Episodi

  • Kevin Walters: Vitamin D-fortified food changed universities forever

    Kevin Walters: Vitamin D-fortified food changed universities forever
    Mar 18 2025
    The story of technology transfer begins with Harry Steenbock's discovery of how to create vitamin D- fortified food. Steenbock, a professor of biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, established the first-ever university tech transfer office not only to license his own invention to industry but also to support his colleagues present and future to do the same. This year, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) celebrates its 100th anniversary: https://www.warf.org/centennial/ But while WARF has forever changed how universities go about creating real-world applications for their research, it wasn't all smooth sailing: because WARF was created decades before the Bayh-Dole Act (which gives US universities the right to exploit their IP), there were several run-ins with the government, regulators and industry both at home and internationally. Kevin Walters wrote his PhD on the history of WARF and now serves as the organisation's public affairs associate. He explains why all of this could only have happened in a state known for its dairy industry and how Steenbock's childhood days on a farm meant he managed to do something that paediatricians did not.
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    46 min
  • Erik Iverson, Mike Partsch: Industry doesn’t want newly hatched ideas

    Erik Iverson, Mike Partsch: Industry doesn’t want newly hatched ideas
    Mar 25 2025
    The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) has been around for 100 years and its leadership has novel ideas about how to keep its edge.
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    47 min
  • Stuart Wilkinson: What does a sweet shop have to do with spinouts?

    Stuart Wilkinson: What does a sweet shop have to do with spinouts?
    Apr 1 2025
    The impact of university research commercialisation can go far beyond the initial spinout, says Knowledge Exchange UK's chief executive Stuart Wilkinson.
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    35 min
  • Winsome Cheung: Startups, here’s what to know when negotiating with big pharma

    Winsome Cheung: Startups, here’s what to know when negotiating with big pharma
    Apr 8 2025
    Winsome Cheung is a partner at Covington who helps biotech startups and big pharma negotiate deals. Here, she shares what to look out for in contracts.
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    39 min
  • Nicky Dibben: People buy products, not technology

    Nicky Dibben: People buy products, not technology
    Apr 15 2025
    Nicky Dibben discusses how marketing strategy is everything that comes between you and your customer, and not simply “fluffy” social media.
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    45 min
  • Panel: What’s next for quantum technologies?

    Panel: What’s next for quantum technologies?
    Apr 29 2025
    What does the future hold for quantum technologies, what are the pitfalls and how can academia, startups, industry and government work together to solve the challenges ahead? Earlier this month, I chaired a panel tackling these questions for Bristol Innovations' first Foresight Live event, featuring Ruth Oulton, professor of quantum photonics at the University of Bristol, Zoe Davidson, a research specialist in optical networks at telecoms firm BT, and Francesco Raffaelli, head of technology at secure communications startup KETS Quantum Security. I'm delighted to be able to share a full recording with you today. If you're interested in attending the next Foresight Live event, grab tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/foresight-live-convergence-of-critical-technologies-in-ai-and-telecoms-tickets-1307798232719?aff=oddtdtcreator Make sure you also sign up for the newsletter Foresight Digest: https://biforesight.com/newsletter/ And if you'd rather watch the video of the panel, you can find that on BIForesight.com, where you can also find a a summary write-up by myself: https://biforesight.com/quantum/from-research-to-reality-quantum-is-not-ai/
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    48 min
  • Gavin Clark, Mark Mann: Here’s how to build a shared TTO

    Gavin Clark, Mark Mann: Here’s how to build a shared TTO
    May 6 2025
    Towards the end of last year, the University of the Arts London secured a grant from Research England to lead a consortium of six universities that would develop a shared TTO focused on creative and social sciences. The pilot project, dubbed Shared Technology Transfer Office to Accelerate the Growth of Self-Funded Spinouts (STAGE), has now come to a close so it's the perfect time to reflect on what's gone well and what needs to happen next. Gavin Clark, director of enterprise and commercialisation at the University of the Arts London, and Mark Mann, a consultant who helped bring the consortium together, join me to explain why they used a model from the University of Birmingham to build their project, how that approach works, and what the pitfalls are of wrangling six universities to say “yes” to an external tech transfer office run by specialists from Kindling Ventures. We also explore the importance of capturing data (which will be made public in the coming weeks and months), how the project has drawn international attention and even what it's all meant on a more personal level.
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    37 min
  • Károly Szántó: Hungary will be the blueprint for university funds in Eastern Europe

    Károly Szántó: Hungary will be the blueprint for university funds in Eastern Europe
    May 13 2025
    Károly Szántó, the COO of Óbuda University's venture fund and studio OUVC, has a plan to supercharge investment activities in Central and Eastern Europe.
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    43 min