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Innovations, patents, spin-off companies, negotiations, academia-industry interface
WEEK 20 of 2010 (Preiliminary dates, start on Monday, 17 th May at 10 a.m., Genetics House), dead-line for registration: 1st May, fee: 2.500 SEK, 3 points (No costs for geneco-students!)
Venue:
Genetics
House Auditorium, GA (Sölvegatan 29, Lund), Biologihuset
Lecture Hall,
LH (Sölvegatan 35), Ideon
FOCUS:
What is an innovation within molecular bio-sciences, how can we protect and commercialize it? What is a patent? How to approach an investor or a large company to get support for innovations and research ideas? What are a biotech spin-off and the financial valley of death? Does my project contain results which are worth patenting and can be “offered/sold” to an industry partner?
Day 1:
10.15 am – 4 pm, GA,
Crash course on intellectual
property rights: how and what to protect of biotech innovations.
Lectures and exercises, Pernille Winding Gojkovic & Peter Holm (Patent
Office Hoeiberg A/S, Copenhagen), am and pm (5 X 45’)
Day 2:
10.15 am – noon, GA,
From academic research to patents and spin-off
companies: case story on deoxyribonucleoside kinases, Birgitte
Munch-Petersen (2 X 45’),
1.15 - 3 pm: ZGene: a spin-off company, Zoran
Gojkovic (2 X 45’), enzyme technology in synthesis of anti-cancer drugs,
homework: read the corresponding patents
Day 3:
10.15 am - 4 pm, LH,
Bridge between industry and academia, negotiations, license
agreements, practical exercises, Niels E. Nielsen (Copenhagen
University, Denmark) (5 X 45’)
Day 4:
9 – 10 am:
Visit to IDEON Science Park, Nils Alwalls conference room in GAMMA, Sölvegatan
41, on LU campus, Hans Möller (1 X 45’)
at 1 pm, GA:
Academia-Industry Interface (financial aspect, start-ups etc.)
1 – 1.45 pm:
Financing possibilities for inventors Helena Ljusberg
(helena.ljusberg@luinnovation.lu.se, LU Innovation) – Bridging the
financial “valley of death” I, and Anna Christerson
(anna.christerson@teknopol.se, Teknopol AB) – Bridging the financial
“valley of death” II
2 – 3.30 pm:
Start-up, spin-off companies and
incubators Christine Widstrand (Christine.Widstrand@luab.lu.se , LUAB)
- Start-up companies from Lund University and Evy Lundgren-Åkerlund
(evy@lundbioinkubator.se, Lund Bioincubator) Stimulation of
entrepreneurship, and Lennart Gisselsson (lennart.gisselsson@phiab.se,
Phase Holographic Imaging AB) Pros and Cons of Working for Start-Ups.
Day 5:
11.15am – noon, GA,
GMO problematic (Anna Tunlid, 1 X
45’),
1.15 – 3 pm: analysis of the Tuesday patents, conclusions,
mini-test and presentation of Ph.D. student projects (with emphasis on
innovations), JP (2 X 45’). Course evaluation.
Organizer
Jure Piskur jure.piskur@cob.lu.se
Last modified 6 Jun 2010
Jure Piskur
professor
Molecular Cell Biology
Phone:
+46 46-2228373
E-mail:
Jure.Piskur@biol.lu.se