Patricia Barclay
Lawyer & Commercialization Adviser, U.K
Lecture: Ensuring Performance – key clauses for effective licensing deals
Master Class: Building a Deal Making Network
Patricia Barclay studied law at Edinburgh and Oxford Universities before embarking on a career primarily in life sciences which has taken her all over the world. She held a number of senior positions with significant international business, before moving to consultancy and mediation in technology transfer.
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Jeremy Philpott
Manager, Innovation Support Unit, European Patent Academy European Patent Office, Munich
Lecture: Intellectual property strategy
Master Class: IP issues in commercializing a new invention
In 2005, after more than eight years of work in The Patent Office in the UK, Jeremy Philpott joint the European Patent Office in Munich. Since 2006 he has led the Innovation Support Unit promoting and supporting patent-related IP training to industry and SME audiences.
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Jeff Skinner
Executive Director, Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, London Business School.
Lecture: Technology transfer – Models and Mission
Master Class: Commercial development of a promising technology
Jeff Skinner is the Executive Director of the Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at London Business School. He conceived, built and ran the Technology Transfer division at the University College London. He co-founded over thirty technology-based spin-outs.
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Cliff Zintgraff
Program Manager, IC
2 Institute, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Lecture: Culture Shift: the Mindset, Strategies and Tactics of Active Commercialization
Master Class: Building an Active Technology Portfolio
Cliff Zintgraff is Program Manager for UTEN@Austin, a five-year collaboration between the University of Texas at Austin and the Government of Portugal to build sustainable technology transfer systems. He developed the RapidScreen Early Commercialization Analysis Tool, used to rapidly build and analyze technology portfolios. His work in technology transfer is based on research performed at the IC2 Institute at the University of Texas of Austin. He has twenty years experience in high technology ventures in fields including medical imaging, information security, educational technology and telecommunications.
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Gabriele Gatti
Director, Strategic Planning, AREA Science Park, IT
Lecture: Science and technology parks and innovation networks as strategic factors for regional development
Gabriele Gatti is an international Expert on strategic management of research and innovation, development of technology-intensive businesses as well as planning and management of territorial innovation systems, like technoparks, incubators and innovation clusters.
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Charles W. Wessner
Director Technology, Innovation and Enterpreneurship, U.S. National Academies
Lecture: Czech University and the Global Innovation Challenge
Dr. Charles Wessner is a National Academy Scholar and Director of the Program on Technology, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship. He is recognized nationally and internationally for his expertise on innovation policy, including public-private partnerships, entrepreneurship, early-stage financing for new firms, and the special needs and benefits of high-technology industry. He works closely with the U.S. Congress, addresses major national commissions, advises the U.S. and other governments, cooperates with international organizations, and lectures at major universities in the U.S. and abroad. He advises technology agencies, government ministries, and the Prime Ministers of countries in Europe and Asia.
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Radek Špicar
Director of External Affairs, Skoda Auto a.s., Czech Republic
Lecture: Obstacles in cooperation between universities and business – from business perspective.
Radek Špicar is a Charles University and Cambridge graduate. He spent study time at Georgetown and Harvard Universities. He is currently Director of External Relations at Škoda Auto. Previously, he served as Deputy Vice -Prime Minister for Economic Affairs of the Czech Republic. In his present role, he is responsible for external relations with public institutions at a national and European level, structural funds and the Corporate Social Responsibility concept. Mr. Špicar also lectures at the Institute of Economic Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague and at the Diplomatic Academy Prague.
Vladislav Jež
Managing Partner of JV Capital Management, Venture partner at Credo Ventures
Lecture: Challenges in building-up early stage companies – from Venture Capital perspective
Vladislav is active in venture capital business since 1994, having served as Investment Director and/or Fund Manager. As the managing partner Vladislav was involved in four Venture Capital Funds, totally 24 investments realized in a wide range of sectors including technology. Vladislav was the board member/executive in 20 investee companies.
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Stephen Taylor
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.
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Michal Pěchouček
Professor in cybernetics, Head of Agent Technology Center, CTU in Prague
Michal Pechoucek is a full professor in cybernetics at the Czech Technical University (CTU). He is the deputy Head of the Department of Cybernetics at CTU and the head of the Agent Technology Center at CTU.
The research interests of Michal Pechoucek lie mainly in the fields of multi-agent simulation and modeling, coordination, social knowledge representation, multi-agent planning, multi-agent prototypes and test-beds and applications of agent-based computing into security related applications, UAV robotic coordination and air-traffic control.
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Jaroslav Burčík
Director, Technology and Innovation Center, Czech Technical University in Prague
Welcome speech
Dr. Jaroslav Burcik is the director of the CTU’s Centre for Business Cooperation and was recently appointed the director of the Business and Innovation Centre of CTU (starting December 2009), which operates the business incubator and manages CTU’s technology transfer activities. He is the author of three major projects that were approved for EU financing and heavily contributed to introducing tech transfer principles to the CTU.
Moderators
Otakar Fojt
Moderator, IP DaySenior Science & Innovation Adviser, British Embasy in Prague
Otakar works as a Senior Science & Innovation Adviser at the British Embassy in Prague. In October 2003 he took up a newly created post of Science & Innovation Officer in Prague and developed it to its current, well-performing state.
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Aleš Vlk
Moderator, Innovation DayManaging partner at ALEVIA & freelance consultant
Ales Vlk is a managing partner at a company ALEVIA and an external expert for projects administered by the Ministry of Education and focused on efficiency of institutions and knowledge transfer.
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