2015
The KTI Impact Awards recognise successful About the awards commercialisation of Irish State-funded research that translates knowledge and expertise for the wider benefjt of our economy and society. The awards also acknowledge and celebrate the work carried out in Technology Transfer and Industry Liaison Offjces (TT/ILOs) at State-funded research performing organisations (RPOs) and the professionals involved. Knowledge Transfer Initiative of the Year Categories Knowledge Transfer Achiever of the Year Dr. Ena Prosser, Fountain Healthcare Partners (Chair) Judging panel Dr. Alison Campbell, Knowledge Transfer Ireland Laura O’Mahony, Royal Irish Academy Dr. David Secher, University of Cambridge KTI Impact Awards 2015 3
Knowledge Transfer The Knowledge Transfer Initiative of the Year award Initiative of the Year recognises innovative and creative approaches to award the business of knowledge transfer conducted in the Technology Transfer/Industry Liaison Offjces (TT/ILOs) at State-funded RPOs. The category is not prescriptive, allowing TTOs and ILOs the freedom to showcase the diverse best practice that they are developing to meet their business needs. Shortlist The early career researcher IP management and Novel online licensing innovation and research commercialisation review platform commercialisation module programme NovaUCD Commercialisation Offjce, Trinity Research & Maynooth University Innovation, Trinity College Dublin 4 KTI Impact Awards 2015
The Commercialisation Offjce at The module includes lectures, The early career researcher innovation Maynooth University (MU) has workshops, business plan and research developed and delivered a credit- presentations and extensive commercialisation bearing programme (module), contact time with the MU module entitled “Innovation and Research commercialisation managers. Commercialisation Offjce, Maynooth Commercialisation”. This module Participant feedback has been University aims to radically enhance the positive with many aspiring to culture of commercialisation create their own companies in the amongst researchers; to equip future. Others now have a stated researchers with the skills to understanding of how to position commercialise the outcome of their research to be more aware of their research; and to prepare the commercial opportunities even them for interaction with industry. at the early stages of research Initially delivered to early career projects. researchers at MU, the programme was subsequently opened up to its TTSI2 consortium partner institute researchers in AIT, IT Carlow and WIT. The reality of early career researchers from all four institutes participating and working together has helped to embed the culture of collaboration, innovation and research commercialisation across the institutions. KTI Impact Awards 2015 5
IP management and Trinity Research & Innovation Outcomes from the process have commercialisation challenged itself to optimise its included lapsing a proportion of review programme commercialisation strategy to the patent portfolio; concentration Trinity Research & maximise a return from its patent and further investment in the Innovation, Trinity portfolio and other IP assets. lead opportunities within the College Dublin As part of this, Trinity Research portfolio; and a reduction in patent & Innovation considered itself costs. The licensing strategy to understand the appropriate has been tailored to enable patent portfolio for a university swifter licensing of lower value/ of its size. Having developed an early stage opportunities, thus understanding of international enabling a concentration on higher best practice, it undertook potential opportunities with an a programme of review that increase in associated licensing included: involving external experts and revenue. The IP management with the commercialisation team and commercialisation review to critical review the patent programme is now embedded in portfolio; a prioritisation of Trinity Research & Innovation’s patent opportunities to enable business processes. focus on commercialisation; a new marketing strategy (online and networked); implementation of a CRM system for managing licensing leads. 6 KTI Impact Awards 2015
NovaUCD has created an online The platform is scalable and Novel online licensing platform licensing platform (www.ucd.ie/ has been expanded during its NovaUCD innovation) for research tools development so that academic which includes a simple non- parties can also seek non- negotiable one-page licence commercial licences to certain agreement and an online payments technologies. It also enables system. Research tools ofgered users to make enquiries from include reagents and software. the TTO in relation to other UCD Driven by a combination of technologies which require more market opportunity and process bespoke licensing negotiations improvement, the development such as patented inventions. The of the licensing platform ensures functioning licensing platform is that a range of products that now available for use by other have commercial utility are TTOs under licence from the made widely and easily available third party developer, Afjcionado which would otherwise be lying Technologies. dormant or given away by the researchers. Where the TTO could not justify spending signifjcant time negotiating bespoke licences for low value products on a case- by-case basis, they can now be licensed on a non-exclusive basis to multiple users for a relatively small one-time payment in a seamless manner. KTI Impact Awards 2015 7
Knowledge Transfer The Knowledge Transfer Achiever of the Year award Achiever of the Year recognises the individual at a Technology Transfer/ award Industry Liaison Offjce (TT/ILO) in an Irish State-funded RPO who has gone the extra mile to deliver on a case, project or business area within the last year. Shortlist Peter Conlon Dr. Graham McMullin RTTP Emma O’Neill RTTP Commercialisation Technology Transfer Director of Business Executive Case Manager (Physical Development (Life Sciences) Sciences) Commercialisation Offjce, Trinity Research & Maynooth University Invent DCU Innovation, Trinity College Dublin 8 KTI Impact Awards 2015
Peter joined the Maynooth range of stafg. Having mined for Peter Conlon University (MU) team in 2013 as new opportunities, he has gone Commercialisation Executive a Commercialisation Executive on to provide project scoping and Commercialisation focusing on the broad areas of development support to assist Offjce, Maynooth information and communications in securing commercialisation University technologies and engineering. In funding. Through this proactive addition to his commercial role partnership approach, IT Carlow at MU, Peter has responsibility to now has a number of Enterprise support IT Carlow as part of the Ireland funded projects underway. Maynooth technology transfer In addition, Peter works closely consortium. Working closely with with the Enterprise Ireland Brian Ogilvie at IT Carlow, Peter commercialisation specialist to developed a plan to draw out advise on IP management of those commercial project opportunities projects. from the stafg base that includes management, support and lecturing stafg. Taking a structured approach, Peter managed a system of engagement across this wide KTI Impact Awards 2015 9
Dr. Graham McMullin Graham joined TCD in 2008 partners, and to utilise it to RTTP to work in the technology underpin further industry-funded Technology Transfer transfer team. In the past year research. This was an extremely Case Manager (Physical he has delivered on a complex challenging strategy to implement Sciences) commercialisation strategy which to enable all companies involved Trinity Research & Innovation, Trinity has resulted in maximising the to obtain the required freedom to College Dublin return from commercialisation operate, while allowing them have of platform intellectual property. a commercial advantage and on The IP was developed before and terms which were attractive to during a collaborative project and the university. Graham managed although this project was 100% all aspects from the IP structure industry-funded, the company was of the research contract, to persuaded to let the IP ownership the patent protection, the IP remain with the university with commercialisation and the full preferred rights to exploitation circle of new research contract confjned to a narrow fjeld of use. engagement and funding. The outcomes to date comprise four licences which include elements such as signifjcant upfront fees and a defjned pathway to high value royalty revenues, coupled with further collaborative contracts and the option to license the IP to new 10 KTI Impact Awards 2015
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