BioMedical SIG #2

Second webinar of the series, From research and innovation to development: how to plan and execute translational projects in life sciences. This webinar will focus on the process involved with the…

EDI: Mental Health in KT

Explore the importance of mental health in the Knowledge Transfer sector and how KTOs can lead the way in creating a culture of wellness and support. Join our webinar Breaking the Silence: Mental…

SHAPE Spotlight

Join Professor Roberta Guerrina in an online webinar on combining spinouts, consultancy, and policy to maximise SHAPE research impact. Learn from her experience founding EQUAL In-Sight.

Digital Innovations SIG World Lunch #9

In this webinar Sjaak Brinkkemper presents his vision on entrepreneurship in ecosystems: starting a software company is relatively easy, but continuing the enterprise in a solid and sustainable…

BioMedical SIG #1

First webinar of the series, From research and innovation to development: how to plan and execute translational projects in life sciences, From bench to bedside focuses on the process of creating new…

SHAPE: SSHA by a new name Flashlight #31

Drawing on his experience in the UK and in continental Europe, Julian Jantke introduces a unique guided pathway approach, deployed in universities or at a national level, that uses valorisation as a…

Tea with ASTP: Key IPR for software: new angles for business

This webinar provides an accurate yet delightful introduction and discussion of the key IP Rights related to the protection of software innovation. In one hour Maurits Westerik provides insights on…

Tea with ASTP: Non-financial Impact of KE

This seminar investigates the importance of these non-financial impacts, such as social, cultural, and environmental contributions. Additionally, it suggests a very simple but still useful…

Digital Innovations SIG World Lunch #8

Brechtje Vreenegoor is manager of the KTO Wageningen University and Research. She discussed ‘servitisation’ of open-source models. Numerous models are being valorised in different ways, but it is…

Tea with ASTP: Unversity OSPOs and why we need them!

In this Tea with ASTP Clare Dillon, InnerSource Researcher at the University of Galway, covered where academic OSPOs are located within institutions, their goals and the activities OSPO staff engage…

Tea with ASTP: EPO Deep Tech Finder

In this Tea with ASTP, Cornelia Peuser presents the EPO Observatory’s new Deep Tech Finder, a tool that blends the business profiles of around 8,300 investment-ready European start-ups with…

ASTP EU Forum #7 | Spring 2024

The 7th ASTP- EU Forum continues the dialogue between European knowledge/technology transfer professionals and staff of the European Commission. At this free online event, you shall have the…

Digital Innovations SIG World Lunch #7

A few years ago, the Max Planck Society introduced a partially standardised licensing model for spin-offs. The model includes a 10% stake of Max Planck in the companies and, in some cases, milestone…

Tea with ASTP: Creation of IP Policy

In this Tea with ASTP, Relika Williams and Christophe Haunold were joined by other guests to share their experiences around creating, approving and executing IP management policy for universities.…

The monthly online SSHA and Impact Flashlight #29

The SynSICRIS tool supports project planning via an impact pathway and a working plan bar chart. This is combined with continous, project-related monitoring of potential impact. This open source tool…

Tea with ASTP: Collaborating instead of pushing the IP

In this session Carlo Duprel, Head of Technology Transfer Office at SnT, University of Luxembourg, provided an overview on how to setup and execute an impactful strategy of long-term collaborative…

Digital Innovations SIG World Lunch #6

With Laura Spinardi, Head of Technology Transfer Office, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico di Milano, we discussed the challenges of managing data in digital clinical…

Tea with ASTP: Academic entrepreneurship initiatives for impactful knowledge transfer

Science and researchers should be at the forefront of solving our most pressing global challenges. Impactful research commercialisation will require educating a new generation of entrepreneurs with a…

Tea with ASTP: Glimpses of the Spanish landscape, get set for 2024

Welcome to the new year and the first Tea with ASTP of 2024. As we prepare for the Annual Conference in Seville, Spain this May we will take a look at the KT landscape in Spain and discuss what to…

Tea with ASTP: Dos and Don’ts of working with Patent Attorneys

Dos and Don’ts of working with Patent Attorneys – How to get the best value for Universities, Research Institutes and Spin-outs.In this webinar, Achim shared a few lessons and important points on…

ASTP-EU Forum #6 | Fall 2023

The 6th ASTP- EU Forum continues the dialogue between European knowledge/technology transfer professionals and staff of the European Commission. At this free online event, the participants had the…

