Transcript Diapositiva 1

Educating the
Scientist Entrepreneur
Stefano Fantoni, SISSA Trieste
International School of Advanced Studies
dynamic
international
PhD school
scientific excellence
new initiatives
and projects
interdisciplinary
approach
english language
entreprenurial
culture
worldwide network
spin-off companies
Connecting Scientific Ideas to Market
Social Network Models
Business Models
Open Cooperative and Community
based Social Networks
Concept
Vs
Structure
Problems: security,
intellectual property,
privacy, hierarchy…
How to reach breakthrough
innovations
Short-circuiting scientists’ mindset to market needs and complexity will contribute to
radical innovations in market processes and to the generation of new scientific
paradigms.
SCIENTISTS
MANAGERS
• entrepreneurial
mindsets and
attitudes
• new approaches and
educational models
that
• enable the capacity to
understand markets
and implementation
complexity in the real
world
• learn from the
traditional scientific
approach
• learn how to follow
multiple pathways
• work with global scale
partners with
complementary skills
• better deal with
complexity by
mobilizing global social
networks
Entrepreunership: recognize opportunity!
Open, cooperative, and community based
“Business” Models
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Computer
1948 (ENIAC)
Internet
1983 (TCP/IP)
WWW
1980 (CERN)
Electronic publications
1992 (SISSA)
Citation Index => Link Ranking => Google
1996 (Stanford, PhD thesis)
Web 2.0
now
……
future
Scientists
work at knowledge borderlines
Entrepreneurs
recognize opportunities and
create new business models
DEMOCRITOS
Mission
Italian community for
computer simulation at nano
scale level.
Theoretical a numerical
support to chemistry and
physics large-scale facilities.
Ideal environment for
innovative ideas in numerical
simulations
R&D in HPC methods and
systems (parallel, cluster, and
grid computing)
Numbers
9 institutions (Universities,
laboratories)
1 office in ELETTRA laboratory
4 research activities + 1 R&D
service in IT
70 researchers (45 university
researchers)
40 PhD students and 20
postdoc
4 amministrative employee
200 years cpu time / year
>100 high impact publications
/ year
www.democritos.it
Research
Computational nanoscience
and materials engineering
Computational biochemistry,
biotechnology, and drug design
Hard and soft condensed
matter: superconductivity and
disordered systems
IT for computer simulations:
software engineering, parallel,
cluster, and grid computing
Democritos
Catalysis Material
Ethylene Epoxidation
QUANTUM ESPRESSO
a world-wide connected project…
Minneapolis
MIT, Boston
Paris Lausanne
SISSA-Democritos,Trieste
Princeton
…for materials modeling at the nanoscale….
..by computer simulations
Designing a new business
model
üThe guide-lines
• open model
• communitybased (QE)
üThe core:
• HPC/IT technologies
• materials design OS project
Scientific
community
üMarket approach
• use the community
• world-wide network
Scientific accelerator
Market
…done…and to be done..
product
evaluation
competitors
study
market
mapping
financial
analysis
extend analysis
in the future
Developed by: S. Baroni, G. Chiarotti, S. Cozzini, S. Paolini
ICT at SISSA: eLab
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in collaboration with CNR/INFM Democritos National Simulation Center
it leverages on the long standing experience in High Performance Scientific Computing
developed so far.
The term e-Science (or eScience) is used to describe computationally intensive science
that is carried out in highly distributed network environment. [from wikipedia]
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The mission
Maintaining a cutting-edge
computational infrastructure for
research groups at SISSA and
DEMOCRITOS
Plan and setup advanced solution for
scientific and technical computing
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Software engineering
Parallel computing (platforms &
algorithms)
Cluster computing (high-performance
and distributed)
Grid computing
Enable technological transfer toward
industry on the above theme
Technology and products
The activities
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Cooperating with Eurotech on
setting-up a HPC/Gridenvironment for SME in FVG
(MercurioFVG as promoter)
The proposal:
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create a collaborative environment
among research institution and
industry
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Setup of a common infrastructure
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Identify industrial technical
problems to run o on the
infrastructure
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Create “human capital”
Sissa Medialab
Sissa Medialab's scholarly publishing activities date back to the
early 1990's when, in the pre-Web era, SISSA set up the first
electronic e-print service in Europe with the Babbage archive.
Just a few years on, this was to trigger the idea of setting up
JHEP (Journal of High Energy Physics) an online-only journal
for high energy physicists that would revolutionise publishing
habits in that community.
Sissa Medialab is an active player in the arena of science
communication to the general public, using different media aimed
at different audiences, with a network of over 600 scientists.
