This document summarizes the mission and activities of the Technology Transfer office (TT@IST) at IST university in Portugal. The TT@IST aims to support knowledge transfer from the university to society through economic exploitation of IST's research. It manages intellectual property and supports entrepreneurship and corporate partnerships. Some key points are that TT@IST files patents, works to commercialize technologies through licensing or spin-offs, connects companies to IST resources like job postings and career fairs, and supports the ISTART venture capital fund to foster new companies from IST research.

1. Technology Transfer at IST
TT@IST
Luís Caldas de Oliveira

2. Throughout its 100 years of history
IST has had a significant impact in
Society

3. Academia has
been focused
mostly on
knowledge
production

4. Innovation
"Innovation is the process of turning ideas into
manufacturable and marketable form.“
Watts Humphrey
(software engineer, 1927-2010)

5. R&D

6. R&D and Innovation

7. Associate
knowledge production
with
knowledge valorisation

8. TT@IST
Mission
To support the Executive Board in developing
IST links to Society, namely through the
economic exploration of IST’s knowledge base.
Specifically, the Technology Transfer Office
manages IST’s intellectual property and is the
point of contact for entrepreneurship and
corporate relations.

9. Tech Transfer

10. Our view of Tech Transfer

11. TT@IST
tt@ist.utl.pt
http://tt.ist.utl.pt

12. tt.ist.utl.pt

13. Protect and value IST knowledge base
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

14. Intellectual Property Myths*
Royalties are a Companies are eager
Expect a quick
significant source of to accept new
return of technology
income for technology from
transfer investment
universities universities
You should
The technology
broadcast availability
transfer office finds
of technology for
the licensee
licensing
* Jack Turner, MIT Licensing Office

15. Reality
With the exception of
Don't expect product
the occasional Most companies want
royalties for 8 -10
"blockbuster", licensing quick time-to-market
years
revenue is small.
Publishing lists of
The inventor is the
available technology is
best source for leads
not effective

16. Why do Universities transfer
technology ?

17. 2000-2009: IST filed 220 patents
Higher Education
Patents Filed in
Portugal
Patents Filed in Portugal
33%
IST 9%
67%
Others
IST
91% Others

18. What we know about patents
They are very expensive
They are not collectible items
We can only afford to keep licensed patents

19. IST Intellectual Property Policies
Focus on economic valorization
Simplify ownership rules
Reward inventors
Simplify decision process
Valorization through spin-offs
Valorization by trade secret

20. Develop links to Society
CORPORATE PARTNERSHIPS

21. Contact point companies
students
professors
recruitment

22. For companies
IST Job Bank
IST Career Weeks
IST Departments and Research Labs

23. Career Services
IST Career Workshops
IST Career Weeks
AEIST Jobshop
IST Job bank

24. IST Career Weeks
13 de Fevereiro a 23 de Março de 2012

25. IST Career Weeks 2012
12-Fev: Civil and Environ. Eng. and Architecture
19-Fev: Mechanical, Aerospace and Naval
26-Fev: Computer Science
5-Mar: Bioengineering
5-Mar: Taguspark
12-Mar: Electrical and Computer Eng.
19-Mar: Chemistry and Materials Eng.

26. IST Job Bank
recrutamento.ist.utl.pt

27. IST Career Workshops
Saturdays
February 11th to March 24th 2012
maximum of 13 students per session

28. AEIST Jobshop
May 2 to 5, 2012

29. Foster innovation and new enterprises
ENTREPRENEURSHIP

30. IST spin-off Community
Active relationship with spin-offs
Foster contact between entrepreneurs and students
Currently includes 34 companies

31. ISTART VC Fund
SAPFRI Program
Partnership with ES Ventures
Private investors:
Brisa
300.000€
Caixa Capital
300.000€
Espírito Santo Ventures
300.000€
Novabase Capital
300.000€
FLAD
300.000€
Taguspark
150.000€

32. TT@IST:
Valorisation of IST knowledge base

33. Thank you