EPS launches new Technology and Innovation Group
The European Physical Society [EPS] is launching a new Technology and Innovation Group [TIG], in accordance with the EPS Strategy Plan 2010+. This initiative, fostered by the EPS Executive Committee last year, confirms the longstanding role of the EPS in establishing links between industry, research institutes, society and universities within Europe.
The Technology and Innovation Group is hoping to build a close collaboration with the newly created Technology Transfer Offices [TTO] Circle, by means of CERN, which is both a founding EPS member as well as a major player in the TTO circle organisation.
The TTO network connects technology transfer offices from European public research organisations, to facilitate the spread of technology and research-based innovation to industry and society, and to provide models of best practice to smaller member offices.
The EPS Technology and Innovation Group intend to take stock of on-going events which relate to innovation and technology transfer: from physics research to finals applications at an international level.
To this end, a workshop is being planned, at the Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture, in Erice, Sicily, from 21-25 October this year, with the aim of highlighting the best of the many conferences, events and reports announced for 2012 – all dealing with the application of basic research technologies to both health care and industry, and how this can benefit society.
In close collaboration with CERN, field experts will be invited to present their key topics, along with technological developments – ranging from accelerators, detectors, electronics, sensors and software tools – and to evaluate current practices relating to technology and knowledge transfer. An emphasis will be given to those with medical and broad industrial applications.
Both the workshop, and the group itself, will benefit a great deal from the support of institutes and laboratories which are already strongly engaged in technology transfer from physics research to application.
