Conference presentations
Southampton, 2012
Poster Competition
Winning poster
Affordable access to essential medicine in low income countries: Sotoda Abdulsattar
Other entries
Conference podcasts
PLENARY SESSIONS
Delivering Impact through Partnership - Professor Philip Nelson, University of Southampton
Spinout UK Survey 2012 presentation
Inspiring Tomorrow’s Innovators
Billy Boyle, Owlstone Nanotech Inc
Topical Issues
Alternative / New Models of Technology Transfer
Single Key Office / Central Portal
Revenue Models, Dr Jeff Skinner, London Business School
PARALLEL SESSIONS
Session A1 - What’s new in IP – chaired by Dr Angela Kukula, Institute of Cancer Research
Sharon Bedford, James Cowper LLP
Session A2 - Build your career in knowledge transfer – chaired by Dr David Secher, University of Cambridge and Cambridge KT
Paul Findlay, University of Hertfordshire
Liz Flint, Aberystwyth University
Linda Naylor, Isis Innovation Ltd
Summary to follow shortly
Session A3 - International academic-industry collaborations: maximising the UK’s value proposition – chaired by Dr Malcolm Skingle CBE, GlaxoSmithKline
Alan Curtis, High Value Manufacturing Catapult WMG Centre
Dr Sandy Reid, Promethean Particles Ltd
Session A4 - Embedding a KEC culture – chaired by Dr Celia Caulcott, BBSRC
Professor Tim Brocklehurst, Institute of Food Research
Dr Sonja Vujovic, Roslin Institute
Dr Nick Wells, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Session B1 - Improve your IP management - chaired by Dr Alison Campbell OBE, Alison Campbell Associates Ltd
Mark Anderson, Anderson Law LLP
Dr Neil Bradshaw, University of Bristol
Matthew Dixon, Harrison Goddard Foote
Session B2 - What could possibly go wrong? - chaired by Carina Healy, Dundas & Wilson LLP
Dr Dominic Griffiths, Fusion IP plc
Dr Rupert Osborn, IP Pragmatics
Rachel Wallis, Withers & Rogers
Session B3 - Funding for commercialisation – the 2012 landscape and roadmap – chaired by Dr Jeff Skinner, London Business School
Robin Lockwood, Newcastle University Ventures
James Mawson, Global Corporate Venturing
Session B4 - Needles in a global haystack – stitching together the best IP offering – chaired by Dr Alan Burbidge, University of Nottingham
Dr David Dent, Dent Associates Ltd
Dr Steve Ewing, Edinburgh BioQuarter
Professor David Young, Independent Consultant
Glasgow, 2011
Knowledge Exchange in a New Funding Environment - David Sweeney, HEFCE
The Agile University – surviving and thriving - Ewart Wooldridge CBE, Leadership Foundation for Higher Education
PARALLEL SESSIONS
Session A1 Themes from the CSR and New Models: TTO/KTO Structures and Styles, Chaired by Carina Healy, Dundas & Wilson
Dr Jeff Skinner, London Business School
Dr Diane Harbison, Edinburgh BioQuarter
Session A2 International Experiences: Comparative Approaches to Knowledge Transfer, Chaired by Dr Phil Clare, University of Oxford
Professor Erik Vermeulen, Philips International and Tilburg University
John Westensee, Aarhus University
Session A3 Professional Development: What I Wish my Boss had Told Me, Chaired by Dr Ewan Chirnside, University of St Andrews
Session A4 New Models of Engagement: New Structures and Mechanisms, Chaired by Sean Fielding, University of Exeter
Dr Allyson Reed, Technology Strategy Board
Mike Johnson, Medical Research Council Technology
The University of Strathclyde – a Place of Useful Learning - Professor Philip Winn, University of Strathclyde
Changing the Knowledge Exchange Model - Professor Anton Muscatelli, University of Glasgow
PARALLEL SESSIONS
Session B1 Themes from the CSR and New Models: The Holistic KT Office, Chaired by John Francis, Oxford Brookes University
Sean Fielding, University of Exeter
David Hartley, Oxford Brookes University
Session B2 International Experiences: Strategic International Partnerships with Business, Chaired by Dr Alan Burbidge, University of Nottingham
Dr George Rice, University of Nottingham
Session B3 Professional Development: Effective Internal and External Communications, Chaired by Dr Diane Harbison, Edinburgh BioQuarter
Patricia Latter, Royal Veterinary College
Dr Malcolm Skingle CBE, GlaxoSmithKline
Dr Douglas Robertson, Newcastle University
Session B4 New Models of Engagement: Engaging with Industry, Chaired by Dr Rupert Osborn, IP Pragmatics Ltd
Professor Colin Adams, University of Edinburgh
