deliverable 5.1 community of technology transfer officers

Deliverable 5.1 Community of Technology Transfer Officers created and trained Date: 10.05.17

HORIZON 2020 - INFRADEV Implementation and operation of cross-cutting services and solutions

for clusters of ESFRI

Grant Agreement number: 654008

Project acronym: EMBRIC

Contract start date: 01/06/2015

Project website address: www.embric.eu

Due date of deliverable: 30/05/17 / month 24

Dissemination level: Public

Document properties Partner responsible UPMC

Author(s)/editor(s) Pierre Colas, Arnt Fløysand, Stig-Erik Jakobsen, Douglas Robinson, Antoine Schoen

Version 1 Abstract Task 5.2 objective is to analyse the innovation ecosystems linked to the different

cluster nodes as well as the technology transfer (TT) practices that are currently

implemented or being developed. To this end, a restricted panel of TT officers

representing the different RIs has been assembled. In this deliverable, the advances

on the ultimate goal of this task, creation and training of a community of practice in

TT for the EMBRIC cluster, is reported. A community of practice is not only a space

where TT officers exchange about on-going practices, but also enables the building

of a referential of practices and their conditions of use. The community of practice

builds trust and enables each member to mobilize others when facing a problem. The

emergence of a community of practice was catalysed by the organization of periodic

workshops (the minutes of which are included in this deliverable) and by the creation

of an information system to facilitate multi-channel communications in collaboration

with WP1.

D5.1-CommunityofEMBRICTTofficerscreatedandtrained

Two groups within the community were assembled. The so-called “core group”

gathers people employed by those institutions that have received person-month

allocations to contribute to EMBRIC WP5: UPMC, UPEM, UiB1, CCMAR, FVB,

USTAN, CRBIP, HCMR. Some of these people are formal TT officers (or act as

such), whereas others act in an informal capacity and engage with TT offices to

contribute to the Work Package. Besides this “core group”, we have identified a

community of TT officers (or people acting as such) representing the different

participating organizations in EMBRIC.

Over the first two years of the project, the following meetings and events have been

organized in order to coordinate and further reinforce the EMBRIC TT officer

community and to undertake training actions. The minutes of these meetings can be

found in the annex of this document.

• WP5 kick-off meeting – Paris, Dec. 2015 - core group. Presentation of the

methodologies for tasks 5.1 and 5.3 – Presentation of TT strategies (licensing

vs spin offs) - Presentation of the variety of TT organizations and contexts

among core group member institutions – Definitions of WP5 timelines.

• General Assembly, Naples, Sept. 2016 – whole community. Roundtable

session sharing theoretical technology transfer case studies and experiences

in EMBRIC, following requests sent to leaders of WPs 3, 6-8. From the

information collected before and during the roundtable, TT predictive

scenarios have been built for WP6 and 7. No patenting activity is expected

from WPs 3 and 8, for which other forms of IP protection will be employed

(such as trade secrets).

• Workshop on TT practices, Bergen, Oct. 2016 – whole community.

Presentation of general concepts about regional innovation systems – Survey

on TT practices currently in place or under development among EMBRIC

1UPMC,UPEMandUiBareresponsibleforthedifferenttaskswithinWP5.

partners (see focus on next page) – Presentations of TT practices in EU vs

USA, the TTO of the UiB , a local marine biotech company, a microalgae pilot

facility, the seafood innovation cluster. Introduction to the BaseCamp

information system – Presentation of preliminary results of the territorial

embedding analysis of the Station Biologique de Roscoff – Presentation of the

Progress TT project – Discussions on the TT scenarios built after the G.A.

• Training Course on the CorText platform, Paris, March 2017 – whole

community. Course organized by UPEM, on a software platform dedicated to

textual corpus analysis and network graphical representations. During this

course, first analyses relevant for Task 5.1 (territorial embedding studies) were

performed.

