Cooperation between the EU - Joint Research Center and the Greek Research Institutions

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1 Cooperation between the EU - Joint Research Center and the Greek Research Institutions Nikos Kanellopoulos National Center for Scientific Research Demokritos

2 Main objective To develop strong partnerships and to foster collaborations, in selected priority areas, between JRC and the Greek Research Centers and Universities.

3 Outline Overview of the Research and Innovation activities in Demokritos and Greece Outline the possible strategic partnerships between JRC and Greek Institutions

4 The R&D landscape in Greece: There are ten Research Centers under the Greek General Secretariat (GSRT) one in northern Greece eight in the Metropolitan area of Attica one in Crete

5 Major Challenges a. to integrate the Research Centers virtually into selected academic poles of excellence and to effectively coordinate their activities. This is extremely important due to the fact that almost all of the funding the Research Institutes comes from the European Union competitive programs thereby placing the Greek labs in an internal competition. There is a clear need for a policy that would eliminate overlapping and enhance synergies.

6 The major challenges b. to establish an effective technology transfer scheme aiming at the commercialization of the research results in cooperation with the industrial stakeholders of the Attica Metropolitan area.

7 The Major phases of the Metropolitan Innovation Campus 1 st phase: Internal integration for each research center into poles of excellence. 2 nd phase: Virtual integration of all the research centers of the Attica Region into a Virtual Technopolis with globally competitive poles of excellence. 3 rd phase: effective Technology Transfer integration with clusters of Industrial Stakeholders of Attica. 4 th phase: Integrating with other Greek Innovation Hubs (Northern Greece, Western Greece, Crete). 5 th phase: Integration with globally competitive innovation hubs (JRC, Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory etc).

8 Metropolitan Innovation Campus 1 st phase: Achieved at NCSR D the critical mass by integrating eight Institutes into five poles of academic excellence Institute of Radioisotopes & Radio-diagnostic Products Institute of Nuclear Technology & Radiation Protection Institute of Nuclear Physics Institute of Informatics & Telecommunication Nuclear & Particle Physics Life Science Energy / Environment Nanotechnology I.C.T. Institute of Biology Institute of Physical Chemistry Institute of Materials Science Institute of Microelectronics

9 2 nd phase: 8 Research Center scattered at the Attica Region Biomedical Sciences Research Center Alexander Fleming Hellenic Center for Marine Research National Observatory of Athens National Center for Scientific Research Demokritos Hellenic Pasteur Institute Athena Research and Innovation Center in Information, Communication and Knowledge Technologies National Center for Social Research National Hellenic Research Foundation

10 2 nd Phase: Proposal for the 8 Research Center is to Create a Virtual Technopolis

11 3 rd phase: Scaling up to the regional level Effectively interacting with Clusters of Industrial Stakeholders of Attica

12 3 th phase : The regional Αcademic Poles of Excellence serving as a source of knowledge for the «Innovation Clusters» of industries and SMEs in the Attica region SME SME SME SME INDUSTRY Research Competence in Nano technologies SME INDUSTRY SME Research Competence in ICT Cluster INDUSTRY Cluster INDUSTRY SME SME SME SME INDUSTRY Research Competence in Energy / Environment SME Cluster INDUSTRY Narrowing down the incertitude factors by increasing the cooperation schemes INDUSTRY SME Cluster Research Competence in Bio Science INDUSTRY

13 Jobs You want more jobs, you spawn more Steve Jobs T. Friedman, New York Times For every Steve Jobs, we need more others Obama ========================== For Greece and Southern Europe the need for jobs is much greater

14 In Greece the weaknesses prohibiting the creation of successful start-ups and JOBS are: Geographical fragmentation The lack of an institutional framework that facilitates the building of new IP businesses Less than 1% of GDP on R&D Lack of an effective exploitation plan for innovation Punishment of failure Lack of lower tax rates on IP businesses profit and complicate business start-up processes Lack of venture capital funding High cost of starting, running and, in case of failure, closing an knowledge intensive start-ups Weak performance management & non-efficient public sector The prejudice against the Researcher-Businessman

15 Establishment of a low-cost Technopolis, the Metropolitan Innovation Campus of Attica to enhance start-up and spin-off creation Ideal location of the Campus: accessible within 20 minutes reach from the major industrial units of the country.

