university/research institute IPR, to take monopoly control of ‘the whole sausage and not just of a few salami slices’. Second, we will discuss and explore alternative funding models for early stage technology. We enclose an extract from a summary document commissioned by CERN and the ATTRACT Advisory Board in which we explore two alternative funding models as examples, ‘Young Genius Funding’ and ‘First Loss Guarantee Funding’. The Workshop is organized and chaired by the ATTRACT Advisory Board (Prof. John Wood).
    • 08:00 08:45
      Registration, Coffee, Networking 45m
    • 08:45 09:00
      Welcome Speech 15m
      • Europe competitiveness
    • 09:00 09:15
      Presentation of ATTRACT 15m

      Focus points:
      • What is ATTRACT?
      • Who is ATTRACT?
      • Why ATTRACT?
      • Timeline
      • What does it mean to get money from EC? “Open Science, Open Innovation and Open to the World”
      • What Open Science means for RIs?
      • ATTRACT innovation potential: examples

      • Who is ATTRACT?
      • Why ATTRACT?
      • Timeline
      • What does it mean to get money from EC? “Open Science, Open Innovation and Open to the World”
      • What Open Science means for RIs?
      • ATTRACT innovation potential: examples
      commercialisation

      Speaker: Prof. John Wood (ATTRACT Chair, Advisory Board)
    • 09:15 09:45
      Panel Discussion 30m

      Focus questions:
      • How private investors can get interested in a fully Open R&D&I ecosystem (i.e. Open source)?
      • Are there experiences?

      Speakers: Pablo Garcia Tello (CERN), Mr Terry Swainbank
    • 09:45 10:15
      Possible solutions: YGF/Sundance Guarantee 30m

      Focus questions:
      • What are those?
      • How they might fit in ATTRACT?

      Speaker: Mr Roger Blears (RWBC)
    • 10:15 10:45
      Group Discussion 30m

      YGF/Sundance Guarantee benchmarking

      Speaker: Prof. John Wood (ATTRACT Chair, Advisory Board)
    • 10:45 11:00
      Conclusions 15m