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🚀 Unlock Your Innovation Potential with the USIT Guides! 🚀 We're excited to announce a new fast-track download package to access both Guides. The USIT Guide is particularly focused on IP-intensive inventions, such as those in the life sciences and deep tech sectors, offering insights into protecting IP, negotiating partnerships, and ensuring successful outcomes for all stakeholders. USIT for Software is tailored for the unique challenges of software development and commercialisation, covering licensing, IP rights, and open-source strategies. Whether you're a tech transfer professional, investor, founder, or lawyer, these guides are essential tools to help you overcome challenges, seize opportunities, and confidently bring your ideas to market. They’re also valuable for university leaders, government officials, and others keen to understand how investment deals are structured. Download now and join a community dedicated to advancing university-based innovation!   🔗 #USITGuide #USITforSoftware #Spinouts #Innovation #AccelerateDeals #LandingZone #SpinoutCreation

How can future tech transfer leaders increase the quantity and quality of invention disclosures? How can they attract inventors from underrepresented groups? Aidan Fowler hosted the latest #TenUFLP2024 with expert guests from MIT Technology Licensing Office and Nestor E. Franco. Examples of effective practices across the cohort included: 🔵 Informing and educating researchers effectively about the opportunities which technology transfer offices provide happens continuously across all channels – personal relationships, university events, social media, email campaigns, and websites.  🔵 Removing friction, the innovative research@MIT app enables researchers and their teams to manage project finances and administration whilst streamlining disclosures; in so doing, it collects valuable data about the people accessing TLO services and the avenues for doing so, offering the opportunity to address gaps.  🔵 Leaning on the innovation ecosystem surrounding MIT and using high profile MIT events is key to cost-efficient and effective outreach.  🔵 Supporting academic inventors to navigate the commercialisation process with personalised support through academic champions, tailored subject specific programmes and role play. The image below shows the range of initiatives that the MIT TLO works with on a daily basis to support, complement and enhance its services. #TenU #TenUFLP2024 #Leadership #TechnologyTransfer #Innovation Aidan Fowler, Caitriona O'Rourke, Claire Pembleton, Dinali de Silva RTTP, Matthew Berman, Mitchell Fullerton, Paolo Cardile, Peri Cihan, Sandra Ainsua PhD RTTP, Valeska Gonzalez, Dieter Link, Dr. phil. nat., RTTP, Pasquale Ferrari, Ananay Aguilar, Rupert Friederichsen, Yu Z..

Excited about this significant commitment by one of our closest collaborators! Looking forward to supporting Innovate Cambridge on this journey to drive economic growth for the UK. #ResearchImpact #Collaboration #UniversityInnovation

How does a technology transfer leader attract and retain talent to support their organisation’s evolving goals? Valeska Gonzalez and her team offered valuable insider perspectives into Imperial Enterprise. Marika Reay, Laura Guida, and Neil Simrick, PhD shared their wisdom on managing the technology transfer talent pipeline, drawing on cross-faculty and cross-function experience:  🔵 New talent must demonstrate their ability to learn, re-learn, and to be highly adaptable team players. 🔵 Professional development for those already in tech transfer positions should include a focus on emotional intelligence and negotiation skills, exposing them to the widest possible range of stakeholders. 🔵 Retention of talent requires tech transfer offices to offer competitive salaries, creative career paths, and attention to a good work-life balance.   Simon Hepworth shared lessons gained from leading the restructuring of technology transfer at Imperial as well as “being restructured”. Future leaders teased out his candid advice on mastering the complex tasks of planning, communicating, and executing restructures:  🔵 empathise with staff and prioritise everybody’s mental health;  🔵 support staff at the individual and group level, and be prepared for increased staff turnover;  🔵 communicate plans intensively and clearly throughout;  🔵 be visible as a leader, particularly in difficult circumstances;  🔵 seize opportunities to shape new healthy workplace cultures and to create better structures to serve innovators and investors. #TenU #TenUFLP2024 #Leadership #TechnologyTransfer #Innovation Aidan Fowler, Caitriona O'Rourke, Claire Pembleton, Dinali de Silva RTTP, Matthew Berman, Mitchell Fullerton, Paolo Cardile, Peri Cihan, Sandra Ainsua PhD RTTP, Valeska Gonzalez, Dieter Link, Dr. phil. nat., RTTP, Pasquale Ferrari, Ananay Aguilar, Rupert Friederichsen, Yu Z..

