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The Technology Implementation Plan
(TIP)
The Technology Implementation Plan
(TIP)
Training Seminar
From
CORDIS
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Contents
1. Why do we need a TIP?
2. What is the TIP?
3. How do you submit a TIP?
4. Who uses the TIP?
5. Some TIP ‘tips’
6. The TIP and CORDIS
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SECTION ONE
Why do we need a TIP?
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Why do we need a TIP?
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Why do we need a TIP?
European research
• Generates a third of the world’s science
• Exploits less well than the US and Japan
• Spends less on R&D than the US and Japan
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Why do we need a TIP?
R&D Inputs• FP1 to FP4 = 58,000 projects• Circa € 3bn per year• 17 years of operation
R&D Outputs• Number of exploitations by project partners unknown• Only 10,000 ‘externally exploitable’ results reported
to CORDIS
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Why do we need a TIP?
Five-Year Assessment of the Framework Programmes, 1995-1999 (July 2000)
• At present there is excessive focus on adherence to procedures and not enough emphasis on ensuring overall goal attainment
• The system of evaluation can be considered as well established. Impact assessment should become one of the most important elements of evaluation
• The Panel concluded that the outputs and results of projects of potential relevance to other policy goals were not adequately communicated or utilised.
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Why do we need a TIP?
Conclusions:-
The project contractors needed to give more attention to how to exploit their results – especially if they are not intending to exploit them themselves
The Programmes needed to report on the impact of their projects in terms of the overall goals of the Framework Programmes and to report in a way which is consistent across all Programmes
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SECTION TWO
What is the TIP?
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What is the TIP?
For the Commission:-
• A compulsory deliverable
• Specified in the model contract
• The means by which the contractor documents the
exploitation efforts that they are obliged to undertake
• Agreed by all Programmes after wide consultation
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What is the TIP?
For the researcher:-
• A tool to help plan and implement exploitation
• A way to demonstrate the benefits of the research
• A means to gain publication of results
• A means to keep commercial plans confidential
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What is the TIP?
Format:-
• Common to all Programmes
• Collects all exploitation information in one
submission
• Electronic
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Whereas the technological implementation plan should be prepared in line with progress on the work of the project; whereas it should be a determining element with a view to the use and dissemination of knowledge in the interests of the Community, the participants and international agreements with the Community; whereas the technological implementation plan should be drawn up in such a manner as to allow its monitoring and to allow the conditions of exploitation and the search for financial resources for development to be facilitated;
COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 996/1999of 11 May 1999
on the implementation of Council Decision 1999/65/EC concerning the rules forthe participation of undertakings, research centres and universities and for thedissemination of research results for the implementation of the fifth framework
programme of the European Community (1998-2002)
What is the TIP?
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§ 17.1 of Model Contract
The technological implementation plan shall include
a summary of the project and
a forecast of the intentions of the contractors, as well as a description of their achievements regarding the use of the knowledge.
What is the TIP?
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SECTION THREE
How to submit a TIP?
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The eTIP is found at
www.cordis.lu/etip
How to submit a TIP?
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How to submit a TIP?
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How to submit a TIP?
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How to submit a TIP?
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How to submit a TIP?
STEP 1The Project Coordinator registers themselves, all the project partners, and the project details.
STEP 2The partners or the coordinator provide details of their individual exploitable results from the project.
STEP 3The coordinator checks that everything has been completed and submits the eTIP.
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How to submit a TIP?
Step one:Coordinatorregisters
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How to submit a TIP?
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How to submit a TIP?
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How to submit a TIP?
INFORMATION
• Summary of project
• Description of results including categorisation into
types A,B, or C• Ownership of results
COMPLETED BY
Co-ordinator
USE
• Update project data• Promote results
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How to submit a TIP?
INFORMATION
• Partner intentions• IPR Protection measures• Community added-value• Differences to plan
COMPLETED BY
Coordinator OR Partners individually
USE• Internal by Commission
services (not published)• Aggregation at Commission
level of partner information for reporting
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How to submit a TIP?
INFORMATION
• Externally exploitable results• Collaboration requests• Offers of technology
COMPLETED BY
Partners (results owners)
Mandatory if result is Type A
USE• CORDIS for publication• IRC for promotion• LIFT for financing• IPR for protection
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How to submit a TIP?
