Beyond the Breakthrough with Thierry Heles

Beyond the Breakthrough is a weekly interview show with the brightest minds in university innovation tackling the question: how does research get from a lab into the marketplace? It is hosted by Thierry Heles.

Episodes

Season 4 Recap: Building blocks in place for university venturing to take off in 2025

December 12, 2024 • 27 mins

Is 2025 the year that university technology transfer will see a big boost? It certainly looks promising, particularly in the UK, where a government-led spinout review has encouraged universities to lower equity in spinouts to 25%. Most universities in the UK have adopted the guidelines. The debate over equity stakes is a discussion that Michele Barbour, associate pro vice-chancellor for enterprise and innovation at the University ...

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Create more spinouts, more quickly with standard deal terms and willingness to fail

December 5, 2024 • 27 mins

To date, 49 universities in the UK have adopted a recommendation to take between 10% and 25% equity in their life science spinouts. The recommendation was inspired by the USIT Guide, published last year by tech transfer group TenU, making it the guide’s arguably biggest impact yet.

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Maria Roche: Professor-led spinouts have poorer outcomes

October 17, 2024 • 36 mins

Should professors be spinout founders? An increasing number of universities are pushing their faculty to be more entrepreneurial but data suggests that that's not always a good thing — for the professor, the spinout or the students.

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Season 3 Recap: Groundbreaking incubators and ideal startup founders

August 8, 2024 • 26 mins

We look back at some of the highlights of season 3, which featured many a discussion about university incubator and accelerator programmes, including insights from Jim Shaikh (The Greenhouse at Imperial College London), Paul Devlin (Cardiff University), Brandon Paschal (LaunchLab at Stellenbosch University), and Duncan Johnson and Miles Kirby (NG Studios powered by Deeptech Labs).

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TU Darmstadt has developed a unique approach to licensing

May 9, 2024 • 20 mins

Licensing intellectual property to a spinout can take frustratingly long and end with terms for a spinout that a venture capital investor might not be comfortable with — the university taking too large a share is a typical argument that you’ll hear particularly in the UK. There are initiatives to speed this up. The US has BOLT and the UK has the USIT Guides, template term sheets co-developed by tech transfer offices, investors and ...

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Beyond the Breakthrough with Thierry Heles

Episodes

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Maria Roche: Professor-led spinouts have poorer outcomes

Season 3 Recap: Groundbreaking incubators and ideal startup founders

TU Darmstadt has developed a unique approach to licensing

Popular Podcasts

Season 4 Recap: Building blocks in place for university venturing to take off in 2025

Create more spinouts, more quickly with standard deal terms and willingness to fail