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Simon Bond: Bristol Innovations
Today is Simon Bond’s first day as director of Bristol Innovations, an initiative launched by University of Bristol earlier this year to accelerate entrepreneurship am...
Douglas Hansen-Luke: Future Planet Capital
Douglas Hansen-Luke launched Future Planet Capital in 2015 after 18 months researching the then-nascent university venturing scene and over the past seven years has bu...
Mary Albertson: Georgia Tech
Mary Albertson became director of the Office of Technology Licensing (OTL) at Georgia Tech in July 2022, having previously worked for University of Utah’s PIVOT…
Yasser Biaz: UM6P Ventures
Yasser Biaz is the chief executive of UM6P Ventures, the venture fund of University Mohammed VI Polytechnic in Morocco, and he joins us today to…
Duncan Johnson: Northern Gritstone
Duncan Johnson, chief executive of Northern Gritstone, is on a mission to turn the north of England into an ecosystem that rivals Silicon Valley. He’s…
Glen Gardner, David Winwood: Gardner Innovation Search Partners
I have a two-for-one this week: Glen Gardner and David Winwood of Gardner Innovation Search Partners, a recruitment firm specialised in tech transfer, are joining…
Maxine Ficarra: PraxisAuril
Maxine Ficarra was the chief executive of PraxisAuril for nearly 20 years, stepping down today as this episode is released. Maxine has helped shaped the…
Elicia Maine: Simon Fraser University
Elicia Maine has thought and written a lot about innovation in her more than two decades as professor for innovation and entrepreneurship at Simon Fraser…
Kimberly Gramm: Tulane University
In June this year, Kimberly Gramm became the inaugural chief innovation and entrepreneurship officer at Tulane University, which she joined after more than six years…
Rich Lyons: UC Berkeley
Rich Lyons became UC Berkeley’s inaugural chief innovation and entrepreneurship officer in January 2020, having previously been dean of the Haas Business School for a…
Anthony Francis: University of California, San Francisco
Hailing from Australia, Anthony Francis started out as an accountant before establishing the Technology Commercialisation Group in 1999, selling it to Deloitte in 2005...
Álvaro Ossa: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
It may sound crazy that any government could try and reclaim project funding plus 5% from a spinout, but yes, that is exactly the situation…
Cédric Van Nevel: Qbic
Cédric Van Nevel is a partner at Qbic, an early-stage venture fund that invests in the spinouts of its 16 partners throughout Belgium. Cédric joins…
Lisa Ericsson: KTH Innovation
Lisa Ericsson is both the head of KTH Innovation and chief executive of KTH Holding, the respective innovation department and investment arm of KTH Royal…
Laurent Miéville: Unitec
When Laurent Miéville met one of his first mentors at Stanford University, he was told that Switzerland was about to become a hotspot for innovation…
John Wilson: University of Calgary
University of Calgary is the number one Canadian institution for startup creation, according to Autm’s 2020 ranking and it’s achieved that through a range of…
Fred Farina: California Institute of Technology
Fred Farina is the chief innovation and corporate partnerships officer at California Institute of Technology (or Caltech) where his duties also include overseeing the ...
Poonam Malik: University of Strathclyde
Poonam Malik is a passionate advocate for investing in and supporting women-founded companies, a message she is able to spread both as the head of…
Shiva Loccisano: Politecnico di Torino
Shiva Loccisano has been involved in technology transfer since 2007, a period that, he says, has seen a steep growth trajectory in commercialisation activities in…
Keith Marmer: University of Utah
Keith Marmer is the chief innovation and economic engagement officer at University of Utah and he joins us to discuss the greenhouse initiative that means…