Entrepreneurship in Technology Transfer - Dr Tim Cook, Isis Innovation Ltd
Demonstrating Success in Knowledge Exchange - Alice Frost, HEFCE
Topical Issues
HEIF Institutional Strategy Workshop
THE IMPACT AWARDS '11
Sir Tim Wilson speaking at the Gala Dinner and The Impact Awards
Nottingham, 2010
Speakers: Chris Thompson - The University of Nottingham, Professor Baback Yazdani - Nottingham Trent University, Dr Glenn Crocker - BioCity Nottingham
Session A1 - The Impact of the Recession
Chairperson: Carina Healy - Dundas & Wilson
Speakers: Dr Pauline Stasiak - MRC Technology, Brian Horsburgh - IP Group plc, Alexander Weedon - UCL Business plc
Session A2 - Non-Executive Directors
Chairperson: Dr Kevin Cullen - University of Glasgow
Speakers: Tom Hockaday - Isis Innovation Ltd, Stuart Thompson - IP Group plc, Dr Ian Wilding - Ian Wilding Associates Ltd
Session A3 - How to Build Relationships with Corporates
Chairperson: Dr Diane Harbison - Pfizer
Speakers: Dr Rob Pinnock - Merck Sharp & Dohme, Dr Colin Adams - University of Edinburgh, Dr David Rhodes - Health Protection Agency
Session A4 - What is Social Enterprise?
Chairperson: Dr Jeff Skinner - London Business School
Speakers: Sarah Yorke and Lauren Croll - UnLtd, Ruchi Gupta - The University of Manchester
The Contribution of Public Sector Research to the Discovery of New Drugs
Speaker: Dr Ashley Stevens - President, Association of University Technology Managers
PSRE - University Interactions
Chairperson: Sunil Shahaney - Partnerships UK
Speakers: Dr David Gleaves - MidTECH - NHS Innovations West Midlands, Dr Phil Wakeley - Veterinary Laboratories Agency, Dr Sarah Macnaughton - Isis Innovation Ltd
Absorbing Research: Opportunities and Challenges for Knowledge Transfer Offices
Speakers: Dr David Docherty and Philip Ternouth - the Council for Industry and Higher Education
Speaker: Dr Kevin Cullen - University of Glasgow
Topical Issues
Technology Transfer Office Collaboration
Research Councils UK Perspective: Pathways to Impact
Speaker: Dr Simon Jackman - Natural Environment Research Council & Chair, Cross Council Impact within Peer Review Group
Session B1 - The Role of the TTO/KTO in Impact
Chairperson: John Francis - Oxford Brookes University
Speakers: Graeme Rosenberg - HEFCE, Professor Jerry Roberts - The University of Nottingham, Dr Ederyn Williams - Warwick Ventures
Session B2 -Have you evolved yet? Using Web 2.0 and Social Networking for Knowledge Transfer
Chairperson: Sean Fielding - University of Exeter
Speakers: Brian McCaul - University of Leeds, Iain Simpson - BDO
Session B3 - Why I Hate the TTO
Chairperson: Dr Angela Kukula - Aston University
Speakers: Dr James Houston, Dr Chris Martin - Pfizer, Dr Andrew Muir - Midven, Professor Geoff Tansley - Aston University
Chairperson: Dr Sue O’Hare - London Metropolitan University
Speakers: Dr Stephen Bence - Transentia Ltd, Neil Crabb - Frontier IP Ltd, Dr Mark Payton - Mercia Technology Seed Fund
Accelerating Scientific Innovation through Design
Speakers: Ellie Runcie - Design Council, Dr George Rice - The University of Nottingham
Seeing Further: setting a long-term vision for UK science and innovation
Speaker: Dr James Wilsdon - Royal Society Science Policy Centre
Brighton, 2009
- Conference Programme
- What's Going on in Sussex Colin Monk, University of Brighton and Professor Bob Allison, University of Sussex
Session A1 - Funding the Gap
Chairperson: Dr Simon Haworth, IPSO Ventures
The speakers will be leading figures in those venture capital firms that specialise in investing in university technologies. They will speak about their experiences in investing, and will explain the factors that prompt them to decide to invest (or not) in an opportunity.
Session A2 - Developments and Challenges of Regional and National Innovation Policies
Chairperson: John Francis, Oxford Brookes University
Innovation has been one of the hot topics for government both at a national and a regional level. Businesses and the public sector are all being exhorted to innovate to maintain a lead in their sector and become more effective. Universities are seen as being able to play a major role in the innovation ecosystem. Policy and processes are being developed and this session will explore policy and experiences from a national, regional and international perspective.
