Cambridge Enterprise
www.enterprise.cam.ac.ukCambridge Enterprise Ltd helps University of Cambridge inventors, innovators and entrepreneurs make their ideas and concepts more commercially successful for the benefit of society, the UK economy, the inventors and the University.
It brings the University's existing commercialisation activities previously performed by the Technology Transfer Office, the University Challenge Fund and the Cambridge Entrepreneurship Centre, together in one new organisation, to enhance the University of Cambridge's contribution to society through knowledge transfer from the University to the community.
Cambridge Enterprise encourages and supports the commercialisation of knowledge from all parts of the University.
Services provided to academics include the identification, protection and licensing of IP; support, advice and mentoring in the creation of new companies; provision of seed funds and links to organisations providing further funding; and costing, contract negotiation, invoicing, insurance and VAT support for staff who provide consultancy services to external organisations; and links to industry through showcasing
Staff
 Teri F. Willey, DirectorTeri F. Willey, M.B.A. was Co-Founder and Managing Partner, ARCH Development Partners, LLC, a seed and early stage venture fund focused on university science-based investments in the upper Midwest US. ARCH Development Partners is the second venture fund spin-out from ARCH Development Corporation, a wholly owned not-for-profit affiliate of the University of Chicago, which developed licenses and new companies based on university technologies. Prior to her position with the ARCH fund, Ms. Willey held the positions of VP of Start-ups for ARCH Development Corporation and at Purdue Research Foundation of Special Assistant to the Vice President for Research and Director for Special Commercialization Projects. She has also worked as a portfolio manager for the Corporation for Science and Technology, a seed venture fund in Indiana and Licensing Administrator for Northwestern University. |  Shirley Jamieson, Head of External RelationsFor just over 15 years Shirley worked in executive search. First for Egon Zehnder International as a Researcher and then for 6 years she was Managing Director of Scientific Resources, part of the Generics Group. During the mid 1990’s she ran her own consultancy firm specialising in top appointments for technology based companies. In 1999 Shirley co-authored the successful bid on behalf of the University of Cambridge to create the Cambridge Entrepreneurship Centre. In 2002 she was the Cambridge Evening News “Business Woman of the Year.” She is a Governor of Anglia Polytechnic University from 1993 to present. |
 Richard Jennings, Head of Consultancy ServicesRichard is a director of Cambridge University Technical Services Ltd. (CUTS) and a director and Chairman of Cambridge Manufacturing Industry Links Ltd. He joined the University in 1988 as Assistant Director in Industrial Cooperation in the Wolfson Cambridge Industrial Unit with a specific responsibility for biomedical projects. He was promoted to Director in 1994 and also became a director of CUTS (then Lynxvale Ltd). When the Wolfson Unit became part of Research Services Division (RSD) in 2000, he was appointed Director of Research Policy and joined Cambridge Enterprise when it separated from RSD in 2005. Richard has an extensive track record of setting up a wide range of mutually beneficial university-industry collaborations and commercialising University-derived intellectual property though consultancy, licensing and spin-off companies. He has a D. Phil in Chemistry from the University of Sussex and, prior to joining the University, was Head of Chemical Research at Napp Research Centre on the Cambridge Science Park. Previously he had carried out research on the synthesis and properties of bioactive molecules in UK government laboratories, Imperial College, and at Zoecon, a start-up company in California. |
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