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Ecole Polytechnique

Fédérale de Lausanne

EPFL - Industrial Relations

Viviane Boutinard Rouelle, Deputy Head of Corporate Relations- VPIV

VPIV | eCH | 21.04.2016 2 Missions Background

EPFL’s three missions according to the Federal Act

Education Research

Technology Transfer

of scientists,

engineers & architects Advanced,

fundamental & applied

to industry & society

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Campus 10,124 students, of whom 2,077 PhD students (2015)

338 faculty (2014)

4,508 staff (scientific & technical) (2014)

Spending (2014) CHF 645M from State budget

CHF 251M other funding (EU, SNSF, private...)

Total: CHF 896M

EPFL presentation

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93.4M

A budget of CHF 896 million (2014)

644.7M State budget

91.2M

2.4% 21.5M Other income

72% 10.2%

6.7%

6.4%

60.2M

0.9% 8M Tuition fees

1.4% 12.3M Public sector contracts

Private sector and other mandates

20.0M Industrial mandates

40.2M Other mandates

+ ( )

1 Including construction expenses 2 Not including industry or public sector mandates (foundations, not-for-profit companies, etc.)

3 Primarily the central part of the overheads and financial revenues (not including revenues from the DII or from technological platforms, etc.)

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Swiss National Science Foundation & CTI

57.6M European Programmes

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47 MOOCs online

September 2012 – October 2015:

1,065,000 registered participants

in 185 countries + 28 territories

66% are not students (continuing education), out of which

78% are employed full time

36% of the MOOCs are in English

64% of the MOOCs are in French

MOOCs: Massive Open Online Courses

Education MOOCs

Headquarters

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Research

VPIV | eCH | 21.04.2016 7 Overview Faculty

Scientists recruited at international level

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High Level of Research in 5 Schools and 2 Colleges

in research

Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering Architecture, Civil Engineering and Environmental Engineering

65 Faculties, 605 Collaborators*, 2189 BS/MS Students and 290 PhD

Excellence …

Engineering Materials, Electronics, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical and Micro Engineering

113 Faculties, 1277 Collaborators*, 1567 BS/MS Students and 657 PhD

Basic Sciences Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics

136 Faculties, 1173 Collaborators*, 1437 BS/MS Students and 474 PhD

Computer and Communication Sciences

Computer Sciences, Communication Systems

55 Faculties, 444 Collaborators*, 1161 BS/MS Students and 243 PhD

Life Sciences Bioengineering, Brain Mind Institute, Cancer Experimental Research, Global Health Institute

52 Faculties, 715 Collaborators*, 701 BS/MS Students and 255 PhD

*Including faculties, scientific collaborators, technical and administrative staff, FTE, data 2015

College of Humanities Social & Human Sciences, Area & Cultural Studies, Social Ontology, Digital Humanities

College of Technology Management, Technology & Entrepreneurship, Financial Engineering

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Computer and communication sciences - IC School

• Computer Architecture

• Data Science

• Image Processing and Graphics

• Programming Language and Graphics

• Security and Privacy

• Signal Processing

• Systems and Networking

Faculty Research

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Management of Technology- CDM College

• Management of Technology & Entrepreneurship

• Finance

• Technology & Public Policy

Faculty Research

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Ranking 2015 – The EPFL is well-placed

Ranking Research

EUROPE

PP (top-10%) indicator

Eng. & Technology

WORLD

Eng. & Technology

Leiden

THE (2014)

QS

Global performance

Global performance

Global performance

2

Eng./Tech. & Computer Science

5

5

3

6

8

PP (top-10%) indicator

Eng. & Technology

Eng. & Technology

Global performance

Global performance

Global performance

Eng./Tech. & Computer Science

17

12

15

14

34

Ranking

Shanghaï 37

14

103

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Innovation

Technology Transfer

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Overview Commitments

1986 : Industrial liaison program : Cast / association (Alliance)

2000 : First equity deals

1988 : Policy for research contracts & partnerships 1991 : Science park created : Foundation PSE

1993 : IP strategy / licensing

1995 : Pre-seed money for start-up projects : Foundation FIT

1997 : Coaching for early stage start-up projects

1998 : Technology transfer : Creation of the TT office (SRI)

2013: The Forge 2011: VPIV moves to Innovation Park

2010: EPFL Innovation Park

2009 : The Garage

2008 : Seed fund

2007 : Revised TT regulations & overhead policy

2005 : Centers, Programs, Innogrants, TT Alliance 2004 : Vice-Presidency for Innovation and Tech. Transfer (VPIV)