Digital Innovations SIG World Lunch #5

Michiel Hulsbergen is CEO and founder of DialogueTrainer. In this edition of the Digital Innovation SIG World Lunch, Michiel shared the challenges he has faced setting up and running the company. As…

ASTP-EU Forum #5 | Spring 2023

The Unit for Valorisation policies and IPR shared with us updates on the recently adopted policies and tools as well as the next developments in knowledge valorisation. The ERC presented the results…

ASTP-EU Forum #4 | Fall 2022

The fourth successful ASTP EU Forum, heard from Deputy Head of Unit for Valorisation Policies and IPR at the European Commission, will be joined by members of the Community of Practice to update on…

Tea with ASTP: Managing Open Source software in academia

In this webinar, Mauro Lattuada explored some practical issues about sharing software in Open Source in academia and the role of the TTOs relating to IP valorisation in connection to Open Source.

Tea with ASTP: The value of human knowledge in the era of AI

AI literacy could help us to understand appropriate and inappropriate uses of Generative AI, and to assert the value of human knowledge in the era of AI.

Digital Innovations SIG World Lunch #4

Quantum computing is one of the next big technologies. Robert Harrison, who is also a Board Member of the European Quantum Industry Consortium, explains how to gain an understanding of the physics…

Digital Innovations SIG World Lunch #3

Speaker, Koen Verhoef, will be discussing conceptual and procedural aspects of providing such data access and will share details on the commercial terms of a number contracts that we have negotiated…

Tea with ASTP: Preparing inventors for commercialisation

We all want more deals and start-ups, better metrics and more impact. How do we accomplish it, especially on a limited budget?

Tea with ASTP: Openness, IPR and Technology Transfer

This webinar aims to clarify the differences between “open” practices and policies and to show that openness is not incompatible with IP protection or commercial exploitation. The focus on…

Tea with ASTP: What's in store for women in innovation?

In this intriguing Tea with ASTP, three outstanding female talents, Camilla Carrapatoso, Emily Devonald and Anji Miller, discuss and share their experiences and challenges of working in and with…

Morning Plenary | Transforming Technology Transfer

During this insightful session, Alastair Banks presented the numerous ways Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming technology transfer and how KTOs and TTOs should consider using it in their…

Opening Plenary | Signe Ratso, Chief Negotiatior, EU Commission

During this inspiring speech, Signe Ratso presented the importance of knowledge management for the development of innovative solutions to overcome current challenges and create new opportunities in…

FIT-4-NMP Project

Giles Brandon and Vira Filatova present FIT-4-NMP, a Horizon Europe Project.

Tea with ASTP: Responsible Reproducible Research (R3)

Responsible and Reproducible Research (R3): Does it really matter? In this talk, Laurent Heirendt gives you a tour d’horizon of R3, highlights its ambitious goals, and demonstratse that R3 matters…

EDI SIG | Women: the changing face of innovation

ASTP's EDI SIG met during the 2023 Annual Conference in Tallinn, Estonia, to discuss how women are the changing face of innovation.

Tea with ASTP: KEVRI: the smarter way to translate knowledge into impact

In this dynamic session, Corin and Natalie provide valuable insights about fostering collaborations between universities and businesses to drive innovation. Learn about best practices and real-world…

New Professionals Forum #7

Freddy Guemeni is Head of IP services, University of Manchester Innovation Factory. Freddy has more than 10 years experience in intellectual property management, helping to drive progress and…

Agrifood SIG | March 2023

How decentralised food systems can leverage innovation ecosystems to achieve paradigm shifts

New Professionals Forum #6: roles within the KT/TT

This Special Interest Group (SIG) helps new professionals navigate the diverse set of opportunities and resources available to them in the K/TT field to successfully support their professional…

Digital Innovations SIG: World Lunch #2, Digital Start-ups

Malcolm Bain and Florian Kirschenhofer, two of the coordinators of the DI SIG discuss specific challenges for digital start-ups, including IP identification, protection and licensing models, business…

Tea with ASTP: Yes we can't

Yes, we can't. Making sense of the Research Exemption in Patent Law

Tea with ASTP: Forget the guesstimate

Forget the guesstimate: a statistics-based approach to royalty structuring and quantifying

Tea with ASTP: Sub-licensing

Sub-licensing: horror scenarios and how to avoid them.

"Green" Tea with ASTP

Plastic Omnium organised an Open Innovation Challenge in partnership with SoScience. Its objective was to accelerate innovation leveraging collective intelligence through an open innovation approach.…

AgriFood SIG #2 | Plant based technologies

Find out how a unique plant-based technology and entrepreneurship hold the key to pushing the boundaries in the food industry.

