Researchers turned entrepreneurs are providing an increasingly significant channel for spin-off formation and technology transfer, making it ever-more crucial that universities create a supportive environment for young researchers with entrepreneurial aspirations.
There are several ways in which institutions can go about engendering such an environment, according to contributors to the session, Spinning out – Tech Transfer Strategies, at the Science|Business European Entrepreneurship Summit.
For Karen Maex, Vice-Rector Science, Engineering and Technology at KU Leuven, one way to encourage and help young researchers to transfer their technology - and to promote entrepreneurial thinking - is for them to mix with the right people. At KU Leuven, she explained, “We pay a lot of attention to making sure that our students at masters’ level and at PhD level come into contact with entrepreneurship and everything that is related to that.”
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