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European Citizenship after Brexit: Freedom of Movement and Rights of Residence
2013. 123p.
Parte de: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics
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No disponible.
Palabras clave – provistas por la editorial
European Union; politics; citizenship
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libros
ISBN impreso
978-4-431-54305-3
ISBN electrónico
978-4-431-54306-0
Editor responsable
Springer Nature
País de edición
Reino Unido
Fecha de publicación
2013
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Technology Transfer from Keio University: Development of Professionals Fostering Innovation over the Past Decade
Kenichi Hatori; Koichi Hishida
It has not been long since Keio University started university–industry collaborations and technology transfer as one of its mandates. The Japanese government had great expectation for universities to overcome the recession of the 1990s and quickly developed several measures to harness universities’ potentials. Keio established the Intellectual Property Center in 1998 as an internal office, almost simultaneously with other well-known Japanese universities. Thereafter, during the next decade, Keio gradually secured institutionally-owned patent applications and set about exploiting them and university–industry collaborations. The foundation for university–industry collaborations and technology transfer has accordingly been established and some successful examples can be found, but these collaborations have not reached the level of self-sustainability as with many other universities. However, not all university–industry collaborations are the same and should thus vary depending on the scale, nature, culture, and history of each university. This chapter looks back at some of the successes and activities of Keio and considers what universities can do to foster innovation for the benefit of society.
Pp. 1-13
Does Technology Transfer from Universities to Industry Contribute to Innovation?
Takafumi Yamamoto
Japan’s industry-academia collaborations started against the backdrop of economic stagnation. A variety of legislation was passed, leading to the birth of technology licensing offices and head offices of intellectual property. However, industry-academia collaborations really started to take off in 2004. That is why it is too soon now to determine whether technology transfer contributes to innovation in Japan. However, the prospects for the future look bright if we take into consideration the fact that the number of licenses from universities has now reached the level that the United States was at 20 years ago and is continuing to grow steadily. Furthermore, promising university-based startup companies (university spin-offs) are continuing to form, and technology transfer intermediaries are continuing to learn and grow. Thus, technology transfer from universities to industry is likely to contribute to innovation.
Pp. 15-22
Commercializing Promising but Dormant Japanese Industry–University Joint Discoveries via Independent, Venture Capital Funded Spin-Offs
Robert Kneller
This chapter outlines a way to foster science-based entrepreneurship and to develop some of the promising discoveries made jointly by Japanese universities and corporate researchers. The core proposal is to encourage the formation of independent, venture-capital-backed spin-offs based upon technologies jointly discovered by universities and companies that are lying dormant, but that have significant commercial potential. This chapter outlines the rationale for this proposal and a process for doing so. It discusses one spin-off that appears to be successful so far—TeraView—spun off from Toshiba Research Europe and the Cavendish Laboratory of the University of Cambridge, as well as barriers to replicating this promising example. Ultimately, the success of this endeavor will depend upon established Japanese companies and university researchers both realizing that they stand to benefit. Success also depends upon altering longstanding practices in some industries related to intellectual property (IP) management, particularly the cross-sharing of IP rights and the reluctance to exclusively out-license technologies.
Pp. 23-33
Realization of Photonics Polymer Technologies in the FIRST Program
Yasuhiro Koike
This is a review of progressive efforts to realize novel photonics polymer technologies to contribute to society. The new technologies that we developed at Keio University are represented by the ultra-high-speed graded-index plastic optical fiber (GI POF), highly-scattered optical transmission polymer (HSOT), and zero-birefringence polymer. The phenomena behind each technology were discovered through detailed fundamental studies; for example, how polarized waves or photons relate to various polymer chains, their aggregation, higher-order structures, and huge heterogeneous structures. By using these core technologies, we are developing and proposing a face-to-face communication system that is the world’s fastest GI POF with 40 Gbps directly connected to a high-quality large display for homes and offices. It realizes sensational face-to-face communication with clear motion pictures without any time lag. To make these research results practically useful for society, we are actively advancing this research and development in cooperation with more than ten companies under the Funding Program for World-Leading Innovative R&D on Science and Technology (FIRST) of the Cabinet Office of Japan.