💡 With the Budget coming up, how can the Chancellor unlock innovation-led growth?    Professor Irene Tracey, VC of the University of Oxford writes in the Financial Times that the answer lies in supporting universities to commercialise breakthroughs.    In the piece, Prof Tracey, who co-authored the Independent Review of Spinouts, argues the Government needs to invest in Proof-of-Concept funding to help spinouts cross the 'valley of death' – the gap between research grants ending and tech being able to attract major investment.    She points to successful spinouts from Oxford University Innovation and UCL Business Ltd and draws on research from TenU to make the case for Proof-of-Concept funding.    To find out more about TenU's work to share best practices in research commercialisation see link in the comments. #POCfunding #ResearchImpact #EconomicGrowth | Cambridge Enterprise | Columbia Technology Ventures | Edinburgh Innovations | Imperial Enterprise | KU Leuven Research & Development | University of Manchester Innovation Factory | MIT Technology Licensing Office | Stanford Office of Technology Licensing (OTL)

How has the profile of technology transfer offices changed over the past decade? Should TTO staff be seen as thought leaders? The all-star cast of Cambridge Enterprise experts had answers in Peri Cihan’s brilliant #TenUFLP2024 session. Caroline Hyde FRSA and Gerard Grech spoke about the importance of innovations hubs that  🔵 attract ambitious academics, and increasingly students, who want to make a big impact in connection with their entrepreneurial university; 🔵 keep university alumni engaged and offer them opportunities to share their expertise with the next generation of entrepreneurs; 🔵 connect the world of knowledge to the world of investment companies through de-risking and promoting investment-ready companies to accelerate innovation including via Cambridge Enterprise Ventures, Founders at the University of Cambridge, and Cambridge Innovation Capital, and 🔵 influence government to nurture the most competitive ecosystems. Lexi Radcliffe-Hart's workshop on developing brand alongside thought leadership at organisational and personal levels demonstrated how leaders can turn big narratives, visions and know-how into concrete steps. Conceived and delivered by Peri Cihan, this masterful session modelled the #TenUFLP2024 vision of leadership: strategic, confident, self-reflective, and deploying tech transfer expertise at the highest level. #TenU #TenUFLP2024 #Leadership #TechnologyTransfer #Innovation Aidan Fowler, Caitriona O'Rourke, Claire Pembleton, Dinali de Silva RTTP, Matthew Berman, Mitchell Fullerton, Paolo Cardile, Peri Cihan, Sandra Ainsua, Valeska Gonzalez, Dieter Link, Dr. phil. nat., RTTP, Pasquale Ferrari, Ananay Aguilar, Rupert Friederichsen, Yu Z..

🚀 TenU Future Leadership Programme 2024 Kicks Off! 🚀 With 8 internationally leading TTO CEOs as guests, guided by leadership expert Jenny Reindorp, and the 12 brilliant & diverse members of the cohort, the kick-off session brimmed with insights & inspiration for aspiring tech transfer leaders. Pearls of Wisdom shared by TTO CEOs:  🔵 Make time for building trust and relationships: It’s the foundation for effective leadership. 🔵 Take Decisive Action: Effective leaders communicate the need for change well in advance; they listen thoroughly; and make critical decisions in good time. 🔵 Empower your team: Create an environment which encourages your staff to embrace their entrepreneurial spirit. 🔵 Embrace the Challenge: Find peace with the continuous effort required, the inevitable conflicts along the way, and the continuously changing TTO landscape. Here’s to growing our emotional intelligence, learning to flex our leadership styles & integrating international tech transfer expertise! 🌟 #TenU #TenUFLP2024 #Leadership #TechnologyTransfer #Innovation Aidan Fowler, Caitriona O'Rourke, Claire Pembleton, Dinali de Silva RTTP, Matthew Berman, Mitchell Fullerton, Paolo Cardile, Peri Cihan, Sandra Ainsua, Valeska Gonzalez, Dieter Link, Dr. phil. nat., RTTP, Pasquale Ferrari, Ananay Aguilar, Rupert Friederichsen, Yu Z..

