PICs@ICFO Strategic Initiative: PIXEurope Pilot Line Exploitation and Innovation Manager

Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain

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As part of the PICs@ICFO Strategic Initiative, ICFO coordinates PIXEurope, a flagship Pilot Line funded under the European Chips JU program. With €400 million in investments and a consortium of 20 partners across 11 countries, the project aims to reinforce Europe’s strategic autonomy in photonic technologies and accelerate industrial uptake of cutting-edge integrated photonics. Over the next decade, PIXEurope will enable the transfer of advanced technologies to manufacturing environments, while fostering innovation and scalability across the European photonics ecosystem.

ICFO is seeking a driven, deep-tech enthusiast with strong business acumen to join ICFO’s Knowledge and Technology Transfer (KTT) Team as the Exploitation and Innovation Manager of PIXEurope. This strategic role will be pivotal in steering PIXEurope’s innovation and exploitation activities, engaging stakeholders across academia, industry, and policy.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

The selected candidate will be expected to:

  • Support the Pilot Line Director in the ongoing monitoring, benchmarking, reporting, and promotion of project outcomes relevant to exploitation and innovation.
  • Lead the management of intellectual property (IP) generated within the pilot line: including invention disclosures, patent filings, proactive engineering of IP packages, licensing strategies, IP landscaping, and the negotiation of IP rights.
  • Act as the primary liaison with all project partners´TTOs for exploitation activities, market needs, target users, and promising applications.
  • Proactively engage with technology end-users and industry players to build strategic partnerships and foster adoption of PIXEurope innovations.
  • Maintain a comprehensive overview of innovation activities across the consortium, ensuring alignment with Chips JU guidelines on IP protection, open access, and exploitation.
  • As part of the Pilot Line Coordination and Management Team, collaborate with other management roles (e.g., Open Access, Data Management and Gateway) to strengthen the project’s open-access strategy and innovation ecosystem, working closely with the Pilot Line Steering Committee.
  • Support ICFO’s coordination and PIXEurope’s PIC leadership through interaction with project partners, stakeholders, and relevant EU institutions.

This contract has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe under the Grant Agreement # 101213727, Chips Joint Undertaking (Chips JU) and the Spanish Ministry for Digital Transformation and Civil Service, and is supported by funds from the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (PRTR).


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