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Key note speaker - Emeritus Professor, Chris Fell, UNSW

Emeritus Professor Chris Fell, The University of New South Wales

Emeritus Professor Chris Fell, a chemical engineer by training, first joined UNSW in 1970. He held a variety of positions during his 30 years with the University, including Dean of Engineering and Director of the Commonwealth Special Research Centre for Membrane Science and Technology. He was also founding Chair of the CRC for Waste Management and Pollution Control and co-inventor of the technology that led to the formation of the high tech membrane company, Memtec Ltd which was subsequently acquired for US $400m. He retired from UNSW in December 2000. Professor Fell is currently president of the Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Society. He is honoured with an AM in recognition of his services to engineering and to higher education.

UNSW 2005-10-26 Commercialising your research - Martin O'Brien

A seminar for postgraduate students

Dr Martin O’Brien, from the Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys, Spruson & Ferguson, talks about IP issues and considerations for early stage ventures emerging from universities.

UNSW 2005-10-26 Commercialising your research - Richard Sharp

A seminar for postgraduate students

Dr Richard Sharp, CEO, Qucor, talks about the business of commercialising technologies from the Quantum Computing Centre

UNSW 2005-10-26 Commercialising your research - David Andrews

A seminar for postgraduate students

Dr David Andrews, CEO MRC Biotech and HepatoCell Therapeutics Pty Ltd, talks about tow start-ups which emerged from UNSW

UNSW 2005-10-26 Commercialising your research - Mark Bradley

A seminar for postgraduate students

Dr Mark Bradley, CEO ATP Innovations talks about early start-up company issues

UNSW 2005-10-26 Commercialising your research - Renate Krelle

A seminar for postgraduate students

Renate Krelle, Business Development Manager, NewSouth Innovations, UNSW talks about processes for technology commercialsation from UNSW through NewSouth Innovations

Technology Commercialisation from UK Universities

I encourage anyone interested in this topic to listen to this excellent piece from the BBC In Business Program.

 

‘Professor Profit’

In Business looks at how universities are being challenged to sweat their assets - by turning academic good ideas into real life companies and patents. Peter Day asks if the strategy is really working to the benefit of both the British economy and the universities' balance sheets.

Interviewees – John Hassard, Imperial College particle physicist and co-founder, chairman of Hydroventuri; Susan Searle, chief executive, Imperial College Innovations; Tom Hockaday, executive director, ISIS Innovation; Bob Boucher, vice chancellor, University of Sheffield; Richard Lambert, member of the Monetary Policy Committee, Bank of England and author of the Lambert Review; Stephen Allott, managing director, Trinamo Ltd; David Cleevely, entrepreneur; Warren East, ceo, Arm Holdings; Billy Boyle, co-founder Owlstone Nanotech.