• Workshop on territorial impact assessment, Roscoff, May 2017 – whole

community (WP5 core group meeting also planned). The workshop focused

mainly on the territorial embedding assessment approach developed by

UPEM to profile regional research driven clusters along multiple dimensions.

Other topics were addressed: advisory board comments on WP5, links with

PROGRESS-TT, first results of the TT survey, strategic importance of EU

projects in marine biology and biotechnology, regional (Bretagne) economic

and innovation landscape.

Implementing an efficient, collegial communication tool is key in the process of

building a community. A space dedicated to promote information exchanges within

WP5 has been created by WP1 using the BaseCamp platform. This space is used to

share documents, alerts on TT workshops, IP management training events, TT

opportunities and articles related to TT and innovation. Further potential uses are

being explored (such as sharing TT opportunities among the community).

To benefit from a wider range of TT training opportunities, WP5 is currently

collaborating with the Horizon 2020 PROGRESS-TT project that organizes

workshops and courses. Collaboration includes advertising training opportunities in

both communities and sharing best practices.

Additional WP5 meetings and workshops will be organized throughout the second

half of the project, to strengthen our nascent and growing community and to enhance

its sustainable growth and maturity.

FocusonthesurveyandtheanalysisofTTpracticesinEMBRIC

An online survey was desinge by the UiB partners to describe and analyse how

research outputs are “commercialized” among EMBRIC members, so that learning

points can be revealed and best practices can be shared within the community. The

survey can be found in:

https://response.questback.com/isa/qbv.dll/ShowQuest?ID=4872179-389475095-

Uvvpevnn-

&cont=2&sid=&lc=2899&frontpage=1&responseid=99603170&qual=468&rtcdx=&iid=

225688176

To facilitate quantitative assessment of TT practices, the UiB web-based survey

included several multiple choice questions. It also contained a number of open-ended

questions to allow for qualitative assessments of practices. Collection of data started

during the Bergen meeting (Oct. 2016) and the questionnaire has been distributed to

those partners who were not present. 15 EMBRIC partners have completed the

survey. The analysis, presented in Annex to this documents, reveals a great

heterogeneity in TT organizations and practices, which confirms that sharing best

practices is a very challenging yet relevant objective.

Annex

• EMBRIC WP5 kick-off meeting report, Minutes of the WP5 kick-off meeting –

Paris, Dec. 2015

• EMBRIC WP5 MEETING REPORT, Minutes of the General Assembly

meeting, Naples, Sept. 2016

• EMBRIC WP5 MEETING REPORT, Minutes of the Workshop on TT practices,

Bergen, Oct. 2016

• EMBRIC-RISIS Training Course: the CorText platform, Minutes of the Training

Course on the CorText platform, Paris, March 2017

• EMBRIC WP5 MEETING REPORT, Minutes of the Workshop on territorial

embedding workshop, Roscoff, May 2017

• UiB web-based survey in TT practices

• TT practice and regional innovation system: Lessons learned from TT practice

in the marine bio-economy

EMBRIC WP5 kick-off meeting report Nov 30-Dec 1, 2015

UPMC – Paris

Participants

Name Institute Research

Infra. Email address

Isabelle Buckle CRBIP MIRRI [email protected]

Pierre Colas UPMC EMBRC [email protected]

Süzel Horellou UPMC EMBRC [email protected]

Anne-Emmanuelle

Kervella

UPMC EMBRC

anne-emmanuelle.kervella@sb-

roscoff.fr

Georgios Kotoulas HCMR EMBRC [email protected]

Tiago Magalhães CCMAR EMBRC [email protected]

Alistair B. Main UPEM EMBRC [email protected]

Ilaria Nardello UPMC EMBRC [email protected]

Birgit Oppmann FVB

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[email protected]

Douglas Robinson UPEM RISIS [email protected]

Antoine Schoen UPEM RISIS [email protected]

Fanny Schultz UPMC EMBRIC [email protected]

