Creating Successful Spin-Outs
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Participants will gain expertise in collaborating with founding academics to build well-financed, sustainable ventures that can effectively commercialise technology and provide a financial return to the university. 

Delivered by experts from Europe’s most innovative institutions, this course covers essential topics such as managing conflicts of interest, assembling successful management teams, and navigating venture capital financing. Attendees will also explore what investors look for in spin-outs and how to position intellectual property for maximum impact. 

Ideal for those aiming to enhance their ability to commercialise technologies, the programme leverages interactive case studies and role play to teach participants how to build sustainable ventures. It also examines which technologies are best suited for spin-outs and the pivotal role knowledge transfer managers play in shaping the initial business strategy. 

The course connects to the broader knowledge transfer network and fosters accelerated knowledge transfer through knowledge transfer partnerships, driving innovation and entrepreneurial success.

Why join the course?

Join this course to gain essential competencies for developing and managing spin-out companies. You will learn through case studies and role play facilitated by experts who have been actively involved in building, financing and managing successful university spin-outs.

Learning Objectives

  • Learn how to spin-out a company from a research institution 
  • Handle funding, especially venture capital (VC) financing 
  • Manage the conflicts of interest for: scientists, founders, research institutions and KTOs 
  • Deepen your knowledge of how to create a new venture

Course Topics

  • The best time spin-out 
  • Acting like an entrepreneur 
  • An agile approach to creating a new venture 
  • Building a management team and distributing equity 
  • Intellectual property as the primary asset 
  • Strategic financing 
  • What investors looks for 
  • Managing conflicts of interests 
  • Legal agreements 
  • Joint ventures 
  • Creating and analysing a Term Sheet

Speakers

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Bart Geers

Silvia Goddijn

Social Sciences

Amsterdam, Netherlands

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Creating Successful Spin-Outs
Athens, Greece

Creating Successful Spin-outs

26 Mar - 28 Mar 2025
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Testimonials

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I thought that this was an excellent introduction to the topic of Venture Capital for early-stage tech startups (and the interface with TT). The calibre of the lecturers was excellent. They were all approachable, knowledgeable, and happy to engage with the participants.

The topics covered were broad and pitched at the correct level.

Dr Alastair Cunningham, Spain

Venture Capital TC

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This is my first experience of this kind and ASTP was far beyond expectations. I really have no words. I feel much richer in soul and intellect. I wanted and still want to evolve, to learn. Even if I still have to learn, my colleagues and trainers have been exceptional.

Maria Spiridon, Romania

Building KTO for

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Left a little piece of my heart in Latvia this past week at the ASTP course for Creating Successful Spin-outs in Riga. I'm grateful to the wonderful ASTP staff for a fantastic programme.

I value these programmes for the knowledge transferred and especially for the connections made. The training days are long and intense, but as they say in Italian, vale la pena. We emerge with a better understanding and appreciation for the work we do, which in turn helps us to be more active, engaged, and generous within our respective ecosystems.

Arendt Speser, Italy

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Many thanks to ASTP for bringing your wonderful training events to Riga! I learnt a lot about early-stage technologies and their transfer via Spin-outs. It was lovely to meet friends and colleagues from previous ASTP events.

We discussed how the knowledge transfer processes are organised at our institutions and about the team effort that goes in to supporting academic inventions together with researchers.

Anna Stikane

Latvia

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It has been three intense training days and an insightful experience of learning and connecting with knowledge transfer professionals across Europe.

Thank you for providing us with such a high-quality training experience on Spin-outs!

Faye Orfanou, Greece

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