Arne Jensen

Arne Jensen works at the Technical University of Denmark in the department of Innovation and Sector Services. He is also the Danish ILO for ESS. Arne has a M.Sc. in nuclear Engineering, a Bachelor in Economics and an MBA. He has previously worked at The Danish Agency of Technology, IBM Denmark, Danish Metalworkers Union and Aalborg University’s Center of Industrial Production, before starting at DTU in 2013.

- I am involved in BrightnESS Task 3.2, Capacity Building in Technology Transfer. The overall purpose for technology transfer at ESS is to facilitate ESS impact on employment and economic growth by channeling ESS generated knowledge to other actors like industry.

The Technical University of Denmark sees the Organisational Innovation Work Package as a supplement to our intensive cooperation with ESS and partners in e.g instrument design and research.

BrightnESS has a very multi-disciplinary approach including technical and organisational development at the same time. I like the challenge of working with people from very different backgrounds and with different perspectives and priorities, while this is also a bit frightening.

Right now, my colleague Anders Permin and I are acting as ‘sparring partners’ to ESS in establishing technology transfer procedures, among other things. This summer I am focusing on studying experiences with different tech trans models from universities and from other research infrastructures. The challenge is to capture all innovation from construction and operation of ‘the ESS machine’ but also from ESS research and to find ways of spreading this knowledge to potential users. One must realise that ESS is a research enabler assisting in scientific work being done at universities in the partner countries – and therefore they will have most of the IPR.

I see the main contribution of BrightnESS to be improving the odds of ESS becoming a success for science, industry and society in all partner countries – and thereby paving the way for further public investments in neutron research and applications.