Trygve Serck-

Hanssen

UIB EMBRC

Trygve.Serck-

[email protected]

Excused: Malgorzata Barczyk (UiB)

Agenda

Monday, Nov.30 (14h00-18h00)

• Brief introduction of all participants

• General introduction of the EMBRIC project (Trygve)

• General introduction of WP5 (Pierre)

• Tasks 5.1 & 5.3 (Antoine & Douglas)

• Presentation on TT strategy: Licensing vs Spin offs (Alistair)

• Presentations of Research Institutes and TT mechanisms (Pierre, Trygve)

Tuesday, Dec.1 (9h15-13h15)

• Presentations of Research Institutes and TT mechanisms

(Georgios, Alistair, Birgit, Tiago, Isabelle)

• Task 5.2 (Trygve)

TASK 5.1: Analysing blue biotechnology regional research driven clusters TASK 5.3: Analysis of the added value of EMBRIC in promoting blue biotechnology

Tasks leader: UPEM – Involved partners: UPMC & UiB

Antoine and Douglas propose to combine Task 5.1 with parts of Task 5.3.

They present three entrance points:

• Broad aim to aggregate and develop useful intelligence for each EMBRIC

partner as well as for EMBRIC as a collective

• To assess added value in a useful way that captures value creation by

EMBRIC partners and makes it visible

• To adapt and tailor, for marine biotech projects, tried and tested tools and

approaches to understand impact

Work will focus on:

1- Regional dimensions: The goal is to understand the contribution of research

institutes to their cognate regions: Human resources & jobs, territorial links,

connections with local firms, policy makers, …

2- Exemplary projects: success stories in KT /TT will be analysed according to a

multi-dimension matrix. This will be used as a benchmark of good KT/TT

practices (connection to Task 5.2)

1- Territorial embedding assessments

Antoine and Douglas will coordinate the creation of territorial embedding

reports that will define a profile for each marine biology research institute.

These reports will highlight:

• Knowledge production (in the broad sense of the term)

• Human resources and jobs (number and origin of different categories of

people, mobility to other institutes and sectors, …)

• Connections with other actors (contract research, consultancies,

advisory boards of companies and political bodies, …)

These reports will contain, among other things, relational maps. They will allow

comparisons between different marine research institutes. Beyond EMBRIC

WP5, these reports will be very useful for the institutes, which can use them to

show to their cognate regional authorities how important they are for their

territories. In the EMBRIC project, the scope of the analysis is limited to

marine research institutes. However, non-marine EMBRIC partners could use

UPEM’s methodological framework for their own good.

Antoine and Douglas wish to test their analytical templates in Roscoff (mission

of 2 – 3 days, in January 2016). Then, they propose to perform similar on site

analysis in Algarve (CCMAR) and Crete (HCMR), in spring 2016. These two

EMBRC nodes have been chosen because they have been allocated only 3

person-months in the project.

2- Socio-economic impact assessment

The goal is to look at multi-dimensional impacts of innovation projects (beyond

the usual quantitative indicators such as number of publications, spin-offs

created, patents applications, etc.). Impacts on civil society, environment, policy

making will be also examined. This will allow the creation of a cross-community

assessment scheme allowing benchmarking and comparisons. This will also

contribute to the long-term impact assessment of EMBRIC (by comparing “pre-

EMBRIC”, “historical” projects with EMBRIC projects performed in the context of

the JDAs (Joint Development Activities, WP6-8) or the TNA (Trans-National

Access, WP10).

The methodology has been developed for the INRA (French national agronomy

research institute), and has been adopted by other research organizations. It will

be adapted to the specific requirements of the EMBRIC projects. The method

consists in:

- Defining a time line of key events occurring in the course of a given project

- Drawing impact pathways (presented as flowcharts)

- Formalizing the multi-dimensional assessment (analytical and empirical

output)

Each EMBRC site will be invited to identify 5 eligible “pre-EMBRIC” marine biotech

projects, with tangible socio-economical impacts. From this short list, 2 projects will

be selected (whenever possible, a “technology-pushed” project and a “market- or

society- pulled” project). It is specified that successful projects should be selected,

and not failed projects or projects with limited success.