📣 TenU Hosts: Startup Teams – International Talent is live. 📣 Listen to the podcast and learn more about the key insights here: https://lnkd.in/eiesNVqs Key messages: 🔵 Immigrants are vital to innovation and entrepreneurship, bringing essential skills and entrepreneurial spirit 🔵 Recruitment and retention of international talent is often hindered by political exploitation and restrictive immigration policies 🔵 There is a need to revise visa policies to better support international talent and foster economic growth Thank you to chair Simon Hepworth, Director of Enterprise at Imperial College London, and to the speakers Alice Li, Executive Director, Center for Technology Licensing at Cornell University (CTL); Desmond Cheung, Senior Associate, Foresight Group; Dorian Haci, PhD, CEO and Co-Founder, MintNeuro; and John Dearie, Founder and President, Center for American Entrepreneurship for their invaluable insights. The podcast was recorded in partnership with Thierry Heles, Global University Venturing. #Innovation #ResearchCommercialisation #Ecosystems #Collaboration #StartupTeams #InternationalTalent

Last week, we celebrated the TenU Future Leaders Programme alumni reunion: #TenUFLP23 #TenUFLP21 💙 A truly heartwarming and inspiring meeting of 11 alumni (7 from first cohort, 4 from second), representing 8 universities including 3 from outside TenU, and 1 startup. If you couldn’t make it, we missed you. Celebrating all of you for your exciting achievements – you’ve been busy! 1️⃣ World premiere! TenU FLP peer learning across cohorts 1 and 2 got under way. Priority topics for TenU FLP alumni were: 🔹 Supporting spinout pre- and post-formation (including social ventures); 🔹 Digital health and data commercialisation (from ethical, technical, and stakeholder perspectives);  🔹 Utilising AI in TTOs (tools, approaches to implementation, and rollout).   TenU FLP alumni reflected together on the state of their personal journeys, professional challenges and successes, and where the sector is going.  Thank you to the hosts Ananay Aguilar, Jenny Reindorp, and Rupert Friederichsen and to the alumni for sharing their inspiring journeys with us: K. Anne Juggernauth, Cheryl Cathey, Chandra Sekar Ramanujan, Chris Gibbs, Dr Jane Jin, Lynda Inseque, Michelle Chitambar, PhD, Neil Simrick, PhD, Peter Sheppard, Sian Fogden, Ying-Li Chen, MBA.

We welcome the new Government led by Sir Keir Starmer and look forward to working together to support him in leading the #UK to be the best it can be.   We stand by Peter Kyle to support him and his team in leveraging the full potential of the UK's scientific community to drive societal and economic growth.   We welcome, in particular, the appointment of Sir Patrick Vallance KCB to Minister of State in the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. The appointment demonstrates the Government's serious commitment being made to #science, #technology and #innovation.   We look forward to convening universities, founders and investors to advise Sir Patrick on key priorities and how to deliver them most effectively for the UK. We thank his predecessors, especially Andrew Griffith MP and former Shadow Minister Chi Onwurah for their support over the years. Cambridge Enterprise | Columbia Technology Ventures | Edinburgh Innovations | KU Leuven Research & Development | Imperial College London | University of Manchester Innovation Factory | MIT Technology Licensing Office | Oxford University Innovation | Stanford Office of Technology Licensing (OTL) | UCL Business Ltd