The Opening Day 2016 will be held in NOVA's Rectorate, Campus de Campolide, on January 25th, at 5.30 pm.
During the celebration we will present the results of the first three years of NOVA Doctoral School together with the course offerings for 2016.
We will have the privilege to have the presence of Professor Christopher R. Lowe, University of cambridge. He will speak about "Encouraging Entrepreneurship from an Academic Environment".
The number of Auditorium seats is limited, so please pre-register until January 20th (Registration).
PROGRAMME
INVITED LECTURER
Encouraging Entrepreneurship from an Academic Environment
This talk will discuss the author’s attempts to create a multidimensional environment, crossing not only the traditional boundaries between scientific disciplines and forming a bridge between pure science and technological applications, but also integrating other teaching, training and business activities into an entrepreneurial culture that embraces interactions with industry and promotes a seamless transition for exploitable research from the laboratory to the marketplace. This concept has been able to promote cutting edge science, whilst also responding to aims for an entrepreneurial economy based on knowledge-based industries in which biotechnology plays a leading role. The talk will describe the challenges facing the commercialisation of fundamental science, the lessons learnt and how entrepreneurship can be promoted in an academic environment.
Professor Christopher R. Lowe is in the Institute of Biotechnology at the Department of Chemical Engineering Biotechnology at the University of Cambridge and researches in both diagnostics and therapeutics in the healthcare biotechnology sector. He is a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Physics and the Royal Society of Chemistry.
He has 375 publications, 8 books and monographs, 100 patents and has supervised, 95 PhD students and has a number of national and international prizes: "Queen’s Award for Technological Achievement"; "Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education"; "Most Entrepreneurial Scientist of the UK"; OBE in the Queen’s New Year Honours; BBSRC Commercial Innovator of the Year in 2011.
He has been the driving force for the establishment of 11 spin-out companies and fosters entrepreneurship within the University. He is active in various government committees and in a number of legal and entrepreneurial roles.