2. EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY
INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER ACTIVITIES AT THE EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY (ELTE)
PROF. DR. LÁSZLÓ BORHY
RECTOR
EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY

3. Hungary’s most prestigious university
In the TOP 5% of Higher Education Institutions worldwide
Named after a Hungarian physicist, Baron Loránd Eötvös

4. ELTE and its governance
Senate
Rector
Faculties
Faculty independent units
Chancellor
Operational units
Consistory
8 faculties
28,000 students, 1,800 academic staff
38 bachelor programs, 80
combined undergraduate-graduate teaching programs LTE ad its governance
96 master programs
62 degree programs in foreign languages (mainly in English)
126 doctoral programs in 16 doctoral schools

5. faculties INFORMATICS SCIENCE SPECIAL NEEDS EDUCATION HUMANITIES
BÁRCZI GUSZTÁV FACULTY OF
SPECIAL NEEDS EDUCATION
HUMANITIES
PRIMARY AND PRE-SCHOOL EDUCATION
LAW
EDUCATION
AND
PSYCHOLOGY
SOCIAL
SCIENCES

6. Introduction Research University:
75% of the staff have scientific qualifications
(highest rate among Hungarian universities)
Research staff: ~160 FTE
234 professors, with 80 being member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (20% of all academics)
27 research groups in collaboration with the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Publications: ~3.500/year
Budget: ~86 million EUR (public university, the main source of its funding is the central government)

7. RESEARCH REVENUE 2015 2016 2017 Research revenue (M EUR) 11,3 19 29
Revenue from R&D contracts (M EUR) 1
Funds from R&D call for proposals (M EUR) 10 18 28
Amount of
Funding
(2017, M EUR)
Percentage
(%)
National RDI Fund 13
48%
EU funds received indirectly through an Interme-diate Body
(EDIOP, Competitive Central-Hungary OP) 11
40%
EU funds received directly
(H2020, FP7, EIT Digital)
1,3 5%
Other funds from foreign calls
(other international call for proposals) 1 4%
Other funds from domestic calls
(Ministry of Human Capacities and other domestic call for proposals) 3%
Total (2017): 27
100,00%

8. CAMPUSES Rector’s Cabinet, Chancellery Faculty of Law
Bárczi Gusztáv Faculty of Special Education
ELTE Lágymányosi Campus (Faculty of Informatics, Faculty of Social Sciences, Faculty of Science)
Faculty of Education and Psychology (KAZY, IZU)
Faculty of Primary and Pre-School Education
Trefort Gardens Campus (Faculty of Humanities)
University Library (Quaestura)
ELTE BEAC (Sports Club)

9. OUTSIDE BUDAPEST SZOMBATHELY CAMPUS: MARTONVÁSÁR interdisciplinary
From February 2017, Savaria Campus in Szombathely with an outstanding
infrastructure for higher education.
Main areas of education: mechanical engineering, sports science and
health promotion, and pedagogical training.
Mechanical engineering – Dual education system with the prominent
stakeholders of regional industry
MARTONVÁSÁR interdisciplinary
research institute
climate-adaptive and
sustainable agriculture

10. Research excellence Increasing number of new research groups:
Research groups with Hungarian Academy of Sciences
14 MOMENTUM groups
27 ELTE-HAS research groups lead by ELTE
professors
Excellence research groups founded by the National Research, Development and Innovation Office
Internationally founded research groups
3 ERC StG research groups
15 granted H2020 projects
(mostly faculty of Science)

11. University-industry collaboration
University is mainly responsible for basic research, but there are areas – e.g. informatics, biology – where co-operation with the industrial partners results in marketable products

12. University-industry collaboration
R&D contracts (services for companies)
Flagship projects:
FIEK – molecular biomarkers
Research Excellence Programme:
Diagnostics and therapy
Material science
Astro- and particle Physics
Problem solving societal systems
ELTE is a full member of EIT Digital
Grant programs for industry-university R&D cooperation

13. Intellectual property regulation
The moral rights concerning IP (including software) belongs to the researcher
The economic rights to IP belongs to the university if the IP have been created in the course of work duties, in the course of contractual or employment relationship
The ownership of the IP can be shared according to the contract between ELTE and the partner/company
Researchers are obliged to inform ELTE about new possible inventions
Innovation Center must be involved in every grant application in the case of innovation potential

14. Handling of inventions
Decision on taking possession of IP, patenting and signing license agreements will be made by the Board of Inventions (within 90 days)
Members: 8 faculties’ vice-deans, vice rector for science, chancellor, director of Innovation Center
Meeting or online voting (faster)
ELTE is obliged to patent (if possible and proposed) and utilize
ELTE will cover the expenses related to the industrial propety legal protection
Distribution of income:
60% to inventors; 20% to Innovation Risk Fund; 10% to TTO; 10% to the Department (where the inventors are employed)

15. Handling of inventions
Invention disclosure to the Innovation Center No
Invention Board
Assignment to researchers
Yes No
Patent application
Trade secret
Yes
Patent
Assignment/license agreement
Assignment/license agreement
If NO utilization then assignment to researchers
Distribution of income

16. Role of the Innovation Center
supports the establishment of start-up and spin-off companies
supports the commercialisation of inventions and know-how
helps finding partners for research and innovation projects
provides funding and support for intellectual property protection (involving experts)
delivers training programs and workshops for the researchers
introduces an innovation intensive approach in the education

17. Technology transfer and commercialization
2017: signed IP license agreements: 10
2017: signed technology transfer agreements: 2
2015 – 2018: institutional revenue from IP utilization: EUR.
2014 – 2017: ~ 80 R&D assignments were given to the university;
in 17 cases, the client was an international partner.
R&D and innovation prizes
Researcher of the Year Prize (since 2009)
The Innovative Student Idea Contest

18. Figures of intellectual property management and exploitation of research results
2014
2015
2016
2017
Number of invention disclosures (pcs) 3 1 2 6
Number of invention disclosures (pcs) 
Number of priority patent applications
submitted by the institution (pcs)
Number of given patents (pcs)
Number of active patent families (pcs) 4
Number of signed IP license agreements (pcs)
Number of signed technology transfer
agreements (pcs)
The number of people specially
engaged in technology transfer
(defined in annual FTEs)

19. Technology transfer and commercialization
University spin-off companies 
2017
Number of spin-off companies* 11
Number of spin-offs with some institution ownership 1
Number of spin-offs without ownership of the university 10
Estimated turnover of ELTE of all active spin-off activities
~ EUR
*Most companies operate in the field of natural sciences
3 in biotechnology,
1 in IT,
1 in pharmacy,
1 in social sciences.

20. Innovation-related activities
Start-up course for ELTE students (since 2016) aiming to make the entrepreneurial mind-set and business thinking available for non-business students ( : 5 courses, 137 participants).
R&D prizes and activities: Researcher Of The Year Prize (since 2009) to recognize exceptional accomplishments and award researchers who use their scientific knowledge for the benefit of ELTE.
Innovative Student Idea Contest (since 2010) to boost innovation related activities among studentst applicantst each year, prize money being awarded to the best teams.
ELTE Innovation Day (since 2010): The event is organised yearly, being a great platform to raise attention of attendees to new technologies. It is one of the biggest Hungarian University addressed platform for innovative technologies emerging from academy and industry in Hungary.

21. VISION Universities as innovation hubs in the ecosystem
ELTE innovation development plan (12 measures or actions)
Growing number of inventions and patents
International and domestic cooperations (AT – START:IP; ASU-USA; ETTF-HU; etc.)
Continuous learning (diverse ecosystems, Barcelona, Berlin, Estonia with ERASMUS+,…)

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