3. Other aspects of Task 5.1

We will interact with Ibon Cancio (Bilbao) and Lucas Boser (CPMR) who are

assessing the importance of marine biotechnologies in the smart specialization

strategies (S3) of European maritime regions, in the context of the second

preparatory phase of EMBRC. Their work, combined to ours, may reveal differences

in the territorial embedding of marine biology institutes located in regions that have

selected marine biotechnology in their S3 vs those that have not made this choice.

TASK 5.2: Creating a community of practice in TT between EMBRIC RIs Task leader: UiB – Involved partners: UPMC & UPEM

We all consider that the idea of a “one-stop shop” for TT is probably unrealistic,

because of the highly fragmented landscape within EMBRIC (many different

institutions with their own policies, mechanisms, legal framework). This diversity has

been clearly highlighted by the different presentations during our meeting. However,

we should be able to:

• Share good TT practices

• Introduce TT in those institutes where it has not been (fully) developed yet

• Create a internet forum / information system for our TT community (to facilitate

TT activities in EMBRIC, alert on TT opportunities, …)

The first step is to build this community. The idea is to involve each EMBRIC

academic member (27 in total), who should send us a TT officer. NB: 15 of the 27

partner institutes are located in peripheral maritime regions.

Then, a meeting will be held in Bergen in May/June 2016. Trygve will outline the

content of this meeting. We may want to include a training dimension to it, so that we

could get money from WP9 to support traveling fees of participants. Fanny reminds

us that UGent (WP9 leader) is expected to list all training needs within the project.

We should thus communicate with them in due time.

Among other things, this meeting should aim at shaping the internet forum /

information system.

[personal comment]: It could make sense to seize the opportunity of this meeting to

organize a special session (restricted to our core group or not) dedicated to the

territorial embedding analysis and the impact studies ?

A second workshop should be organized in June 2017, prior to the deliverable of

month 24: “Community of EMBRIC TT officers created and trained”.

Suggested timeline/milestones for task 5.2:

5.2.1, (Oct/15) Create a restricted panel of TT officers representing the different Ris

5.2.2, (Nov/15) 1st meeting among the lead TTO representatives in EMBRIC

5.2.3, (June/16) 1st WP5 workshop (in Bergen) among participating TTOs, prepare:

ü "Forum of Exchange on TTO Activities and Practices"

ü internet forum/info system for comm. and TT opportunity alerts

5.2.4, (Oct/16) Establish the internet forum & information system for day-to-day

communications and TT opportunity alerts

5.2.5, (Feb/17) Monitor EMBRIC case studies (WP6-8) and, using these case

studies, try to establish “one-stop TT shops” that could be used for

further cases

5.2.6, (Feb/17) Groundwork on community of practices, and on how we can apply

the concept to our TT community

5.2.7, (Feb/17) 2nd WP5 workshop, discuss draft D.5.2 Report on Community of

Practice in Technology Transfer between EMBRIC Ris

Ø FINALISE D.5.1: Report on Community of Practice in Technology Transfer

between EMBRIC Ris – June 2017

TENTATIVE PLANNING - WP5 EMBRIC

2016 2017 2018 2019

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Tasks 5.1 / 5.3

Territorial embedding

Dev. framework -Test in

Roscoff

Visits to HCMR and

CCMAR

Guidelines sent to other

sites

Self-assessment by

EMBRC sites

*

Impact assessment

Dev. multidimensional

tool kit

Identification of eligible

projects

Selection of 2 projects /

site

*

Multidimensional impact

analysis

Diffusion of results to all

sites

Impact analysis of

EMBRIC projects

Tasks 5.2

Recruit TT officer

community

First meeting in Bergen

Building TT forum/TT

info. system

Second meeting

Submit Deliverable

*Bergen meeting – Session dedicated to Tasks 5.1 and 5.3 ?

