During the conversation, Placi and Dr Phil Clare discuss the relationship of the University and entrepreneurship, in order to produce some of the most exciting and innovative global enterprises in the past few decades, covering:
- The Oxfordshire Innovation Ecosystem
- The Oxford Cambridge Arc
- From the lab to the board room
- Advice for spin outs and start-ups to be more entrepreneurial
- The main risk factors a new business faces that has been formed from an activity of research
- The business model that benefits companies spinning out of the University
- How to ensure the entrepreneurial journey spin outs choose continues to be successful
- Examples of spin outs from Oxford University that are now Global Companies