National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos”
50 years of Excellence in Science
National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos”
“Demokritos” is the largest interdisciplinary Research Center in Greece
in a campus covering an area of 600.000m2 with 55.000m2 building
facilities.
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The Demokritos center was established in 1960 with the operation of the 5MW
nuclear reactor
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NCSR “Demokritos” at a glance
Human Resources (2011)
PERSONNEL
Scientific Personnel
Administrative Personnel
763
515
87
Technical Personnel
Auxiliary Personnel
Financial Resources (2011)
TOTAL INCOME
25.655.600€
100%
Public Grants
14.913.360€
58%
 Income from EU Programmes & Services
10.742.240€
42%
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NCSR “Demokritos” at a glance
Five Institutes – Poles of Excellence in Nanotechnology, EnergyEnvironment, Biosciences, ICT and Nuclear Physics
320 Research programs including
 3 European Research Council (ERC)
 3 NoEs
 87 FP7 Projects out of which 25 are
coordinated by NCSR “D” Staff (50
Collaborative Projects, 20 Marie Curie
Grants, etc.)
61 NSRF Projects (National Strategic
Reference Framework) from which: 11
Excellence in Research, 5 ESFRI, 12
Collaborative Research I&II, etc.)
Scientific Performance
30% of the total publications of the Greek Research centers
Publications in refereed journals 450
Citations No 16.570
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Publications Conference Proceedings
470
Citations Impact 12,43
Education
1.750 PhD theses supervised by NCSR “D” researchers
PhDs (2011)
27
Master Diplomas (2011)
30
Undergraduate Thesis (2011)
24
Practical Training (2011)
56
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Unique Infrastructure of NCSR “Demokritos”
Research Nuclear Reactor / Tandem Accelerator / Clean room facilities / Dioxine
Laboratory etc
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Unique Infrastructure of NCSR “Demokritos”
KM3NeT (to search for extraterrestrial
in the depths of the Mediterranean)
neutrinos
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Technology Transfer
TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE PARK OF ATTICA “LEFKIPPOS”
The Technology Park NCSR “D”, starts its operation creating know-how in the
mentoring of spin-off companies (spin-off) and providing “incubator” services.
NCSR Demokritos has 13 Spin Offs companies and hold 71 Patents.
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Ministry Of Education, Religion, Culture and Sports
General Secretariat Of Research And Technology
National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos”
Title of the presentation:
The role of the research centers in promoting
innovation and entrepreneurship
Nick Kanellopoulos
National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos”
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Can Demokritos lay the path for becoming the “Greek Silicon valley” and thereby
Greece “the start up nation” of Southeastern Europe?
In order to answer the question we compare Greece with Israel,
which is considered to be the “start up nation” and has more startups than anywhere else outside Silicon Valley’.
• Israel is a country of only 7.1 million people and produces more
start-up companies than such large nations as Japan, China, India,
Korea, Canada and the United Kingdom, whereas Greece produces
an extremely small number of start-ups and spin-offs.
• The start-ups in Israel have been able to receive more than 2.5
times venture capital per capita than the US and 30 times as
much as Europe, whereas in Greece there is a lack of venture
capital and foreign investment.
• In Israel there is a very strong cooperation with the diasporas'
scientists, whereas Greece has a very weak interaction with the
10,000 Greek Scientists abroad.
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Main SWOT findings
Strengths for the Greek research centers becoming “growth engines” are:
The competitiveness of the Greek researchers is considered to be
the main competitive advantage,
it is demonstrated by the fact that the Greek researchers in the
past years succeeded into receiving three times higher
funding than the European average.
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Main SWOT findings
Weaknesses for the Greek research centers becoming “growth engines” are:
• Lack of an effective exploitation of innovation
and technology transfer policy
• Lack of venture capital
• High cost of starting, running and in case of
failure, closing a spin-off
• Lack of financial support: less than 1% of GDP
on R&D
• Prevailing prejudice against the ResearcherBusinessman
• Geographical fragmentation
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Effective Regional Integration
The overcome the roadblocks of the fragmentation and the rest
of aforementioned of the weaknesses
we propose an effective regional integration of Research Centers
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Virtual Integration
Benefits of the Virtual Integration
Two of the major benefits of the proposed establishment of the virtual
Integration Demokritos are:
(a)
The increase of synergies and the reduction of overlapping of the
activities of the fragmented research activities
and
(b)
the establishment of critical mass of infrastructure and expertise
accessible to all the scientists from research centers, Universities and
industry..
