• Beyond the Breakthrough with Thierry Heles

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Beyond the Breakthrough with Thierry Heles

By: Mawsonia
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  • 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.
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Episodes
  • Anita Nel, Brandon Paschal: South Africa is building a world-class innovation ecosystem

    Anita Nel, Brandon Paschal: South Africa is building a world-class innovation ecosystem
    Jul 25 2024
    Setting up a venture fund in 2020 was a “huge paradigm shift” for Stellenbosch University in South Africa, because, for the first time, the executive leadership at the institution became interested in spinouts, says Anita Nel, the chief director for innovation and business development, because they understood that academic research had commercial value and a way to build, for example, local pharmaceutical expertise (the country had to wait six months longer than the northern hemisphere for a covid-19 vaccine because there were no vaccine developers or drug discovery companies in all of Africa).
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    45 mins
  • Panel discussion: Can we fix “insane” immigration policies to attract entrepreneurs?

    Panel discussion: Can we fix “insane” immigration policies to attract entrepreneurs?
    Jul 18 2024
    Immigrants are profoundly entrepreneurial people: they leave behind everything they know for a new country and new opportunities, often at a financial risk. This willingness to embrace change and build a new life from scratch means it should not be a surprise that in the US alone, 43% of Fortune 500 companies have been founded by immigrants.
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    54 mins
  • Paul Devlin: Cardiff is at the forefront of social sciences commercialisation

    Paul Devlin: Cardiff is at the forefront of social sciences commercialisation
    Jul 11 2024
    Commercialising social sciences research is such a new area of technology transfer that when you spin out a company “you might be the first to do that type of deal,” says Paul Devlin, the head of research commercialisation and impact at Cardiff University.
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    39 mins
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