1. Ministry of Science, Innovation and Higher Education The Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation The Danish innovation system and the Industrial PhD Programme - a brief overview

2. Ministry of Science, Innovation and Higher Education The Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation The Danish innovation system – major funding bodies

3. Ministry of Science, Innovation and Higher Education The Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation The Danish Council of Technology and Innovation – focus areas

4. Ministry of Science, Innovation and Higher Education The Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation Main project funding programmes Innovation voucher – subsidy for SME first time purchase of R&D Innovation consortia – large project collaborations between industry and public sector knowledge institutions Innovation assistant – subsidy for SME university graduate employment Industrial PhD

5. Ministry of Science, Innovation and Higher Education The Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation The Danish Industrial PhD Programme

6. Ministry of Science, Innovation and Higher Education The Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation The Danish Industrial PhD Programme An Industrial PhD is a three-year research project and PhD education with an industrial focus The Industrial PhD student is employed by a private sector company and enrolled at a university The student must be employed in a Danish company branch, but the university can be located anywhere in the world The student has two main supervisors – one at the university and one at the company

7. Ministry of Science, Innovation and Higher Education The Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation Aims of the Programme To educate PhDs within industrially applied research To further growth in the private sector by facilitating cooperation between enterprises and universities To further knowledge sharing between enterprises and universities

8. Ministry of Science, Innovation and Higher Education The Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation Subsidies The company receives a monthly wage subsidy of approximately half of the student’s salary The host university receives a subsidy to cover academic supervision and other expenses Subsidies are available for stays at non-Danish research institutions

9. Ministry of Science, Innovation and Higher Education The Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation The student is only allowed to work on the project in the company The student must divide his/her time roughly equally between the company and university, working on the same project at both places The Industrial PhD education is a full-time job Company must pay back subsidies if it breaks off the project without due cause Restrictions

10. Ministry of Science, Innovation and Higher Education The Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation Intellectual property rights Commonly established guidelines and laws on IPR have been made part of the formal Guidelines for the Industrial PhD Programme: Act on employee inventions Act on inventions at public research institutions - PhD thesis must be public - Usual approach is to take out patents before thesis

11. Ministry of Science, Innovation and Higher Education The Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation The programme is regulated by the Danish act on PhD education Industrial PhD projects must conform to regulations for normal PhD projects At graduation, the university issues a formal PhD degree The Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation also issues an Industrial PhD certificate An Industrial PhD education is a formal PhD education

12. Ministry of Science, Innovation and Higher Education The Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation Company effects Independent impact analysis carried out in 2010 Extensive data base for analysis possible due to long life of programme and high level of government surveillance in Denmark Internationally unmatched quality level of statistics

13. Ministry of Science, Innovation and Higher Education The Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation

14. Ministry of Science, Innovation and Higher Education The Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation

15. Ministry of Science, Innovation and Higher Education The Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation

16. Ministry of Science, Innovation and Higher Education The Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation

17. Ministry of Science, Innovation and Higher Education The Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation Project examples Company: Arwos Forsyning Project: Basins for reducing effects of rainwater conditioned emissions on recipients - processes, efficiency and method development Company: Orbicon A/S Project: Environmental Assessment of Sewage Sludge Management – Focusing on Sludge Treatment in Reed Bed Systems Company: Aquaporin A/S Project: Biomimetic polymeric membranes for water treatment

18. Ministry of Science, Innovation and Higher Education The Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation More information www.erhvervsphd.dk www.industrialphd.dk Contact: Head of Section Klaus Ammitzbøll at kamm@fi.dk, tel. +45 7231 8418 Assistant principal clerk Susanne Andersen at suan@fi.dk, tel. +45 7231 8420