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Development phases of the Metropolitan Innovation Campus at Demokritos
Integration into national globally competitive Institutes or “poles of
excellence”
Institute of Radioisotopes
& Radio-diagnostic
Products
Nuclear &
Particle
Physics
Institute of Biology
Institute of Nuclear
Technology & Radiation
Protection
Life Science
Institute of Nuclear
Physics
Energy /
Environment
Institute of Physical
Chemistry
Nanotechnology
Institute of Materials
Science
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Institute of Informatics
& Telecommunication
I.C.T.
Institute of
Microelectronics
Proposal to establish integration funding to establish sustainable
“local virtual Institutes” industrial clusters In FP8 instead of the
“distributed virtual Institutes” of FP6
Establishment of globally competitive clusters of SMEs “effectively
integrated with the corresponding local virtual Institutes” following the
successful examples of clusters abroad ( IMEC cluster)
Cluster
SME
SME
SME
SME
Cluster
Nuclear
Particle
Physics
SME
SME
Cluster
SME
Energy /
Environm
ent/Space
SME
SME
I.C.T.
SME
SME
SME
SME
SME
SME
SME
SME
SME
Cluster
SME
SME
Cluster
Life
Science
SME
Nanotechnolo
gy
SME
SME
SME
SME
SME
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SME
SME
Metropolitan Innovation Campus at Demokritos (MIC)
for each “pole of excellence” it is important to match the “academic
competences” with the “industrial needs “ of relevant industries
e.g. for the Energy CLUSTER
operated according to the successful IMEC
CLUSTER model in Belgium
Smart specialization
Establishment of strategic
roadmap
focusing on a few areas where
Greece presents competitive
advantages
“Cluster” of Energy
Industries
“Cluster” of “Energy”
Metropolitan
Scientists
• Natural gas technologies
• Clean coal and clean lignite
technologies
• Desalination
• Solar Energy etc
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HORIZON 2020
Achieving Technology Transfer within the clusters, depending on the
direction of EU-HORIZON 2020
Cluster
Solar Energy
SME
Energy /
Environment
LARGE
Spin-off
IP
IP
IP
Natural Gas
Spinoff
Desalination
SME
SME
Spinoff
LARGE
LARGE
LARGE
Technology specific
cooperation within the
cluster
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Development phases of the Metropolitan Innovation Campus at Demokritos
Regarding the technology transfer policy a close cooperation with
successful innovation hubs abroad is needed
“Arizona Technology Enterprises” which has succeeded in the past
three years to:
o multiply the number of Start-ups by six
o multiply the number of Licenses by four
o multiply the number of Patents by three
Arizona Technology Enterprises
Intellectual
Property
Revenue
Arizona State University
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Integrated Intellectual property Exploitation Plan
IP exploitation
companies
Business Angels &
Venture Funding
(Intellectual Ventures)
Exploitation of patent portfolios in
cooperation with IP portfolios agencies
4th Generation potential SpinOff Incubator
Proof of Concept Unit
One-stop-shop for scientific &
technological consultation services
The spin-offs will acquire
independent legal status
only and when they obtain
external funding
Effective “clusters” following the
successful effective IMEC model
Metropolitan Innovation Campus SA
Revenue
National Research labs
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Intellectual
Property
Proposal to fund “Techno polis” initiatives in FP8
Vision
The goal is to bring together industry and academia and achieve critical
mass of both human and infrastructure resources following the
international trend of establishing high cost “Technology parks” .
The Demokritos location is ideal (proximity to highway, metro and airport)
This proximity is very important for instance bio- and nano- research
activities, which require the same relatively large facilities, e.g. TEM, SEM,
NMR etc. These facilities should be readily accessible in one location,
instead of being scattered in different sites.
SISPARK, building area of 1.57 million square meters and investment of more
than RMB 4 billion Yuan
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Aims of the Metropolitan Innovation Campus at Demokritos
In summary the Metropolitan Innovation Campus “Demokritos”
will further enhance the scientific excellence
and at the same time will become an Intellectual Property
Technology accelerator
by propelling breakthrough ideas from the lab to the market and
attracting foreign investments.
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Can the virtual Metropolitan Innovation Campus at Demokritos become a “Greek
Silicon valley”
The answer is YES, the proposed Metropolitan Innovation Campus
if we apply the right technology transfer policy can become a growth
engine of the Greek economy
attracting foreign investment and sustaining knowledge based jobs
in Greece.
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