Idiap Research Institute
Centre du Parc – P.O Box 592
CH – 1920 Martigny
+41 27 721 77 11
http://www.idiap.ch
Building bridges between IT research and industry
Congress Cluj – March 20th, 2015
Sergio Calabretta
Idiap Research Institute – Industrial Affairs Manager
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Building bridges between IT research and industry
… a running experience …
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Idiap Research Institute
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The CTI mechanisms
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Profile and organisation, mission
Funding policy
Technology Transfer Tools and supporting organisation
Swiss Confederation fostering innovation and excellence
Instruments
Partnerships
The Ark Foundation
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Canton du Valais promoting Technology and Excellence
Streams and technological sites
Funding
IdeArk, an example
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Idiap Profile
• Statutes (1991): Independent, not-for-profit, Research Foundation
• Areas of activity: multilingual and multimodal interaction and multimedia
information management, including human behavior modeling
• Academic affiliation: EPFL (+Joint Development Plan, since July 2008) and
University of Geneva, and …
• Budget: over 10+ MCHF
Staff: 100+ (+50 across 16 spin-offs)
• Host institution (2001-2013): National Centre of Competence in Research on
Interactive Multimodal Information Management (IM2, www.im2.ch )
• Facilities:
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Centre du Parc in Martigny (2500 m2), Martigny.
2 new buildings doubling capacity (available 2017+)
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Idiap – Our Missions
Research
Technology
Education
Joint
Development
Plan (JDP)
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Transfer
Collaboration with multiple EU universities
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Idiap – Knowledge / Technology Transfer
• Education and knowledge transfer:
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>110 high-quality publications/year
Teaching activities: 10 courses (9 postgraduate + 1 MS level) at EPFL + internal
Average of 35-40 PhD students/year
23 open source libraries: http://www.idiap.ch/technology-transfer/open-sourcesoftware
16 international data libraries: https://www.idiap.ch/dataset
• Technology transfer:
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Collaboration with industries (Thales, Samsung, NEC, Facebook, Google, Interpol,
Verint, IBM, etc)
Collaboration with startups and SMEs
IdeArk technology incubator (www.ideark.com)
Maintaining an entrepreneurship spirit: Maintenance of a technology portfolio,
encourage invention disclosures, patents, ICC, etc.
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Idiap Funding – public vs competitive
• Public funding:
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Accredited (and co-funded) by the Federal Government, State of Valais, and City, as
part of the « ETH Strategic Domain »
40% of total funding
• Competitive funding:
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60% of total funding (incl. 10% related to tech transfer activities)
Active in numerous research programs/projects (CH, EU, US, industry)
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Idiap Funding – 4 Funding Pillars
1. Public funding:
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Federal
State (VS) + City (Martigny)
All together, currently represents about 40% of the total funding
2. Sponsored Research (CH and international)
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Swiss NSF
Multiple EU projects (as coordinator or partner)
US projects (DARPA, DTO)
3. Industrial Support (including start-ups)
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Research contracts with industry (Qualcomm, Nokia, Logitech, NEC, Yahoo,
NTT, Samsung, HP, etc)
Corporate sponsorship program
CTI projects involving industries, including Idiap start-ups
4. International visitor program
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Funded international visitors: e.g., through EU Marie-Curie grants
International research programs
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Idiap – Organization Chart
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Idiap – Permanent Scientific Staff
Sylvain Calinon
Ronan Collobert
Sébastien Marcel
Andrei Popescu-Belis
Michael Liebling
Barbara Caputo
Phil Garner
Jean-Marc Odobez
François Fleuret
Alessandro Vinciarelli
Petr Motlicek
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Mathew Magimai Doss
Daniel Gatica-Perez
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Idiap – Technology Business Intelligence
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CTI Presention
Introduction to the process and instruments
EPFL, 2014.09.25
Robert van Kommer, CTI IM
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CTI mission
• Mandated by the Confederation, the CTI strengthens the
innovative power of Switzerland's economy
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It funds and coaches joint projects by industry and higher education institutions
to bring innovative products to the market.
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It supports start-ups and hence the creation of new jobs for highly qualified
employees.
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It encourages the transfer of knowledge and technology between Swiss
universities and companies.
• Innovations as the driving force of Switzerland's economy
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Switzerland is a small country with few natural resources.
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It has one of the world's most liberal economies and is highly export-oriented. It
earns almost every other franc abroad.
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Swiss companies compete with companies from around the world.
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To succeed in this competition, they have to bring innovative products to the
market.
Robert van Kommer
EPFL, 25.9.2014
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CTI three main instruments to foster innovation
Project Promotion
Joint projects between
industry and
universities, innovation
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~85%
of the total budget
Start-up and
Entrepreneurship
KTT-Support
Training modules,
coaching, Start-up label,
access to investors
- National Thematic
Networks (NTN)
- Platforms
- Innovation Mentors (IM)
~10%
of the total budget
~5%
of the total budget
Robert van Kommer
EPFL, 25.9.2014
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Special characteristics of CTI funding instruments
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No direct funding of firms: only Swiss academic partners receive CTI funding
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Bottom-up choice of topics by industry and academic partners
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Time to market: decision within 4-6 weeks
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CTI works in a subsidiary manner, i.e. the measures have a complementary effect
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Top-down choice only in the case of key industries and topics (e.g. Medtech,
TopNano21, Cleantech / Energy)
Robert van Kommer
EPFL, 25.9.2014
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CTI instruments in the innovation chain
Robert van Kommer
EPFL, 25.9.2014
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CTI Partners in the innovation process
Robert van Kommer
EPFL, 25.9.2014
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CTI R&D Projects: Partners in the innovation process
Robert van Kommer
EPFL, 25.9.2014
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Selection Criteria
Robert van Kommer
EPFL, 25.9.2014
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The Ark – Strategy
« to build the technological Valais of the future »
Promoting
innovation
Bringing together
competences
Strengthening
competitiveness
Supporting
Economic
growth
The Foundation has been created in 2004 by the state of Valais
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The Ark – 3 fields and 6 technological sites
Life Science
ICT
Engineering Science
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The Ark – The 6 technological sites in Valais, incl. Idiap
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The Ark – Organisation
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The Ark – Business Model
Services management
 Accelerator
 Innovation
General
Services
Sites management
 TeleArk
 TechnoArk
 IdeArk
Funding sources
Funding sources
 Incubator
 Marketing
 BlueArk
 PhytoArk
 BioArk
 Confederation,
State of Valais,
regions,
communities
 European Union
 Private
 Licences/patents
The Ark’s funds
 Return of subsidies
 Scouting or pilot project
Projects
 Building and realization of « business
innovation » projects
 Start-up incubation or development
incubation
 Others specific projects
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Long term results
 Creation of wealth and
employment
 Creation of new
 companies
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The Ark –Funding example (2007 – 2012)
Funding
Sources
Swiss
Confederation
State of Valais
31.3 mio CHF
Funds
The Ark
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30%%
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47%%
Regions
Communities
471 projects
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11%%
Projekte
Projekte
Projets
Projects
139 %
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Loterie
Romande
9%
3%
Others
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IdeArk Incubator
Audiosearch
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Conference recording, indexing and online distribution
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Biometric authentication to replace your login/lockscreen
passwords
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Financial decision-making tools
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Visual effects, 3D character animation and motion capture
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Plug & Play solution in energy management for individuals
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Cloud-based, high-quality, realtime transcription of
conversational speech into text
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Automatic keyword spotting to tag and retrieve recorded
(skype) audio conversations
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Sergio Calabretta
Technology Transfer &
Industrial Relations Manager
+41 (0)79 706 20 30
[email protected]
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