AUDIO ONLY - Is Entrepreneur Talent the New Patent for TT?

This is an audio-only, downloadable recording of the webinar described below.

As the number of start-ups spun-out of universities increases, so does the rate at which university start-ups fail. Universities that don't find themselves ensconced in entrepreneurial talent-rich pools like Silicon Valley and New York City likely have a problem: the scope of their institution's research is broader than the immediately accessible talent pool of willing entrepreneurs ready to take management roles of start-ups. Further, a majority of their entrepreneurial faculty may not intend to take entrepreneurial leave or take on a full-time start-up executive management role. The answer lies in increasing access to would-be entrepreneurial executives and more acutely matching their experience with start-ups.

For a year, the University of Kentucky (UK) worked together with 25 universities that shared its vision to develop and launch a platform to match experienced entrepreneurs with its spin-out start-ups to take executive management roles. At UK, they believe that, with tools like the Executives-on-Roster (XOR) platform, technology transfer offices can more intentionally identify experienced executives and recruit them to help take start-ups to the next level. In this session, we'll review the XOR platform and case studies, look at other similar efforts, and highlight opportunities for recruiting executive talent to university start-ups.