Apresentação de Timothy Dafforn, Professor Titular de Biotecnologia, Universidade de Birmingham

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Seminário British Council de Educação. Impacto e tendências da internacionalização da educação superior - 29 de outubro de 2013

Transcript of Apresentação de Timothy Dafforn, Professor Titular de Biotecnologia, Universidade de Birmingham

Academic-Industrial

Engagement

Professor Tim R. Dafforn, School of Biosciences

Date

The Central Aim

Innovation

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$ $ $

The Economy

Intellectual

Property

Grants

Enhancing Academic Innovation

Incentivising applied research

– Influencing institutions

– Influencing individuals

Influencing Institutions

Research Excellence Framework (REF)

– A government assessment of

Universities

– Governs central funding (£1.4bn 2008-9)

– 2008 assessment based on

Academic excellence (75%)

Academic environment (20%)

Esteem (5%)

Influencing Institutions

– 2013 assessment based on

Academic excellence (65%)

Academic environment (15%)

IMPACT (20%)

– 2020 assessment…

IMPACT (20%)

Academic excellence (↓65%)

Enabling Entrepreneurship

Promoting Rewards

Training

Removing barriers

Influencing individuals

Research Funding

Academic Promotion

Personal Reward

BBSRC Innovation & Skills Activities

Collaborative

Research

Collaborative

Training

People &

Information

Exchange

Commercialisation

& Development

Research Funding

Academic-commercial partnership

– Early stage (Research councils)

– Late stage (Tech. Strategy Board)

– Joint PhD studentships

Training

– Fellowships

Competitions

– Institutional and personal

Academic Promotion

Alterations in Promotion criteria

– Recognition of Entrepreneurial activities

– Development of parallel career paths

– Teaching Entrepreneurship

Training

Local and national training

– Entrepreneurial fellowships

– Knowledge transfer secondments

– “drop in” sessions

– Mentoring

Removing the barriers

Business engagement support

– Outreach

– Relationship management

– Business intelligence

Reducing bureaucracy

– Contracts

– Patent fillings

Removing the barriers

Spin-out support

– Investor “hunting”

– Business advisors

– University Investment funds

– Joint ventures

Easy access intellectual property

The Central Aim

Innovation

$

$ $ $

The Economy

Intellectual

Property

Grants