Technology Commercialisation Workshop for Startups
Date: 25th February 2010, registration by 23rd February
Time: 9am - 5pm
Fee: $535 (Singapore Dollars)
Venue:
IP Academy, MND Complex, Singapore
How to Attend
Please click here to register your attendance to the workshop.
About the Workshop
The Technology Commercialisation Workshop for Startups is a one-day workshop focusing on real world cases and draws upon the experience and the methods of Isis Innovation, the technology transfer company of The University of Oxford.
The workshop will examine Isis Innovation’s unique model of technology transfer that has been used successfully over the past 20 years. The speakers will share Isis Innovation’s unique project management team structure, its strategies at building successful relationships with researchers, its experience with technology audits and methods for sourcing of funding.
Using many actual Isis Innovation cases, participants will be brought through processes of disclosure through to exit strategies and will receive unique insights and opportunities of detailed analysis of the experience of these early stage companies.
The workshop is aimed at IP professionals, technology transfer specialists, independent researchers & inventors, and businesses involved in early stage technologies.
Programme Outline
Introducing the Oxford Model of Technology Transfer
- Organisational Structure
- Dealing with the parent organisation/university board
- Internal Marketing
- Lighthouse Model - A new way of attracting invention disclosures
- Revenue Sharing Models
- Inventorship Disputes
- Project Evaluation
- Project Management & Investment
- Activity: Technology Transfer Triage
- How to allocate limited resources across a number of technology opportunities
- Analyse five real technology cases and conduct assessment
Case Studies of Early-Stage Companies: Growth in US, EU & Asia
Oxford Catalysts (Chemicals):
This is a case study demonstrating proof-of-concept all the way to successful IPO for a university spin off of a chemical company, the difficulties encountered and the flexibility required to overcome them.
NaturalMotion (IT):
NaturalMotion is a hugely successful startup responsible for technology behind CG in movies like Troy, Poseidon and video games like Star Wars: The Force Unleashed and Grand Theft Auto IV. This is a study in bringing technology and research from widely differing sectors together and the challenges of breaking into Hollywood.
Zyoxel (Biotech):
Zyoxel’s success story begins with successfully securing foreign investment and the challenges of breaking into the pharmaceutical industry.
Oxford Instruments (Hardware):
Oxford Instruments is today a world-wide business, supplying commercially successful, high-tech tools and systems in diverse markets including energy, environmental, health and research. The lessons learnt will provide guidelines on what it takes to build a billion dollar company.
Course Instructor
Terry Pollard
Senior Consultant, Isis Enterprise, Isis Innovation Ltd, University of Oxford
Terry studied physics at the University of Bristol, and then moved into a technical business consulting role. After four years consulting into many different industries, he studied for an MBA at the Tanaka Business School, Imperial College London. Terry first joined Isis Innovation in 2003, where he worked as a project manager commercialising intellectual property from the physics, chemistry, materials and engineering departments. He was involved in the formation of several spinout companies, including Oxford Catalysts Ltd, a company that is developing specialty catalysts for the generation of clean fuels from conventional fossil fuels and renewable sources such as biomass. Oxford Catalysts floated on AIM in 2006, and Terry left Isis in early 2007 to join Oxford Catalysts, where he gained valuable experience in a business development role. Terry returned to work in a new role at Isis Enterprise in April 2008.
About the Organisers
IP Academy, Singapore
The IP Academy (Singapore) was established in 2003 as part of a national initiative to develop Singapore into an IP Hub and serves as the focal point for executive IP training and thought leadership development in Singapore and the region.
In line with its objective to develop and broaden IP knowledge and capabilities, the IP Academy provides a wide range of continuing executive training opportunities for IP professionals, business organisations, research institutions, and other IP creators and users. These include short term IP training courses, executive seminars, postgraduate certification and Masters programmes in IP.
The IP Academy (Singapore) also undertakes quality inter-disciplinary research to provide unique and commercial insights on IP issues and thereby support local and regional development of IP best practices and policies, and improve industry’s ability to protect, manage and exploit IP.
Isis Innovation Ltd.
Isis Innovation is the University of Oxford's technology transfer company and manages the University's intellectual property portfolio, working with University researchers on identifying, protecting and marketing technologies through licensing, spin-out company formation and material sales. Isis files on average one new patent application each week, has concluded over 400 technology licensing agreements, and established 64 new spin-out companies from Oxford. Isis also manages Oxford University Consulting, which arranges consulting services providing clients access to the world-class expertise of the University's academics to enhance innovative capability. Last year OUC arranged over 150 consulting deals. Isis has established a separate business division, Isis Enterprise, offering consulting expertise and advice in technology transfer and open innovation to university, government and industrial clients around the world. Isis was founded in 1987 and is today one of the world's leading technology transfer and innovation management companies.
www.isis-innovation.com
Isis Enterprise
Isis Enterprise, established in 2004, is a division of Isis Innovation Ltd. It offers consulting advice in technology transfer and innovation management to clients from the public and private sectors, in the UK and internationally. Technology transfer includes the management of intellectual property and its transfer from university or corporate research to commercialisation. Innovation management includes processes designed to convert early stage ideas into real products and services.
Last year Isis Enterprise delivered consultancy assignments for clients in more than 30 countries and established a presence in Singapore to serve the Asian market.