The Next Leap
The Next Leap
Podcast Description
The Next Leap is a podcast about how inventions become real-world products like Gatorade and medications like warfarin.
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Content Themes
The podcast focuses on topics such as technological innovation, university research, and the commercialization of scientific discoveries, with episodes covering case studies like the Vitamin D-fortified food developed by Harry Steenbock and medications such as warfarin. Key themes include the impact of university tech transfer offices and historical challenges faced in intellectual property rights.
Ever wondered how a discovery in a university lab becomes a game-changing product that impacts millions of lives? Join Thierry Heles as he explores the fascinating world of research commercialisation, where science meets innovation. Through in-depth conversations with experts – including tech transfer practitioners, venture fund managers, startup founders, and lawyers – you’ll gain a deeper understanding of the strategies and best practices that turn groundbreaking research into real-world solutions. From the anticoagulant warfarin to the sports drink Gatorade, and even the Covid vaccine, you’ll hear the fascinating stories behind some of the world’s most influential innovations, uncovering the secrets of turning research into life-changing products and services.
It’s tempting to automate tech transfer: matching algorithms, data lakes, and AI summarising research papers in seconds.
Patrick Speedie, co-founder and chief business officer of Inpart, has built software to match university research with corporate partners. And Inpart is integrating increasingly sophisticated AI into its platform, but Patrick is no evangelist.
He’s thought long and hard about the role the technology can, and should, play in research commercialisation. His realisation? Yes, it crushes administrative grunt work. Yes, better data architecture matters. But the deals that actually close? They still live in relationships. In conference rooms. In the conversations that software can’t capture.
If you work in tech transfer and you’re caught between “we need to automate everything” and “AI is coming to steal our jobs”, this conversation will change how you think about your toolkit.
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