We welcome Jay Schrankler, the associate vice-president and head of the Polsky Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at University of Chicago. Schrankler spent the first part of his career in industry, working for Honeywell, and he tells us about the transformative experience that convinced him to join the world of university tech transfer. He also […]

We are joined by Helen McBreen, a partner at Atlantic Bridge who oversees the spinout-focused University Bridge Fund – backed by Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin and University College Cork. She talks about the importance of diversity on both sides of the table and gives us an insight into how the fund works with […]

We are joined by Sean Fielding, who was, until a couple of weeks ago, the director of innovation, impact and business at University of Exeter. He tells us about building a tech transfer office from scratch in the mid-90s, how the requirement to generate impact has changed the way universities think about research and his […]

On this week’s episode of the Talking Tech Transfer podcast, we are joined by Paul Van Dun, the general manager of Leuven Research and Development, the tech transfer office of KU Leuven, which has a unique framework that allows faculty to generate income for their labs without incorporating spinouts. Van Dun tell us more about this […]

We welcome Brijesh Roy, seed investment manager at Imperial College London, who started out in hedge fund management before joining Oxford University Innovation and then Mercia. He tells us about his storied career, why Imperial decided to bring spinout funding back in-house following the Touchstone acquisition and what his vision for a tech transfer operation […]

The effective equality between public and private capital markets is almost complete.

Careful documentation of inventive activity during the early stages of a spinout are important to avoid legal complications.

Based on research at University of Bristol, Albotherm’s technology could revolutionise how greenhouses and buildings are cooled.