Promoting research and innovation

The commercialization of research into industrial applications will require strategies and stakeholders at the interface between the scientific and socio-economic worlds. Identifying and protecting the innovative nature of a discovery will be followed by the search for funding and partners to transform this idea into economic reality.

This course unit will focus on providing students with all the tools they need to promote their work with a view to discovering new therapeutic tools. This course unit includes lectures given by legal academics and professionals in the field, as well as a supervised project that runs throughout the course unit. Work will also be carried out in the Learning Lab: identifying innovative research, drafting a patent, developing a commercialization plan, creating a business, and developing a business plan.

This EU will involve university professors, industrialists, and professionals in the fields of patents and commercialization.

The objective of this EU is to provide students with skills that will enable them to capitalize on the discoveries they will make in the course of their research activities in academia or industry, with a view to future industrial development.

At the end of the course, students will have acquired skills in:

· Research funding organizations (ANR, Europe);

· Structures supporting and financing innovation (SATT, BPI, venture capital, public-private partnerships);

· Intellectual property (patentability study, invention disclosure, patent application, extension)

· Outsourcing research, open innovation, collaboration agreements, licensing agreements, MTAs;

· Business creation, legal structures, operation, and financing;

· Labor law.

Students will be able to identify innovative research and protect it with a patent with a view to exploiting it, either through a partnership with an industrial company or by creating a start-up. They will know how to prepare funding applications to organizations that finance research and innovation. They will be familiar with the procedures for creating an innovative company, how such companies operate, and how they are financed.

Knowledge is assessed through continuous assessment (CCI).