ECTS
5 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
Description
Turning research into industrial applications will require strategies and players 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 turn the idea into an economic reality.
This course is designed to give students all the tools they need to develop their work into new therapeutic tools. It includes lectures by legal professors and professionals in the field, as well as a tutored project that is followed throughout the course. Work will also be carried out in the Learning Lab: identification of innovative research, drafting of a patent, valorisation plan, company creation, business plan.
This course will involve teacher-researchers, industrialists and patent and development professionals.
Objectives
The aim of this course is to provide students with the skills they need to exploit the discoveries they make in the course of their research activities in the academic or industrial sector, with a view to future industrial development.
At the end of the course, students will have acquired skills in :
- Research funding agencies (ANR, Europe);
- Innovation support and financing structures (SATT, BPI, venture capital, public-private partnerships);
- Intellectual property (patentability study, invention declaration, patent filing, extension)
- Research outsourcing, Open Innovation, collaboration contracts, licensing contracts, MTA ;
- Business start-ups, legal structures, operations and financing;
- Employment law.
Students will be able to identify innovative research and protect it with a patent, with a view to commercializing it, either through a partnership with an industrial company, or through the creation of a start-up. They will be able to apply for funding from organizations that finance research and innovation. They will know how to set up an innovative company, and how to operate and finance it.
Knowledge control
Assessment of knowledge is based on continuous assessment (CCI).