Beyond the Breakthrough with Thierry Heles

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Beyond the Breakthrough is a weekly interview show with the brightest minds in university innovation tackling the question: how does research get from a lab into the marketplace? It is hosted by Thierry Heles.

  1. 13/12/2024

    Season 4 Recap: Building blocks in place for university venturing to take off in 2025

    Is 2025 the year that university technology transfer will see a big boost? It certainly looks promising, particularly in the UK, where a government-led spinout review has encouraged universities to lower equity in spinouts to 25%. Most universities in the UK have adopted the guidelines. The debate over equity stakes is a discussion that Michele Barbour, associate pro vice-chancellor for enterprise and innovation at the University of Bristol, says she actually welcomed because it gave tech transfer a visibility that had so far lacked.

    28 min

  2. 06/12/2024

    Create more spinouts, more quickly with standard deal terms and willingness to fail

    To date, 49 universities in the UK have adopted a recommendation to take between 10% and 25% equity in their life science spinouts. The recommendation was inspired by the USIT Guide, published last year by tech transfer group TenU, making it the guide’s arguably biggest impact yet.

    28 min

  3. 29/11/2024

    More proof of concept funding is needed to create impactful spinouts

    The UK government has committed £40m ($50m) to proof of concept funding over the next five years. How should the money available be deployed? One idea — inspired by the Flemish approach — is to set up investment committees of industry, VC and university experts to allocate the money.

    29 min

  4. 22/11/2024

    How the UK’s spinout review settled “myopic” equity debate

    A year ago, Irene Tracey, vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford, and Andrew Williamson, chief executive of venture capital firm Cambridge Innovation Capital, published their UK government-sponsored report into the spinout ecosystem with a list of 11 recommendations on how to uplift the sector.

    27 min

  5. 08/11/2024

    Landon Borders, Alexa Narel: How the University of Kentucky makes whisky more sustainable

    Whisky may not be the first industry to come to mind when you think of university innovation, but for the University of Kentucky — based in a US state known around the world for its bourbon industry — it's an obvious next step in its tech transfer activities.

    38 min

  6. 01/11/2024

    Pearse Coyle: Incubators are a distraction, acquire customers early instead

    Researchers with promising technology in the UK can apply for public innovation agency Innovate UK's pre-accelerator programme ICURe, which supports them in reaching out to 100 potential customers to understand the market viability of their idea.

    38 min

  7. 24/10/2024

    Asia lags behind other regions for university venture funds

    Just over a fifth of academic institutions in Asia have access to a dedicated university venture fund, with a third of all funds found in Japan — that’s the finding of GUV’s latest regional analysis published last week.

    15 min

  8. 17/10/2024

    Maria Roche: Professor-led spinouts have poorer outcomes

    Should professors be spinout founders? An increasing number of universities are pushing their faculty to be more entrepreneurial but data suggests that that's not always a good thing — for the professor, the spinout or the students.

    37 min
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