Financial Support
This is a work in progress. The CANEUS Workshop Committee is in communication with government and private sources to assemble a team of investors, A top-down approach will be adopted, by first creating customer demand from the eventual end-use customers (e.g., large aerospace companies) prior to funding the eventual business to be formed around the system-development effort.
IP Issues
CANEUS will actively assist the consortium in the management of knowledge and intellectual property through mutual agreements that preserve the rights of the participating entities as well as the new business to be formed. The Pilot Project partners will enter into a CANEUS mediated Consortium Agreement, which takes into account the features of the new business’ IP regimen. In this sense, the Consortium Agreement will be comprehensive and cover areas of IP ownership and protection of knowledge, publication and dissemination of knowledge during and upon completion of the project, as well as the issue of granting of access rights.
Dedicated International Collaboration
The CANEUS Pilot Project Workshop Committee will examine the types of international collaborations that best benefit the new business entity and help assemble a team composed of representatives from appropriate institutions. In this particular instance of SOI-based harsh environment sensors, a high level of expertise in the SOI technology exists at the UCL, while expertise in flexible prototype development operations at the border between R&D and small scale manufacturing exists at the ITE. Guidance will also be obtained from the European Nanoelectronics Technology Platform “ENIAC” which has indicated a strong need for flexible low-cost fabrication lines and expertise for early assessment (see ‘More Moore’ Strategic Research Agenda presentation, ESSDERC Conference, 2005/09/16).
Session Time and Speakers
CANEUS Panelists:
Minoo Dastoor (NASA – Exploration), Marc Shepanek (NASA – Chief Medical Office), Masto Sakurai (JAXA), Peter Wegner (US AFRL), Martin Lang (ESA ESTEC), Laurent Marchand (EDA ESTEC), Daniel Weihs (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology), Mohan S. Misra (ITN and Microsat), Kistu Bindra (Burns & Doanne USA), Walt Merrill (GMI), Deepak Srivastava (NASA – AMES)
