Program Third Annual Conference ASTP
Prague 2002

 

Thursday, 30 May

Registration Desk open from 08.30

 

09.00 – 10.30            Plenary

 

                                        Opening and Welcome

 

09.00                        David Owen, President of ASTP Opening

 

09.05                        Benedicte Callan, Administrator Division of Science and Technology Policy & Biotechnology Unit

                                OECD & David Owen, President of ASTP, Surveying Technology Transfer in Europe

 

09.45                        Janet Scholz, President AUTM, Technology Transfer in the USA and Canada

 

10.15                        Forum Discussion

 

10.30 – 11.00            Break

 

11.00 – 12.45              Parallel 

 

I                               licensing:    Valuation

 

                                Life Science: Ron Johnson, Chief Financial Officer, Biogenetic Ventures, USA

                                ICT: Philip Deville, CEO of CD Technicom, Belgium

                                  - risk adjusted DCF

                                  - comparing similar technologies

                                  - capturing Value at different stages

 

II                              LICENSING:    Marketing

 

                                 Antonio Martinez, Managing Director, Inno AG, Germany

                                   - business Models

                                   - approaches to identify industrial partners

                                   - criteria to select industrial partners

                                   - technology brokers, are they useful ?

 

                                Jens Damsgaard, Business Development Manager, Riso National Laboratory, Denmark

                                Marketing strategies organised at national level: the Danish approach

                                   - pro’s and con’s

                                   - electronic brokerage

        

12.45 – 13.45            Lunch

 

13.45 – 15.00            Parallel  

 

I.                              licensing:    Legal Issues

                          

                                Karen Hersey, Senior Counsel for Intellectual Property, Massachusetts Institute of

                                Technology, and past president of AUTM, USA

                                Scope of License, access to improvements, sublicensing, royalties and other

                                considerations, ownership and management of IPR, representation, warranties and

                                liabilities, diligence, termination and assignment

 

II.                            Enhancing the Value of a portfolio

 

                                       Jim Roberts, VP & Global Director Technology Acquisition, Electronics, Engineering and

                                Information Technologies, BTG International Inc.

                                  - enhancing real and perceived value of portfolios

                                  - enhancing patent and technology portfolios

                                  - for-cost and no-cost portfolio enhancement

                                  - maximizing the return on investment

                                  - case studies

 

15.00 – 15.15            Break

 

15.15 – 16.30            Parallel 

 

I.                             LICENSING:    Case studies and model clauses

 

                                Morag Macdonald, Partner and head of International IP group Bird & Bird, United

                                Kingdom

                                Pitfalls in license agreements, tips for drafts and clauses

 

II.                            Conflict of interest

 

                                Nick Winterton, Executive Director of the Medical Research Council, United Kingdom

 

16.30 – 16.45            Break

 

16.45 – 18.00            General Assembly  (ASTP members only)

 

18.00 – 19.30            Cocktail               

 

19.45                        Social Program      ( Optional)

 

 

Friday, 31 May

 

 

09.00 – 10.00           Plenary

                                

09.00                       THE ROLE OF THE UNIVERSITY IN THE INNOVATION PROCESS

 

                                Koenraad Debackere, Managing Director of Research & Development, Catholic University

                                Leuven, Belgium

                             

10.00 – 10.30            Break

 

10.30 – 12.00            Plenary

 

 I.                            UNIVERSITY START UPS:    University versus VC approaches

                               

                                Gabor Lamm, Managing Director EMBLEM Technology Transfer GmbH, Germany

                                Jeremy Reffin, Director  Apax Partners Ltd, United Kingdom

                                Assessing the start-up idea

                                    - technology and IPR assessment

                                    - case studies of successes and failures

                                Raising money

                                    - sources (angels, FFF, VC, own funds, government grants, warrants, convertibles)

                                    - term sheet pitfalls during and after raising money

 

12.00 – 13.00            Lunch

 

13.00 – 14.30            Parallel

 

I.                              UNIVERSITY START UPS:    Basic Principles    

 

                                Simon Barnes, Lecturer Entrepreneurship, Imperial College Management school,

                                United Kingdom & Investment Advisor, GIMV, Belgium

                                    - business plan

                                    - management

                                    - founders, institute and VC

                                    - transfer or license IPR

                                    - equity or royalty

                                    - cap tables

 

II.                             UNIVERSITY START UPS:    Shareholder agreements: Terms & Conditions

 

                                 Jeff Skinner, Commercial Director UCLv, United Kingdom

                                 Robert Zegelaar, Senior Principle Atlas Venture, United Kingdom

                                     - anti-dilution protection

                                     - floatation preference

                                     - liquidation preference

                                     - exit preference

                                     - board seats

 

14.30 – 14.45            Break

 

14.45-16.30               Plenary

 

14.45                        New MODELS FOR GLOBAL Partnership in research and development

 

              Johan Van Helleputte, Vice President ASTP and Vice President Strategic Development

              IMEC, Belgium

                                     - why partnering ?

                                     - how to partner ?

 

15.30                        Forum Discussion with Janet Scholz and Karen Hersey

 

16.30                        Reception & closure