Tea with ASTP: How to tell your best story

Philip Grother learned the hard way how to get his message across simply and effectively, whilst raising funds, generating business, and exchanging with colleagues, partners and clients. Philip has…

New Professionals Forum #5

Session on ‘Intellectual Property and Protection/Licensing thereof in Technology Transfer’ from Denise Mayfield (Dykema) who discusses patenting challenges, strategies and the importance of well…

Digital Innovations SIG: World Lunch #1, Open Source

This first edition of the Digital Innovations SIG's Online World Lunch discussed Open Science and Open-Source policies of universities. Increasingly result in academic software are published under a…

New Professionals Forum Meeting #4

In this fourth meeting of the New Professionals SIG, Dr Martyn Bottomley, Regional Translation Lead at Cancer Research UK (CRUK) shared his experience and role within the CRUK.

Agrifood SIG Launch meeting

With around one-third of global GHG emissions coming from the food system, transforming food production and consumption is critical to tackling the climate crisis. Against rising pressure from…

Tea with ASTP: a personal journey from academia to industry

Martin Järvekülg built one successful career as a researcher in Material Science and one in the technology transfer and entrepreneurship space. Now Head of Research and Development with Click and…

Strategies for Strengthening Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in KT

In April 2022, ASTP hosted its first international meeting on Strategies for Strengthening Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion in KT. Hosted by ASTP Board member, Anji Miller, she was joined by Maxine…

Deeper into Tech Transfer: EPO and ASTP

There are many exciting developments to present and we will look towards the future perspectives in and beyond the project. We will also provide useful information if you are interested further about…

Tea with ASTP: Streamlining legal documents industry/academia

How can industry and academic institutions most efficiently collaborate? What solutions can be created to help both parties avoid the perennial pain point of the cumbersome legal documents…

Tea with ASTP : Transitioning to Knowledge Valorisation

This webinar presented the vision for a competitive Europe under a new set of knowledge valorisation principles and how they can bring a change to the European innovation ecosystem. We also discussed…

Tea with ASTP: The Three Dimensions of Entrepreneurship

In this webinar, Russell Smith shared the three frameworks of enterprise, environment and entropy that now comprise what has become known as the ‘New Standard Model’ for business or “The Three…

Tea with ASTP : Key success factors for technology transfer

The meeting with reflections on the work of the European project ProgressTT, on the key success factors (KSF’s) for technology transfer, and the role of the research institution's management and…

New Professionals SIG Meeting #1

The newly established New Professionals Special Interest Group instigated their first meeting in February 2022. This is a recording of their first meeting, with special guest Alessandra Baccigotti…

New Professionals Forum Meeting #2

At the second bi-monthly New Professionals SIG in April 2022, welcomed ASTP Board member Anji Miller to discuss "How to develop your skills and professional contacts"

New Professionals Forum Meeting #3

The third meeting of the New Professional SIG hears from Dr Salma Ishaq from King's College London to discuss: "What is the purpose of tech transfer/knowledge exchange?"

Tea With ASTP: Horizon Europe Networking Platforms

Many knowledge transfer officers support consortium building for Horizon Europe collaboration projects. This webinar outlines the tools for finding expertise beyond their, and their researchers,…

Tea with ASTP: Findings and discussion on ASTP COVID-19 survey

This webinar studied the finding of the ASTP COVID-19 survey findings as well as personal testimonies from survey respondents who shared both the on-going struggles of working during the pandemic and…

Tea with ASTP: Creating Successful Collaborations

In this Tea with ASTP, two KT veterans Jeff Skinner and Christophe Haunold, shared their experiences of developing successful collaborations, highlighting routes to success and pitfalls to avoid.

Tea with ASTP: Stretching the Patent Prosecution Dollar

This panel discussed intellectual property Procurement Strategies and Considerations for AMCs and Research Universities. Including: Building a patent portfolio using various cost-effective tools;…

Tea with ASTP: Student IP Policy

In this webinar Jeff Skinner leads an exploration of the vexed issue of Student IP. He focuses on two aspects, the policy itself and how agreements are reached with students. Both elements are…

Tea with ASTP: WIPO Mediation and Tech Transfer Disputes

This Webinar focused on the conduct of mediation, including the online conduct of mediation, with a particular reference to the practical case application of the WIPO Mediation Rules in international…

EPO in the TT Landscape

This webinar cast a light on EPO's technology transfer initiatives and its future plans. The role played by the cooperation with organisations such as ASTP in this context is essential.

