We chat with Neil Crabb, chief executive of UK-based commercialisation firm Frontier IP about why the firm expanded into Portugal, why it’s important that there are many different models of university technology transfer out there and why Frontier IP takes a cluster-based approach to its portfolio rather than a sector-based one. Get in touch Follow Thierry Heles on LinkedIn . Music “Funk Game Loop” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) • Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0...
Mar 12, 2021
Kirsten Leute, partner, university relations, at Osage University Partnerstells us why diversity is important for a VC investor, why it is the people that make tech transfer such a great career and why it is impossible not to be an optimist working in this field. Get in touch Follow Thierry Heles on LinkedIn . Music “Funk Game Loop” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) • Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0...
Mar 05, 2021
In this week’s episode of the Talking Tech Transfer podcast we are joined by Doug Hockstad, assistant Vice President of Tech Launch Arizona, the commercialisation office of University of Arizona. Get in touch Follow Thierry Heles on LinkedIn . Music “Funk Game Loop” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) • Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0...
Feb 26, 2021
In this week’s episode of the Talking Tech Transfer podcast we are joined by Silvio Bonaccio, head of ETH transfer, the commercialisation office for ETH Zurich, to discuss how he built the office from scratch two decades ago and turned it into one of the most successful in the world, why spinout survival rates can be misleading and why all that talk about continental Europe not doing a great job churning out companies and raising big funds ignores all the fantastic work that is going on not just...
Feb 12, 2021
Anne Lane, chief executive of University College London’s wholly-owned commercialisation subsidiary UCL Business tells us about the importance of the UCL Technology Fund and Apollo Therapeutics, the advantages of social enterprises and working with carmaker Mercedes on a medical device to aid covid patients in intensive care. Get in touch Follow Thierry Heles on LinkedIn . Music “Funk Game Loop” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) • Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0...
Feb 05, 2021
Thierry Heles talks to George Baxter, chief executive of Edinburgh Innovations about the strengths of the Scottish ecosystem, leading a tech transfer office that also handles student startups and the importance of public funding (and giving the taxpayer their money’s worth). Get in touch Follow Thierry Heles on LinkedIn . Music “Funk Game Loop” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) • Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0...
Jan 29, 2021
Thierry Heles talks to Larry Loev, chief executive of Ariel Scientific Innovations, about leading a tech transfer office for a young but ambitious university, the opportunities of tech transfer in a country famed for its startup ecosystem and how to bring innovation to oenology. Get in touch Follow Thierry Heles on LinkedIn . Music “Funk Game Loop” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) • Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0...
Jan 22, 2021
Thierry Heles talks to Mike Zimmerman, partner at Main Sequence Ventures, about improving commercialisation activities in Australia, the importance of deep tech over the next few decades and developing a plant-based burger in partnership with Hungry Jack’s at breakneck speed. Get in touch Follow Thierry Heles on LinkedIn . Music “Funk Game Loop” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) • Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0...
Jan 15, 2021
Thierry Heles talks to Kelly Sexton, Associate Vice President for Research – Technology Transfer and Innovation Partnerships at University of Michigan. In this role, she supports and encourages university-wide programs for intellectual property development, innovation, and engagement with business and venture communities in the region, across the nation, and around the globe. Get in touch Follow Thierry Heles on LinkedIn . Music “Funk Game Loop” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) • Licensed under C...
Jan 08, 2021
Thierry Heles talks to Alastair Hick, senior director at Monash Innovation. Get in touch Follow Thierry Heles on LinkedIn . Music “Funk Game Loop” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) • Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
Jan 01, 2021
Thierry Heles talks to Moray Wright, co-founder and chief executive of Parkwalk Advisors, the fund management subsidiary of commercialisation firm IP Group. Get in touch Follow Thierry Heles on LinkedIn . Music “Funk Game Loop” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) • Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0...
Dec 25, 2020
Thierry Heles talks to Alicia Löffler, associate provost for Innovation & New Ventures, associate vice president for Research and executive director, INVO, Center for Translational Innovation (CTI) at Northwestern University. Get in touch Follow Thierry Heles on LinkedIn . Music “Funk Game Loop” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) • Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0...
Dec 18, 2020
Thierry Heles talks to Nichole Mercier, assistant vice-chancellor and managing director for technology transfer at Washington University in St Louis, about increasing engagement from female researchers, the impact of the pandemic on women faculty with children and fostering serial entrepreneurs that choose to stay in the local ecosystem. Get in touch Follow Thierry Heles on LinkedIn . Music “Funk Game Loop” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) • Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0...
Dec 11, 2020
Thierry Heles talks to Tony Raven, chief executive of University of Cambridge’s commercialisation arm Cambridge Enterprise, about abandoning long-held beliefs in the workplace, his help in launching both IP Group and Cambridge Innovation Capital and the importance of running a tech transfer operation worthy of the Cambridge brand. Get in touch Follow Thierry Heles on LinkedIn . Music “Funk Game Loop” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) • Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0...
Dec 04, 2020
Thierry Heles talks to Orin Herskowitz, senior vice-president of intellectual property and tech transfer for Columbia University, and executive director of Columbia Technology Ventures, about New York’s accelerators, the upsides of Zoom meetings and why having a humanities degree is the perfect background for heading a tech transfer office. Get in touch Follow Thierry Heles on LinkedIn . Music “Funk Game Loop” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) • Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0...
Nov 27, 2020
Thierry Heles talks to Tony Armstrong, president and chief executive of IU Ventures, about how the organisation supports Indiana University spinouts and startups. Get in touch Follow Thierry Heles on LinkedIn . Music “Funk Game Loop” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) • Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0...
Nov 20, 2020
Thierry Heles talks to Lesley Millar-Nicholson, director of MIT’s Technology Licensing Office and Catalysts, about a bumper year despite the pandemic. Get in touch Follow Thierry Heles on LinkedIn . Music “Funk Game Loop” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) • Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0...
Nov 13, 2020
Thierry Heles talks to Peter Devine about Uniseed, Australia’s longest running venture fund that operates at the Universities of Melbourne, Queensland, Sydney & New South Wales, and the CSIRO. Get in touch Follow Thierry Heles on LinkedIn . Music “Funk Game Loop” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) • Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0...
Nov 06, 2020
Thierry Heles talks to Jim Wilkinson of Oxford Sciences Innovation about the company and how they invest. Get in touch Follow Thierry Heles on LinkedIn . Music “Funk Game Loop” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) • Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
Oct 30, 2020
Thierry Heles talks to Darek DeFreece, who at the time of recording was the managing director of Berkeley Academic Ventures. Get in touch Follow Thierry Heles on LinkedIn . Music “Funk Game Loop” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) • Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
Oct 22, 2020
Thierry Heles talks to Tom Vanhoutte from Imec.xpand about the Belgian venture fund’s approach of investing huge sums at an early stage. Get in touch Follow Thierry Heles on LinkedIn . Music “Funk Game Loop” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) • Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0...
Oct 15, 2020
