How to get market creating technologies: Research Infrastructure and the EIC

20 April 2016

How to get market creating technologies: Research Infrastructure and the EIC
20 April 2016

Programme

18:00 What is the EIC?

• Welcome: Richard L. Hudson, CEO & Editor, Science|Business
• Commissioner Moedas (video from Science|Business Horizon 2020 conference - Feb 2016)

18:25 Sourcing the ideas: How to get more innovations from Europe’s big public
laboratories - a few case studies.
• John Womersley, Chief Executive, Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
• Antonio Di Giulio, Head of Unit, Research Infrastructure, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission
• Marja Makarow, Vice President for Research, Academy of Finland; Governing Board Member, EIT
• Paolo Mutti, Head of the SCI Team, Institut Laue-Langevin
• Sergio Bertolucci, Chair, Scientific Committee, ATTRACT; Director of Research, INFN
Moderator: John Wood, Chair, ATTRACT Advisory Board; Secretary General, Association of Commonwealth
Universities

19:05 Funding the ideas: How to create independent funds that can select and fuel the
growth of spin-out companies.
• Christian Ehler, Member, European Parliament
• Claire Pidancet, Investment Director, RW Blears Capital
• Jan van den Biesen, Vice President Public R&D Programmes, Philips Research
• Maria da Graça Carvalho, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission
• Jean-David Malo, Head of Unit, SMEs, Financial instruments and State Aid, DG Research and Innovation,
European Commission
Moderator: Richard L. Hudson, CEO & Editor, Science|Business

19:45 Networking cocktail

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Sergio Bertolucci
Chair, Scientific Committee, ATTRACT; Director of Research, INFN
A former Pisa scholar, Sergio Bertolucci is currently member of CERN’s Research Board and Scientific
Policy Committee, and the Restricted Panel of the European Committee for Future Accelerators. Before
joining CERN, he worked at DESY, Fermilab and Frascati. The co-author of over 370 papers, Bertolucci’s
career includes roles in the KLOE and CDF experiments leading to the discovery of the top quark, and
innovative instrumentation, development and leadership of the DAFNE accelerator. He was also vice-
president and a member of the Board of the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics.

Jan van den Biesen

Vice President Public R&D Programs, Philips Research
Since 1997, Jan van den Biesen is responsible for developing Philips’ policy regarding publicly funded
programmes for collaborative R&D and coordinating Philips’ worldwide participation in such programmes.
Educated as a physicist at Leiden University, Jan van den Biesen spent one year as a PostDoc at the
University of California in Berkeley before joining Philips in 1983 to work on semiconductor research. As
a thought leader on European research policy from the industrial perspective, he is a regular speaker at
conferences, hearings and expert panels. From April 2008 to February 2012 he was advising the European
Commission as a member of the European Research Area Board (ERAB).

Maria da Graça Carvalho

DG Research and Innovation, European Commission
Maria da Graça Carvalho is currently member of the Unit “Scientific Advice Mechanism” of DG Research and
Innovation of the European Commission. Previously, she was an advisor to the European Commissioner on
Research, Science and Innovation and a principal adviser in the BEPA (Bureau of European Policy Advisers).
This was a post that she had already occupied from 2006 to 2009 and was responsible for the areas of
science, higher education, innovation, energy, environment and climate change. She returned to the BEPA in
2014, after five years as a member of the European Parliament where she was the rapporteur of the specific
programme implementing Horizon 2020.

Antonio Di Giulio
Head of Unit, Research Infrastructure, DG Research and Innovation,
European Commission
Antonio Di Giulio is currently head of the unit Research Infrastructures in the European Commission Directorate-
General for Research and Innovation. Previously, he was head of the Food and Health unit, then of the Strategy
unit and interim director in the Bioeconomy Directorate. Prior to his post with the European Commission, he
was principal administrator with the International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies,
(CIHEAM). He started his professional career as an agricultural economist with the United States Foreign
Agricultural Service in Rome. He holds a master degree in agricultural sciences and a specialised master
degree in rural development, programmes and projects. He has a doctoral degree in food economics.

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Speakers

Christian Ehler
Member, European Parliament
Christian Ehler has been member of the European Parliament since 2004 and the co-coordinator of the
Committee on Industry, Research and Energy. Since his election, Ehler has been actively engaged in EU
research and innovation policy and contributed to the successful set-up of FP7 and provided substantial
input its subsequent mid-term review. In 2011 he became the EPP’s shadow rapporteur for the Commission’s
green paper on Horizon 2020. Subsequently, when the Commission published its proposal for Horizon 2020
in 2011, he was nominated as the Parliament’s rapporteur for the rules of participation of Horizon 2020 as
well as the EPP’s shadow rapporteur for the Horizon 2020 Framework Regulation.