Tea with ASTP: The Researcher's Perspective on KT

Are we also listening to the researchers? Do we really know what they think about our way of working? How do they perceive the information they get from us? Both presenters have been involved in…

Tea with ASTP: Defining Inventorship

We have all been involved in cases regarding inventorship. Some of these situations can be either tricky or can be solved in a more fact-based manner. Research staff often don't know the difference…

Present and Future of Software Licensing

Recording of the online workshop organised by the Digital Innovations SIG on 29 April 2021 | The Present and Future of Software Licensing - Mirko Lukacs of Utrecht Holdings

Tea with ASTP: KT Metrics New

In the summer of 2020, an expert group convened the EC Joint Research Centre (JRC), published the “Knowledge Transfer (KT) Metrics’ Report” on knowledge transfer metrics. The study was part of…

Tea with ASTP: Dealing with new plant varieties

The development of new and improved varieties of plants benefits the economy by increasing the marketability of crops and improving rural income and overall economic development.

Tea with ASTP: Policies for Spin-out

Most KTOs work with the spin-out route as a way of commercialising inventions from our research institutions: there are different models and policies in place at different KTOs. Marjan Kraak (Head of…

Tea with ASTP: Corporate Partnerships

Ben Soffer, Head of Corporate Partnerships Kings College London presents on Corporate Partnerships. The MedTech Accelerator will act as a vehicle for the commercialisation of MedTech innovations. The…

Tea with ASTP: Open Hardware

Andrew Katz will explore the dynamics of open technologies, and consider whether open hardware has the potential to be as successful as open source software.

Tea with ASTP: Negotiating Licensing Terms

In this webinar recording, Anja Zimmerman, discusses how knowledge and technology transfer can happen in numerous ways, from publication of research results to collaborations between scientist,…

Tea with ASTP: Technology Marketing

Sometimes universities and research organisations fail to turn research results into marketable products or services, not because of lack of scientific excellence or technical innovativeness but,…

Tea with ASTP: Knowledge Transfer for a Data Economy

The ever-increasing digital transformation of our society and economy is bringing along the generation of a wealth of data with high value-add potential through the extraction of useful insights.

Digital Innovations SIG | October 2020

The Digital Innovations community met online in October 2020 to discuss IPR Lifecyle Management, Software License Deal Terms Survey, Open Source Software Management and a new action line on Data…

Tea with ASTP: Frugal Innovations

Frugal Innovation is the art of developing solutions by “doing more with less" creating more aggregate value for a client while reducing energy, waste, complexity, time and capital of a product.…

Tea with ASTP: Managing and valorising clinical data

Large healthcare datasets, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning can change the clinical innovation landscape. However, data access and valorisation cannot discount patients' rights; dealing…

Tea with ASTP: IP management strategies at the time of covid-19

The pandemic prompted universities and public research organisations to re-think their IP management strategies. Various open licenses have been developed granting free temporary access to IP rights…

Tea with ASTP: Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing

Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing is an international agreement aimed at the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the utilisation of genetic resources. Access and…

Tea with ASTP: Technology Transfer and the COVID-19 Crisis

Recording of the webinar: University Technology Transfer and the Covid-19 Crisis. Learn some of the practical issues facing TTOs - leadership, where to focus resources, what are the priorities,…

Tea with ASTP: Moving towards a unified JOA Model

Recording of the webinar: Moving towards a unified Joint Ownership Agreement (JOA) model. Enjoy the discussion on: What happens when more than one university owns IP? Developing common principles…

Tea with ASTP : Open Source Software - how to avoid pitfalls

Recording of the webinar: Open Source Software – how to avoid pitfalls. Discover different cases involving Open Source Software with different types of licenses including situations to avoid and…

David Cole - IBM Watson

How could medical data crunching contribute to personalised drugs

Interview with Sir Gregory Winter

Thinking without the Bannister Tech Transfer in the Age of Disruption

How to survive your first 25 years in Tech Transfer?

Bill Fischer Keynote Presentation

What role does the EU play in funding innovative research

What main challenges do founders of a startup company face

What does it mean to be an Innovator in Academia

Latest challenges making translational research more systematic

What are the challenges in implementing an European talent

How do venture capitalists make investment choices

How do Investors evaluate start-up companies