Strategies for Economic Capitalization of Research at the University of Udine Furio Honsell

1. C-DAC, PuneSept 1, 2005 Strategies for Economic Capitalization of Research at the University of Udine Furio Honsell

2. Current Challenges for Society at Large • Innovative Technology, especially ICT • Globalisation (globalism,glocalism) • Competition • Innovation, restructuring, quick adapting • But we have to innovate our mentality, and often be brave enough to invent the rules along the way – ethical issue

3. Current Challenges for Universities • Technology • Globalisation • Competition + • The fact that society has to face the same challenges • Digital Learning for • supporting traditional teaching and turn it into learning experiences • distance learning • Internalization • Partnerships and alliances • Strategies for economic realization of research

4. ONLY OPTION • Pursue a mutual benefit: phenotype and genotype • The regional economic systems and universities need to join forces • Easier said than done! • Applied vs Industrial research criticalities • communication: expertise vs problems • objectives: methodologies vs realizations • behaviour: dissemination vs privacy • different time scales and horizons • SME’s , districts

5. THE UNIVERSITY OF UDINE Our (mythical) history: Our Vision: University as a strategic institution for social, cultural and economic development of the region Innovative knowledge and human capital have become strategic resources for sustainable economic growth Our three-fold mission: • higher education – the human capital factory • research – the knowledge factory • service to our local community – the technology transfer and regional development factory

6. KEY ACTIONSdirected towards students • courses targeted to build human resources in innovative fields and emerging professions • development of entrepreneurial skills • Business Plan Competition STARTCUP • foster mobility and internationalization • multidisciplinary education, discipline mobility

7. KEY ACTIONSdirected towards researchers • foster Academia-Industry dialogue • Establish Industrial Liason Offices • synchronize significant part of research and teaching to the vocations and needs of the local community • Promote technology transfer • Is there still a distinction between pure and applied research? • Researchers not educated solely for an academic career. • direct research activity towards patents development • creation of spin off enterprises

8. KEY ACTIONSdirected towards the regional economic system • promote technology innovation transfer • Research Awareness • Technology Parks • Knowledge Districts • Incubators TECHNOSEED • Industry-Academia mixed Laboratories • Innovation Fairs INNOVACTION

9. KEY ACTIONS • All actions are deeply integrated, e.g. technology transfer, incubators, seed capitalists

10. START CUP BUSINESS PLAN COMPETITION • Turn an idea into a company! • Current days researchers have an extra instrument: the entrepreneurial instrument. • Need to be aware of the management ed economic implications of their ideas and activities! • Italian Innovation prize • Udine University came first in the lat two editions • Entrepreneurship classes in all curricula

11. START CUP BUSINESS PLAN LOCAL COMPETITION • Over 200 teams (500 people) in the three editions • Open to non-academics • Significant number of foreign teams and mixed teams • Courses on BusinessPlanning and BusinessStrategies have had extraordinary impact

12. START CUP BUSINESS PLAN NATIONAL COMPETITION • All major universities in Italy • Udine won • 2003 laser oftalmology • 2004 tissue engineering

13. TECHNOSEEDICT INCUBATOR • Business Plan: • Business Idea • Market analysis • Competitors • Management Structure • Economic and Financial project • TARGET 20 companies (out of 80 projects) • Assistance in business planning • Seed capital • Facilities

14. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PARK • Logistics and production managemnt • Metallurgy • Environment technologies • Food processing • Information management • Web technologies • Rapid prototyping • Grape genome sequencing

15. JOINT LABORATORIESCERTIFICATION LABS • Key concept – difficult to realize • Currently 2 such labs • Hedonicvalues, olfactometry

16. PATENTS • Develop a Patenting awareness – legal issues • Currently 37 patents are owned • 17 are actually commercialized • The latest, in Biotech, sold for 700.000€

17. SPINN OFF COMPANIES • Introduce a suitable set of rules • Currently 7 active companies • Seed capitals • Risk capitals

