8 May 2018
Tekcapital plc
("Tekcapital" or the "Company")
Tekcapital sponsored by Chilean Government Agency to Deliver
University Technology Commercialization Programme
Tekcapital plc (AIM: TEK), the UK intellectual property (IP) investment group focused on creating marketplace value from university technology, announces that it will be delivering an advanced technology commercialization and university start-up training programme in Santiago, Chile in May 2018. The five-day programme will include participants from 13 Chilean research universities and two research institutions.1
The sponsor of this unique programme is the Chilean government Agency CORFO, the main Chilean agency focused on entrepreneurship, innovation and competitiveness. Their objective is to form new technology-based businesses in Chile, and around the world, based on the technologies and innovations that have been developed in Chile's universities and national research centres.
Commenting on the programme, Dr Gross, Tekcapital's CEO, said; "We are excited to announce our new programme with HUB APTA and the Chilean Biotechnology Association, to provide training services, Invention Evaluator reports and our software apps in Chile, a leader in technology innovation in Latin America. This activity builds on our initial programmes in Mexico last year and we are in early discussions for similar type programmes in Brazil, the largest market in Latin America. We are grateful for the terrific work of our team members Maria Kowalski, Business Development Manager for Latin American and Spain, and Michael Rosen, Managing Director of Academic and Entrepreneurship Training, in developing and delivering this new initiative for Tekcapital. We believe that there are many excellent research institutions and universities in Latin America that can benefit from our technology transfer services, as they seek to commercialize their novel technologies."
For further information, please contact:
Tekcapital Plc |
Via Walbrook PR |
Clifford M. Gross, Ph.D. |
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Allenby Capital Limited (AIM Nominated Adviser & Joint Broker) |
+44 (0) 20 3328 5656 |
Jeremy Porter / Alex Brearley |
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Dowgate Capital Stockbrokers (Joint Broker) |
+44 (0) 1293 517744 |
David Poutney / James Serjeant |
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Walbrook PR Ltd |
+44 (0) 20 7933 8780 |
Paul Cornelius / Helen Cresswell / Sam Allen |
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ABOUT Tekcapital plc - The World's Largest University Network for Open Innovation
Tekcapital's objective is to create value from investing in new, university-developed intellectual properties. Additionally, using its proprietary discovery search engine, linked to 4,500+ universities in 160 countries, coupled with expert scientific review, Tekcapital provides a range of IP investment services to make it easy for organisations to find, evaluate and acquire university-developed technology. Tekcapital plc is quoted on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange (AIM: symbol TEK) and is headquartered in Oxford, in the UK. For more information, please visit www.tekcapital.com
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1-List of University and Research Institution Programme Participants:
Universidad de Tarapacá
Universidad de Antofagasta
Universidad Católica del Norte
CICITEM
Universidad de Atacama
Universidad de La Serena
Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María
Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez
Universidad Mayor
Universidad de Santiago de Chile
Universidad de Concepción
Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción
Universidad Santo Tomás
Universidad Tecnológica de Chile
Instituto Milenio de Oceanografía
