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Panel discussion: What does the hospital of the future look like?
How do you get beyond the many roadblocks stopping cutting-edge technology from being adopted by healthcare providers – which naturally have a lot of safety concerns, ...
Karin Immergluck: Stanford’s biggest challenge is complacency (rebroadcast)
Stanford may be a recognised world-leader when it comes to startups, but it mustn’t rest on its laurels. Sometimes that even means launching initiatives that others ha...
Panel discussion: Funding for all — unlocking diversity in spinouts
Diversity is not just about making sure more women and underrepresented minorities are on founding teams. When they do create businesses, they are typically ignored by...
Kevin Leland: Halo has researchers on speed dial for corporates
Imagine your corporate R&D team is facing a problem so complex it requires the world’s top researchers to solve. How do you find the right expert? You could scour endl...
Panel discussion: The key ingredients of successful spinout teams
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....
Kelley Rich: Fighting poverty with university spinouts
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 a...
Mark Billingsley: How to launch spinouts when there are no VCs (re-broadcast)
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...
Tatiana Litvin-Vechnyak: Overcoming Georgetown’s spinout challenge
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 h...
Jennifer Kuan: How to steal Silicon Valley’s secret sauce
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 ...
Tony Boccanfuso: UIDP is bridging the divide between corporates and universities
Tony Boccanfuso has spent the past 17 years trying to work out how to get universities and corporations to collaborate better on research. Boccanfuso is the chief exec...
Season 1 Recap
We revisit the highlights from the past season and find out the key lessons from every guest, from dealing with failure to delivering entrepreneurial training for PhDs...
TenU: How do you build critical mass?
Today, we’re bringing you a recording of a recent discussion organised by our friends at TenU, the international collaboration between ten tech transfer offices in Bel...
CVC Unplugged: Owen Thompson
We're bringing you an episode from Mawsonia's other podcast, CVC Unplugged, featuring an interview with Owen Thompson, CEO of Cambridge Future Tech.
Marty Reid: How SETsquared supports founders from idea to exit
SETsquared has achieved something few have: it’s built an ecosystem that spans six institutions across England and Wales and a programme that provides end-to-end suppo...
Prof Susie Speller: Will superconductors allow us to achieve net zero?
Prof Susie Speller is a fellow at St Catherine’s College and researcher in the Oxford Centre for Applied Superconductivity at the University of Oxford, where she helps...
Nick McNaughton: Turning academics into entrepreneurs is a matter of national security
The Australian government wants to get 1,800 more PhD candidates to commercialise their work over the next decade, as part of the A$2.2bn University Research Commercia...
Tas Gohir: Creating an NHS fit for the 21st century
The NHS, the UK's national health service, is often seen as slow to adopt innovation. But Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, located in London and linked to Ki...
Mark Mann: How to build social venture spinouts
Can British university research help families in South America secure a mortgage? That's what the University of Oxford did with its social venture spinout SOPHIA Oxfor...
Fiona Neary: University of Galway
University of Galway has long been a leader in medtech, so it makes sense that Fiona Neary, innovation operations manager in the institution's Innovation Office, creat...
Beyond the Breakthrough
It's time to let you know what we have planned. We're re-launching as Beyond the Breakthrough! Over the past three and a half years, and 100 episodes, one key takeawa...