Pp. 35-44
Translational Medicine of Stem Cells: Central Nervous System Regeneration and Modeling Neurological Diseases
Hideyuki Okano
We have been conducting research on regeneration of the damaged central nervous system, which includes (i) regrowth of the disrupted neuronal axons, (ii) replenishment of lost neural cells, and (iii) recovery of lost neural functions. In particular, we have investigated cell therapy for treating spinal cord injury. Considering the ethical issues related to fetal cells and embryonic stem cells, there is increasing interest in stem cell technology involving induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells. Here, we wish to introduce our achievements in iPS cell-based therapy. In addition to their application for cell therapy, iPS cell technologies provide versatile tools for investigation of the pathophysiology of various diseases. Indeed, disease model mice do not always recapitulate the pathophysiology of human diseases. However, iPS cell technology can provide some solutions because neural cells at various developmental stages and a wide variety of cells with the same genetic information as that of patients can be obtained for further investigation. Through these investigations, I have had numerous collaborations with life science industries, including pharmaceutical companies, and generated various patents. Some examples of these achievements will be discussed here.
Pp. 45-57
Fostering Technology Transfer, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship from the Perspective of a Public University
Benjamin Chu
The goal of a technology transfer office should be to encourage technology transfer, innovation, and entrepreneurship. For a public university, those goals must also be aligned with the university’s mission as a teaching and research institution. This chapter describes some of the activities in the University of California system and at the University of California, Los Angeles campus in fostering technology transfer, innovation, and entrepreneurship in support of research, education, and public service. These include a new proof-of-concept fund, an on-campus incubator, and a growing student internship program.
Pp. 59-69
Fostering Innovation for the Benefit of Society: Technology Licensing’s Role at Stanford
Kirsten J. Leute
Fostering innovation for the benefit of society is part of the mission of Stanford’s Office of Technology Licensing (OTL); “To promote the transfer of Stanford technology for society’s use and benefit while generating unrestricted income to support research and education.” Throughout Stanford’s history, researchers’ drive to innovate formed Stanford into the active and prominent academic institution that it is today. To help understand the role of Stanford’s OTL in this system, this chapter reviews OTL’s history, policies, and practices. We provide some attributes that help OTL be successful in transferring technologies that will benefit the public, as well as examples of how OTL works with startups to move the technologies out from Stanford into companies. These companies might then produce new products that will benefit the world.
Pp. 71-81
Managing Life Science Innovations in Public Research Through Holistic Performance Measures
Ruth M. Herzog; Christopher Wasden
Addressing the innovation gap is today considered the third task for public research organizations (PROs) in addition to their traditional tasks of research and teaching. Thus, PROs need to adapt their strategies and research management organization so that more innovative ideas from research will enter the market for the benefit of society. Innovation can thus be defined as value-creating novelties. The commercialization of research results is usually managed through technology transfer offices (TTOs), serving as an interface to industry. How PROs create value is increasingly subject to performance measurement and performance-based budgeting. Applying holistic measures will help adjust the overall strategy of the PRO in the direction of innovation and balance multiple interests and goals. Holistic performance measurement is based on the four dimensions of the decision-oriented model of research production (input, processes, output, and outcome) corresponding to the pillars of innovation. In this model, patenting is a key innovation process in academic life sciences that arises from the co-production between researchers and TTOs.
Pp. 83-94
Universities as Engines of Economic Growth—Entrepreneurship in Academia: A Singapore Experience
Lily Chan
In the past few decades, universities have come to be expected to directly and positively influence economic growth, a radical departure from the previous understanding of the university as primarily an education provider. How universities approach this new “knowledge economy” will vary by geography and culture, among other factors. This essay will bring to light Singapore’s experience, with focus on the creation of the National University of Singapore’s NUS Enterprise, a university-level cluster that aims to provide an entrepreneurial complement to the school’s teaching and research functions.
Pp. 95-100
University Intellectual Property Exploitation: Personal Perspectives from the UK and USA
Mark Spearing
Good afternoon, good evening everybody. It’s time to start our special session. Thank you very much for joining us today, especially I would like to express our greatest thanks to the British Embassy Science and Innovation network, thank you very much. I am responsible for research coordination and administration at Keio University. I am also responsible for IT management and technology transfer for Keio University to industries. The professor over there is my boss who is General Director of this headquarters.
Pp. 101-120