Dušan Stric

Dušan has an intellectual property and competition law background, holding degrees from Sweden, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. He has obtained several professional development certificates from the United Kingdom and South Africa. Dušan has worked for several years in the field of patents, trade secrets and technology transfer, including business development, project management and marketing. At ESS, Dušan is coordinating the network of the ESS industrial liaison officers and helping with setting up the innovation structure at ESS.

- I joined ESS and the BrightnESS team in November 2016. In BrightnESS, I am involved in Task 3.2, Capacity Building in Technology Transfer and in Task 6.3: Strengthening the ILO Network. Under Task 3.2, we are closely cooperating with Technical University of Denmark (DTU) team from the department for Innovation and Sector Development.

Currently, with DTU in the Task 3.2, we are organising a technology transfer conference, planned for 11th October titled “Establishing and Maintaining an Innovation Framework”, preparing the ground for the second technology transfer conference, which will take place in the first half of the upcoming year.

In addition, we are preparing the internal strategy for innovation at ESS, including recently finished ESS Policy for Innovation and preparing at the moment internal processes and procedures, which will be helping at ESS leveraging the scientific and technological opportunities arising from the design, construction and operation of ESS.

Within Task 6.3., we have regular contact with the individual national industrial liaison officers, while we are busy with preparation of the early September ESS Industrial Liaison Network Meeting.

Probably the most challenging task will be to coordinate all the innovation related activities, especially to set up the innovation management structure with the tight construction schedule 

I believe that the Work Packages of BrightnESS are a great contribution to the main ESS project. The WPs are helping to develop several missing parts of infrastructure to help fully achieve all the goals of the future world's leading facility for research using neutrons.