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UV2017HK — Univenture Visions 2017 — 23-Apr-2017Redesign Universities for the Age of Venture | 2017高校创业视野研讨会 | www.civ.global/uv2017hk
Universities used to own the Creation, Transfer and Use of knowledge, but these traditional roles are now de-monopolized.
高校一直拥有创造、传播和运用知识的角色，但现如今这些传统角色已经不再被高校垄断。
The Coller Institute of Venture and the AUTM Asia 2017 Conference are proud to announce UniVenture Visions, an exclusive pre-conference symposium that shall trigger the thinking and discussion necessary to evolve research universities into their new role as centers of venture and innovation.
UniVenture Visions will serve an excellent start for the AUTM Asia 2017 conference, "warming up" the attendees and providing them with valuable food for thought.
科勒风险投资研究院及2017大学技术经理人协会亚洲年会（AUTM Asia 2017）共同宣布将召开高校创业视野研讨会。该研讨会是AUTM Asia 2017大会的独家会前研讨会，将激发人们展开对于研究型大学如何转型发展成为创业和创新中心这一新角色的必要思考和讨论。
高校创业视野研讨会将作为2017大学技术经理人协会亚洲年会（AUTM Asia 2017）的完美开幕，为参会者提供有价值的思考内容，为大会作提前热身准备。
Key Topics:
Key Objectives:
Key Attendees:
21st century university venture – introduction, overview and the problem
Unique UniVenture experiences
Policy perspective
Industry perspectives
Share latest developments, successes and failures in university venture
Discuss and reflect to generate new ideas and models
Collaborate and network with exclusive university venture leaders
Senior University Leaders
Policy Makers (Government and NGO)
Relevant Advisors
Technology Transfer Officers
Key Global Players in the Relationship between Academia and Venture
Players of the Venture Ecosystem, including prominent Venture Capitalists
Universities facing the de-monopolization of knowledge research, teaching and service
Prof. Yesha Sivan Executive Director Coller Institute of Venture
Let us begin with a fundamental observation of the “de-monopolization” of knowledge, a.k.a. “de-know-polization.” Until the end of the 20th century, universities were the societal leaders in the creation, transfer and usage of knowledge. Today, however, this historical role is fundamentally changing.
Most universities are no longer the best place to do research and teach. Their societal service as hubs of knowledge and innovation can be done more effectively elsewhere. What used to be their natural monopoly is currently under attack.
De-know-polization is both a cause for and a response to the disruption of this old monopoly, rising from globalization and digitization. As de-know-polization reveals itself, university leaders will need to take actions, and justify these actions to their public and private funders, including students paying tuition and taxpayers.
Taxpayers will ask how does university research affect our quality of life? Why do we need to fund professors’ travel and publishing papers that have little relevance to our society? On the other hand, students, their parents, and other funders of education will ask where is the best place to learn? Who gives the best value for the investment?
Where is the best place to do research in computer science? The answer is probably Google, Facebook, Microsoft or IBM. The livelihood of such firms depends on new products and services that stem from their research. Their researchers do not have to teach; they usually have the needed resources of time, money and equipment – and they have business managers that push for value. Private firms, or dedicated research organizations, seem like a better answer than the usual university faculty-driven research or labs.
Most university teaching is akin to horses in the ages of cars. An extra-terrestrial observer will wonder why we keep putting people into the same lackluster context of ineffectiveness potentially causing torture by boredom. The classical model of several students listening to a lecture in the same room is tired, often resulting in only a quarter of students listening, a quarter spending their time in Facebook or Tinder, a quarter sleeping or dreaming based on the previous apps, and the rest are not even in class. Online education, including massive open online courses, is but a small step in the right direction.
Universities that will continue with “older” teaching methods and not embrace the new tools will not be able to justify their funding. Moreover, assuming that we need to fund teaching – shouldn’t we fund it in the best place possible? Could not-for-profits provide a better social service than researchers that also need to teach? Why invest in a ‘jack of all trades’ rather than a ‘master of one’?
What about societal service? We cannot anymore justify the public investment in universities in the age of globalization and digitization. Capital and people are flowing to the best place for their goals. There is much less reason to be near a university anymore, and funding a university with the hope of getting good jobs and firms only diverts resources from other, more effective policy actions – like lower tax with direct impact on business, or enhancing quality of life, itself a pull for economic growth.
Our message to university leaders and policy-makers, further elaborated in the recent issue of Coller Venture Review is to be aware of the various threats and opportunities, particularly when it comes to the evolving role of universities within the evolving venture ecosystem. Don’t think business is as usual – seek new models for research, teaching and service. A plan of no action will lead to an inevitable demise. Business as usual now means no business at all in the future. Better you lead the change, than let the change lead you.
