INVITATION ONLY
This informative session is designed for early to mid career academics or innovators with a common interest in exploring commercialisation as your next career step. You may be a Professor, lecturer or postdoctoral researcher looking to spin out a company from university or a small business owner looking to spin out. From entrepreneurship to intrapreneurship – the dialogue can be shaped to your situation. You will be encouraged to submit questions in advance so the dialogue can be shaped around the backgrounds, interests, and challenges in the room.
What you can expect to cover:
- Understanding of intellectual property
- Team management priorities when looking to spin out from university
- How to measure/track real-world impact
- Funding routes and networks to commercialisation
- Entrepreneurship vs intrapreneurship distinction and opportunities
You will gain:
- Clear, practical advice on navigating a spin out from a university or SME company
- Greater clarity on pathways from research to commercialisation and impact
- Insight into building and structuring a team
- Greater confidence and direction for your next steps
Accessibility
It is very important to the Royal Academy of Engineering that our events are accessible to all. If you have any accessibility requirements, please contact Kirsty Chishti at [email protected] so that necessary arrangements can be made.
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Phil O’Donovan FREng
Phil O’Donovan, as co-founder and Managing Director, helped grow Cambridge-based CSR plc from a start-up of nine into a highly successful FTSE 250 listed fabless semiconductor company employing, in 2015, more than 2,000 people in 23 locations.
Within four years from 1999, CSR became the Bluetooth market leader and supplier of chips to hundreds of global high-volume consumer product manufacturers. By 2012, CSR had achieved annual revenue of $1billion and had, by 2015, shipped close to 4billion chips. CSR was acquired by US company Qualcomm in September 2015 for $2.5billion.
Phil is an Engineer and a Cambridge-based mentor, coach and investor in technology start-ups where he takes a non-executive director or chairman role. He is also a speaker on entrepreneurial topics at universities and business schools and an advisor to organisations wishing to commercialise their IP.