Ian McClure: University of Kentucky

For the 50th episode of the podcast, I’m excited to bring you a discussion between Ian McClure, the associate vice-president for research, innovation and economic impact at University of Kentucky, the executive director of its commercialisation office UK Innovate and the incoming chairman of AUTM, and Orin Herskowitz, senior vice-president of intellectual property and tech transfer for Columbia University.

Among the topics covered are attending intellectual property conferences and understanding the asset from a different perspective, the importance of fidelity to communication protocols and balancing several jobs with their private lives.

McClure also reveals how he has used public grants to build a regional ecosystem and what motivated him to establish a social innovation programme to attract humanities and social sciences faculty.

Here’s my original interview with Orin Herskowitz.

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