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
- pros and cons
- 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
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
- why partnering ?
- how to partner ?
15.30 Forum Discussion with Janet Scholz and Karen Hersey
16.30 Reception & closure