Using the web, Sissa Medialab reaches out to the general public –
ranging from children to scientists – in order to impart scientific
knowledge in a spirit of dialogue and debate.
Lubricant molecular structure
NeuroTelemetry
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Mathew E. DIAMOND, Erik ZORZIN, Igor PERKON
SISSA - Cognitive Neuroscience Sector - Tactile Perception & Learning Laboratory
http://www.sissa.it/cns/tactile
NeuroTelemetry is a brain-computer interface
device designed at SISSA, capable of capturing
signals generated by neurons and transmitting them
via radio to a remote computer using a wireless
digital technology.
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Computer
Neuron
Fields of application:
Clinic
stimulation
Audio
technology
Qu ickT ime™ and a
TIF F (U ncom pres sed) deco mpre ssor
are nee ded t o see this pict ure.
Robotics
Health
monitoring
QuickTime™ and a
TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
*Patent Pending #PD2006A000348
promoscience
The experience of a university spin-off
University
Spin off
PRODUCT/SERVICE
DEVELOPMENT
Product prototype
Market driven customization
Product introduction to the market
Dissemination
RESEARCH
Publications
Know-how
Results
Competencies
Professors
Researchers
Students
Global company
+
Innovation centers
Public funds
Consultants
+
promoscience experience:
Competencies:
- Information Retrieval Systems
- Current Research Information
Systems
- Virtual Document Systems
- GUI Design
-…
A Project Management tool to support the
management of scientific projects
A Content Management tool for scientific
dissemination
MARKET SEGMENT
LEADERSHIP POSITION
Product marketing
Product updates
Product differentiation
?
Glance Vision Tech. Srl
PRODUCTS
Innovative morphological analysis tool
spin-off company
established in 2005
Computer Vision
& Machine Learning
application:
ROBOTICS
(e.g. frame painting)
Self-learning tool for analysis of biological images
solid scientific
background
Research as the
key factor for
competitiveness
face new problems in a
possibly original way
Lay Line Genomics
Italian private biotech company
Focus on CNS (Alzheimer’s disease) and other neurological disorders (pain)
Proprietary antibody- based technology platform constantly generating new therapeutic opportunities
Novel animal models for neurodegenerative and aging-related diseases
Pipeline of innovative compounds in advanced preclinical stage
GET TO MARKET FASTER:
FROM GENE TO ANTIBODIES
The solution for the non invasive
delivery of NGF to the brain
The therapeutic concept that NGF might be used to slow or
prevent cholinergic neuronal death in Alzheimer’s disease
(AD) is an emerging theme, probably one of the most
promising avenues to pursue.
SPLINT is LLG proprietary platform for the selection of
superior quality antibodies directly from gene
sequences, with no requirement for protein
expression, thus removing a severe bottleneck in the
procedures for antibody isolation with other existing
methods.
After having obtained the first PoC for a
non invasive delivery of NGF to the brain,
LLG has developed a proprietary form of
NGF as a viable option to cure
neurodegeneration.
SISSA-Elettra Nano Innovation
Laboratory
The Sissa-Elettra Nano Inovation Laboratory (SENIL) in
collaboration with CBM is developing breakthrough technologies
that aim at
quantitative determination
of gene expression
single cell DNA analysis
detection of protein biomarkers with
ultra high sensitivity down to the
subpicomolar concentration regime
These new technologies are based on an our ability to measure
molecular heights with unprecedented precision coupled to the ability
to nanopattern soft materials on an equally unprecedented small
scale.
Finance Portfolio Optimization
Non standard Perturbed Gaussian Model for
Portfolio Variance Optimization
Better middle term returns!
Developed by: C. Reina
Integrating Scientific Creativity,
Enterpreunership and Business
Processes
Emerging technologies in
IT, material science, biotech,
energy
idea generation and solution
identification (physics, genetics,
evolution, neurosciences)
Five key themes
Opportunity and
potential customer needs
and trends
Implementation processes
(project management, organization,
operative flow, HR, mkt, )
Entrepreneurial, leadership,
personal and team-working skills
Developed by: G. Chiarotti, M. Fuccaro, P. Focher, E. Quadrelli, A. Sfiligoj
New paradigsm needed?
[…...] the issue is whether we can succeed in
developing new strategies for combining
reductionist and holistic approaches in order to
provide a meaningful bridge between molecular
mechanism and mental processes: a true
molecular biology cognition. If this approach is
successful in the twenty first century, we may
have a new, unified, and intellectually satisfying
view of mental processes.
CELL - Thomas D. Albright, Thomas M. Jessell, Eric R. Kandel and Michael I. Posner