The Research Adventure Podcast
The Research Adventure Podcast
Podcast Description
If you’re involved in commercialising university research this podcast will provide you with wisdom, inspiration and practical advice to help you more effectively navigate your commercialisation journey. Each episode is a conversation with those who are actively working to transform academic discoveries into commercial opportunities. It’s through these conversations we aim to increase our collective understanding of how to realise the full potential of university research and researchers.
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The podcast focuses on topics surrounding research commercialisation, including the transition from academia to entrepreneurship, challenges in funding, and the role of leadership in startups. Notable episodes include interviews with leaders like Holly Reeve, who shares her experience transforming academic discoveries into sustainable business solutions, exploring the practical steps necessary for success in this field.
If you’re involved in commercialising university research this podcast will provide you with wisdom, inspiration and practical advice to help you more effectively navigate your commercialisation journey. Each episode is a conversation with those who are actively working to transform academic discoveries into commercial opportunities. It’s through these conversations we aim to increase our collective understanding of how to realise the full potential of university research and researchers.
In this episode, we meet Professor Rob Young, quantum physicist and CSO and co‑founder of Quantum Base, a university spinout on a mission to tackle counterfeiting at a global scale.
Rob’s journey starts with a childhood dream of being an inventor in a shed, leading to a degree in physics at Oxford, a PhD at Cambridge, and then a Royal Society fellowship at Lancaster University, which gave him the freedom to pursue practical quantum technologies and develop Quantum Base.
In our conversation, Rob explains how Quantum Base moved from lab demos to more than 1 billion of their QIDs being used globally, the long and hard work of aligning technical performance with user behaviour and commercial reality, why Quantum Base chose to raise funding with angels investors and then an IPO over traditional VC funding, and what it means to be the first Lancaster University spin‑out listed on the London Stock Exchange.
This is a true spinout success story and is filled with fantastic insights about the company-building process as well as the personal journey of a founder.
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