Valorization of research and innovation

The valorization of research work towards industrial applications will require strategies and actors at the interface between the scientific and socio-economic worlds. The identification and protection of the innovative character of a discovery will be followed by the search for funding and partners to transform this idea into an economic reality.

This course will focus on providing students with all the tools they need to develop their work with a view to discovering new therapeutic tools. This course includes lectures given by teacher-researchers who are lawyers 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, creation of a company, business plan.

This course will involve teachers-researchers, industrialists and professionals in the field of patents and valorisation.

The objective of this course is to provide students with skills that will enable them to enhance the value of the discoveries they will make as part of their research activity in the academic or industrial sector, with a view to future industrial development.

At the end of the training, students will have acquired skills concerning:

- 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 contract, license contract, MTA ;

- Business creation, legal structures, operation and financing;

- The right to work.

The student will be able to identify innovative research, to protect it by a patent, with a view to its valorization, either by a partnership with an industrialist, or by the creation of a start-up. He/she will be able to prepare funding applications to organizations that finance research and innovation. He will know how to create an innovative company, how it works and how to finance it.

The control of knowledge is done in continuous integral control (CCI).