Panel: AI is a recompilation engine

It's tempting to automate tech transfer: matching algorithms, data lakes, and AI summarising research papers in seconds. Patrick Speedie, co-founder and chief business officer of Inpart, has built software to match university research with corporate partners. And Inpart is integrating increasingly sophisticated AI into its platform, but Patrick is no evangelist. He's thought long and hard about the role the technology can, and should, play in research commercialisation. His realisation? Yes, it crushes administrative grunt work. Yes, better data architecture matters. But the deals that actually close? They still live in relationships. In conference rooms. In the conversations that software can't capture. If you work in tech transfer and you're caught between “we need to automate everything” and “AI is coming to steal our jobs”, this conversation will change how you think about your toolkit.

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Hetti Barkworth-Nanton, CEO of Ploughshare Innovations and chair of Refuge, explores how security innovation and social impact can coexist.

Wageningen University & Research is a truly unique organisation combining a higher education institution with an applied research institute. Listen now to find out what challenges and opportunities this presents.

Peter Devine, who recently stepped down as CEO of Uniseed after two decades, reflects on his career and lasting impact on the Australian ecosystem.

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 New South Wales' Faculty of Engineering; Koenraad Debackere, the executive director of KU Leuven Research & Development; and Paul Cheek, a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management. The panel will give insights into how you can empower students, how you can foster entrepreneurship on campus even if you live in a risk-averse culture, and how you can give people more time to focus on their business ideas. This episode is a recording of a ⁠TenU⁠ Hosts webinar, chaired by Catherine Headley, the CEO of the University of Manchester Innovation Factory. Further reading Paul Cheek mentions the book, From the Basement to the Dome, which offers an analysis of how MIT's culture created a thriving entrepreneurial community. Empowering academic founders: policies, programmes | RSS.com

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.

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.

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

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