2003 : Legal framework adapted for efficient TT

2006 : New partnerships (endowed chairs, indus. incubators)

History: Early and continuous commitment of EPFL

1999 : Entrepreneurship courses / rules for remuneration of inventors and labs

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Priority patent applications

Licenses, TT agr. & options

Start-ups

Invention & technology disclosures

EPFL Technology Transfer

TTO VPIV

In 2015

• 7.5 % Research contracts/budget

• 157 inventions, 88 priority patents filed

• 18 start-ups

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CHAIR

SPONSORING

INTERNSHIPS

FOR STUDENTS

START-UPS

GRANTS FOR

STUDENTS

Master Excellence

Grants,

Innogrants

RESEARCH

CONTRACTS

EUROPEAN

R&D

PROJECTS

EVENTS

INDUSTRIAL

PARTNERS

Food/Space/

EcoCloud/….

CENTERS

Large corporations

EPFL

EVENTS SPONSORING

TedX

Booth @ForumEPFL

EPFL Industrial Relations

Diversity of Collaborations with EPFL

TEACHING

FROM INDUSTRIAL

PARTNERS

VISITING

SCIENTIST

CUSTOMIZED

WORKSHOPS

for companies

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EPFL Research collaborations: Defined IP Policy

Company pays for a specific research project

GENERAL RULES

• Company priority to patent interesting results

• IP ownership transferred to Company if patent filed by Company

• Subject to specific cases, no royalties are due later by Company in

case of commercial exploitation of results

• Company and EPFL may freely use unpatented results, subject to

possible special clauses on software

• Free license from Company to EPFL on patented results outside of

a defined Field of Use, with the right to grant sublicenses. No

restriction of Field of Use for scientific research and education

• Right for EPFL to publish its scientific results - No secret results

• Background IP to be discussed if any

• 40% overhead on direct costs and expenses

Collaborations

Company is interested in the field and wish to

have a first insight

GENERAL RULES

• All rights on results remain with EPFL

• Company is regularly informed about the results

(reports, meetings, etc)

• Option for Company, limited in time, to negotiate

exploitation rights or transfer of IP (no obligation for EPFL

to conclude)

• Right for EPFL to publish its scientific results provided

company is given the opportunity to exercise its option (rel.

short delay to decide)

• Background IP to be discussed if any

• 20% overhead on expenses and direct costs

Industrial grants Research contracts

Collaborations Research

RESEARCH/

SERVICE

CONTRACTS

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Internships of students at companies

Compulsory Internships

(before Master thesis) • 8-24 weeks

• work in the company

• companies define the

content of their

internships, it has to be

aligned with the

respective master

program

• no EPFL supervision

Master thesis project in

industry • 25 weeks, full-time

• work in the company

• defined research topic

which can be suggested

by the company, but

needs approval by the

concerned master

program

• supervision by an EPFL

professor

Semester project

• 12 weeks, part-time

• work in the EPFL

laboratory

• subject provided by

industry and accepted by

the laboratory

• supervision by an EPFL

professor

Students & Companies

Internships for

students

Collaboration example

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Transdisciplinary initiatives and Centers

Opportunities Companies Participation

CENTERS,

PROGRAMMES

as facilitators

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Center Ecocloud

Headed by Prof. B. Falsafi

Innovation in sustainable cloud computing technologies • Cloud Applications &

Services • Cloud Data Management • Sustainable Data Centers • Trustworthy Cloud Systems

http://www.ecocloud.ch/

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Nano-Tera

Headed by Prof. G. De Micheli The Nano-Tera initiative aims at using engineering and information technology to develop complex systems for health, security, energy and the environment http://www.nano-tera.ch/index.php

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EPFL new Initiatives: 2017-2020

• Digital Health Initiative 2030, Prof. Didier Trono, Head of Laboratory of Virology and Genetics

• Swiss Data Sciences Center, Prof. Edward Bugnion, Head of Data Center Systems

Laboratory (ETH Board)

• EDEN-Applied Computational Intelligence, Prof. Matthias Grossglauser, Head of

Computer Communications and Applications Laboratory (national thematic networks (NTNs) )

• Advanced Manufacturing, Prof. Christian Enz, Director of Institute of Microengineering

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Swiss Data Science Center • Develop a network of data science support

• work closely with research groups,

• foster collaboration between users and data scientists.

• Offer end-to-end data science services • target the research community in Switzerland,

• provide a set of software and platform stacks provided “as-a-Service”,

• backed by academic and commercial cloud services.

• Develop standard agreements w. private and commercial • get access to valuable, proprietary data for research purposes,

• experiment with new platforms from commercial vendors.