18. INNOVATION PRIZE • There are no heroes! • Tools for sustaining Innovation • Ideas are an asset too often disregarded • Need to increase probability of success • Ideas Management Systems

19. INNOVACTION • Fair of Knowledge, Ideas, Innovation • Open to • Inventors/to be entrepreneurs • Start up Research Spinn offs • Industrial Liason Offices • Science and technology Parks • Incubators • University Researchers • Problem Solving Companies • Innovation Prizes • Business-Angels • Venture Capitalists • Squares • Of Ideas • Of Knowledge

20. INNOVACTION • Kind of Innovation • Product • Process • Service • Market • Radical • Incremental • Development stage • Sector • Motivation for taking part to the event • UDINE MARCH 2006

21. THE UNIVERSITY OF UDINEthe numbers • 10 schools (facoltà) • 17350 students • 750 research and teaching staff • 4540 non teaching staff • 48 lauree triennali (bachelor degrees) • 48 laurea specialistica (master degrees) • 19 PhD Schools • 40 master universitario degrees • 28 departments • 2900 students graduated in the academic year 2003-2004 • 32 specialization schools • a distributed campus 9 sites (Udine, Pordenone, Gorizia, Cormons, Gemona, Mestre, Tarcento,Tolomezzo, Lignano) (+1 Hyderabad ?) • 1720 MoU’s with enterprises for internship activities • Over 20.000 people involved altogether

22. Università degli Studi di Udine Fully implemented the Bologna and Sorbonne Agreements since the academic year 2000-2001 • Laurea (bachelor) 3 years degree • First level Master 1 year degree • Laurea Specialistica 2 years degree • Second level Master 1 year degree • PhD 3 years degree • Internazionalization and harmonization: Joint degrees, joint supervisions

23. 1978: 1 faculty/schools (Foreign Languages) 607 students 27 professors and assitants 34 administrative and technical staff 2005: 10 faculties/schools 17.350 students 750 professors and researchers 450 administrative and technical staff Università degli Studi di Udine

24. Our Masters • Information Technology • Euroculture • European Tranport Law • Environment and Life • Crop technology • Language and Cultural Mediation for large social events • Handicap • e-learning • Management of turistic enterprises

25. Our international connection Proactive in implementing the Bologna Declaration and build a European Area of HE • Over 80 MoU’s with other universities all over the world, for mobility of students and teaching staff • We’re involved in various TEMPUS projects for offering advice in restructuring university offices • Around 3% of our students take advantage of Socrates mobility programmes

26. Key-concepts in internalization • Develop joint degrees and coordinated curriculm planning • Mobility and exchange of students • “Stay abroad” becomes an integral part of the “home” studies • Comparability and compatibility of of academic programs (ETCS) • Common degrees

27. The consortia and partnerships • Friuli Innovazione – together with Agemont, Assindustria, CRF, CRUP Bank: for the transfer of the technological innovation to the local industrial sector • Friuli Formazione – together with Udine’s Chamber of Commerce: for permanent and continuing education • CIRMONT – together with INRM: for the technological innovation in the Mountain Regions

28. Foreign Languages Engineering Agricultural studies Science Humanities Medicine Economy and Business Educational Sciences Veterinary Medicine Law The Faculties/Schools

29. The PhD Programmes • Computer science, Mathematics • Life Sciences:2 • Medicine and Surgery: 2 • Agriculture and Veterinary Science: 5 • Civil Engineering: 2 • Mechanical and Electronic engineering: 3 • Economical Sciences and Statistics: 3 • History of Art, Languages : 8

30. Innovative Courses • Public Relations and Central-Eastern European Languages • Management engineering • Food Technologies • Computer Science • Preservation of cultural Artifacts, Tourism • Transplants, tele-medicine • Banking and Finance • Animal health • International transport law

