Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences

Centre for Innovation and Technology Transfer (CITT) was established in June 2012 under the Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. CITT performs protection and subsequent use of intellectual property created within the research activities under the Institute of Physics including projects ELI Beamlines and HiLASE. CITT promotes these outputs to industrial companies and develops cooperation with industry. CITT manages projects to promote technology transfer and proof-of-concept activities from national and international sources and performs contracted research projects.

The Institute of Physics is a public research institute, oriented on fundamental and applied research in physics under the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. The present research programme of Institute of Physics comprises five branches of physics: particle physics, the physics of condensed matter, solid state physics, optics and plasma physics. Laser Centres of the Institute of Physics (ELI Beamlines – www.eli-beams.eu, and HiLASE – www.hilase.cz) represent the globally unique research infrastructure. ELI Beamlines is a user infrastructure, which is part of a European plan to build a new generation of large research facilities selected by the European Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructures (ESFRI).