Businesses develop CERN tech in access scheme
CERN technologies are being made available to companies as part of a new knowledge transfer programme which was launched earlier this month. The scheme – CERN Easy Access Intellectual Property [IP] – aims to promote the development of CERN technology into real-world applications.
“Sometimes our technologies are too early stage for a company to risk investment. By offering free access, we aim to encourage our partners to evaluate and commercialise those technologies, thus making it easier for CERN and industry … to work together,” says Giovanni Anelli, the head of CERN’s Knowledge Transfer Group.
Participating companies will enjoy a free licence to develop the technologies being made available – in return for reporting back on development progress to the CERN Knowledge Transfer group.
The scheme – which will join CERN’s existing technology transfer programmes – already features such innovations as the 3D magnetic sensor calibrator, the cryogenic optical fibre temperature sensor and the thermally insulatable vessel.
“We strive to be as flexible as possible when it comes to dissemination of our intellectual property. The technologies licenced under the Easy Access IP scheme will be royalty-free and shared with qualified companies willing and able to take them to the market with clear benefits for the economy and for society,” says Enrico Chesta, the head of CERN’s Technology Transfer and IP Management Section. “The return for us is the establishment of strong, lasting relationships with external partners.”
This CERN initiative follows on from a pilot of the concept – the Easy Access Innovation – which was run in the United Kingdom, in a collaboration between King’s College London, the University of Bristol and the University of Glasgow.
For more information on the scheme, please visit the CERN Easy Access IP website.
