 I come to this presentation about the University of Seattle is an office in the coming meals. I'm going to present to you the main activities and the main interests of the office. So, first of all, let's start with some history. The industrial is an office of the university was created in 1998. And the idea back in that time was to facilitate the circulation of the results, both from an academic perspective, also for an entrepreneur perspective based upon the research made at the University of Siena in all the departments. First of all, the lies in office is responsible for managing the transfer of the technology. And when dealing with these, of course, we are thinking about patents, but also about a spin off companies and anything related to student entrepreneurship. So both in terms of courses and also in terms of help, we can give to them. So, for that, for this reason, we have quite a big number of startups and spin offs in comparison to, of course, the size of our of our university. And if we sum them, we have around 36 of them, basically 34 spin off and two startups. When we consider spin off and startups, we are dealing with companies that are where funded by professors and or researchers of the University of Siena together with some students. PhD students as well and other researchers and people also not from the University of Siena. So that's why we we consider these an important asset cause in this way we can profit, I mean, not not the university, but the companies can profit from from the research. So we we can transfer the the theoretical research into something we are then concrete those spin off and startups together with the departments of the University received almost to have projects founded by the European Union from the Italian government. And the to scan region as well during the past 10 years. So here you find a list of the spin off of the University of Siena. As you can see, I mean, here we we have just reported the the name of those spin offs with very brief discussion, basically just two words in order to describe the area of interest. But you can, of course, find a full list in the webpage of the University of Siena is to search for spin off. As you might see from these slides, we we have lots of spin offs within the life science area being life science an area in which the University of Siena carries out lots of research. Also, a lot of technology transfer as we'll also see when discussing about patents. But life science is is not the only area in which we are able to transfer our knowledge cause engineering is also part of these bots. But both if you consider the if you consider the information technology interest speaking, but also if you consider how you can apply the some systems from the engineering department into other sectors. Not only life science and engineering, but also agribusiness, we have one of them, for example, a couple of them in terms of mixing, engineering and agribusiness and also cultural heritage being culture is something quite important in Italy, I would say, and definitely important in Siena to the university. The university is based is of course crucial for us to to perform some research and then to transfer what we will learn from research into something concrete. So archaeology and cultural heritage and others. I also told you that we consider engineers of Siena, we consider spin off and startups, those funded by professors and full researchers at the university. Of course, as you know, there are entrepreneurship is also about student entrepreneurship. So that's why we offer courses, so courses bought for students in the department of of economics and business, so the school of economic and business, but also courses for all the students of the university. So for students from other fields that would like to learn a little bit more about entrepreneurship or that might have an idea of starting a new company. So we have them from the academic point of view, so like teaching, but also by offering them some free consultant services. In the recent years, we offer almost 40 hours for more than 100 students. And these this led to the to the point of 13 around 13 startups funded by students. Okay, so those 13 13 startups, most of them, so more than 10 of them are not included in the list of spin off and startups. I show you before so basically this one cause they are like startups funded by students or former students of the University of Siena that wanted to develop an idea. They, they had some roots in the in their degree, but also received some ads from our office. How can we also deal not only with internal technology in front of us, but also so like transforming some research into startups and spin off or transforming some brilliant idea of students into startups. Usually a path we, we have is to take part in some regional clusters. So we are directly involved together with other university research centers from Tuscany in regional clusters and in some of them we will have a leading role. If you consider, for example, the the cluster about life science, which is also based in Siena and where lots of our former students, current students, researchers, PhD and also professors are directly involved. But the cluster of life science is not the only one we are involved in almost all the clusters of of our area of areas of interest. So basically all the departments we have are involved in some regional clusters and national technological clusters as well. Here we have listed the main one. And as you can see, of course we do have life sciences as I told you, we do have agri-food, but also other clusters. So from aerospace to made in Italy culture heritage, I already told you how important is it for us technologies for the environment for smart communities and many, many others. And how are we involving them? Well, in several ways, both in terms of the number of people, mainly professors and researchers involved in this are in helping and supporting what the technology clusters propose in so therefore in all the event they organize are also in the transfer of knowledge among all the participants and also outside the clusters. There is another way we can perform our job, which is basically to try to involve companies more in our field. So the joint research laboratories are the perfect tool for this. What are those laboratories about? So basically we have some labs, which might be physical or just like ideal one. So not not something physical, but something about the organization where we mixed the knowledge of some groups or of some departments, or speaking with the practical knowledge of companies, companies which are interested in a specific issue. So in this way there is like usually companies that have high knowledge in something and they want to research and develop something specific or they want to carry out some mixed research about issues that are important for them also important from the society for all the shareholders, stakeholders generally speaking and so on. And here, for example, we have the nine main labs we already have. We are signing other agreements and will soon have at least three more. So in the coming two months we are like increasing the number of our joint research laboratories up to 12. And here are the laboratories labs are about almost any main field we have. So from artificial intelligence, for example, but also life sciences in terms of vaccines or bacterial agents and so on. There is also another one, which is quite rather a peculiar one. It's not included in this list because it's not a joint research lab, but a lab within basically all the groups of the research groups of the University of Siena dealing with artificial intelligence. Why is it important? Why I'm telling you this? Because I already told you quite a lot of time about life science. However, it's the first time I'm telling you that artificial intelligence represents one of the cornerstones in the future of the University of Siena. And this lab is trying to put together all the fields involving this issue. So you might think that, well, of course, it's something about engineering science. Of course, it's about that. But it's also about life science once again, about law, about