PRELIMINARY Results of the 2011 Survey of European knowledge transfer offices (KTOs)

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1 UTEN Portugal Annual Conference Knowledge Transfer Study Lisbon, 17 December 2012 PRELIMINARY Results of the 2011 Survey of European knowledge transfer offices (KTOs) Research funded by the European Commission Nordine Es-Sadki United Nations University, Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology

2 Study objectives Study funded by European Commission to provide comparable data on the knowledge transfer activities of the leading researchintensive universities and public research organisations (PROs) in Europe. Covers all member states of the European Union and associated states (Croatia, Iceland, Israel, Macedonia, Norway, Switzerland, Turkey, etc.) Presentation Nordine Es-Sadki UTEN Portugal Annual Conference Knowledge Transfer Study Lisbon

3 Research methods Four page mailed survey plus, wherever possible, collaboration with professional or national organisations that collect comparable data ASTP, RedOTRI (Spain), the UK (HEFCE), France (Reseau CURIE), Denmark (TechTrans), Portugal (UTEN). Two surveys administered by UNU-MERIT in 2011 and 2012 covering knowledge transfer activities in 2010 and 2011 respectively. Presentation Nordine Es-Sadki UTEN Portugal Annual Conference Knowledge Transfer Study Lisbon

4 Collaboration with UTEN Spring 2012 established contact with UTEN to collaborate with the main objective of decreasing the response burden of Portuguese KTOs Integrated the European Knowledge Transfer Indicators Survey (EKTIS) into the UTEN annual survey Presentation Nordine Es-Sadki UTEN Portugal Annual Conference Knowledge Transfer Study Lisbon

5 KTO characteristics

6 Percent KTOs established after 2005 by country 0,0% 10,0% 20,0% 30,0% 40,0% 50,0% 60,0% 70,0% EU 38,6% Portugal 59,4% Spain UK Germany 12,2% 21,7% 22,6% Most Portuguese KTOs relatively young compared to EU average and other countries France 55,0% Italy 66,7% Switzerland 31,3% Scandanavian countries 37,5% Presentation Nordine Es-Sadki UTEN Portugal Annual Conference Knowledge Transfer Study Lisbon

7 Size of KTOs in 2011 by country (FTE) 45,0% 40,0% 35,0% 30,0% 40,0% EU Portugal Spain France 36,7% 32,6% 32,6% 28,7% 37,5% Most Portuguese KTOs relatively smaller compared to EU average and other countries 30,1% 31,3% 25,0% 20,0% 22,0% 22,9% 19,2% 16,7% 23,3% 15,0% 11,6% 10,0% 8,3% 6,7% 5,0% 0,0% up to to to 10 more than 10 Presentation Nordine Es-Sadki UTEN Portugal Annual Conference Knowledge Transfer Study Lisbon

8 Results

9 Percent KTOs reporting patent applications by subject area, 2011 Biomedical IP most frequent and more than 33% of licensing revenue Biomedical is for biomedical inventions EU wide ICT: Computers, communication equipment and software 0,0% 10,0% 20,0% 30,0% 40,0% 50,0% 60,0% 70,0% 64,0% 61,1% 40,0% 44,4% Nanotechnology and new materials 33,3% 47,4% Low or zero carbon energy technologies 11,1% 22,0% EU Portugal Other subject areas not listed above 51,6% 66,7% Presentation Nordine Es-Sadki Knowledge Transfer Study East Mediterranean Nicosia, 03/09/2012 9

10 Distribution of licenses by type of licensee, by country ,0% 60,0% EU Portugal Spain France Most of Portuguese PROs licensees are smaller 58,8% companies (68.7%) 54,8% 50,0% 40,0% 30,0% 40,6% 25,8% 42,3% 28,1% 32,9% 38,4% 31,3% 20,0% 19,3% 19,4% 10,0% 8,2% 0,0% Start-up companies Other firms with <250 employees Firms with >250 employees Presentation Nordine Es-Sadki Knowledge Transfer Study East Mediterranean Nicosia, 03/09/

11 Performance per 1,000 research staff 25,0 20,0 15,0 10,0 5,0 0,0 17,2 20,5 10,2 9,3 8,4 11,9 6,1 5,8 EU Portugal France Spain 4,6 3,8 13,7 2,9 Portuguese PROs perform very well in creating potential commercialisation opportunities. However there is room for improvement for the use of IP by firms. Invention disclosures Patent applications Patent grants Start-ups established License agreements License income (million ) Limited to institutions that gave both outcome results (e.g. invention disclosures and research expenditures). 1,6 6,6 0,7 1,2 7,3 5,4 3,9 3,4 0,7 0,1 0,8 0,1 Presentation Nordine Es-Sadki UTEN Portugal Annual Conference Knowledge Transfer Study Lisbon

12 Further information More results will be published at the UTEN website: European results will be published at: Presentation Nordine Es-Sadki UTEN Portugal Annual Conference Knowledge Transfer Study Lisbon