NCGE Conference 12/9/06 UKSEC – The national network of enterprise centres1 UK SEC The Raw & the Cooked Imperial College London Tanaka Business School Live innovation in the classroom

NCGE Conference 12/9/06 UKSEC – The national network of enterprise centres2 UK SEC The TVP on the MBA Programmes  Technology Ventures Project: compulsory commercial feasibility studies of ICL inventions  In cahoots with Imperial Innovations, ICL’s technology transfer office  Full-time or Executive MBA teams of non- experts (industry experience where possible)

NCGE Conference 12/9/06 UKSEC – The national network of enterprise centres3 UK SEC Making it work  Top-level buy-in at the Entrepreneurship Centre (academics) & Innovations (TTOs)  Wide participation among inventors, Tanaka academics (assessors) & Innovations (client)  Resident officer from BDO approved by both  Ownership at Tanaka by FTMBA Director

NCGE Conference 12/9/06 UKSEC – The national network of enterprise centres4 UK SEC Why it sometimes stutters  Client & inventors want usable results, academics want demonstration of learning  Sheer complexity of innovative technologies baffles the non-technical student  TTOs (who don’t have to worry about MBA fee income) are too busy to see students

NCGE Conference 12/9/06 UKSEC – The national network of enterprise centres5 UK SEC Why it eventually succeeds  Imperial Innovations 1: free consultancy with clear recommendations  Imperial Innovations 2: involvement with Entrepreneurship Centre  Students 1: applied learning of how technologies succeed in the market  Students 2: far better business plans