Posted November 14, 2019 By: Konstantin Izvolsky
On November 5-7, 2019 Foresight Science & Technology attended AUTM Asia-2019 conference in Jerusalem, Israel. This conference provided a great platform for technology transfer professionals from Asia to share the best practices and address the challenges related to the transfer of technologies from the university laboratories to the marketplace. Israel, the location of this year’s conference, is known for its high quality of academic research and dynamic innovation ecosystem. The host nation was represented by the large number of attendees from local universities and technology transfer companies. China and Thailand were also represented by large delegations of technology transfer managers and researchers. Interesting discussions were focused on the analysis of best practices in establishing university-based innovation centers and incubators, improving the efficiency of faculty outreach, comparison of alternative business models for academic technology transfer, including Technology Transfer Offices vs. Technology Transfer Companies. As always, part of the AUTM Asia conference was dedicated to technology transfer career development. The conference also addressed the key international events which affect the global collaboration and technology commercialization, including US-China trade war. The last day of the conference included very interesting pitch presentations from several Israeli venture funds and incubators, including aMoon- the largest Israeli life sciences venture fund, LabsO2, VLX and Nextar. The conference offered opportunities for networking as well as social events such as the tour of the Israel ecosystem.
