This report is an edited version of an on-line panel discussion2 that was part of the WEgate summit. Participating in the Summit were a number of female scientists and entrepreneurs, 2 The full panel discussion can be viewed https://youtu.be/S_5p2FPGHh4 who represent a range of scientific disciplines, spanning chemistry, biology, engineering and virology. They have set themselves ambitious goals to tackle global challenges, and have chosen to become entrepreneurs to ensure their inventions and discoveries can actually be taken to market, to benefit people and society as a whole. As you can see, despite their different backgrounds, career histories and fields of interest, each of them was motivated to step out of the traditional boundaries of academic life driven by the common purpose of tackling global challenges.
Women in Spinout Companies Leadership,
Permanent link to this resource: https://doi.org/10.24384/n2xy-3p32
Simonetta Manfredi
Other contributors: WEgate; Champion, Olivia; Hekselman, Ola; Ennaceur, Chiraz; Ismail, Fanya; King, Linda; Lundqvist, Maria
Oxford Brookes Business School
Year: 2022
EPSRC (ISNI: 0000 0004 0394 8681) : Promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in university spinout companies: A case for action (EP/S010734/1 )