TenU Rise gives professionals a chance to share skills in areas such as negotiation, deal building and career development
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Laura Powell, a technology transfer associate at the University of Southampton in the UK, went into the TenU Rise mentoring programme thinking mainly of the practical things she wanted to learn. At that point, she had been in her role for two and a half years, with some formal training at the beginning on the basics of technology transfer and specifics such as licensing, intellectual property (IP) and spinning out.
Learning on the job after that was fine, but it naturally skewed towards the earlier stages of discovery and IP protection. Only a few innovations make it to commercialisation, and that takes time. “I wanted to become more knowledgeable, and I wanted to learn faster than I could just through doing the job,” she says.
TenU Rise was a way to do that. The programme is run by TenU,…
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