High-tech Entrepreneurship: Lecture #6 – Tips and tools for valorization of results in the LS sector

This course is designed to introduce participants, PhD and undergraduate students from different disciplines (STEM, but also Social Sciences and Humanities) and also young researchers and post-docs, to the basic knowledge and competences about high-tech entrepreneurship.

Topics: Examples and best practices of intellectual property valorization and exploitation in the field of Life Sciences. What is patentable? Which are the best strategies for the protection of results in these fields?

Speaker:

Laura Spinardi is the head of the Technology Transfer Office at Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico in Milan. She is a graduate in Biology from the University of Turin and received a PhD in Neuroscience at the New York University Medical Center, after which she moved as a postdoctoral fellow to the EMBL in Heidelberg and then in Monterotondo, Rome. After working successfully as a research scientist in the USA, France, and Germany, she joined the Policlinico of Milan in 2007. There she was instrumental in setting up the Technology Transfer Office and managing IPR protection, exploitation strategies, industry networking and spin-off creation. She is accredited Registered Technology Transfer Professional (RTTP) by the Alliance of Technology Transfer Association (ATTP) and a member of AICIPI and ASTP.