• Create a data science community • gather users of data science and innovators in data science methods;

• organize knowledge and tools produced by the community.

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EPFL Innovation Park: a model of integrated collaborations

EPFL Innovation Park

Interactions

Proximity

EPFL Campus EPFL Innovation Park

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The Innovation Park

an ecosystem of 150 companies and 1’700 employees

13 buildings for companies partnering & collaborating

with EPFL, including 6 buildings for start-ups, offering a

variety of value-added services (coaching, training,

funding,…)

The Garage (opened in 2008) for very early stage ventures

La Forge (opened in 2014), a co-working open-space for

early projects

http://epfl-innovationpark.ch/

An ecosystem of 150 companies and 1’700 employees

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Startups

Start-ups EPFL Innovation Park

More than 100 start-ups

in 2016

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Supports for start-ups

Start-ups Surroundingss

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EPFL spin-offs supported by EPFL Innogrants

Innogrants Start-ups

All EPFL start-ups on http://tto.epfl.ch//EPFL-spinoffs

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Large companies

Large companies

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

FINANCE

COMPUTING

HEALTH

NUTRITION

ENGINEERING, TRANSPORT, MATERIALS

EPFL Innovation Park

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Mission

AGEFI, 28.9.2010 Research Area

Diabetes

Obesity

Aging

Dementia

« Add life to years and not years to life»

A Biomedical research Institute based at EPFL

Development of personalized nutrition to prevent and cure diseases, based on an understanding of

genomics and metabolomics of each individual

The challenges of a growing and aging population

Company Research Center EPFL Innovation Park

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Nitto Denko at the Innovation Park

Company Research Center EPFL Innovation Park

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Interdisciplinarity serving solutions

• Driving assistance systems

• Human-machine interface

• Materials

• Energy and Environement

Mars 2014 - Emotion detectors could make

driving safer.

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Flexibility of set-up models at EPFL Innovation Park

Research Center

Who: Scientists

Why: Excellence in Research, acquire new skills, new people

How : Adjunct professorship, joint PhD, common publications

Business units with Innovation cell

Who:Transdisciplinary team for technical interaction with EPFL

Why: “Out of the box” culture for the whole business unit

How: Centers sponsoring, demonstrators, events, ideation,

internships of students, CTI projects

Open innovation - New products objective

Who:Transdisciplinary team : technical, business dev.,marketing

Why: Scouting new technologies, go to market through network

How: Research projects, centers sponsoring, events, internships

Open innovation - Leverage R&D efficiency

Who: Scientist and Engineers

Why: Scouting new technologies for R&D transfer

How : Research projects, IP, internships

EPFL Innovation Park Set-up Models

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Help in identifying research

expertise

Connect with Startups

Organize events to network with

other companies

Connect to the Cantonal authorities

if necessary

Help companies for maximizing the

benefits of their presence

Support in recruiting talents through

access to EPFL career center

VPIV Corporate Relations

team acts as a privileged

interface between your

company and EPFL

Key Account Management Exclusive to Innovation Park

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Access to Events and Networking

• Innovation on Board Managerial Event on innovation dedicated to executives

• Managers Lunch Business Lunch between the managers of the large companies established at the

Innovation Park

• Demo Day @ La Forge

Meeting with Start-ups and discover their exciting products, connect with Founders

• Pizzas & Start-up Networking Lunch on 4 startups based at Innovation Park presenting their business to

the Innovation Park and EPFL community

• Venture Ideas Conferences organized on Entrepreneurship

• Social Events: Happy Hours & X-Mas Drinks, …

Networking Events Other Opportunities

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An inspiring campus

Alberto Hernando, SthAR (software), EPF Lausanne

Algorithms that draw on large quantities of telecommunications data

to identify where and when to deliver a message most effectively. The

software product could be useful in both electoral and advertising

campaigns

and

Alexandre Catsicas, Artmyn (software), EPF Lausanne

Andreas Hempel, embotech GmbH (software), ETH Zurich

Mathias Haussmann, Uepaa AG (web, mobile), ETH spin-off

Olivier Hamel, Prodibi (web, mobile), Geneva

Timo Steitz, ShoeSize.Me AG (web, mobile), St. Gallen

and 14 other startups

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Contacts for Corporates Relations: Viviane Boutinard Rouelle

Deputy Head of Corporate Relations

Senior Industrial Liaison Officer/ viviane.boutinard@epfl.ch

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne - EPFL

Vice-Presidency for Innovation and Technology Transfer –VPIV

Innovation Park | Bâtiment J | 1015 Lausanne | Switzerland

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