Idiap Research Institute Centre du Parc P.O Box 592 CH 1920 Martigny +41 27 721 77 11 http://www.idiap.ch Building bridges between IT research and industry Congress Cluj March 20 th, 2015 Sergio Calabretta Idiap Research Institute Industrial Affairs Manager
Plan Building bridges between IT research and industry a running experience Idiap Research Institute Profile and organisation, mission Funding policy Technology Transfer Tools and supporting organisation The CTI mechanisms Swiss Confederation fostering innovation and excellence Instruments Partnerships The Ark Foundation Canton du Valais promoting Technology and Excellence Streams and technological sites Funding IdeArk, an example 2
Idiap Profile Statutes (1991): Independent, not-for-profit, Research Foundation Areas of activity: multilingual and multimodal interaction and multimedia information management, including human behavior modeling Academic affiliation: EPFL (+Joint Development Plan, since July 2008) and University of Geneva, and Budget: over 10+ MCHF Staff: 100+ (+50 across 16 spin-offs) Host institution (2001-2013): National Centre of Competence in Research on Interactive Multimodal Information Management (IM2, www.im2.ch ) Facilities: Centre du Parc in Martigny (2500 m2), Martigny. 2 new buildings doubling capacity (available 2017+) 3
Idiap Our Missions Research Education Joint $$$ Technology Transfer Development Plan (JDP) Collaboration with multiple EU universities 4
Idiap Knowledge / Technology Transfer Education and knowledge transfer: >110 high-quality publications/year Teaching activities: 10 courses (9 postgraduate + 1 MS level) at EPFL + internal Average of 35-40 PhD students/year 23 open source libraries: http://www.idiap.ch/technology-transfer/open-sourcesoftware 16 international data libraries: https://www.idiap.ch/dataset Technology transfer: Collaboration with industries (Thales, Samsung, NEC, Facebook, Google, Interpol, Verint, IBM, etc) Collaboration with startups and SMEs IdeArk technology incubator (www.ideark.com) Maintaining an entrepreneurship spirit: Maintenance of a technology portfolio, encourage invention disclosures, patents, ICC, etc. 5
Idiap Funding public vs competitive Public funding: Accredited (and co-funded) by the Federal Government, State of Valais, and City, as part of the «ETH Strategic Domain» 40% of total funding Competitive funding: 60% of total funding (incl. 10% related to tech transfer activities) Active in numerous research programs/projects (CH, EU, US, industry) 6
Idiap Funding 4 Funding Pillars 1. Public funding: Federal State (VS) + City (Martigny) All together, currently represents about 40% of the total funding 2. Sponsored Research (CH and international) Swiss NSF Multiple EU projects (as coordinator or partner) US projects (DARPA, DTO) 3. Industrial Support (including start-ups) Research contracts with industry (Qualcomm, Nokia, Logitech, NEC, Yahoo, NTT, Samsung, HP, etc) Corporate sponsorship program CTI projects involving industries, including Idiap start-ups 4. International visitor program Funded international visitors: e.g., through EU Marie-Curie grants International research programs 7
Idiap Organization Chart July 2014 8
Idiap Permanent Scientific Staff Sylvain Calinon Ronan Collobert Sébastien Marcel Andrei Popescu-Belis Michael Liebling Barbara Caputo Phil Garner Jean-Marc Odobez François Fleuret Alessandro Vinciarelli Petr Motlicek Mathew Magimai Doss Daniel Gatica-Perez 12
Idiap Technology Business Intelligence 13
CTI Presention Introduction to the process and instruments EPFL, 2014.09.25 Robert van Kommer, CTI IM 14
CTI mission Mandated by the Confederation, the CTI strengthens the innovative power of Switzerland's economy It funds and coaches joint projects by industry and higher education institutions to bring innovative products to the market. It supports start-ups and hence the creation of new jobs for highly qualified employees. It encourages the transfer of knowledge and technology between Swiss universities and companies. Innovations as the driving force of Switzerland's economy Switzerland is a small country with few natural resources. It has one of the world's most liberal economies and is highly export-oriented. It earns almost every other franc abroad. Swiss companies compete with companies from around the world. To succeed in this competition, they have to bring innovative products to the market. Robert van Kommer EPFL, 25.9.2014 15
CTI three main instruments to foster innovation Project Promotion Joint projects between industry and universities, innovation cheque Start-up and Entrepreneurship Training modules, coaching, Start-up label, access to investors KTT-Support - National Thematic Networks (NTN) - Platforms - Innovation Mentors (IM) ~85% of the total budget ~10% of the total budget ~5% of the total budget Robert van Kommer EPFL, 25.9.2014 16
Special characteristics of CTI funding instruments No direct funding of firms: only Swiss academic partners receive CTI funding Bottom-up choice of topics by industry and academic partners Time to market: decision within 4-6 weeks CTI works in a subsidiary manner, i.e. the measures have a complementary effect Top-down choice only in the case of key industries and topics (e.g. Medtech, TopNano21, Cleantech / Energy) Robert van Kommer EPFL, 25.9.2014 17
CTI instruments in the innovation chain Robert van Kommer EPFL, 25.9.2014 18
CTI Partners in the innovation process Robert van Kommer EPFL, 25.9.2014 19
CTI R&D Projects: Partners in the innovation process Robert van Kommer EPFL, 25.9.2014 20
Selection Criteria Robert van Kommer EPFL, 25.9.2014 21
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The Ark Strategy «to build the technological Valais of the future» Promoting innovation Bringing together competences Strengthening competitiveness Supporting Economic growth The Foundation has been created in 2004 by the state of Valais 23
The Ark 3 fields and 6 technological sites Life Science ICT Engineering Science 24
The Ark The 6 technological sites in Valais, incl. Idiap 25
The Ark Organisation 26
The Ark Business Model Funding sources Funding sources Confederation, State of Valais, regions, communities European Union Private Licences/patents Return of subsidies General Services The Ark s funds Services management Accelerator Innovation Sites management TeleArk TechnoArk IdeArk Incubator Marketing BlueArk PhytoArk BioArk Projects Scouting or pilot project Building and realization of «business innovation» projects Start-up incubation or development incubation Others specific projects Long term results Creation of wealth and employment Creation of new companies 27
The Ark Funding example (2007 2012) Funding Sources 31.3 mio CHF 471 projects Swiss Confederation State of Valais Funds The Ark 29 30 % Regions Communities Loterie Romande 37 47 % 1211 % 139 % 9% 3 % Projekte Projekte Projects Projets Others 28
IdeArk Incubator Conference recording, indexing and online distribution Biometric authentication to replace your login/lockscreen passwords Financial decision-making tools Visual effects, 3D character animation and motion capture Plug & Play solution in energy management for individuals Cloud-based, high-quality, realtime transcription of conversational speech into text Audiosearch Automatic keyword spotting to tag and retrieve recorded (skype) audio conversations 29
Sergio Calabretta Technology Transfer & Industrial Relations Manager +41 (0)79 706 20 30 sergio.calabretta@idiap.ch 30