Charles D’Agostino (pictured) will vacate his position as executive director of Louisiana State University incubator and commercialisation arm Business and Technology Center (LBTC) in December 2018 after three decades in the post, the Advocate reported yesterday.

D’Agostino is expected to be succeeded by David Winwood, current assistant executive director of Louisiana State’s Innovation Park and associate executive director of its Pennington Biomedical Research Center.

Winwood came to Louisiana State from nonprofit tech transfer organisation Association of University Technology Managers, where…