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Participants will gain expertise in collaborating with founding academics to build well-financed, sustainable ventures that can effectively commercialise technology and provide a financial return to the university.
Delivered by experts from Europe’s most innovative institutions, this course covers essential topics such as managing conflicts of interest, assembling successful management teams, and navigating venture capital financing. Attendees will also explore what investors look for in spin-outs and how to position intellectual property for maximum impact.
Ideal for those aiming to enhance their ability to commercialise technologies, the programme leverages interactive case studies and role play to teach participants how to build sustainable ventures. It also examines which technologies are best suited for spin-outs and the pivotal role knowledge transfer managers play in shaping the initial business strategy.
The course connects to the broader knowledge transfer network and fosters accelerated knowledge transfer through knowledge transfer partnerships, driving innovation and entrepreneurial success.
Why Join The course?
Join this course to gain essential competencies for developing and managing spin-out companies. You will learn through case studies and role play facilitated by experts who have been actively involved in building, financing and managing successful university spin-outs.
Course Objectives
The course objectives are to:
- Learn how to spin-out a company from a research institution
- Handle funding, especially venture capital (VC) financing
- Manage the conflicts of interest for: scientists, founders, research institutions and KTOs
- Deepen your knowledge of how to create a new venture
Key Topics
The key course topics are:
- The best time spin-out
- Acting like an entrepreneur
- An agile approach to creating a new venture
- Building a management team and distributing equity
- Intellectual property as the primary asset
- Strategic financing
- What investors looks for
- Managing conflicts of interests
- Legal agreements
- Joint ventures
- Creating and analysing a Term Sheet
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Testimonials
This is a wonderful conference to expand the horizon of my knowledge of tech transfer and commercialisation.
Seung-Ho Lee
Deltatech-Korea, South Korea
ASTP has attained a unique position that has turned it into a highly valued player on the global technology transfer scene.
Koenraad Debackere
KU Leuven, Belgium
Starting or changing any procedure at a TTO/Institution is challenging and I could not think of anything better than learning with the best.
Ricardo Castro
Centre for research in agricultural Genomics, Spain
From day one ASTP has been a tremendous help. Learning throughs seminars and workshops or meeting peers for discussions, there is always someone around to exchange ideas with.
Paul van Dun
KU Leuven, Belgium
ASTP brought the right structure and terminology to my knowledge of technology licensing.
René Widmer
ETH Transfer, Switzerland
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