ESTRO Guide 2019

EDUCATION PRE-MEETINGCOURSE Academic entrepreneurship, innovation, and technology transfer in radiation oncology

FRIDAY 26 APRIL 2019 Course directors: P. Lambin (NL) and K. Tanderup (DK)

COURSE AIM Radiotherapy is a discipline involving a high degree of technology and using various discipline (imaging, biology, computer sciences, clinic, physics…). This course is meant as a workshop to stimulate collaboration between academia and industry and technology transfer which is essential for new technology to bridge the “second translational gap” and reach the patients.

TOPICS • Welcome and round of presentation • Technology Transfer or Academic entrepreneurship (AE): what is it? and why should we do it?

• The path of AE: a helicopter view • Intellectual Property: the first step • The Business Plan: the second step • (Pre-)seed funding • Grants for Technology Transfer

• AE for hardware • AE for software • AE for biomarkers (SNP, gene signatures…) • AE for service • AE for drugs • The issue of Potential Conflict Of Interest.

LEARNINGOBJECTIVES To provide understanding of: • Business models • Product development • Patents and technology transfer

• Rules and regulations • Funding opportunities.

To facilitate: • Networks between academia and industry • Networks between researchers working with innovation. To stimulate technology-oriented consortia which can apply for joint EC funding.

To promote European radiation oncology industry.

TARGET AUDIENCE • Radiation oncologists, medical physicists, RTTs, and radiation biologists • Engineers/physicists/biologists fromknowledge-based companies, start-ups, spin-offs.

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