Working with industry and carving out partnerships at University of Copenhagen S

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Working with industry and carving out
partnerships at University of Copenhagen Søren
HartzFaculty director
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Copenhagen University Research and Innovation
Board(KUFIR)

• Members
• Prorector (chair)
• Leader representatives from the Universitys 8
  faculties
• Deputy director for Research and Innovation
• Aim
• Identify and pursue the University's strategic
  developments in research, innovation and business
  collaboration, and improve the organizational
  support of these areas
• Focus areas in 2011
• Co-ordination of research initiatives and
  strategies
• Collaboration with private and public sector
• External profiling of research and innovation
  activities
• Development of commercialization, applications
  for funding, etc.
• Promotion of interdisciplinary and cross
  cutting research initiatives
• External research funding lobby and improved
  rates of success
• Research infrastructure strategy and funding
  opportunities

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LIFEs business-facing goals
Business-facing reputation among students,
faculty, and companies
Coherence between faculty business-facing
strategy and departmental action plans
Maintaining and developing new industry
relationships
Educational tracks in touch with labour market
mentor programmes, trainee programmes,
industry-oriented courses
Utilisation of specific public-private funding
mechanisms
Utilisation and application of research for
benefit of society
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Business Affairs Unit ErhvervsService

• Entrance and guide to LIFE for industry
• Continuous focus on stimulating LIFE departments,
  faculty, students towards even more industry
  collaboration, knowledge-exchange, innovation,
  entrepreneurships
• Fundraising from private sources (positions,
  infrastructure)
• Support to deanship, departments, councils,
  committees, faculty regarding action plans to
  increase business-facing activities
• LIFEs Industry-collaboration barometer
• Action plans measurable succes

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KU-LIFE business strategy (1)
IBHV professors day 4. februar 2011

• 1. Input from the world around us
• Faculty advisory board, department advisory
  boards, 4 recruitment panel
• Contact programme
• Mapping of existing contacts and plan of contact
  programme at management level
• 3. Industrial PhD
• Bonus for the departments. Instrument for
  concrete projects
• 4. Industrial Postdocs
• Input from LIFE has lead to a HTF Industry-post
  doc programme

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KU-LIFE business strategy (2)
IBHV professors day 4. februar 2011

• 5. Industrial Professorships
• Mutual inspiration, practical research- and
  educational benefit for students, academic
  environments and businesses
• 6. Business relevant master projects and ECTS
  rewarding business venturesInstrument for
  specific projects
• 7. Industrial collaboration barometer
• Annual report of the facultys business
  collaborations
• at various levels
• 8. Erhvervspris awarded to a LIFE researcher
• Nominated by external parties based on
  criteriaof innovation and business collaboration

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LIFEs industry collaboration barometer - 2009
LIFEs industry collaboration is primary with
agriculture, food and biotech industry
2009 Total UC LIFE LIFE
PhDs (number) Industrial PhDs (number) 2.476 89 561 13 23 15
Cooperation agreements (number) 573 197 34
Technology transfer Commercial agreements (number) Licence income (mio. kr.) 13 5,1 6 1,4 46 27
LIFE LIFE
Masters No industry collaboration (number) Industry collaboration (number) 479 385 94 80 20
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PhD status - 2009
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An example Test for E. coli F4 resistant pigs
200.000 piglets die every year in DK because of
E. coli F4 diarré
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Another example LIFEs engagement in 2nd
generation biofuel

• New technology makes full scale processing of 2nd
  generation biofuels possible DONG plant 2009
• New process for converting oil palm residues to
  fermentable sugars and biofuels - Novozymes
• A new technology for sorting and processing of
  household waste to heat, power and biogas - Dong,
  DTU, Haldor Topsøe
• Industrial partnerships, projects and
  collaborations within bioenergy with DONG,
  Inbicon, Novozymes, Hedeselskabet, Haldor Topsoe,
  Maersk, Boeing and DLF-Trifolium.

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Analysis of LIFEs industrial collaboration
IDEAL FROM A BUSINESS POINT OF VIEW KU-LIFE
should consider business partners as a continued
relation. It is very important to stay in
contact after ending research projects
SCENARIO AT PRESENT KU-LIFE consider business
partners as supplier for single research
projects. Almost no focus on nursing relations
when the projects ends
- ReD Associates september 2010
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Future collaboration based on core competences
Institutional perception
Perception based on competences
- ReD Associates september 2010
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For further information
Faculty Director Søren Hartz
The Faculty of Life Sciences Bülowsvej 17
DK-1871 Frederiksberg C Tlf. 45 3533 2002 -
soh_at_life.ku.dk www.life.ku.dk/english