This webinar discusses how the website expernova.com can help users identify and select scientific partners. It provides an overview of the tools on the site, including searching for experts and organizations, analyzing profiles and collaborative networks. Three case studies demonstrate how different users in energy, health and electronics found partners. Benefits are structuring research processes, accelerating productivity, and identifying new opportunities. Questions from attendees are then answered.

1. Identifying Scientific Partners
Webinar 25th February 2014
www.expernova.com

2. [Webinar Overview]
How expernova.com can help you
Identify and Choose future Scientific Partners
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Build Scientific Collaborations
How to work with public research
Get advice and feedback
Precisely identify the most relevant actors
Establish criteria for selection
Recognise challenges faced
State-of-the-art partner identification
A scientific mapping technology
In practice:
3 major needs from our clients
-> 3 example business cases of use of expernova.com
Questions & Answers

3. [Why build Scientific Collaborations?]
To maintain a high level of expertise and stay ahead in the market
To acquire scientific noteriety and international recognition
To integrate new functions and technologies for your product development
To overcome technological obstacles and resolve specific problems
To share risk and cost of R&D
To access public funding

4. [How to work with public research]
 Implement a bilateral contract focused on exploratory research projects
 Implement a bilateral contract focused on an R&D service
 Create a consortium focused on calls for collaborative projects
(Horizon2020, Eurostar,,ANR, CONAHEC…)
 Operate a commercial licence on patents or software
 Integrate students or young researchers into internal R&D projects
(Training Programs, Scholarships, Apprenticeships…)

5. [Advice and feedback ]
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Have an in-house project manager able to understand the field
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Do not assume that the laboratory will provide a finished product
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Do not hesitate to reorientate or reorganize the project you are working on
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Solicit public actors to help you build a project
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Anticipate the management of intellectual property between partners and
be accompanied and assisted as soon as it becomes complex
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Do not underestimate the workload

6. [Difficulties identifying the most relevant actors]
Follow an increasingly complex
scientific environment !
 An explosion in volume of scientific data (publications, articles, patents,…)
 Multiple sources of information
 The emergence of new and dynamic countries / actors
 The interconnection of multiple scientific fields
10 million researchers
worldwide
(20 million expected by
2020)
1,7 million researchers publish
90% of worldwide publications
It is very time consuming for highly skilled
people to do these tasks

7. [Criteria for selection depending on you obstacles ]
Specific issues
Criteria of choice
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Maintaining leadership in your scientific field
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Overcoming a technological issue
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Increasing your skills and comptences
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Adapting and evolving your products
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Optimizing R&D resources
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Academic Excellence
Geographical Location
Applied REsearch vs Fundamental Research
Originality of the work
International dimension (influencial networks)
Experience in collaborative projects
Experience in projects with industrial groups
Individual expert vs a team of experts
Other skils within the laboratory
Existence of patented technologies
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For each issue there is specific criteria!

8. [Identify partners & state of the art analysis]
Type your key-words into the
expernova.com search bar
« Expernova.com is a search engine
designed to assist you
with the identification of R&D
partners
and to work easily on State of the art
analysis »
Map out your scientific environment
Access a comprehensive overview of Experts,
Companies, Research centers, Start-Ups,
Universities and Clusters
Identify actors organised by category
Consult scientific profiles for a research
center and their experts
Browse their collaborative networks
(internal / external , public / private….)
Specially designed for the new professions in Innovation

9. [A scientific mapping technology]
Data
Analysis & indexing
of data & extraction
of concepts
Scientific Mapping:
• Expert profiles
• R&D Centers’ works
• Scientific works, patents…

10. [Live Demo]

11. [Case 1 : Maintain a scientific advantage]
• The Context :
 Sector: Energy
 My Research: « Solar Cell »
Stay the world-leader
 Finance mid-long term projects
 Work with the very best research centres worlwide
• Search Criteria and Selection :
 Scientific excellence
 Core business
 International scope
 Dynamic scientific collborations
 Without geographical contraints

12. [Case 2 : Adapt to a new market]
• The Context :
 Sector: Health
 My research : « Hearing Aid »
 Adapt my product for the Asiatic Market
 Work with Local specialists
• Search Criteria and Selection
 Expert on my subject
 Actors specifically from Eastern Asia
 Dynamic and open to collaborations

13. [Case 3 : Identify technology partners]
• The Context :
 Sector: Electronics and Telco
 Product : « Fibre Optic »
 Overcome a technological obstacle
Applied Research Projects
• Search Criteria and Selection :
 Applied work -> Patents
 Close proximity geographically
 Open to Licensing

14. [Tangible benefits for our users]
Structure internal processes
• Map your R&D ecosystem
• Compare experts, companies and orginisations
• Provide and present identified actors
Accelerate productivity
• Generate an overview of your research topic, in minutes
• On average, save 5 days on partner research and indentification (customer feedback)
Identify new opportunities
• Identify new concepts and competences within the profiles
• Sources and types of works which are currently unexplored
• Simplify data navigation
More than 50 large groups, leaders in innovation, use expernova.com
worldwide (France, UK, USA, Suisse, Chine, Japon,…)

15. [Questions & Answers]
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16. [Contact Us ]
Thank you for your participation.
Organise a personalised demonstration today!
Alex BODEN
alex.boden@expernova.com
Tel : +33. (0)9.81.83.54.41
www.expernova.com