- Summary
- Dr David Mulligan, SEEDA
- Richard Braham, NESTA
- Dr Wilhelm Bauhus, University of Münster
- Dr Paul Nightingale, University of Sussex
Session A3 - Bid Writing
Chairperson: Dr Alison Campbell, King's College London Business Ltd
Innovation is about making new knowledge useful. In the process of drafting grant proposals, PIs are increasingly being asked to consider the impact and commercial potential of their research. More grant funding schemes are being created to support translational research, across the disciplines. So what is the role of the TTO in this changing landscape? This session draws on experience of TTOs in helping to craft grant applications and explores best practice in management of research funding where it relates to translational research.
- Summary
- Robin Lockwood, Newcastle University
- Vince Osgood MBE, EPSRC
- Dr Adam Stoten, Isis Innovation Ltd
- Dr Paul Thomas, University of Essex
Session A4 - Open Space
Chairperson: Eleanor Taylor, Scottish Enterprise
Open Space is an exciting and productive way to talk to a group of like-minded people about important issues. Delegates are asked to participate by generating and leading topics for discussion.
Session B1 - A Capital Adventure: how venture funding works
Chairperson: Dr Sue O?Hare, University of Reading
Research institutions have long been working with venture capitalists to fund their spin-out companies. By now academics and technology transfer offices have become reasonably familiar with VCs and their outward appearance and behaviour. But what goes on behind the scenes? How does the whole venture funding market work? How do VC funds raise money? What are the expectations of their investors? How are individual VCs incentivised? This session will provide an insight from experts to complete the picture and give a better understanding of why VCs behave in the way they do.
- Summary
- Laurence Garrett, Ethean Capital LLP
- Stephen Bloomfield, Ashcroft International Business School, Anglia Ruskin University
- Dr David McBeth, University of Strathclyde
Session B2 - Charity Law, Tax Law and Research - Implications for working with Industry
Chairperson: Dr Phil Clare, University of Oxford
Recent changes in tax and charity law have increased the focus on the charitable status of universities, and the implications that this has for the way we work with other organisations, and businesses in particular. Amid fears that this was the next schedule 22, Unico has been working with HEFCE, the HMRC and the Charity Commission, among others, to effect a solution. This talk will outline the problem, the guidance that has recently been published, and the implications for universities. The session will be of particular interest to colleagues who negotiate or manage research or other contracts with industry.
Session B3 - Relationship Management
Chairperson: Liz Flint, Aberystwyth University
Universities are more commercially active than ever before, and technology transfer offices have been actively developing their relationship management processes and skills. But how are other universities doing this? What are the differences between managing relationships with large corporates and with SMEs? What role does the academic play? How does the TTO interact with the rest of the university ? are you representing the whole institution or just the technology transfer office? Most importantly, what do companies want? This session will provide an insight from a range of experts to give a better understanding of relationship management in a university context.
- Summary
- Dr Douglas Robertson, Newcastle University
- Professor Simon Bradley, EADS Innovation Works
- Derek King, School of the Built Environment, Liverpool John Moores University
Session B4 - State Aid
Chairperson: Dr Ian Carter, University of Sussex
This session will give a general overview of the State aid regime, including the policy behind the State aid rules, content of the rules and enforcement and penalties. It will cover how the State aid rules apply to universities, referring to the most important legislation and recent BERR guidance. It will then look at some specific examples, including issues that arise where a university uses public funding to develop a project to the point of spin-out formation.
- Summary
- Dr Mary Canning, Scottish Enterprise
- Sarah Livestro, Shoosmiths and David Rose, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
- Why Should Taxpayers Spend Money on University Research? Dr Graeme Reid, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
- Development and Growth of an Entrepreneurial Eco-System between a University and its Community:theMITExperience over 50years Lita Nelsen MBE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- An Unofficial Survey of Practical UCF Performance Dr Richard Jennings, Cambridge Enterprise
- Technology Transfer Down Under - Chartering New Waters Dr Andy Sierakowski, University of Western Australia
Session C1 - Dealing with US Funding
Chairperson: Dr Kevin Cullen, University of Glasgow
Does your university do any research funded by US funding agencies, NIH, NSF, NAS and the likes? Is there any reason why the Tech Transfer Office should know, or be interested? You can guess where this is going... Accepting funding from these sources legally commits the university to complying with US regulations relating to IP, from a requirement to report all inventions to obligations to exploit. If your university has any funding of this type, you have a job to do and you'd better find out what it is. We have an expert panel to tell you what you really, really (legally) need to know.
