The ATTRACT Initiative

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From open science to open innovation

The ATTRACT Initiative Leveraging the value of science – to get Europe back to work

The challenge Europe needs more jobs and growth. It needs to compete globally – with innovative services to sell, market-beating products to export, and world-class talent to employ. We need more breakthrough technologies, invented and developed in Europe, and scaled up to maximise impact. For that, there’s a special sector of the European economy we can tap more effectively: The big Research Infrastructure projects – telescopes, particle accelerators, synchrotrons, high-power lasers, complex gene labs and other high-tech facilities. To achieve their Nobel-worthy scientific missions, these labs have had to develop cutting-edge technologies – unique in the world: special detectors, high-throughput IT systems, novel imaging systems, new kinds of robots. This will be a

$100 billion global market by 2020, according to marketresearchers Frost & Sullivan. Now, some of Europe’s scientific leaders have joined forces in the ATTRACT initiative, to develop the full economic potential of these technologies. They will work with their commercial technology suppliers, ambitious entrepreneurs, private investors and public-sector partners to co-develop innovative products and services. This will put frontline technologies used in scientific research into factories, hospitals, airports and other basic economic units. The outcome: A bigger return on Europe’s scientific investment.

The leaders in open innovation Key to ATTRACT’s success will be its members’ pioneering use of expertise in open innovation. It already taps: •

The ‘father’ of open innovation, Prof. Henry Chesbrough. He coined the term, ‘open innovation’, and has led research and application of it since. He wrote the first concept paper for ATTRACT in 2014.



The innovation accelerators. Partners in ATTRACT include two of Europe’s leading innovation hubs, Aalto University in Finland and ESADE Creapolis in Barcelona – both training grounds for Europe’s best and brightest entrepreneurs. Already, their students are working with CERN at an ‘idea factory’ to find commercial applications for lab technologies.



A community of investors. ATTRACT’s advisory board includes top executives from Philips, SKF, GE and other technology-investment professionals. A partner is the European Industrial Research Management Association. And ATTRACT is, right now, building a club of interested corporate, VC and angel investors – to help finance the route to market.

IdeaSquare innovation centre

A model for the EIC The ATTRACT model can speed action on some of the European Union’s key initiatives. One is the European Innovation Council, a new agency first suggested in 2015 by Carlos Moedas, EU Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science; ATTRACT can scale up key technologies quickly to boost European competitiveness. A second is the European Strategic Fund for Investment, a €315 billion plan announced by EC President Jean-Claude Juncker, to help stimulate the economy. ATTRACT starts with strategically placed public investments in key infrastructure, and attracts private capital and market savvy to magnify the impact many-fold. The ATTRACT labs together spend more than €1.5 billion a year on their core scientific missions – and they can now leverage that support economically. Through ATTRACT, these labs can generate more than 60,000 new jobs for Europe.

ATTRACT is the No. 1 initiative in Europe to move open science to open innovation

The potential Public investment in science pays dividends: A $13 billion investment in the Human Genome Project in the 1990s has led to an industry worth nearly $1 trillion world-wide, according to a Battelle study. The World Wide Web, pioneered at CERN in the late 1980s, now employs millions. The ATTRACT partner labs have an especially good track record: Technologies they helped develop led to the touch screens in our smartphones, hospital scanners, and five of the top 20 drugs in the world (through use of synchrotrons to analyse drug targets.) ATTRACT is an initiative to harness that innovative power for the European economy, rather than science alone.

The technology and the markets Detecting the Higgs Boson, or imaging telescope data, is cutting-edge stuff. It requires top-class expertise in magnets, detectors, cameras, computers, networks and software. Much of it is purpose-built; it simply doesn’t exist on the market today. And that’s a unique technical resource – for entrepreneurs, investors, companies and others who can adapt it to new, commercial uses. For instance: > Medical imaging and radiation detectors. The CT, MRI, PET and other scanners in our hospitals – a $24 billion market - depend on magnet, detector and imaging technologies. ATTRACT can advance this technology. > Satellite imaging. A $2.1 billion market due to triple over the next decade – and ripe for innovative SMEs to pioneer new consumer Apps and industrial services. ATTRACT imaging algorithms can help. > Open data. Sharing data on a massive scale – on electricity, traffic, land, resources and more – can unlock more than $3.2 trillion in value. ATTRACT labs pioneer new networking in technologies and data analytics for this. > Advanced manufacturing. Robotic arms, remote sensors, opto-mechanical assembles – all areas in which ATTRACT labs work, and European industry needs.

Detection and imaging technologies are everywhere

Source: Frost & Sullivan, Megatrends in Technology Convergence

What is ATTRACT?

Why ATTRACT?

ATTRACT is a new, pan-EU initiative to accelerate the development of these specialist detector and imaging technologies for market – through a process of co-innovation with other labs, SMEs, industry and universities. The aim: to work with scientists, students, entrepreneurs and investors to invent new services and products, and attract new investment to the sector. A pilot effort is already underway at CERN’s Geneva campus, with the aid of Aalto, the leading Finnish university with a world-class reputation for design innovation and management. And at international business school ESADE in Barcelona, Professor Henry Chesbrough – the man who first coined the term ‘open innovation’- is developing a new framework for scaling up this kind of collaboration at scientific establishments.

>A  TTRACT can deliver new technologies for global

markets. The expertise and inventions at its biggest labs are an unparalleled resource – but need an ecosystem around them for investment, entrepreneurship and innovation. ATTRACT creates a necessary framework for this difficult, highspecification technology to move out of the lab and into the market. >A  TTRACT can get more value from Europe’s science

base. The EU and its member-states have a deep, long-standing investment in these high-end labs. This has already paid off scientifically, but ATTRACT can multiply the returns in new, economic ways. >A  TTRACT can help strengthen European

For ATTRACT to become successful and develop its full innovation potential, the awareness and support of Europe’s policy makers are crucially important. In the past, such support has been remarkably successful as can, for example, be seen in the case of the development of Europe’s highly competitive, world-leading aerospace industry. If sufficient political support can be mounted, ATTRACT will become a powerful catalyst for European development and manufacturing of key technologies needed for tomorrow’s society.

institutions. ATTRACT partner labs spread across the EU. Working together with local companies and investors, they can create a new, economically powerful ecosystem from north to south, west to east. >A  TTRACT can engage many more citizens in science

and technology – as entrepreneurs, customers, or students. It can strengthen Europe’s talent base.

The founding organisations include CERN, ESO, EMBL, the European Synchotron Radiation Facility, Institut Laue-Langevin, and the European X-ray Free-Electron Laser facility – as well as Aalto and ESADE and EIRMA. ATTRACT is gathering industrial supporters now. To get it started, the ATTRACT partners are seeking pilot phase funding in 2016/17 from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme.

www.attract-eu.org Contact: [email protected] Science|Business is a communications partner in this initiative