‘People must be confident that getting involved in commercialization need not damage their academic career,’ says Mr. Hock day. Professor Gus Hancock, a chemist whose spin out company Oxford Medical Diagnostics aids disease diagnosis through breath testing, testifies to this: I have certainly felt very strongly that the involvement with setting up a spin out company has in no way affected the type of research that I have been able to do within the department in anything but a positive fashion. I have not felt that I have been required or forced to go in any commercial direction. Author: pawan
Submitted: Friday, Dec 12 2008 |