UMIC
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UMIP
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Intellectual Property
Commercialisation
The Innovation
Centre
UMI
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The University of Manchester I
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Limited www.umi3.com
Since 2004, we have
created over 30 spin-out
companies and brokered
over 800 licences and
assignments, helping to
meet the University's
target of becoming a
world-class benchmark for
commercialising academic
research outputs.
The day began with a
summary of our activities
and impact over the past
10 years by Clive Rowland,
UMI
3
CEO, and Professor
Luke Georghiou, VP for
Research and Innovation.
There followed presentations
by our two investor partners:
the UMIP Premier Fund's
Dr Mark Rahn and IP Group's
Dr Cassie Doherty who gave
overviews on investing in
early-stage technologies, and
in particular investing in our
technology projects and
spin-outs from Proof-of-
Principle and seedcorn to
later stage investments.
Welcome to our 10th anniversary e-newsletter featuring news from our
Technology Commercialisation (UMIP) and Innovation Centre (UMIC) divisions
UMI
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CELEBRATES 10 YEARS
OF POSITIVE IMPACT
UMI
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Inspire... Invent... Innovate
On December 10th, we celebrated 10 years of
positive impact in technology transfer by
hosting an event in our Innovation Centre
which was attended by over 80 delegates
including members of the University's Senior
Management Team.
L-R: Professor Simon Rowland, Dr Cassie Doherty, Dr Mark Rahn,
Professor Luke Georghiou, Mr Clive Rowland
