Program Munich 2001

Second Annual Conference ASTP

Thursday 31^st May

09.30 – 11.00            Opening (Plenary)

09.30                        David Owen, President Association of European Science & Technology Transfer Professionals (ASTP)

                                Welcome

09.40                       Sir Dai Rees, Immediate past President European Science Foundation and former CEO Medical                                  Research Council (MRC)

                                Commercial perspectives for the Science Base in Europe

10.00                        Terry A. Young, President Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM)

                                American Approaches towards Technology Transfer

10.20                        Fotis C. Kafatos, Director General European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)

                                Experiences with Technology Transfer in EMBL, a Multicultural European Research Laboratory             

10.40                        Forum Discussion

11.00 – 11.30            Break

11.30 – 13.00            Surveying Technology Transfer in Europe and the USA (Plenary)

11.30                        David Owen, President ASTP

                                ASTP Survey: Preliminary Findings of the First Survey

11.50                        Lori Pressman, chair AUTM Survey, Statistics and Metrics Committee

                                Experiences with Organising Academic Facts & Figures in the USA and Canada

12.10                       Manfred Schmiemann, Principal Administrator Directorate General Enterprise – Innovation Policy Unit,                                 European Commission

                               The Importance of University Facts and Figures for European Innovation Policy

12.30                        Forum Discussion

13.00 – 14.00            LUNCH

14.00 – 15.30              Parallel- sessions

I                               Perspectives of University Seed & VC-Funds

                                Ederyn Williams, Director, Warwick Ventures, University of Warwick

                                Perspectives of University Seed- and VC-funds

                                Ludo Deferm, Vice-President Business-Development, IMEC

                               Can collaboration between R&D Centers, VC's and Universities result in an added value ?

II                             Supra University TechTransfer (Parallel) 

                               Rudy Dekeyser, Vice-General Director, Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology VIB

                              Joint University Research & Exploitation

                               Bernhard Hertel, Managing Director, Garching Innovation GmbH, Max Planck Gesellschaft

                               Supra-university Tech Transfer in a private technology Transfer Office

15.30 – 16.00            BREAK

16.00 – 17.30               General Assembly ASTP (ASTP members only)

17.30 – 19.00            Cocktail  (sponsored by BTG)

19.00                         Social Program (Optional)

Friday 1^st June

09.30 – 11.00            Valuation of Technology (Parallel)

I                                ICT          

                                 Mike Carr, Director of Technology Acquisition British Telecom

                                Valuation and Value Creation of University Technologies

                                Rudolf Haggenmuller, Professor at Ludwigs Maximilians University Munchen & Software Offensive                                  Bayern

                                Identification of valuable ICT technologies in Universities

II                                      Bio-technology

                                 Martin Sandford, Director of Operations Health, Medical & BioTechnologies, BTG

                                 European Experiences with Bio-technology Valuation

                                 Batsheva Elran, General Partner Concord Ventures, Israël

                                 Bio-Technology Valuation in Israel

11.00 – 11.30            BREAK

11.30 – 12.30            Parallel

I                               University Patent Law 

                                Marie-Christine Janssens, Professor Intellectual Property Rights at the University of Leuven

                               Comparisons and differences on University Patenting within Europe

II                             Strategic Alliances with Universities

                               Jan Raaijmakers, Director New Compounds, Health Outcome & Healthcare Solutions Glaxo Wellcome,                                 Professor University of Utrecht

                               The Strategic Alliance of a Pharmaceutical company with a University

12.30 – 13.30            LUNCH

13.30 – 15.30               Internal Organisation of University Technology Transfer (Plenary)

13.30                        Carlès Sola, Association of European Universities & Rector Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

                                The Role of the University Management in Organizing Technology Transfer

14.00                        Thomas Gering, Fraunhofer Patentstelle, Managing Director Technology Exploitation and Licensing

                                 Positioning of the Technology Transfer Office: For Profit or for the Benefit of Society

14.30                        Forum Discussion with Sir Dai Rees, Carlès Sola and Representatives of Innovative TTO’s

                                (David Owen, Bernhard Hertel, Thomas Gering)

15.30                        Reception & Closure