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Technology Transfer Follow-up Committee
FITT
(Fostering Interregional Exchange in ICT Technology Transfer)
www.FITT-for-Innovation.eu
A committee to follow-up transfer actions
Technology transfer actions concerned:
 Startup creation projects
 Industrial partnerships with transfer of assets (license or assignment)
 Industrial partnerships with transfer of competences (expertise)
 Participation to standardization actions within a transfer action
 An open source diffusions of an important INRIA code base
 Exit solutions for open source consortium led by INRIA
Committee is advisory for the INRIA Transfer department:
 go/no go (initialization and follow-up)
 transfer strategy adoption
 asking for an opportunity/feasibility study
 allocation of ressources for maturation if needed
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A committee to follow-up transfer actions
Composition:
 3 INRIA people
 1 INRIA -Transfert
 4 senior private experts:
 two competitiveness clusters: Systematic, Minalogic,
 1 private company – Mandriva
 1 from EPFL (Switzerland)
 national agency for innovation – OSEO
When: one meeting every two months
Process:
 Template description of the project built by the researcher, TT officer and Sectoral TT Associate
(available in the FITT toolbox)
 Submission sent a few days before the meeting (no late submission)
 A collaborative tool allows the follow-up by all the staff concerned
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Template description
Three types of description:
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When & where?
 Timing
 Follow-up committee created in January 2009
 5 meetings held in 2009, 5 meetings expected in 2010
 45 transfer projects analysed in 2009
 Location
 in Paris
 organised at the national level, the committee reviews and follows up all
technology transfer operations of the eight INRIA research centres
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Who?
 Stakeholders
 Before the committee meeting: researcher(s), a regional TT officer, the
responsible of technology transfer in an application domain
 Preparation of the transfer case: file should be understandable and analysable by
the committee (no oral presentation of the case by project leader)
 During the committee meeting:
 People from INRIA: Transfer and Innovation director, Transfer Strategies manager,
Technological Development director
 IT-Translation director: specialized in start-up creation
 Private sector experts: 2 people from “Competitiveness clusters” (System@tic,
Minalogic), 1 from EPFL (CH), 1 private company CEO, 1 person from OSEO
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Pros & Cons
CON’s
PRO’s
 Transfer oriented mind
 Continuous process (no call for
projects)
 Co-design and follow-up logic
 Project management goal and
early analysis
 Not a funding booth
 An approach which is not easily
scalable
 Synchronization to be done with
other committees
 Difficult to choose the experts, who
must be legitimate to “kill” the transfer
projects
 Risk of excessive formalisation of the
process.
 Reduction of uncertainties
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Why ? (1/3)
 Rationale:
The Technology Transfer Follow-up Committee has been created
in order to:
 Have a clear and coherent view of all the transfer operations conducted by a large PRO
(managing 170 research teams)
 Impose professionalization of the different stakeholders, who are now obliged to follow a
path with clear guidelines, avoiding evident don’ts
 Have an access to advice from experts from the private sector (closer to the market than
the TT officers)
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Why ? (2/3)
 Rationale:
The Technology Transfer Follow-up Committee analyses and
 Does a follow-up: according to their maturity, transfer project are meant to be
submitted more than once, which ensures the control of implementation of
recommendations made by the committee
 The new dynamics has been created and it results in collective brainstorming
sessions to decide on the best transfer strategy to be applied (which is not always the
one that guarantees the best ROI)
 TT officer and researchers are not left alone facing difficulties
of transfer operations.
Source: Microsoft Office Images Clipart
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Why ? (2/3)
 Impact:
 Committee started slowly as at first TT officers could
feel excluded from the decision process and were
afraid of a “selection”
 After a couple of months, the majority of TT officers
understood the advantages of submitting their
transfer projects to the committee, which showed to
deliver useful recommendations and to do a real
follow-up.
Source: Microsoft Office Images Clipart
 Transfer projects submissions are now too
numerous: people got convinced of the committee
added value!
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Lessons Learned
 Added value of private external experts having experience in technology transfer at
large
 A formalized process allowing people to brainstorm on elaborated transfer projects in
search of more professional behaviour (asking themselves a lot of questions on the
strategy)
 The need to go beyond evidence or conditioned reflex and to adopt a real strategy
which can be followed up
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Suggested Readings
 Link to bibliography:
 Link to code book:
Opportunity Assessment
Transfer strategy
Start-up creation
Exploitation
External experts
 Link to related websites:
www.inria-transfert.fr
www.inria.fr/valorisation/index.fr
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