31. Research • 28 Departments (50 laboraories) • 5 Interdepartmental Centres: CIRD ( EDUCATION), CIFRA ( ENVIRONMENT), CARTESIO (GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS), CIFI ( FLUIDODYNAMICS) , CIRF (FRIULIAN LANGUAGE and CULTURE), • International Centre on Multilingualism • Experimental Farm (ca 1000 ha) • Clinical Hospital (10 clinics, 312 beds) • Centre of di excellency MATI on human physiology (muscular palsticity under stress, aging, microgravity, training) • Rigenerative medicine and tissue engineering • Bioremediation • Vegetal Platform for molecular synthesis

32. Excellencies • Public Relations and Central-Eastern European Languages • Logistics and industrial management, (micro)mechanics, energy, environment technologies (waste management, recycling), geographical information systems (GIS) • Food Technologies, genomics, agronomy, ecology, environmental certification, bioremediation, • Information filtering, V&V, Operations Research, WEB technologies, Immersive VR • Sound and image restoration, paper technologies, archaeology • Transplants, tele-medicine • Observatory on economic convergence of CE Europe, Banking Techniques, Enterprise strategies in industrial districts • Fish pathology, nutrition • European transport law, Communitary Law

33. IT in Udine • Udine University was the 5th University in Italy to establish a course in Computer Science, after Pisa, Torino, Bari, Salerno • Currently we have 2+2 courses in the field • Computer Science • Web Technologies and Multimedia • Multimedia Sciences and Technologies • Public Relations curriculum

34. e-activities in Udine • Mission Activities • Network based services to students: • Online payments (tuition fees) • Examination-cycle • Students Identification card • Information services (curricula) • E-learning • On line class documents and other materials • E-library • Online Public Access Catalogue • Automated Loan procedures • Online access to CE-Rom archives • Online magazines and reviews

35. e-activities in Udine • Information and cognitive filtering • Web personalization: the infofactory project • HCI • 3D Web sites • Virtual reality • Information visualization, visual data mining • Wireless Web, mobile devices • E-governement: • Civic portal design (with local authorities) • Online museums: adaptive interfaces • Web portal of the Public Library Serives of the FVG Region

36. e-activities in Udine • E-commerce • Adaptive interfaces • Wireless system interfaces • E-learning • Software and design specifications • Distance learning for Public Safety Corps • E-health • National network in telepathology • Quality assessment of remotely acquired images • Call centre for telecare • Online localization of emergency services • Online clinical records

37. Informatics in Udine • Verification and Validation • Software dependability • Theoretical Computer Science • Language Theory, Type Theory, Semantics • Algorithms • Foundations and models of Computation • Neural networks • Image processing

38. Mountain regions and their criticalities • handicaps vs advantages of: reduced accessibility: • marginality, isolation, population decrease • lack of infrastructures • but • resistance to homologation and cultural mass-globalization, • quality of life is potentially better • Possibility of learning from the experience of others in the area of environment sustainable growth

39. Mountain Regions • In the knowledge and digital information society and economy. • It can play major roles (e.g. free-time economy) • Increase its attractiveness • IT technologies and e-enabled activities can reduce the impact of its handicaps, capitalizing precisely on its reduce accessibility • Human capital and network infrastructure for building a net-community active in the net-economy : e-governement, distance learning, remote sensing, distance e-services, distance e-work, teleassistance, e-commerce • promotion, animation

40. E-Mountain Region projects • Advanced internet applications • 3D websites for tourism promotion • Applications for preservation and study of mopuntain environment • GIS • Intelligent system for integrating and assessing satellite and aerial images with image and temporal databases for environment monitoring and natural disaster prevention • telemedicine

41. A case for Verification and Validation • Life, environment or business critical software applications • Digital woes: e.g. Y2K, Ariane, Patriot failures, Pentium Bug, bugs in mass produced software or widely distributed software • Rigorous validation using logic based formal methods

42. A case for non-technological skills in IT-enabled activities • Before hardware innovation we need innovation in mentality and consequently in the software design • Simplification, reorganization, reengineering, reinventing • Goal is bridging distance, non-hierarchical structures, interactive • Standards, codes • in Udine we are (preparing to) form such human, social, design skills