management, about many, many other areas. Also, those you might not immediately refer to artificial intelligence like agribusiness, but also cultural heritage, literature, and many others. And that's why this lab is not the only, this lab, for example, Siena Lab or SyLab and others, are not the only laboratories that we have. And also, we are also building, and actually what happened was formalized in the previous months, a sort of a cluster, so a network of companies and research centers about artificial intelligence based in Siena. It's something we are still developing, something we are really keen on developing in the coming years. Before reaching the patent area, I will tell you that it is a more informal way to try to put together students and companies. We call them aperitivo con limprese, so it's aperitivo. It's in a lot of words about having, usually, time before dinner where you drink something with, usually, you do this with friends, but we do this with companies. So as you see here, it's very, very informal. Here's our rectorate and the company was presenting the idea, was presenting the work path about how to reach the success they actually reached. It was really very, very good company. And after this presentation, we had this aperitivo, so we were drinking together with the company, so with the managers and employees of the companies and the students, also researchers, they have the opportunity to talk informally with the entrepreneurs or with managers. So it's, we think it's very, very fruitful cause much less informal than conferences or much less informal than lectures. But it also helps in transferring knowledge from entrepreneurs and managers to students and researchers. So I told you that now we are moving in the patent portfolio, of course, as a liaison office as a technology investment office of the university. We also deal with the patients and what are what is our job is what to have some internal discussion also we take care of all the external activities. So, first of all, we talk with our researchers and other researchers so not from the University of Siena, but from other universities research centers or companies all around the world in order to to have a prior research on the invention disclosures in order to then move to the next step, which is like sort of external one. So after the patent committee, it's a committee we have here and the board of director. So we first have a step of internal due diligence so internal knowledge and also we try to help researchers in also dealing with these first step. And then we take care of all the other steps. So from dealing with the experts so helping in the wording of the patents but also in all the administrative components of the so the if we think about Italy but the European patent office and so on so PCT extension post PCT and other so we are helping our researchers also researchers and companies from not from the university of Siena but working with the university of Siena in this case. Currently we have 38 patient families, we have more than 100 titles and we have eight agreements in terms of licenses options and assignments. So these might might be of interest of companies, for example, if someone is an entrepreneur or manager or employee of a company. During this activity, we deal with companies from all over the world. And we want to. We would like to present our patient who would like to present the possible the possible agreements we might have a lot so licenses also options and others to have a mutual benefit we usually try to to find the best solution for the for our researchers but also for the company so we are more in the idea of transferring technology cause it's something we would like to do something good for the world society rather than having only benefits for us without giving out anything. Here is the list of the patent application the PCT extension and the post PCT extensions. So we have quite a nice number of application and others if you consider that we are not a huge. We are not a huge university. However, we can say that, I mean, we are quite good in presenting and I mean, we in terms of our researchers, professors, our group research group and departments are pretty good in these and we do our best to support them. Well, the areas, sorry. We have, sorry, it is like the areas are mainly about life sciences and engineering cause now I'm pretty sure you know these life science is one of the area in which we have some excellence is as well as engineering in terms of robotics. Mainly applied to medicine. So also it's borderline between engineering and sort of life science. And of course those are the main area. We also have other other patents in other fields, but if we have to point out the two main areas are definitely life science and engineering. And during for this patent, so we have our researchers, but also we then would like to find partners new partners for developing patents for. For licensee out our patents or for also have any other kind of agreement that might be of interest of the research center for developing something for. For like. Helping companies and other research centers in further developing our patents or jointly developing our research. So here we have the protection strategy. I think I already told you the main thing about these. And how we perform these. Well, we search for findings we already told you we license it. Sometimes we use it for research and grants or we use these for use our patents for. Go a little bit further in terms of keep on researching based upon those patents. So that's why might be useful not only for companies, but also for other universities and other research centers all around the world cause. Many times we we have some agreements or we at least we have we have some talks and meetings with other research centers and universities around the world cause we think that it's always good to. To find all the possible way to transfer the quality to do something good for the for the whole ecosystem and the and both other research centers and companies as well. What are we receiving? What are we asking to others? Well, if we want to license out the patents. Usually we ask for the for the reimbursements of the cause we. We sustained before and for future expenses if you want to maintain these and sometimes we have some royalties to offer a fair compensation for inventors so for inventors from the University of Siena as well for inventors not from the university if there are some. So. I mean, I almost reached the 30 minutes. I was assigned so I would like to thank you for your attention here you can you find the our email is brevity at unity dots. So it's written here. And also you find it in the University of Siena websites. We are based in Siena in a nice lab we have in the city center. So please feel free to contact us for any question you have if you want to propose collaboration if you want to just talk with us for for jobs. Like more information curiosity or anything you like to ask. So. Finishing here I don't know if like questions from the floor please feel free to ask if you wish so otherwise feel free to send me an email or send to brevity at unity dot it. An email in the coming days coming once if you want to talk directly with the office or directly with me. So thank you very much. Hello Nicolo I am Peter alone. I followed I attended your interesting presentation. And I just want to to add since I see that there is probably an attendant and Vietnamese attendant. I just wanted to remind that that they can get in touch with your office regarding your this topic you were talking about but they also can get in touch with our international office. And I'm writing the email here internationally in the chat. This is the international relations office if they want some students or company want to get in touch with us. And I remind also that tomorrow at. 430 in the afternoon in Vietnamese time. There will be a presentation of our programs and student services for all the students. And that's all. Thank you for your presentation Nicolo. Thank you Carol. It's a light. Looking forward to receiving emails from you soon. Thank you. 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