Workshop on Open Innovation

When: 12th November 2008, 6:30pm-8:30pm
Where: The Judge Business School, Trumpington Street.

Billy Boyle, Co-Founder and President, Operations

Since co-founding Owlstone, Billy has been overseeing the development and implementation of the detection technology with nanotechnology foundry partners. He is also active in business development, demonstrating to partners how the Owlstone technology can used to realise a paradigm shift in detection applications and deployment scenarios. Billy is heavily involved in the creation and realisation of new technologies and IP. Prior to joining Owlstone Billy was a Research Associate in the Microsystems and Nanotech group at Cambridge University. In an academic / industry consortium he designed and developed silicon-opto hybrid devices for next generation telecoms systems.

Ruth Thomson, Innovation Leader, Kodak European Research

Ruth Thomson is the Innovations Leader for Kodak European Research (KER). KER was established in January 2006 as an 'Open Innovation' centre with the mission to identify technology and opportunities from across the European region. Ruth is responsible for the innovation activities of the centre and she has developed mechanisms by which external 'ideas' and technology leads from across Europe can be brought to Kodak's attention.

Jason Pinto, associate, Amadeus Capital Partners

With graduate degrees in materials science and engineering, a recently completed PhD in Physics from Cambridge University and experience at a venture backed start-up, Jason Pinto brings the combination of the academic and practical business expertise that marks out associates at Amadeus. Since joining the firm in 2007, Jason has focused primarily on the semiconductor and hardware sectors. He has supported a number of investments and worked with many portfolio companies including: Forth Dimension Displays, which develops micro-displays; Edgeware, which builds server systems for on-demand TV; Xelerated, a provider of network processors; and Liquavista, which develops low power consumption high viewability electronic displays. Prior to his PhD, Jason was a lead member of a multidisciplinary research and development team at E Ink Corporation where he worked on commercialization of the world’s first electronic ink display. This display is currently deployed in Sony’s LIBRIé electronic book and the Seiko Watch Corporation’s Spectrum watch. Jason holds a BSc and an MSc in materials science and engineering from MIT and Stanford University respectively. Jason is Trinidadian and also has American citizenship.

Tim Worden, Senior Associate, Taylor Wessing

Tim is a senior associate in the Cambridge office of the law firm Taylor Wessing LLP. He specialises in transactional, non-contentious and regulatory intellectual property in the technology and life sciences and healthcare sectors. He has advised on: A range of intellectual property and commercial agreements, such as licensing and collaboration agreements, research and development agreements, clinical trials agreements and a range of services agreements. Regulatory issues in the pharmaceutical industry, in particular in relation to the promotion of medicines in the UK. Regulatory issues in the medical devices sector. Intellectual property and commercial issues arising out of mergers and acquisitions, venture capital investments and IPOs. Tim was previously Legal Counsel and Company Secretary at Eli Lilly and Company Limited, the UK subsidiary of the US pharmaceutical company. He has a degree in Natural Sciences (Chemistry and Biochemistry) from Cambridge University and a Diploma in Intellectual Property Law and Practice from Bristol University. Tim regularly writes articles on issues affecting the life sciences industry, in publications including Bioscience Law Review, Pharmaceutical Marketing Europe, Pharmaceutical Law Insight, International Clinical Trials and Pharma.

Dr. Tim Minshall, Institute for Manufacturing

Tim Minshall is a Lecturer at the University of Cambridge Centre for Technology Management and coordinator of the Technology Enterprise Group. His research interests are grouped around open innovation, funding of innovation and university-industry technology transfer. He is also a non-executive director of St John’s Innovation Centre Ltd, Cambridge. Prior to joining the University in 2002 he was a fulltime member of the management team of St John’s Innovation Centre Ltd. He has managed a series of projects funded by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation to support the start-up and growth of new technology ventures, and to provide analysis of different systems for supporting technological innovation (through the publication of the ‘Funding Technology’ reports on, to date, the U.S.A., Israel, Germany and the UK – www.fundingtechnology.org). Tim was also a member of the start-up fundraising team, and then Programme Director for Research and Business Creation at the University of Cambridge Entrepreneurship Centre. He has a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Aston University, and a PhD from Cambridge University Engineering Department. Before moving to Cambridge in 1993, he worked as a plant engineer, teacher, consultant and freelance writer in the UK, Japan and Australia.

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