FELLOWSHIP EXCHANGE PROGRAM

TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER

To encourage exchanges of good practices between France and the USA

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Embassy of France in the United StatesO�ce for Science and Technology

TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER:France-USA Exchange Program

Technology Transfer between academia and industry has an increasing role in France and in the US. In this perspective, the Office for Science and Technology - Embassy of France in the United States - has launched in 2008 an exchange program dedicated to managers of technology transfer entitled:

«Technology Transfer Fellowship Exchange Program»

Since 2006, exchanges between French and American specialists of tech-nology transfer have increased:

USA to France France to USA

David Gulley, Illinois University - Chicago Isabelle Coquilleau, Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris

Kirsten Leute, Standford Cécile Tharaud, INSERM Transfer - Paris

Karin Immergluck, UCSF – San Francisco Emanuelle Pascolo, AP-HP - Paris

Frederic Farina, CALTECH Frédérique Souq, Gravit - Grenoble

Christian Vincent, CEA - Paris

Romain Marlange, CEA - Paris

In order to give a stronger frame to these exchanges, this program is aimed at senior managers from universities, research labs who want to improve their competencies and to share their experience in terms of technology trans-fer. Beneficiaries of the program will be welcomed into a structure which provi-des them access to an office in the Technology Transfer department for several weeks (up to 3 months) in order to exchange good practices and to work on concrete examples. The Office of Science and Technology and the Technology Transfer Department will precise the modalities of the stay in terms of accommo-dation considering the fact that a fix grant is given to each participant in addition to its salary.

Thus managers will have opportunity to develop new skills that they will share within the French community. The host structure can in return benefit from the experience of a senior manager with a completely different culture of techno-logy transfer management.

At the end of these different missions, a benchmark of French and Ame-rican practices will be developed and made available to the entire technology

transfer community.