Training Course

Creating Successful Spin-Outs

The Creating Successful Spin-outs training course is designed to equip experienced knowledge transfer managers with the critical skills needed to develop and manage university spin-outs.

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26 Nov - 28 Nov 2025 Prague 1, Czech Republic

Members

€1,290.00

Non-members

€1,910.00

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 was the right decision giving me the broadest overview, confidence, tools, network and support that is fundamental to feel right in my daily decision process and to keep on learning.

Ricardo Castro

Centre for research in agricultural Genomics, Spain

The experts, the specific content and the informal setting will improve you as a professional.

Brechtje Vreenegoor

Radboud Universteit, Netherlands

Thank you for such enjoyable inspiring event, great choice of the lecturers!!!

Linda Ondrackova

University of Pardubice, Czech Republic

Organisation and speakers were great, so enthusiastic about their work and very good at transferring their knowledge.

Sarka Bartova

Research Centre Rez, Czech Republic

I strongly recommend the course, even if you are not going to set-up an office but you are part of the team that wants to change or improve how technology transfer is done at your institution.