16 3 rd phase: Innovation enabling activities of the Metropolitan Innovation Campus Exhibition of Greek Technological achievements NCSR Demokritos is operating a permanent Exhibition of Greek Technological achievements.

17 3 rd phase: Innovation eco-system Hub for major events Business to Business events and meetings with policy makers Major scientific and dissemination events

18 Cooperative spin-offs Enhancing the creation of spin-offs by minimizing cost and risk FP8-1 VC Breakthrough technology SME(GR) FP8-2 VC Spin-off SME(GR) FP8 Project Spin-off SME SME(GR) Large Company I P R E V E N U E I P R E V E N U E I P R E V E N U E Breakthr ough Idea Breakthr ough Idea Breakthr ough Idea Breakthr ough Idea Breakthr ough Idea Breakthr ough Idea Breakthr ough Idea Intellectual Property Revenue Metropolitan Innovation Technologies S.A. NCSR Demokritos Hellenic Innovation Forum Eugenides Foundation - October 2013

19 4 th phase: Integrating with other Greek Innovation Hubs in the fields of environment, energy, agro - bio - food, health and pharmaceuticals and Information and Communication Technologies Northern Greece Western Greece Attica Region Crete

20 A JRC Mediterranean initiative similar to the JRC Danube Region initiative

21 5 th phase: Development and integration with globally competitive innovation hubs in the Mediterranean area -- Examples of areas for cooperation Iberia Hub - INL Italian Hub Greek Hub

22 Novel nanocontainer self-healing Coatings with Antifouling and Anticorrosion Properties --Maritime Applications

23 Maritime Applications the ballast water management market will reach 14 billion Euros

24 Maritime Applications Oil spills remediation nanotechnology applications

25 DIONAS a deep sea multidisciplinary infrastructure for neutrino, oceanographic, geological, biological and environmental measurements

26 ERC Health Applications IDEAS Nanotherapy 2,000,000 PoC Nanotherapy 150,000 Target group In vitro targeting ability in prostate cancer cells MariPaint 1,000,00 Colonovrec 457,350 In vivo targeting by radiolabelled NCs in mice model Drug Delivery nanocontainers for breast and prostate cancer Hyperthermia combined therapy Tumor Efficacy in mice xenografts In vitro targeting ability through folic acid A) negative, B) positive Green presents the Fitc/folic acid modified NCs

27 Health Applications Cell-based high throughput screening platforms for lead discovery general concept: From plant extracts to green insect control agents Target cdna functional studies reporter system Automated detection of cellular responses caused by of bioactive compounds Purified ligand pharmacology expression system cells New Leads Plant extracts chemical compounds Drugs The Requirements Robust system for expression of targets Appropriate cellular environment Efficient reporter for fast assessment of induction/suppression of target function The Benefits Fast process for initial detection Reduction in the number of animals used for activity screening purposes Green Insect Control Agents

28 Energy applications cost efficient natural gas to liquid technologies are very prominent d Due to the collapse of US natural gas prices Recent advances in Gas CH 4 +O 2 CH 3 OH the Process through to Liquid technologies

29 Energy applications

30 Energy applications Waste water treatment and desalination Need 7 times as many plants to supply the basic needs of 2025 population Development of membrane distillation systems with high flux carbon nanotube membranes may provide the answer

31 Maritime Security applications (Perseus project- ICT Inst.) Intelligent use of surveillance systems for monitoring smuggling & illegal trafficking

32 Maritime Security applications Intelligent use of surveillance systems for monitoring irregular migration

33 Main Objective Cooperation between the Joint Research Center and the Greek and Mediterranean Research Institutions is expected to lead to the establishment of globally competitive scientific excellence and innovation hubs in Greece and Southern Europe and to enhance Scientific Excellence and promote Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Mediterranean area