Prof. Dan Schechtman — Distinguished Professor of Materials Science, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Laureate
After completing his doctorate studies at the Technion in Haifa, Israel, Danny Shechtman was an NRC fellow at the Aerospace Research Laboratories of Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio, where he performed research for three years. In 1975 he joined the Department of Materials Engineering at Technion where he is currently a Distinguished Professor. During 1981-2004 he was several times on Sabbatical at the Johns Hopkins University, (joint program with NBS-NIST). During this period he discovered by TEM the Icosahedral Phase which opened the new science of quasiperiodic crystals and performed research on other subjects. As of 2004 he is also a Professor at MSE and Ames Lab, Iowa State University. His current research efforts center on developing strong and ductile magnesium alloys for a variety of applications. Shechtman is a member of several Academies, including the US National Academy of Engineering and the Israel National Academy of Sciences. He is an Honorary Member of professional societies around the globe and was awarded many prizes including the Wolf Prize in Physics, the Gregori Aminoff Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the EMRS award and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2011. As of 1986 he teaches a Technological Entrepreneurship class at the Technion attended by hundreds of students every year. By now the class was given to about 10,000 engineers and scientists and over that period of time Israel has become a Start-Up Nation. (back to top)
Prof. Dongmin Chen — Director, Office of Science and Technology Development, Peking University
Prof. Dongmin Chen (陳東敏) is the Director, Office of Science and Technology Development at Peking University. He oversees the university innovation ecosystem development, including technology licensing, spin-offs, several incubators and investment funds, and entrepreneurship education programs. He is a professor in Peking University Big Data Institute. He was a former Sr. Rowland Fellow at Harvard University for 15 years and a serial entrepreneur and co-founder of two Silicon Valley companies. Prof. Chen is the International Adviser of WIPO Global Innovation Index and the Honorary Advisor and former Chairman & President of Chinese American Semiconductor Professional Association. Prof. Chen is an Associate Editor of Applied Physics letter. His research expertise includes nanotechnologies, RRAM, MEMS-CMOS integration; wearable sensor, telemedicine and big-data in health-informatics. He co-authored more than 70 scientific publications and 150 US and international patents. (back to top)
Katharine Ku — CEO, Stanford Office of Technology Licensing
Katharine Ku is Executive Director of the Office of Technology Licensing (OTL) at Stanford University, responsible for the licensing of various state-of-the-art university technologies and industry sponsored research agreements, material transfer agreements and collaborations.Ku was Vice President, Business Development at Protein Design Labs, Inc. from 1990-1991. Prior to Stanford and PDL, Ku was a researcher at Monsanto and Sigma Chemical, and taught chemistry.Ku has served on the Certified Licensing Professional Board of Governors, BIO Board, and LES Board of Trustees. She was President of the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) from 1988-90, and received the AUTM 2001 Bayh-Dole Award. Ku was a committee member of the NAS study entitled Management of University Intellectual Property: Lessons from a Generation of Experience, Research, and Dialogue. She is currently a member of the NIH Advisory Committee to the Deputy Director of Intramural Research, the Biomedical Engineering Society’s Industry Advisory Board and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Science and Technology Partnerships Advisory Committee.Ku has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering (Cornell University), and an M.S. in Chem. Eng. (Washington University in St. Louis). (back to top)
Lita Nelsen — Director (Ret,), MIT Technology Licensing Office
Lita Nelsen recently retired from her position as Director of the Technology Licensing Office at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she had been since 1986. This office managed over 750 new inventions per year, negotiated over 100 licenses, and started up 20-25 new companies per year. She now works as a consultant, lecturer, and a pro bono advisor to a number of non-profit organizations.Ms. Nelsen earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in Chemical Engineering from M.I.T. and an M.S. in Management from M.I.T. as a Sloan Fellow. Prior to joining the M.I.T. Technology Licensing Office, Ms. Nelsen spent 20 years in industry, primarily in the fields of membrane separations, medical devices, and biotechnology.Ms. Nelsen was the 1992 President of the Association of University Technology Managers. She was a founding board member of the Center for Management of Intellectual Property in Health Research. She was also on the board of Mass Ventures (MTDC) for 20 years, and is currently on the scientific advisory board of Partners’ Investment Fund and the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center.Ms. Nelsen is widely published in the field of technology transfer and university/industry. She has lectured in and advised universities in at least 20 countries, including several developing-world countries. The UK Government awarded her the honor of “Member of the Order of the British Empire” (MBE) for her work with technology transfer institutions throughout the UK, including the co-founding of Praxis, a non-profit company for training UK technology transfer professionals (now Praxis-Unico). (back to top)
Prof. Yesha Sivan — Executive Director, Coller Institute of Venture at Tel Aviv University
