Director of Technology Transfer at AREA Science Park
Lecture: AREA BEST PRACTICE

Stephen Taylor has over twenty years of experience helping major firms and government agencies in Europe and North America to access the latest knowledge and expertise for analysis and planning for new business, market research, new product development, and technology commercialization. He currently works as a Director of the Technology Transfer Department of AREA, Trieste, Italy.

He has previously worked as a Senior Consultant at SRI Consulting Business Intelligence (SRIC-BI), an employee owned spin-off from SRI International, formerly Stanford Research Institute. Working with clients in Italy, and across Europe to maximize their use of, and benefit from SRIC-BI’s syndicated services, specifically Scan and Explorer.

Prior to this assignment, he has worked as Managing Director, responsible for all European operations, at H. Silver and Associates (UK) Ltd., the European division of a global consultancy and training corporation specializing in assisting high-tech companies with opportunity identification, technical marketing, and proposal preparation and offering training in many facets of technology and business.

His previous assignment was as Commercial Director at TMA Ventures, the commercial arm of the Telecommunication Managers Association, where he was responsible for overseeing sales and marketing activity and for developing new products to agreed profit margins.