EMBRIC WP5 MEETING REPORT

Tech Transfer Roundtable

Sept 14, 2016

Naples (during the G.A.)

Participants:

Ian Johnston (WP8 leader, USTAN - EMBRC)

Huanting Liu (WP3, USTAN-EMBRC)

Claire Jasper (WP7, MBA – EMBRC)

François-Yves Bouget (WP7, UPMC – EMBRC)

Cendrella Lepleux (WP6, DSMZ – MIRRI)

Fabbrizio Vecchi (SZN-EMBRC)

Philipe Brennecke (FVB– EU-OPENSCREEN)

Douglas Robinson (UPEM – RISIS)

Arnt Fløsand (UiB – EMBRC)

Pierre Colas (UPMC – EMBRC)

To prepare for this roundtable, TT scenario requests were sent to leaders of WPs 3,

6-8.

“Based on what is currently being done and on what you feel is most likely to happen

in your respective WPs, imagine realistic, successful projects from discovery phase

to transfer of molecules / processes / know-how to companies:

• The different contributing institutes (who each own or share IP rights involved)

• The opportunities to file patent applications (and/or protect know-how)

• The companies that might be interested in exploiting patent(s) (applications)

and /or know-how”

Below is a summary of the input received from the different WPs:

• WP8: no patenting – trade secrets only. Knowledge will be brokered towards

forum of aquaculture companies

• WP3- “concepts for the discovery and exploitation of marine products and

biomolecules”: no patenting expected; outputs will be opened to everyone (?)

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• WP7: no single pipeline. Some companies may want to screen extracts (e.g.

through TNA). NB: EU-OPENSCREEN screens “only” against anti-proliferative

and anti-oxidant compounds.

• WP6: DSMZ and David Smith (CABI) contributed a TT scenario, but also an

analysis of the challenges of our endeavor at the institutional, RI, RI cluster

levels.

The TT scenario produced by WP6 (and enriched from WP7 remarks) can be

schematized as follows:

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Oct 6-7, 2016

Bergen

Participants: Arnt Fløysand, Stig-Erik Jakobsen, Thibaud Mascart, Anne-Sophie

Schillinger, Birgit Oppmann, Philip Brennecke, Douglas Robinson, Antoine Schoen,

Cendrella Lepleux, Pierre Colas, Alistair Main, Anders Goksøyr, Süzel Horellou,

Chantal Bizet-Pinson, Raquel Hurtado-Ortiz, Mery Piña, Malgorzata Barczyk, Ibon

Cancio, Gorka Artola, Antonio Villanueva, Liliana Anjos, Daniel Christiaen, Tiago

Magalhaes, Georgios Kotoulas, Andrea Basso, Randi Elisabeth Taxt, Rebecca Goss

Thursday 6th

October

MORNING

• Arnt Fløysand & Stig-Erik Jacokbsen welcomed us and presented the outline

of our workshop.�

• Jarl Giske (UiB Marine Dean, Prof. of Marine Biology) welcomed us and gave

a general presentation of the UiB and of its marine research. Bergen has the

largest national concentration in marine research centres and is becoming the

aquaculture hub in Norway with several companies moving in

(MARINEHOLMEN).

• Pierre gave a brief presentation of WP5 (objectives, tasks, deliverables,

progress report, goals of the workshop).

• Arnt & Stig-Erik presented general concepts about regional innovation

systems (RIS): importance of their geographical dimension, typology (thin vs

thick), role played by TTOs and other intermediaries. Then, they introduced

their questionnaire on TT practices and explained their expectations.

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• The participants started to fill in the questionnaire (which was posted online).

