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ManagementCapacity

Technology Capacity

A new generation of managers and scientiststo lead tomorrow’s high technology companies

Funding

Mission

Office of Science and Technology






• Business Plan (and other) courses for Sci and Tech U.Grads (450 course places)

• Lectureships to develop and deliver graduate “Enterprise” courses

• Scholarships for “Enterprise Extensions” to PhD students (6 scholarships p.a.)

• Fund the creation of a wide range of teaching materials

• Support UCL wide “Entrepreneurs’ Club” activities (350 on e-challenge)

What we do at UCL






• Fund the development of “New Technology Ventures” course (40 course places)

• Technology case studies commissioned for many MBA electives

• Support the 8 week “Entrepreneurship Summer School” (25 course places)

• Supply “technology opportunities” for business plans, projects, etc

• Support Entrepreneurial Internships programme

What we do atLondon Business School






• Link academics to share course development, delivery and ideas

• Sponsor technology-focused clubs, symposia, etc

• Encourage UCL scientists to take LBS MBA elective courses and vice versa

• Informal events integrating LBS and UCL PhD• Build teams combining skills and ideas to commercialise innovation via:

• Taught courses• Project / thesis• Networking

Benefits and Outputs

• Enriching the ‘Teaching’ Environment• Helping to identify commercial application of R & D• Encouraging change of culture

Integration between UCL/LBS






CTES Programme

9 month long, full time scholarship programme carrying no academic qualification

In 2003/04 the programme had

• 52 students (none from Europe)– Most post-doctoral technologists– based in 36 departments in 14 different UK universities

• training delivered by London Business School, Imperial and Cambridge

and generated

• 10 spinouts which captured >$35Million funding

• 12 small companies developed new product lines / services or license deals

• Ford Motor Corporation saving >$800k annually in its R&D division

In 2004/05 the programme will operate with 94 students in 18 different universities






Further integration between LBS and UCL

• Appointment of Tom Byers as Visiting Professor at LBS – linked

into developing activities at UCL

• Establishment of twin technology innovation centres at LBS and

UCL, including the appointment of two new Chairs

• Increasing opportunities for LBS MBA students to participate in

UCL technology Masters’ courses

• Co-development of electives between LBS and science &

engineering departments at UCL … leading to joint degrees ??

Documents

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