Richard L. Hudson
CEO & Editor, Science|Business
Richard L. Hudson has been a leading science and technology journalist in Europe for more than 30 years.
As managing editor of The Wall Street Journal Europe from 1997 to 2003, he helped lead a redesign of the
title in 2000. He co-founded Science|Business in 2004. He is also co-author of a book with Yale/IBM “fractal”
mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot: “The (mis)Behavior of Markets: A fractal view of risk, ruin & reward”: Basic
Books 2004. He is a graduate of Harvard, and a former Knight Fellow at MIT.

Marja Makarow
Vice President for Research, Academy of Finland; Governing Board Member,
European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT)
Marja Makarow is vice president of the Academy of Finland – the Finnish Research Council and former vice
president and professor of molecular biology of the University of Helsinki and chief executive of the European
Science Foundation. She advised the European Union in the European Research Area Board and the Finnish
government in the Research and Innovation Council. She is member of the governing board of the European
Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) and vice chair of the Future and Emerging Technologies Advisory
Group. Recently, she became chair of the Finnish Research Infrastructure Committee and is ESFRI delegate
of Finland.

Jean-David Malo
Head of Unit, SMEs, Financial instruments and State Aid, DG Research and
Innovation, European Commission
Jean-David Malo is the head of SMEs, Financial instruments and State Aid unit at the Directorate-General
Research and Innovation. He joined the European Commission in January 2001 working on the design of
funding instruments, rules for participation, and funding schemes, both for FP6 and FP7. After heading
the unit in charge of the regional aspects of FP7 from 2006 to 2010, he managed a newly created unit in
DG Research and Innovation to increase private finance and close market gaps in investing in research
and innovation, by expanding the scope and scale of existing EU innovative financial instruments and by
developing new ones in the fields of debt and equity financing, notably in the context of Horizon 2020.

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Paolo Mutti
Head of the SCI Team, Institut Laue-Langevin
Paolo Mutti joined the Institut Laue-Langevin in 2000 as a scientist in the Nuclear and Particle Physics group,
leading a wide range of scientific activities on nuclear structure and gamma ray spectroscopy. In 2010 he
became head of the Instrument Control division, with responsibility for developing specific hardware and
software solutions to perform the scientific programme on ILL instruments. He also develops hardware in
collaboration with industrial partners, one of the ILL’s key industrial liaison activities. In 1997 Mutti obtained
his PhD in nuclear astrophysics with the highest distinction, at the university of Gent.

Claire Pidancet
Investment Director, RW Blears Capital
Claire Pidancet is the investment director of RW Blears Capital and a member of its investment committee.
Her role is to oversee deal making between universities, research institutions and third parties leading the
spin outs, as well as the due diligence, training and preparations which are undertaken to make spin outs
ready for investment. Initially trained as a mathematician, she has 20 years international experience in finance.
She has been advising technology start-ups, private investors and investment funds for the past six years.
Previously, she was a corporate banker for 14 years with Natixis in Paris and ABN AMRO and Rabobank in
London.

John Womersley
Chief Executive, Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
Since 2011 John Womersley is chief executive of the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC),
which is the United Kingdom’s funding agency for particle physics, nuclear physics and astronomy, for large
scale science facilities and national laboratories. He has played a leading role in particle physics both in
Europe and the United States. Womersley worked at Fermilab before becoming a scientific advisor to the
department of energy in the US. He returned to the UK in 2005 to become director of the particle physics
department at the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. In 2008 he took on a broader role as director of the
Science Programmes Office which oversaw STFC’s science and technology strategy, science operations,
peer review processes, research grants, education, training and public outreach. Womersley is the chair of
European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI), the ESFRI Executive Board and the Funding
Agencies for Large Colliders (FALC).

John Wood
John Wood, Chair, ATTRACT Advisory Board; Secretary General, Association
of Commonwealth Universities
John Wood is the secretary general of the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU). Before taking
up his present post, he was dean of engineering at Nottingham and principal of engineering – and then senior
international adviser – at Imperial College London. He was made a Commander of the British Empire in 2007
for “services to science”. He was also a founding member of the European Strategy Forum for Research
Infrastructure and became chair in 2004 where he was responsible for the first European Roadmap. In 2015,
Wood became Chair of the ATTRACT Advisory Board.

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