The Next Leap

The Next Leap is a podcast about how inventions become real-world products like Gatorade and medications like warfarin.

Episodes

Kevin Walters: Vitamin D-fortified food changed universities forever

March 18, 2025 • 46 mins

In 1925, the University of Wisconsin-Madison established the first-ever tech transfer office. And it all began with the discovery of vitamins.

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Erik Iverson, Mike Partsch: Industry doesn’t want newly hatched ideas

March 25, 2025 • 47 mins

The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) has been around for 100 years and its leadership has novel ideas about how to keep its edge.

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Stuart Wilkinson: What does a sweet shop have to do with spinouts?

April 1, 2025 • 34 mins

The impact of university research commercialisation can go far beyond the initial spinout, says Knowledge Exchange UK's chief executive Stuart Wilkinson.

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Winsome Cheung: Startups, here’s what to know when negotiating with big pharma

April 8, 2025 • 38 mins

Winsome Cheung is a partner at Covington who helps biotech startups and big pharma negotiate deals. Here, she shares what to look out for in contracts.

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Nicky Dibben: People buy products, not technology

April 15, 2025 • 44 mins

Nicky Dibben discusses how marketing strategy is everything that comes between you and your customer, and not simply “fluffy” social media.

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Panel: What’s next for quantum technologies?

April 29, 2025 • 48 mins

What does the future hold for quantum technologies? A panel of experts tackled the challenges at a recent Foresight Live event.

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Gavin Clark, Mark Mann: Here’s how to build a shared TTO

May 6, 2025 • 37 mins

Gavin Clark and Mark Mann share how they've built a tech transfer office shared by six UK universities focused on social sciences and creative industries.

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Károly Szántó: Hungary will be the blueprint for university funds in Eastern Europe

May 13, 2025 • 42 mins

Károly Szántó, the COO of Óbuda University's venture fund and studio OUVC, has a plan to supercharge investment activities in Central and Eastern Europe.

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Empowering academic founders: policies, programmes, and pitfalls

September 30, 2025 • 53 mins

How can universities instil the entrepreneurial mindset in faculty, staff and students? Is this even something you can teach? And if you can, what are some of the challenges and pitfalls? Figuring out the answers to these questions, and more, is a panel of experts from around the world: Kirsty Collinge, the head of research strategy at the University of Edinburgh; Linda Koschier, the head of entrepreneurship at the University of...

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