Podcast
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Empowering academic founders: policies, programmes, and pitfalls
How can universities instil the entrepreneurial mindset in faculty, staff and students? Is this even something you can teach? And if you can, what are some of the challenges and pitfalls? Figuring out the answers to these questions, and more, is a panel of experts from around the world: Kirsty Collinge, the head of research […]
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Károly Szántó: Hungary will be the blueprint for university funds in Eastern Europe
Károly Szántó, the COO of Óbuda University’s venture fund and studio OUVC, has a plan to supercharge investment activities in Central and Eastern Europe.
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Gavin Clark, Mark Mann: Here’s how to build a shared TTO
Gavin Clark and Mark Mann share how they’ve built a tech transfer office shared by six UK universities focused on social sciences and creative industries.
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Panel: What’s next for quantum technologies?
What does the future hold for quantum technologies? A panel of experts tackled the challenges at a recent Foresight Live event.
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Nicky Dibben: People buy products, not technology
Nicky Dibben discusses how marketing strategy is everything that comes between you and your customer, and not simply “fluffy” social media.
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Winsome Cheung: Startups, here’s what to know when negotiating with big pharma
Winsome Cheung is a partner at Covington who helps biotech startups and big pharma negotiate deals. Here, she shares what to look out for in contracts.
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Stuart Wilkinson: What does a sweet shop have to do with spinouts?
The impact of university research commercialisation can go far beyond the initial spinout, says Knowledge Exchange UK’s chief executive Stuart Wilkinson.
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Erik Iverson, Mike Partsch: Industry doesn’t want newly hatched ideas
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) has been around for 100 years and its leadership has novel ideas about how to keep its edge.
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Kevin Walters: Vitamin D-fortified food changed universities forever
In 1925, the University of Wisconsin-Madison established the first-ever tech transfer office. And it all began with the discovery of vitamins.
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Trailer
How does university research become a real-world product like vitamin D-fortified oatmeal, warfarin or Gatorade? The Next Leap is an interview show with the experts responsible for this process — from tech transfer practitioners to founders to lawyers, and others. Subscribe now for the first episode, dropping Tuesday, 18 March.