Presentation for London Tech Week on student enterprise at Imperial College London

1. FROM LABS TO RICHES
Start-up success at the interface of
science, technology and medicine
Dr. Christopher Corbishley

2. kairos
1. (n.) a propitious moment for decision or action
2. The perfect, delicate, crucial moment; the fleeting
rightness of time and place that create the opportune
atmosphere for actions, words or movement
(καιρός)

4. QWHAT IS IT ABOUT HERE AND NOW
THAT PROVIDES THE OPPORTUNE MOMENT
FOR INNOVATORS AND ENTREPRENEURS?

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

7. A NEW ERA OF SUPER CLUSTERS AND INNOVATION ECOSYSTEMS

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

9. `
… 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.

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

12. 2017

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

14. 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)

15. Multidisciplinary science
fosters
the
cross-
fertilization
of
ideas
from
different
knowledge domains.

16. KAIROS MOMENT
X ECOSYSTEMSCLUSTERS
V
V
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17. Cross-Faculty and
Cross-Departmental
publications as % of
total publications
KNOWLEDGE CREATION

18. “Consumer electronics to
biological microchips”
Prof. Christofer Toumazou, (Genalysis)

21. “Turning a grad school thesis
into a Google acquisition”
Dennis Crowley, (FourSquare)

26. “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)

30. Revolutionising the way
we understand infection,
by making bacterial
contamination visible with
a simple colour change
from blue to orange”
(Alex, Rob and John)

33. Support people to convert their
ideas into tangible objects.
Prototyping Funding Network Events

35. w. www.imperialenterpriselab.com
e. enterprise@imperial.ac.uk
t. ICEnterpriseLab
Mauveine: Sir William Henry Perkin, FRS (12 March 1838 – 14 July 1907)