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1RWTH Aachen Innovation 2014
The Aachen Way – Working with IndustryThe Benefits of Brussels:University Business Cooperation4 November 2014 London
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Overview
Thilo Vogel
RWTH Aachen University
Trends, Drivers, Barriers and Benefits
An example – RWTH Aachen Campus
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RWTH Aachen University -At a glance
40,375 students
512 professors, 5,000 researchers, 9 faculties (incl. university hospital)
Focus on natural sciences and engineering
Budget: 894 M € (540 M € state grants, 354 M € third-party funds)
4 Fraunhofer institutes, 1 Leibniz institute, research alliance with JÜLICH (Helmholtz)
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1 Meeting Global Challenges: Working on the greatest research issues of our time
2 Being attractive for the best minds in the world
3 Promoting and funding on all levels
4 Increasing quality of teaching
6 Leading in interdisciplinary top research projects
5 Considerably improving in the area of scientific performance indicators
7 Leading in acquisition of external funding
RWTH Aachen University -Core goals
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Thilo Vogel
Year 2012 2013
Commercialisationagreements
51 78
R&Dagreements
649 491
RWTH Patents 55 64
RWTH Spin-offs 40 41
RWTH Aachen University -Innovation figures
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Industry – academia trends
Industry trends Outsourcing of corporate R&D
activities and shift in production standards
Dependance on external parties to tackle the accelerating demand for innovations
Merging markets and industries
Academia trends Increased battle for talents
Internationalisation of research and education leads to intensified competition amongst universities
Altered relationship between industry and academia
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Drivers for industry cooperation
Reputation/Image (Strengthen “RWTH” as brand, attract students)
Strategy/Competences (Strategic positioning, application-orientation)
Sustainability (Establish long-term cooperation with industry partners)
Financing (Additional funding, fundraising projects)
Space/Infrastructure (Provision of equipment)
Thilo Vogel
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Barriers in cooperation
Strategic fit (No alignment of strategic goals of partners)
Intellectual Property (Ownership of IP)
Confidentiality (Exclusiveness, duration)
Proximity (Distance between partners can act as barrier)
Capacity (Space/infrastructure, number of staff)
Budget (Availability of funding)
Source: CAT Catalytic Center
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Benefits of cooperation
Topics of relevance (for society, research and teaching)
Partnership (Prospect of trustful long-term relationships)
Careers (Excellent possibilities for career development for students & researchers )
Funds (Generating funds for further research and teaching activities)
Infrastructure (Setting up new infrastructure)
Source: CAT Catalytic Center
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An example –RWTH Aachen Campus
The Campus project ensures the further growth of RWTH Aachen University
The maxim is „Research requires Space“
A coherent campus is being built and will be fully integrated into public life
The area will increase from 800,000 m² to 2.5 km²
The total investment will be approx. € 2 billion
10,000 new direct and indirect jobs will be created
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Relevant themes in 19 research clusters
initial cluster scheduled cluster
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The approach
Competitive,consortium,
e.g. joint product development
Interdisciplinary and continous research and development cooperation under one roof
Classicalcooperation
Pre-competitive,consortium,
e.g. benchmarking study
Competitive,single company,
e.g. product optimization
Industry
ScienceCompetence and infrastructure
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Heavy-Duty Drives Cluster
© JSWD
Center for Mobile Machinery
© IME RWTH Aachen University
Center for Wind Power Drives
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Enrollment and local presence: Closer cooperation on RWTH Campus
Enrollment Lease
Leasing of space ≥ 250 m²
Term of lease ≥ 10 years
* 1 unit ≙ 3 hours / semester
Research budget ≥ € 20.000 p.a.
Term of lease ≥ 5 years
Teaching commitment ≥ 1 unit*
Involved staff members in the center≥ 2 up to 20 employees
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Thank you for your attention!
Bram WijlandsRWTH Aachen
Technology Transfer
Templergraben 59
52062 Aachen
+49 241 80-94023
www.rwth-aachen.de/transfer
