Graham Richards

Spin-Outs

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Universities increasingly encourage spin-out companies from their own departments, and interest from entrepreneurs and the commercial sphere is only set to develop further in coming years. With this in mind, Professor Graham Richards - an academic and businessman who has had many years of involvement with spin-out companies - has written this book as a guide and an inspiration for those who are thinking about commercialising intellectual property and creating a spin-out company.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Harriman House Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 463g
• ISBN-13: 9781905641987
• ISBN-10: 1905641982
• Artikelnr.: 25075203

Autorenporträt

Professor Graham Richards has worked with spin-out companies since 1988, when he was involved in founding the University of Oxford's technology transfer company, Isis Innovation Ltd, which he went on to be a director of for 20 years. Professor Richards founded his own spin-out company, Oxford Molecular Ltd, in 1989 and was heavily involved with running this company for 11 years, until it was sold in 2000. He has also been a director of Catalyst Biomedica Ltd and a chairman of IP2IPO Group Plc, which later became the publicly quoted IP Group Plc. He is now a senior non-executive director of that company. Professor Richards has recently retired from Oxford University, where he was Head of the Chemistry Department.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Introduction
2. A brief history of spin-outs
3. Technology Transfer
4. Starting a spin-out company
5. Oxford Molecular Ltd
6. Oxford Molecular Group Plc
7. Wider university coverage - IP Group Plc
8. Conclusions
Appendices
Index