Spin-Outs: Creating Business from University Intellectual Property

Graham Richards

ISBN 10: 1905641982 / ISBN 13: 9781905641987

Published by Harriman House Publishing, 2009

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Spin-Outs: Creating Business from University Intellectual Property
• Publisher: Harriman House Publishing
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1905641982
• ISBN 13: 9781905641987
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.