INFORMATION
• Assessment of EU impact
COMPLETED BY
Co-ordinator
COMMENTED ON BY
Commission Project Officer
USE• Justifies project
• Is commented on (confidentially) by Commission Project Officer
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How to submit a TIP?
eTIP Functions:• Can be completed and saved in sessions• Pre-populated with project data• Co-ordinator, partners and CPO have own access• Confidentiality of data assured• Data goes straight into a database• Performs all functions of former TIP form
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How to submit a TIP?
Problems accessing the e-TIP?• [email protected]
Want to be kept up-to-date?• [email protected]
Queries about specifics?• Your Commission Project Officer
Unresolvable technical difficulties?• Downloadable document version available
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SECTION FOUR
Who uses the TIP?
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Partners: A, B, CExploitable results: 1, 2, 3, 4
A1
C3
B2
4
Licensee
Venturecapital
Who uses the TIP?
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Who uses the TIP?
Commission services• World-wide publication• CORDIS Community R&D Information Service• A network of local agents• IRCs – Innovation Relay Centres• Help to get finance mobilised • LIFT – Linking Innovation Finance and Technology• Protecting intellectual property• IPR Helpdesk advising on patents, copyright etc.
The TIP helps to identify results which need such facilities and is a basis for communication
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SECTION FIVE
Some TIP ‘tips’
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Some TIP ‘tips’
Do:-
• Develop an exploitation strategy early in the project, preferably before it starts
• Document your intentions in a draft TIP early on
• Think “exploitation” in its broadest sense including non-commercial uses
• Consult your Project Officer for advice
• Submit in electronic format
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Some TIP ‘tips’
Don’ts
• Ignore it – or the funding can’t be paid
• Leave it until the project end when the partners will no longer spend time
• Forget that the Commission has a right to monitor exploitation
• Omit publishable description if you have externally exploitable ‘Type A’ results
• Submit on paper
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Some TIP ‘tips’
Ownership of results
• Ownership of results and exploitation strategy has to be documented in the TIP
• IPR ownership is with partners generating the results
• Access rights can be restricted and exclusive access rights are possible
• Obligation to protect and exploit (protection costs are reimbursed)
• Exploitation can be by partners or external to project but must be at least one of these
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Some TIP ‘tips’
Organisations that can’t directly exploit can consider:
• IPR Protection/patenting• Licensing to external organisations• University start-ups or spin-offs or graduate
enterprise• Public or social good organisations• Input to Standards • Input to EU policy making (studies, workshop
results)• Education initiatives• Further collaborative research
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SECTION SIX
The TIP and CORDIS
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The TIP and CORDIS
CORDIS today Current size• 30,000 Web pages• 250,000 database records• 31,000 documents• 56,000 registered users• 40,000 subscribers to paper
publications
Per month• 3.5 million pages served• 11,000 email notifications• 116,000 downloads• 112,000 identified users
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The TIP and CORDIS
CORDIS today
• The only central access point to all technologies emerging from EU sponsored R&D
• Free to information providers
• Free to users
• Official source and version of information
• Preserves knowledge after projects are closed
• Has built up an inventory of 58,000 projects and 10,000 results
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The TIP and CORDIS
www.cordis.lu/marketplace
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The TIP and CORDIS
Technology
Marketplace
• A virtual marketplace for results and offers of technology
• Multi-media• Constantly changing
content• Five languages
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The TIP and CORDIS
Results on
Marketplace
• All qualifying results are stored on the CORDIS Results Knowledge Base
• This entry contains the text and contact details that are submitted via the TIP
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The TIP and CORDIS
Selection of the ‘best’ results for special promotion based on five criteria
1. Impact – social, economic
2. Effect on employment
3. Closeness to market
4. Marketability – how likely to succeed
5. Other factors – eg. public profile, early indicators of success,
enabling effect
If your project has these demonstrate it in the TIP!
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The TIP and CORDIS
‘Technology Offers’
On Marketplace• Short description
professionally written in plain language
• Structured in a ‘newsy’ journalistic style
• Always an attractive image• Contact details• Links to technical and
project information• Available in 5 languages
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Browsing offers
• Moving window on the latest and best
• Browsable by category• Browsable by type of
exploitation• Browsable by keyword
search
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Technology Opportunities Today
• 48 page colour magazine• Published every two months• Distributed to 40,000
subscribers• Used by many ‘multiplier’
organisations
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The TIP and CORDIS
Technology Opportunities Today
Inside the magazine
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The TIP and CORDIS
Media promotion
• Features• Content feed to media• Alert target user groups• Content feed to Web portals• ETIS (Emerging
Technologies Intelligence Service)
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The Technology Implementation Plan
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The Technology Implementation Plan
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