Description
Duties and responsibilities
As a service provider to the Faculty of Engineering supporting academics in their interactions with industry and commercialisation activities, your main duties will include:
- Promoting College’s capabilities and licensing portfolio and securing collaborative research and commercialisation income;
- Assessment of research discoveries, analysis and evaluation, and advancement of those technologies through to market adoption via collaboration with industry, access to translational funds, licensing or spin out;
- Managing industry partnerships and key stakeholder relationships.
Essential requirements
To do this successfully, you will:
- Have significant experience in commercial deal-making or licensing in an engineering business environment or technology venture capital.
- Have an understanding of the academic environment, and in particular, university funding mechanisms and technology commercialisation, preferably gained through previous experience of working within HEI or industry
- Have a strategic and analytical mindset, strong delivery focus, and excellent communication skills
- Have an understanding of product innovation and technology commercialisation processes