labs to riches: london tech week (project kairos)

FROM LABS TO RICHESStart-up success at the interface of science, technology and medicine

Dr. Christopher Corbishley

kairos1. (n.) a propitious moment for decision or action2. The perfect, delicate, crucial moment; the fleeting

rightness of time and place that create the opportune atmosphere for actions, words or movement

(καιρός)

Q WHAT IS IT ABOUT HERE AND NOW

THAT PROVIDES THE OPPORTUNE MOMENTFOR INNOVATORS AND ENTREPRENEURS?

Proximity to, and knowledge-sharing within London’s entrepreneurial ecosystem...

A NEW ERA OF SUPER CLUSTERS AND INNOVATION ECOSYSTEMS

Concentrations of related activities that bear a sector-specific signature and bring together actors working in the same domain.

From ‘Clusters’...

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… To ‘Ecosystems’Eclectic spatial concentration of activities that may, at first appear unrelated. They provide a breeding ground for cross-fertilization of ideas and a space for serendipitous discoveries.

Ecosystems require a balance of entrepreneurs, corporates, academia, and government as catalysts for scientific development and business growth.

2017

Creativity and innovation are originating not from within single disciplines or domain areas but the spaces between them…

The idea of innovation as creative recombination is nothing new…

“Innovation consists to a substantial extent of a recombination of conceptual and physical materials that were previously in existence” (Joseph Schumpeter, 1934)

Multidisciplinary science fosters

the cross-

fertilization of

ideas from

different knowledge domains.

KAIROS MOMENT

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Cross-Faculty andCross-Departmental publications as % of

total publications

KNOWLEDGE CREATION

“Consumer electronics to biological microchips”

Prof. Christofer Toumazou, (Genalysis)

“Turning a grad school thesis into a Google acquisition”

Dennis Crowley, (FourSquare)

“In his final year, Peter developed an AI software program that could automatically understand a video

game and learn how to play it”

Prof Andrew Davidson, (Supervisor)

Revolutionising the way we understand infection,

by making bacterial contamination visible with

a simple colour change from blue to orange”

(Alex, Rob and John)

Support people to convert their ideas into tangible objects.

Prototyping Funding Network Events

w. www.imperialenterpriselab.come. enterprise@imperial.ac.ukt. ICEnterpriseLab

Mauveine:SirWilliamHenryPerkin,FRS(12March1838– 14July1907)