THE COLLABORATIVE

APPROACH AS A KEY FACTOR

TO ATTRACT PRIVATE

INVESTMENTS FOR RESEARCH

& INNOVATION

Paolo Gazzaniga

Milan, 2015 October 20

SUSTAIN ABILITY

DEVELOP MENT

RESEARCH

INNO VATION

INVEST MENTS

The «Solar System»

SUSTAIN ABILITY

DEVELOP MENT

INVEST MENTS

RESEARCH

INNO VATION

The «Solar System»

The evolution of the innovation paradigm

Late XIX° XX° XI°

Andy Warhol’s Factory

Thomas Edison’s Invention Factory

David Packard’s Garage

Silicon

Valley

Alsace BioValley

DARPA team that

designed and deployed

ARPANET (later called

INTERNET)

Broad Institute

PolePharma

Medicon

Valley

Alliance

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Alsace BioValley Life science cluster, founded 1996. that connects academia and companies of three countries (France, Germany, Switzerland). The main objective is the greater research cooperation between companies and academia involved in the life science sectors, including pharmacology, biotechnology, nanotechnology, medical technology, chemistry and agricultural biotechnology.

MediconValley Alliance Cluster, founded in 1997, across two countries (Denmark and Sweden), that counts a hundred companies and more than 50 service providers. It is also a gatekeeper zone to a database of 443 companies, 31 hospitals, 10 universities looking for partnering opportunities with biotech, pharmaceutical, and medtech industries.

Broad Institute Founded in 2004 is essentially an “experiment in a new way of doing science” towards large-scale scientific collaborations in genomics and chemical biology among 5 hospitals, MIT, Harvard University.

MedCity (London) describes the collaboration between the Mayor of

London and the capital's health science centres of three premier

academic institutions Imperial College London, King's College London

and University College London.

Launched in 2014 to increase collaboration between those science

universities and promote the broader “golden triangle” between

London, Cambridge and Oxford to investors. Created to augment the

UK’s position as a world leader in medical innovation, MedCity is a

unique collaboration, aiming to lead the growth of the London, Oxford

and Cambridge life sciences region on a global scale.

MedCity is funded by King's Health Partners, Imperial College Academic

Health Science Centre, UCLPartners and the Mayor of London.

TEACHINGS

1. Competition for attracting investments is more

and more a worldwide (not a local) game

2. Organization-based innovation wins on

individual innovation

3. Investments are attracted by Innovation Hubs

inside which the collaborative approach is

the rule

we run the risk to watch

investments, innovation, economic growth

from the other (poor) side of the wall

For each specialty/field:

1. map the excellences

What to do

For each specialty/field:

1. map the excellences

2. set up a network to

group them

What to do

Think about doing that for as many specialties/fields

as possible…

thanks

CONTACTS

Paolo Gazzaniga

paolo.gazzaniga@bocconialumni.it

healthcare@bocconialumni.it