• Anders Haugland (Dir. BTO) gave a presentation on TT practices: USA vs EU,

historical evolution, conditions for successful TT (critical mass, staff

certification, ecosystem approach, from dissemination to impact, increasing

role of social sciences). A certification is available for TTOs by the Alliance of

Technology Transfer Professionals (ATTP), which recognizes the

accomplishments, roles, skills, knowledge, and deal-making expertise of

technology transfer professionals.

• Randi Taxt (V.P. BTO) presented the TTO system of the UiB: owners and

partners, numbers, missions.

• Christofer Troedson (CEO Tunichor) presented his company, whose business

is to exploit tunicate biomass for animal feed and cellulose applications. The

company and his founder have been accompanied by BTO for several years.

• Hans Kleivdal (Res. Dir. UiB) presented a pilot facility that was built to explore

industrial applications of microalgae. The pilot captures CO2 and heat from oil

and gas industry that are used to cultivate microalgae. It is a public / private

partnership that allowed the creation of a company: CO2BIO.

• Tanja Hoel (Dir. NCE seafood innovation cluster) presented the Norwegian

landscape in seafood production and the NCE seafood, a governmental

structure created to support innovation in this business.

AFTERNOON / EVENING

Field trip to visit Tunichor and Scalpro, followed by a boat trip to a memorable dinner

at Cornelius!

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Friday 7th

October

MORNING

• Mery Piña (scientific manager of EMBRIC) reminded us that WP5 needs to

support WP10, in advertising trans-national access (TNA). She also presented

BaseCamp, which can/should be used as an information/communication

platform for our TTO community.

• Douglas Robinson and Antoine Schoen presented the methodology of the

territorial embedding analysis they propose to perform for different EMBRC

nodes. They presented preliminary results of their analysis on the Station

Biologique de Roscoff, which they used as a test case. They presented these

results at the European Parliament on 13th October 2016 as part of WP5

dissemination activities.

• Andrea Basso (CTO MITO) presented the Progress TT EU project that he

coordinates. He introduced the general TT landscape in Europe and its

weaknesses, which motivated the Progress TT project (a pan-European TT

capacity building initiative). While personalized mentoring is restricted to

project partners, some training actions (webinars, workshops, bootcamps,,…)

are opened to external applications.

• Pierre Colas introduced the challenge of building joint TT offers and presented

the TT scenarios that have been produced or partially imagined by some

EMBRIC WPs during the General Assembly in Naples (Sept. 2016). A

roundtable discussion followed, during which it was agreed that:

o TT offers would remain the prerogative of the individual institutions

holding the intellectual property.

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o The Assemble (+) projects and pp2 EMBRC should be examined to get

inspiration from the framework agreements they may have put in place

for IP sharing.

o While joint TT offerings may not represent an achievable objective, the

ongoing building of our TTO community should facilitate and expedite

TT processes within the EMBRIC project (people will know and trust

each other more and more with time…).

AFTERNOON

Part of the team took up the challenge of hiking up Mount Sandviken via the

steep Stoltzekleiven path. A beautiful and memorable hike to the top, with

delicious beverages provided by Arnt on his terrace, once the mountain was

conquered !

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EMBRIC-RISIS Training Course: the CorText platform

March 9, 2017 – 09h30 – 17h00

Jussieu, Paris

Participants

Antoine Schoen [email protected] UPEM

Antonio Villanueva [email protected] University of Vigo

Davide Di Coccio [email protected] SZN

Douglas Robinson [email protected] UPEM-LISIS

Georgios Kotoulas [email protected] HCMR

Ibon Cancio [email protected] EHU

Marc Barbier [email protected] UPEM-LISIS

Marc Vandeputte [email protected] INRA

Nicolas Pade [email protected] MBA UK

Pierre Colas [email protected] UPMC

Tim Verstraeten [email protected] Universiteit Gent

Taking advantage of the participation of social scientists in the EMBRIC project

(UPEM, leader for two tasks in WP5), this training session offered the marine biology

community to discover state of the art scientometrics methods (based on social

network analysis) and to get access to, and training in the use of, the powerful open

access Cortext Manager platform dedicated to textual corpus analysis

(www.cortext.net). This platform makes possible the characterisation of the research

activities carried out within each research centre involved in EMBRIC (including

those involved in EMBRC which is one infrastructure within EMBRIC).