Prof. Yesha Sivan is the Executive Director of the Coller Institute of Venture at Tel Aviv University (http://www.collerinstitueofventure.org). He is professor of Management Information Systems (MIS) at the School of Management and Economy at the Tel-Aviv-Yaffo Academic College (http://is.mta.ac.il). He is also the founder of Metaverse Labs (MVL) – a leading think tank focusing on connecting virtual and real worlds. Sivan’s professional experience includes developing and deploying innovative solutions for corporate, hi-tech, government, and defense environments (see for example: the Harvard 9-Keys for Knowledge Infrastructure). He published numerous papers in the areas of Strategy and IT, innovation, knowledge, 3D3C virtual worlds, and standards. Sivan received his doctorate from Harvard University. His avatar is Dera Kit, and his blog is http://www.dryesha.com. He has taught EMBA, MBA, engineering and design in the areas of strategic value of IT, the emergence of virtual worlds, and software development in virtual worlds. (back to top)
Dr. Renchen Liu — President Assistant, Tsinghua University Research Institute in Shenzhen
Dr. Renchen Liu is the President Assistant of Research Institute of Tsinghua University in Shenzhen (RITS) and is in charge of establishing, coordinating and managing RITS international businesses, with an emphasis on international technology transfer, investment, acceleration and M&A. Dr Liu also sits on the investment committees of several funds raised and managed by RITS and Leaguer Group. Before he joined RITS, Dr Liu worked on research in biomedical engineering and consulted on international technology transfer at University of Oxford. Dr Liu earned his undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from Tsinghua University and D.Phil in biochemical engineering from University of Oxford. (back to top)
Prof. Eli Talmor — Professor of Accounting and Founder of the Institute of Private Equity, London Business School
Prof. Eli Talmor is Professor at London Business School and founder of its Coller Institute of Private Equity as well as the Coller Institute of Venture at Tel Aviv University. He was previously a professor of finance at the University of California (UCLA and Irvine), Tel Aviv University and the Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania). He holds a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and B.Sc. (Cum Laude) from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.Professor Talmor is the co-author of International Private Equity, broadly considered as the reference book of the private equity industry. He served on the board of Governors of London Business School and the advisory board of the African Venture Capital Association. In recent years he has been asked by the UK Parliament to provide a leading testimony at its high-profile hearings on private equity and to advise the UK Prime Ministerial office. (back to top)
Prof. Joseph (Yossi) Klafter — President, Tel Aviv University
Prof. Joseph Klafter is widely recognized in his field, chemical physics. He completed his BSc and MSc in physics at Bar-Ilan University, and his PhD in chemistry at Tel Aviv University in 1978 under the supervision of Prof. Joshua Jortner. After post-doctoral studies in chemistry at MIT, he joined the research and engineering division of Exxon in the US, where he worked for eight years. He joined the TAU Raymond and Beverly Sackler School of Chemistry in 1987, and was promoted to full professor in 1989. From 1998 to 2003 he was the incumbent of the Gordon Chair in Chemistry, and from 2003 onward he has held the Heineman Chair of Physical Chemistry.
Prof. Klafter has published close to 400 scientific articles and edited 18 books. He is a member of the editorial boards of six scientific journals, and has been a member of the scientific committee of dozens of conferences. Prof. Klafter is a former Chairman of the Israel Science Foundation (ISF).
Yossi is the President of Tel Aviv University, the host University for Coller Institute of Venture. (back to top)
Dr. Liat Ben-David — CEO, Wolf Foundation
Dr. Liat Ben-David is an outstanding and experienced professional in the field of education in general, and excellence in STEAM in particular, areas in which she has developed unique and specific models that are implemented throughout Israel. Since completion of her Ph.D in molecular biology at the Weizmann Institute of Science in 1991, she has more than 25 years of experience in STEAM-education development, including: the establishment of knowledge and learning centers both in Israel and the USA; Strategic planning and implementation; Development and implementation of STEAM Education leadership and programs; Organization Management, including leadership development, content and financial aspects; Entrepreneurship and change management in the education sphere. For the past 5 years, she serves as the CEO of the famous Wolf Foundation, awarding the internationally-acclaimed Wolf Prize, recognizing excellent Scientists and Artists worldwide, second only to the Nobel Prize. Liat lectures and teaches regularly in various spheres (including academia and TEDx - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqlDdh_F8cw) about science, technology and humans. She is an accomplished author who has published numerous articles and books, fiction and non-fiction alike, in Hebrew and English, as well as a regular blog. (back to top)
Jeremy Coller — Executive Chairman, CIO and Founder, Coller Capital
Jeremy Coller holds a BSc (Hons) in Management Sciences from the University of Manchester, UMIST; an MA in Philosophy from Sussex University; and a Diplôme Cours de Civilisation from the Sorbonne. He attended Carmel College. Jeremy is Executive Chairman and CIO and founder of Coller Capital. In 2012, he was recognised as one of the 20 most influential people in private equity over the last decade by Private Equity International (PEI), and by Real Deals magazines. He was also voted one of the most influential people in European financial markets and private equity by Financial News magazine. In 2009, Jeremy won PEI’s ‘Private Equity Leader’ award.In 2011, Jeremy was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the London Business School. In 2013, he received an Honorary Doctorate from Tel Aviv University.Jeremy is the founder of the Coller Institute of Venture. (back to top)
Conference Venue:"The Golden Egg" - Charles K. Kao Auditorium, Hong Kong Science Park
About Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks CorporationComprising Science Park, InnoCentre and Industrial Estates, Hong Kong Science & