‘Big science:’ What’s it

really worth?
Brussels, 3 March 2014

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 AGENDA

‘Big science:’ What’s it really worth?

A Science|Business dinner debate

Particle accelerators, biobanks, telescopes, fusion reactors, scientific databases

- these are among the “big science” research infrastructure projects that have
become an essential feature of the research world. Their scientific value is obvious.
But their economic value can also be great: The World Wide Web was born at
CERN. Can we quantify this kind of broader, indirect economic or social benefit?

This dinner debate is to gather views on potential spin-offs from major research
infrastructure projects across Europe, and discuss some specific ideas for moving
forward, including a new initiative by CERN, ESADE and Aalto. The objective: To
suggest ways that science policy makers can leverage their investments in these
big facilities.

18:30 Welcome & summary of Science|Business research

■■ Richard L. Hudson, CEO & Editor, Science|Business

18:40 Panel: Is Big Science worth it?

■■ António Correia De Campos, Member of the European Parliament
■■ Sergio Bertolucci, Director for Research and Computing, CERN
■■ John Womersley, Chair, ESFRI; CEO, UK Science and Technology Facilities Council
■■ Jonathan Wareham, Vice-Dean, Research, ESADE Business School
■■ Hannu Seristö, Vice President, Aalto University
■■ Helmut Dosch, Head, DESY

19:45 Dinner debate: How to get more value from

Research Infrastructure
Moderators: Richard L. Hudson, CEO & Editor, Science|Business, and John Wood,
Secretary-General of the Association of Commonwealth Universities; EU Co-Chair,
Research Data Alliance
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PARTICIPANTS
Serge Bernasconi
Chief Executive Officer,
MedTech Europe
Serge Bernasconi has more than 30 years
experience in the world of pharmaceuticals
and medical devices, working in companies
such as Johnson & Johnson, Schering Plough in
US and Europe, and more recently Medtronic.
In his capacity as President & International
Regional Vice President of Medtronic France,
he was elected President of APIDIM (The
French Association for the Promotion of
Innovation in Medical Devices), and Vice
President and Treasurer of SNITEM (French
Medical Technology Industry Association).
Augusto Burgueño
Arjona
Head of Unit for
e-infrastructures, DG
CONNECT, European
Commission
Augusto Burgueño Arjona deals with
the development and deployment of
e-infrastructures and services for online
research. He’s been with the European
Commission since 1998 and has worked
widely in budgetary and financial aspects,
information technology, internal control and
human resources. He is also currently General
Manager of Coach Mundi ASBL whose mission
is to help people achieve their career goals
through distant coaching and consulting
services. He is a PhD in theoretical computer
science and holds an MBA.
Sergio Bertolucci
Director for Research and
Computing, CERN
Sergio Bertolucci is currently Director of
Research and Scientific Computing at CERN. He
has been working in the field of experimental
Particle Physics at DESY in Hamburg, at
Fermi National Laboratory in Chicago and
at the Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF)
of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
(INFN). He was also vice-president and a
member of the Board of the Italian National
Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN). He led
the commissioning of the DAFNE accelerator,
allowing it to reach record performances.
António Fernando
Correia de Campos
Member of the European
Parliament
António Fernando Correia de Campos
is presently a member of the European
Parliament and chairman of Science and
Technology Options Assessment (STOA).
He is a university professor with a law
degree from Coimbra University, a “Directeur
d’Hopital” diploma from ENSP, France, an
MPh from John Hopkins University and a PhD
on Health Economics from Universidade Nova
de Lisboa. For three years he was Director for
Science and Technology at the Luso American
Development Foundation (Lisbon). He was a
member of the National Parliament, Secretary
of State and Minister of Health.
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Helmut Dosch
Head, DESY (Deutsches
Elektronen-Synchrotron)
Helmut Dosch is Chairman of the DESY
Board of Directors since March 2009.
Before joining DESY, he was Director of the
Max Planck Institute for Metals Research
in Stuttgart (1997-2009). He earned
international recognition for his research
into solid interfaces and nanomaterials
using synchrotron radiation. Helmut Dosch
studied Physics at the Ludwig-Maximilians
University (LMU) in Munich where he earned
his PhD in 1984. After a Post-Doctorate at
Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, he
researched and habilitated at the LMU.
Shiva Dustdur
Head of RDI Advisory, EIB
Shiva Dustdur is currently working at
the European Investment Bank (EIB) in
Luxembourg, where she is heading the
Research, Development and Innovation
Advisory Services, a new joint initiative
with the European Commission (DG RTD).
She has been at the EIB since 2003, first in
its Risk Management Directorate, then in
its EU Lending Directorate where she was
responsible for financing of R&D projects
using the Risk Sharing Finance Facility (RSFF).
Before joining the EIB, Shiva worked at Fitch
as Director of High Yield where she was
responsible for developing the agency’s
European High Yield rating business.
Daan du Toit
Minister Counsellor
(Science and Technology),
South African Mission to
the European Union
Daan du Toit has held various positions, first
in the South African Department of Foreign
Affairs and since 2002 in the Department
of Science and Technology. He has been
responsible for establishing and managing
the European South African Science and
Technology Advancement Programme
(ESASTAP) - a dedicated platform to promote
scientific and technological cooperation
between South Africa and the EU. In October
2006, he was appointed as the South African
Department of Science and Technology’s
Senior Science and Technology Representative
to the EU, in Brussels.
Philippe Froissard
Deputy Head of Unit for
Research Infrastructures,
DG RTD, European
Commission
Philippe Froissard graduated in nuclear
engineering in Grenoble (France) in 1988 and
completed his PhD in nuclear physics in 1992.
He worked on nuclear fusion research and
particularly on radio frequency heating first
at the JET Joint Undertaking in Oxfordshire
(UK) and then at the Commissariat à l’Energie
Atomique (CEA) in Cadarache until 1999. He
joined the Directorate-General for Research
in 2000 and has held since several positions
in the Human Potential and International
Cooperation Programmes. He is presently
the Deputy Head of Research Infrastructures
Unit, which supports the development,
implementation and integration of Research
Infrastructures of pan-European interest.
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PARTICIPANTS
Florian Gliksohn
Partner, Keastone
Florian Gliksohn is currently a partner at
Keastone, a company investigating and
developing innovative collaboration solutions
for the research and academic communities.
Formerly the Chief Administrative Officer of the
ELI Delivery Consortium AISBL, the legal entity
representing the Extreme-Light-Infrastructure,
Florian has extensive expertise in the political,
legal, financial, and management aspects
of large-scale research infrastructures.
He has developed expert knowledge in the
socio-economic impact assessment of R&D
investment projects taking part in a number
of expert groups, initiatives and events in
relation with this topic over the past few years.
Richard L. Hudson
CEO & Editor,
Science|Business
Richard L. Hudson has been a leading science
and technology journalist in Europe for more
than thirty years. As managing editor of the
Wall Street Journal Europe from 1997 to 2003,
he helped lead a redesign of the title in 2000.
He co-founded Science|Business in 2004.
He is also co-author of a book with Yale/IBM
mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot: “The (mis)
Behaviour of Markets: A fractal view of risk, ruin
& reward”: Basic Books 2004. He is a graduate
of Harvard and a former Knight Fellow at MIT.
Andrew Houghton
Deputy Head of Unit for
Flagships, DG CONNECT,
European Commission
Andrew Houghton is Deputy Head of the
“Flagships” Unit, in the DG for Communications
Networks, Content and Technology of the
European Commission since July 2012. He was
previously Deputy Head of the Unit “Future
Networks”, in the DG for Information Society
and Media. After five years as an executive
engineer with BT Research Labs, he joined
STC /Northern Telecom Optoelectronics,
and was involved in the design, production
and marketing of components for optical
communications systems.
He received a B.Sc. degree from the University
of Sussex and a Ph.D. from the University of
Nottingham.
Sylvie Leray
Director of Research, CEA
Sylvie Leray is Director of Research at CEA.
She is a nuclear physics, specialist of high-
energy nuclear reactions, and recently
became assistant to Ph. Chomaz at IRFU, the
Institute of Research into the Fundamental
Laws of the Universe, in charge of EU affairs
and external fundings.
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PARTICIPANTS
Monica Marinucci
Director of Research, Global
Education & Research
Industry Unit, Oracle
Monica Marinucci is responsible for
developing the research market in Europe,
the Middle East and Africa, coordinating
related activities and supporting the teams
in these countries. She also holds worldwide
responsibilities for the establishment of
strategies and solutions for this market
segment. Marinucci has been acting as an
expert for the European Commission since
2007 and is a member of several high-level
expert groups. Prior to Oracle, she worked at
CERN. She holds a university degree in applied
mathematics.
Ross Melzer
Director, Science|Business
Ross Melzer has 30 years experience in
managing key client relations. He has
a distinguished track record in media
management, including 6 years as public affairs
director of EurActiv, 7 years as marketing
and business development director of the
Wall Street Journal Europe, and 7 years in
marketing and strategy roles for the Financial
Times, The Observer and Time Magazine.
René Martins
Research Programme Officer
- Advanced Materials and
Nanotechnologies, DG RTD,
European Commission
An engineer by education, René Martins has
been, for more than a decade, active materials
scientist and instrument developer at large
scale research infrastructures in the area of
high energy X-rays and neutron diffraction.
Since then he is working for the European
Commission, being responsible for policy
and program development in the field of
nanotechnologies and advanced materials.
Stephen Myers
Head of CERN Medical
Applications; Former
Director of Accelerators and
Technology, CERN
Stephen Myers is the former Director of
Accelerators and Technology (2008-2013),
responsible for the operation and exploitation
of the whole CERN accelerator complex, with
particular emphasis on the LHC and CERN
accelerator technologies.
As of January 2014, he has been appointed
Head of Medical Applications at CERN.
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‘Big science:’ What’s it really worth?
PARTICIPANTS
Marzio Nessi
Head of the Development
and Innovation Unit (DG-
DI), CERN
Marzio Nessi is Head of the Development
and Innovation Unit (DG-DI) at CERN and the
leader of the new CERN Neutrino Project.
He is active in various R&D initiatives with a
combined scientific and societal impact. He
has directed the ATLAS detector construction
at the LHC until recently, that proved the Higgs
Boson exists. A discovery that has rewarded its
theorists with the 2013 Nobel Price. He holds
a PhD in particle physics from ETH Zurich, he is
member of the CERN senior staff, professor of
physics at the Geneva University and the JINST
journal director.
Roy Pennings
Managing Consultant on
European subsidies and
grants, PNO Consultants
Roy Pennings is a managing consultant
whose typical clients include CERN, European
universities, research organisations, and large
companies in the energy and health sector.
Additionally, he’s an elected member of the
regional parliament of Limburg, the Southern-
most province of the Netherlands, since
2007, where his focus areas are economic
affairs and finance. Pennings is a graduate of
Leiden University and the University of South
Carolina-Columbia.
Markus Nordberg
Head of Resources
Development of the
Development and Innovation
Unit (DG-DI), CERN
Markus Nordberg is currently involved in
launching sensor and imaging R&D initiatives
for detector upgrades with combined societal
impact. Prior to this function, he served 12
years as the Resources Coordinator of the
ATLAS project at CERN. He has also served as
Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Centrum
voor Bedrijfseconomie, Faculty ESP-Solvay
Business School, University of Brussels, and as
a member of the Academy of Management,
Strategic Management Society and the
Association of Finnish Parliament Members
and Scientists, TUTKAS. He has a degree both
in Physics and in Business Administration.
Tapani Piha
Head of Unit e-Health
and Health Technology
Assessment, DG SANCO,
European Commission
Tapani Piha works as Head of Unit in the
European Commission since 2004. First he
managed the Health Law and International
Unit, then the Human Resources Unit from
2009, and moved to his current unit in 2012.
A physician, specialist in community medicine
and public health by training, he started his
career in epidemiological and intervention
research on cardiovascular disease. He had
positions at the Finnish Ministry of Health
working in the fields of health promotion,
tobacco control and coordination of EU health
policies.
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PARTICIPANTS
Peter Purton
Project Editor,
Science|Business
Writer, editor and communications
professional who has worked on staff and as
a freelancer for publications ranging from The
Australian to The Wall Street Journal via the
Financial Times, Funkschau and Newsweek,
and commercial organisations including AIG,
Capgemini, Ericsson, Eurostar, HSBC, Nokia
and Zurich Insurance.
Keith Sequeira
Member of Cabinet of
Commissioner Geoghegan
Quinn, European
Commission
Keith Sequeira is currently a member of
the Cabinet of the EU Commissioner for
Research, Innovation and Science, Máire
Geoghegan-Quinn. Prior to this he has worked
in DG Research and Innovation and DG
Enterprise of the European Commission on
the development of Horizon 2020 legislative
proposals, the Innovation Union initiative,
the European Innovation Scoreboard, support
to public procurement of innovation, the
7th Framework Programme legislation, and
regional aspects of research policy.
Keith studied natural sciences at the University
of Cambridge, and holds a D. Phil from the
University of Sussex (Science Policy Research
Unit).
Christian Rückert
Head of Airframe Materials
& Processes NSDW
Research & Technology,
Airbus Operations GmbH
Christian Rückert started his career with
Airbus Operations GmbH (then known as
Deutsche Airbus GmbH) in Bremen in 1992
and has been there ever since. In the first
six years, Rückert focused on manufacturing
technology for thermoplastic materials before
switching his attention to R&T in 1998. In
2003, Rückert became Team Leader of the
subsidiary Composite Technology and today,
as Head of R&T, has overall responsibility for
all R&T related subjects.
Hannu Seristö
Vice President, Aalto
University
Hannu Seristö has a doctorate from the
Helsinki School of Economics. His areas
of responsibility include the university’s
international and corporate relations. He is
Professor of International Business at the
School of Business of Aalto University. His
research interests include the management
of international strategic alliances and the
airline industry. He has held positions of
international business in companies such as
Finnair, McKinsey & Co. and Polar Electro.
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‘Big science:’ What’s it really worth?
PARTICIPANTS
Pablo Tello
Senior Consultant, PNO
Pablo Tello is currently Senior Consultant for
PNO Consultants in relation to EU Affairs and
responsible for Business Development in the
area of High Technology as well as evaluator
of different innovation funding programmes
of the European Commission. He has more
than ten years of experience in industrial
R&D, innovation, product development,
business development, technology transfer at
Philips and NXP Semiconductors in the areas
of Micro/nano-electronics and Biotechnology.
He was former Programme Manager for ASD
Europe and part of the monitoring group of
ACARE.
Simon Webster
Head of Unit for Fusion
Energy, DG RTD, European
Commission
Simon Webster is British and graduated
in physics from Birmingham University in
1977. He spent ten years in the UK nuclear
industry before moving to Paris to work
at the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency, later
entering the European Commission. He has
worked in Euratom safeguards, as a policy
officer in nuclear safety and radioactive
waste management and, since 2004, in DG
Research. In July 2005 he was appointed Head
of Unit responsible for the Euratom research
programme in nuclear fission & radiation
protection. From 2011 he has been Head of
Unit responsible for the Euratom fusion energy
research programme, including the funding of
the JET facility.
Jonathan Wareham
Vice Dean (Research),
ESADE
Jonathan Wareham is Professor of Information
Systems at ESADE - Ramon Llull University.
Wareham’s research has been published or
forthcoming in over 80 refereed journals and
proceedings as MIS Quarterly, Organization
Science, Decision Sciences, Decision Support
Systems, IEEE Transactions on Engineering
Management, Journal of the American Society
for Information Science and Technology, and
others. He serves as Vice Dean (Research) at
ESADE, Director of the ESADE Institute for
Innovation and Knowledge Management,
as well as on advisory boards for a number
of academic institutions, NGOs, and social
entrepreneurs.
John Womersley
Chair, ESFRI; CEO, UK
Science and Technology
Facilities Council
John Womersley is Chief Executive of the
Science and Technology Facilities Council
(STFC), which is the United Kingdom’s funding
agency for particle physics, nuclear physics
and astronomy, for large scale science facilities
and national laboratories. In autumn 2013, he
was elected chair of the European Strategy
Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI).
Womersley also represents the UK in a number
of international forums including the Council
of the European Southern Observatory and
of CERN. He chairs the Board of the Square
Kilometre Array radio telescope project, and
chaired the European Commission’s Expert
Group on Cost Control and Management in
Large Research Infrastructures.
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John Wood
Secretary-General of the
Association of Commonwealth
Universities; EU Co-Chair,
Research Data Alliance
John Wood is a founder member and former
chair of the European Strategy Forum for
Research Infrastructures, the first chair of the
European Research Area Board. He was also
chair of the “Riding the wave report on data”
for the European Commission. Wood has
held academic posts at the Open University
and at the University of Nottingham as Dean
of Engineering. He was then seconded to
the Council for the Central Laboratory of
the Research Councils as Chief Executive
responsible for large scale international
science facilities. His last academic post was at
Imperial College. He has a PhD from Cambridge
University.
Wolfgang Sandner
Director General and CEO,
ELI Delivery Consortium
International Association
(AISBL)
Wolfgang Sandner is Director General and CEO
of the ELI Delivery Consortium International
Association (AISBL).
He studied physics at the Universität Freiburg.
Following a PhD in atomic physics he started
working with lasers in 1979 as a postdoc at the
International Stanford Research Institute (SRI)
in Meno Park. After 1985 he held professorships
in Würzburg and Freiburg before accepting a
tenured full professor position at the University
of Tennessee in 1991. Two years later he was
appointed director of the newly founded Max
Born Institute (MBI) in Adlershof, and 1994 also
Full Professor (C4) at the TU Berlin.

List of participants
Serge Bernasconi, Chief Executive Officer, MedTech Europe
Sergio Bertolucci, Director for Research and Computing, CERN
Augusto Burgueño Arjona, Head of Unit for e-infrastructures, DG CONNECT,
European Commission
António Fernando Correia de Campos, Member of the European Parliament
Helmut Dosch, Head, DESY (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron)
Daan Du Toit, Minister Counsellor (Science and Technology), South African
Mission to the European Union (Senior S&T Representative to the EU; South
African Department of Science and Technology)
Shiva Dustdur, Head of RDI Advisory, EIB
Philippe Froissard, Deputy Head of Unit for Research Infrastructures, DG RTD,
European Commission
Florian Gliksohn, Partner, Keastone
Andrew Houghton, Deputy Head of Unit for Flagships, DG CONNECT, European
 ‘Big science:’ What’s it really worth?
PARTICIPANTS

Commission
Richard L. Hudson, CEO & Editor, Science|Business
Sylvie Leray, DSM/IRFU/Dir, CEA Saclay
Monica Marinucci, Director of Research, Global Education & Research
Industry Unit, Oracle
René Martins, Research Programme Officer - Advanced Materials and
Nanotechnologies, DG RTD, European Commission
Ross Melzer, Director, Science|Business
Stephen Myers, Head of CERN Medical Applications; Former Director of
Accelerators and Technology, CERN
Marzio Nessi, Head of the Development and Innovation Unit (DG-DI), CERN
Markus Nordberg, Head of Resources Development of the Development and
Innovation Unit (DG-DI), CERN
Roy Pennings, Managing Consultant on European subsidies and grants, PNO
Consultants
Tapani Piha, Head of Unit e-Health and Health Technology Assessment, DG
SANCO, European Commission
Peter Purton, Project Editor, Science|Business
Christian Rückert, Head of Airframe Materials & Processes NSDW Research &
Technology, Airbus Operations GmbH
Wolfgang Sandner, Director General and CEO, ELI Delivery Consortium International
Association (AISBL)
Keith Sequeira, Member of Cabinet of Commissioner Geoghegan Quinn,
European Commission
Hannu Seristö, Vice President, Aalto University
Pablo Tello, Senior Consultant, PNO
Jonathan Wareham, Vice Dean (Research), ESADE
Simon Webster, Head of Unit for Fusion Energy, DG RTD, European
Commission
John Womersley, Chair, ESFRI; CEO UK Science and Technology Facilities
Council
John Wood, Secretary-General of the Association of Commonwealth
Universities; EU Co-Chair, Research Data Alliance
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