Alta Innovations, the tech transfer office (TTO) of Birmingham University, is one of the younger actors on the spinout stage. Founded in 2008, the organisation has nevertheless come a long way. It owes much of its success to the vision of chief executive James Wilkie, who joined Birmingham University in 2007 from industry, where he first started out as a research scientist before becoming a corporate venturer.
Wilkie said moving into tech transfer was an obvious choice. “It was quite…
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