The first objective of the course was to introduce participants to the uses of the

CorTexT/RISIS platform, a research facility in S&T Studies proposed under the RISIS

Infrastructure Project.

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The second objective was to make first analyses relevant for Task 5.1 in EMBRIC,

which involves a characterisation of EMBRIC research centres Territorial Embedding.

With this in mind the training included mentoring to be able to produce a series of

original maps specifically designed for answering strategic issues regarding thematic

priorities and patterns of collaboration.

Antoine Schoen provides an introduction to scientometrics

Participants received a step-by-step demonstration of how to use the CorTexT/Risis

Platform: database upload and parsing, Terms extraction, Statistics and demography

of entities, socio-semantic analysis. The training course followed a learning-by-doing

approach of using the various potentialities of the CorTexT/RISIS Platform, with

practical session.

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Agenda

09h30

- Arrival

10h00 – 11h00 : General introduction

- General presentation why CorText is relevant for EMBRIC (Douglas Robinson)

(15mins)

- Tour de table and feedback on the pp2-EMBRC maps where relevant (15mins)

- Presentation of CorText and RISIS (Marc Barbier/Antoine Schoen) (15mins)

11h00 – 12h00 : Presentation of the web-based Cortext platform

- Arrival of Coffee

- The logics and process of data gathering, cleaning and preparation (Antoine

Schoen)

- Examples of using three CorText scripts with the processed data:

× Corpus Explorer

× Demography

× Analysis (Networks)

12h00 – 13h00 : Practical session 1

- Creating a Cortext account (All participants)

- Uploading data (All participants)

- First visualisation (keyword - keyword) (All participants)

13h00 – 14h00

Lunch

14h00 – 16h00 : Practical session 2

- Working session with CorText (All participants)

- Coffee arrives around 15h00

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16h00 – 17h00 : Next steps

- territorial embedding assessment workshop : beyond publications (3-5 May,

Roscoff)

- the challenge of institutional name harmonisation

- opportunities offered by RISIS

- announcement of the next training session devoted to CorText for advanced use

- final remarks and close of the meeting

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Territorial Embedding Workshop

May 3-5, 2017

Roscoff

List of Participants

Annie Audic Région Bretagne

Catherine Boyen UPMC (Roscoff)

Ibon Cancio Basque

Pierre Colas UPMC (Roscoff)

Davide Di Cioccio SZN

Arnt Fløysand UiB

Stig-Erik Jakobsen UiB

Georgios Kotoulas HCMR

Tiago Magalhaes CCMAR

Alistair Main USTAN

Birgit Oppmann FVB

Nicolas Pade MBA

Douglas Robinson UPEM

Antoine Schoen UPEM

Randi Taxt UiB

Nathalie Turque UPMC (Banyuls)

Eric Vandenbroucke

Technopôle Brest

Iroise

Antonio Villanueva Vigo

Red: WP5 core group members

Blue : External guests

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Wednesday 3 May

MORNING

WP5 core group meeting

• Welcome by Pierre Colas

• Where we stand in WP5

Antoine Schoen (Task 5.1), Arnt Fløysand & Stig-Erik Jakobsen (Task 5.2)

and Douglas Robinson (Task 5.3) presented the slides that they prepared for

the EMBRIC mid-term review in Brussels.

• Preparation of the G.A. in Faro (Sept. 2017)

It was decided to present a poster describing the methodology of the territorial

embedding analysis of research centers (with a first general view on the

analysis). Individual posters for each research centers could be shown in the

2018 G.A.

In Faro, a second poster on the analysis of TT practices (UiB survey) could be

shown.

