1. Introducing
Knowledge Transfer
@ CERN
Dr. Zoe Lawson

2. Outline Knowledge Transfer (KT) in context KT; what and why @ CERN?
CERN’s KT modes
CERN’s technology domains
Benefits of working with CERN

3. Outline Knowledge Transfer (KT) in context KT; what and why @ CERN?
CERN’s KT modes
CERN’s technology domains
Benefits of working with CERN

4. The electric light bulb
- Historic example of knowledge transfer – the electric light bulb
- Most important invention since discovery of fire
- Modern device is the result of 140 years of continuous improvements and innovations on Edison’s original device

5. improved quality of life
economic growth
supply/demand for research outputs
human capital
improved quality of life
new technologies
policies/practices
The correlation between scientific research and improved quality of life is known
4 major mechanisms that this occurs
- Has enormous potential to produce both disruptive innovations and continuous improvements

6. Maximising the likelihood that CERN inventions make it from the lab and into society
Raison d’être for CERN’s Knowledge Transfer Group

7. Outline Knowledge Transfer (KT) in context KT; what and why @ CERN?
CERN’s KT modes
CERN’s technology domains
Benefits of working with CERN

8. What does KT mean for CERN?

9. positive force for societal benefit
centre of excellence
sharing of technology
Main motivation for CERN is positive social good
Also promoting the sharing of innovations and ideas

10. Model of KT at CERN
2 main methods of dissemination of CERN innovations; open and protected
Open like open source software & hardware
Protected like patents, where necessary

11. - 2015 data show that majority of KT agreements at CERN were with industry/companies

12. Based on CERN’s core research

13. accelerators CERN core research domains ICT detectors
Originally developed to run ​CERN document server (managing over 1,000,000 records)
detectors

14. Outline Knowledge Transfer (KT) in context KT; what and why @ CERN?
CERN’s KT modes
CERN’s technology domains
Benefits of working with CERN

16. KT modes tech licencing business incubation R&D collaboration
spin-off companies
open source software & hardware
training
KT modes

17. Business Incubator Centres of CERN Technologies
Austria France Finland Greece Italy Netherlands Norway Spain UK
BICs are for small and start-up companies to grow their technology by using CERN’s knowledge & expertise to solve problems & create new technologies/markets
Despite being a high-tech particle physics lab, we cannot be in 9 different places simultaneously and we work with national partners to deliver the BICs
STFC in UK; access to BIC, 40K for prototyping/market research,
For all BICs, CERN provides 40 hours of free consultancy and preferential access to CERN IP

18. CERN Open Hardware Licence
A legal framework to facilitate knowledge exchange across the electronic design community.
The CERN OHL was created to govern the use, copying, modification and distribution of hardware design documentation, and the manufacture and distribution of products.

19. CERN spin-off companies
Free software for running a digital library/document repository on the web
Document classification, indexing, curation, dissemination
Diverse content types; articles, books, journals, photos, videos
CERN spin-off companies
Originally developed to run ​CERN document server (managing over 1,000,000 records)
TIND provides services around Invenio
Set up in 2013 and now counts Caltech, WTO and the UN library among its clients

20. The KT Fund Support & development for KT activities @ CERN
Projects must have applications in domains outside high-energy physics
Must be based on a CERN technology
Proposals are submitted and applicants are invited to present their project to the selection committee
Usually two deadlines per calendar year

21. Outline Knowledge Transfer (KT) in context KT; what and why @ CERN?
CERN’s KT modes
CERN’s technology domains
Benefits of working with CERN

22. CERN Technology Domains Cryogenics HVAC Vacuums Magnets
Superconductivity
Metrology
Manufacturing & Mechanical Processes
Detectors
Electronics
Microelectronics
ICT
Industrial Controls & Simulations
Materials
Beam Components & Systems
Radio Frequency Technology
Radiation Protection
Physics for Biology & Chemistry
Testing Facilities
CERN
Technology Domains

24. Physics for Biology & Chemistry
Microelectronics
Detectors
Physics for Biology & Chemistry
ICT
Cryogenics
Medipix – a photon-counting particle detector; counted digitally in pixels, allowing images to be created
B-RAD – radiation detection meter working in the presence of a strong magnetic field
MEDICIS radiation-hard robot – a shuttle that transports irradiated materials for extraction of radioisotopes for medicine
ROOT – software framework to deal with big data processing, statistical analysis, visualization & storage
Kryolize - software tool for sizing the minimum discharge area of a safety protection device

25. Outline Knowledge Transfer (KT) in context KT; what and why @ CERN?
CERN’s KT modes
CERN’s technology domains
Benefits of working with CERN

26. Outputs of the world’s leading scientific research institute
Research-developed and experimentally-validated technologies
World-class infrastructures and facilities
Possibility of using CERN labels for your branding and marketing

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- We are always open to hearing new ideas from both inside and outside CERN