- Summary
- J.P. Kim, National Institutes of Health
- Lita Nelsen MBE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Dr Phil Clare, University of Oxford
Session C2 - Hubs and Spokes
Chairperson: Professor David Secher, Cambridge University and Unico Chairman
Both Richard Lambert and Professor Paul Wellings called for new models of technology transfer offices working together. Why has there not been more activity in this area? Some models from the UK and abroad will be discussed as well as how to follow up or respond to these suggestions. This session will be unmissable for anyone from large or small offices who feels that there could be scope for more effective working through collaboration.
- Summary
- Dr Tim Fell, CellCentric Ltd
- Dr Herbert Reutimann, Unitectra, Technology Transfer University of Zurich and University of Berne
- Dr Paul Mele, US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command
Session C3 - Valuing IP
Chairperson: Dr Douglas Robertson, Newcastle University
The valuation of IPR is notoriously difficult. Universities, in general, are often accused of over-valuing IPR by representatives of the business community. However, universities often respond that business under-values the IPR arising from universities. In a survey carried out by Browne Jacobson, a leading UK law firm, a poll of 220 UK business owners found that 80% of business owners were unaware of the value of their intellectual property assets, and only 48% had any clear policies in place for protecting IPR. The difficulty over IPR valuations is that there is no such thing as a generic rule, just as there are no generic rules for royalty rates which can be expected from inventions. Valuation of IPR or lack of valuation at an appropriate time also raises taxation issues. This session will consider the issues for universities relating to IPR valuation as well as different approaches to valuation.
- Summary
- Dr Douglas Robertson, Newcastle University
- Dr Jackie Maguire, Coller IP Management
- Paul Braye, BDO Stoy Hayward
Session C4 - Working with your NHS Trust
Chairperson: Dr Alison Campbell, Managing Director, King's College London Business Ltd
Academic Health Sciences Centres, NHS Innovation Hubs, OSCHR, Biomedical Research Centres ? never has the landscape for biomedical and health research and exploitation been so exciting and so complicated. In this session, practitioners from university and the NHS will share their experiences of working together to create value in translational research and development.
- Summary
- Dr Rich Ferrie, University of Manchester Intellectual Property Limited (UMIP)
- Dr Mark Taylor, Oxford Biomedical Research Centre
- Keynote Speech Dr Graham Spittle CBE, Chair of the Technology Strategy Board (TSB) and Vice President, Software UKI (UK & Ireland), IBM
Birmingham, 2008
- Conference programme
- INDEX Voucher Scheme (John Bailey, Aston University)
- Metrics for the Evaluation of Knowledge Transfer Activitives at Universities (Martin Holi, Library House)
Workshop A1 - Translational Medicine
- Summary
- Dr Alison Campbell, King's College London Business Ltd
- Edward Friel, University of Ulster
- Dr John Nicholls, Translational Medicine Research Collaboration
- Dr Pauline Williams, GlaxoSmithKline
Workshop A2 - Grant Terms and Conditions
- Dr Andrew Mackintosh, Royal Society Enterprise Fund
- Vince Osgood, Economic Impact, EPSRC
- Vince Osgood, RCUK, New Research Grant Terms and Conditions
- Catherine Quinn, Wellcome Trust
Workshop A3 - Alumni Relations/Development
- Summary
- Dr Anne Dobrée, Cambridge Enterprise Seed Fund
- Dr Neil Bradshaw and Sarah Jarman, University of Bristol
- Alasdair MacKay, University of Strathclyde
- Aila Saloranta, Helsinki University of Technology, Otaniemi International Innovation Centre OIIC
Workship B2 - IP Due Diligence
Workshop B3 - International Collaborations
Creating and Sustaining Regional Collaborations
- Dr Phil Extance, Advantage West Midlands
- Gil Murray, CBI West Midlands & Oxfordshire
- Dr Mark Payton, Mercia Fund
- Dr Ederyn Williams, Warwick Ventures
IP and Universities - a Report to Government
Driving Innovation
Workshop C1 - Emerging Technologies
Workshop C2 - University Knowledge and Business Expertise - Partners or Pariahs?
- Summary
- John Francis, Oxford Brookes University
- Dr Balaji Ganeshan, University of Susses (Dept of Engineering & Design and Brighton & Sussex Medical School)
- Steve Moore, University of Wolverhampton
- Steve Moore - Student Placements for Entrepreneurs in Education
- Professor Russell Smith, Business Boffins
Workshop C3 - IP Auctions and Other New Ways to Commercialise IP