• Advisory Board comments on WP5

Pierre Colas presented the comments issued by the Advisory Board on WP5,

during their first meeting (Paris, March 2017). Further to these comments, P.

Colas briefly introduced open innovation concepts, and presented the Deltares

company and the Columbus EU project. He then presented a reminder of the

IP scenarios collected during the G.A. in Naples (oct. 2016). It was decided to

introduce the concepts of open innovation and open IPR policies during the

next G.A. in Faro, and to present how they could be applied within EMBRIC.

• Links with PROGRESS-TT

Pierre Colas summarized the recent Skype meetings that were held with

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Andrea Basso (coordinator of PROGRESS-TT), and that identified two ideas

of collaboration (presented in a short document sent to the core group). The

core group voiced no opposition against Andrea’s proposition to analyse the

typology and geography of investors in the marine biotechnology sector, but

most people are not willing or able to dedicate resources (time, staff) to this

project. The core group expressed a good interest in the second idea, which is

to use our community to advertise patent / knowhow licensing opportunities for

IP objects that have not been exploited yet. Different modalities of

implementation were discussed (use of BaseCamp to upload patent

application front pages, “live pitch” of patents through multi-channel skype

meetings, …). Discussions with Andrea Basso will be pursued, and

propositions will be presented during the G.A. meeting in Faro.

Wednesday 3 May

AFTERNOON

Plenary meeting

• Welcome by Pierre Colas

• Where we stand with the territorial embedding analysis (TEA) – �

Antoine Schoen & Douglas Robinson�

• Characterising economic aspects (contracts)

• Results of the TT survey – Arnt Fløsand and Stig-Erik Jakobsen

UiB presented a first, partial analysis of the TT survey they have designed.

They will present their work in a forthcoming meeting in Dublin (June 2017).

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Thursday 4 May

MORNING

Plenary meeting

• Strategic importance of EU projects in marine biology and biotechnology –

Catherine Boyen (UPMC). Catherine presented an insight into European

marine networks, with a focus on Euromarine regional and national activities.

She advocated these networks in their ability to gain visibility and impact in a

very complex landscape.

• Characterizing Science (Projects and Publications)- Antoine Schoen &

Douglas Robinson. The importance of normalizing institution names was

explained and illustrated with the EMBRC France case study. Participants

were enthusiastic about mobilising CorText and other opportunities within

RISIS for further exploration of each centre's publications (suggesting a further

training session on CorText for advanced applications). In addition, interest in

exploring and comparing each centre's European Project activities through

RISIS was voiced. Therefore, UPEM will explore options to support these

further training opportunities based on the EMBRIC partners demands and

interest.

• Political aspects

Annie Audic (Higher education and Innovation, Région Bretagne) and Eric

Vandenbroucke (Head of Technopôle Brest Iroise) presented the regional /

local socio-economic and innovation landscape, and the Campus Mondial de

la Mer (a clustering initiative in western Brittany in marine sciences and

technologies). The importance and impact of marine biology research

institutes such as the Station Biologique de Roscoff for regional innovation

landscapes was discussed.

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• Roscoff site visit

Pierre Colas briefly presented the Station Biologique de Roscoff and the Blue

Valley project (a marine biotechnology park in Roscoff). Then, participants

visited the marine biological resource center (guided by Ian Probert) and the

multi-purpose building in Blue Valley (where Algolife, a public/private

collaborative project on macro-algae, was presented by Robert Larocque).

Local beers were then tasted on a beautiful, sunny beach in Blue Valley.

Friday 5 May

MORNING

• TEA of training and societal activities

Douglas Robinson led a discussion to determine the content of the analysis

that will be performed on the training activities of research centers and on their

societal activities (i.e. their interactions and impacts on society and political

authorities). A compromise was found between asking for a reasonable

amount of data (sometimes difficult to collect) and obtaining meaningful,

informative content that shed light on territorial embedding of research

centers.

• END OF WORKSHOP

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