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Beyond the Breakthrough

Beyond the Breakthrough is a weekly interview series with the world’s brightest minds in university innovation — technology transfer leaders, university venture fund managers, founders, policymakers, lawyers and others answering the question: how does research make it from a lab into the real world?

The podcast is hosted by Thierry Heles, editor of Global University Venturing, and is released for free here and through all major podcast platforms.

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March 15, 2024

Panel discussion: The key ingredients of successful spinout teams

Beyond the Breakthrough
A PhD student who sets up a spinout and becomes its CEO is 21% better at returning an investor's money than a serial founder would be if installed in the same spinout. Even more impressively, a PhD student turned chief executive is 46% better at making a venture capital fund money than a former CEO from a large company would be.

March 08, 2024

Kelley Rich: Fighting poverty with university spinouts

Beyond the Breakthrough
Can university spinouts help fight poverty? That's a question Kelley Rich, interim vice-president for innovation at the University of Notre Dame, is trying to answer as head of the institution's innovation hub IDEA Center. It's part of a campus-wide initiative launched in January 2024 that will see increased poverty research taking place — it gets to the heart of the private Catholic university's mission of bringing about positive societal change.

March 01, 2024

Mark Billingsley: How to launch spinouts when there are no VCs (re-broadcast)

Beyond the Breakthrough
Mark Billingsley, director of the University of Alaska Fairbanks‘ Tech Transfer Office and Innovation Hub, joined Beyond the Breakthrough in April 2022 and today we’re revisiting this conversation because it’s still one of the most unusual places covered on the podcast.

February 23, 2024

Tatiana Litvin-Vechnyak: Overcoming Georgetown’s spinout challenge

Beyond the Breakthrough
Weirdly, being located at the heart of the US capital doesn't always help Georgetown University when it comes to creating spinout companies. State universities often have economic development mandates that they can follow, but in Washington DC Georgetown is in something of a vacuum — with little direction for what to focus on, less set funding and fewer people pushing to advance the technologies coming out of the institution.

February 16, 2024

Jennifer Kuan: How to steal Silicon Valley’s secret sauce

Beyond the Breakthrough
Silicon Valley is the home of venture capital and startups — but drive an hour or two outside of the city and you are in a different world. Take Monterey, the site of our own GCVI Summit (March 12 to 14 — listen to the episode to get a 10% discount code on tickets). It is a beautiful city with a world-famous aquarium and a gorgeous golf course, but it is a city of extremes: the median household income is $98,000 while at the same time more than 10% of the population lives in poverty.
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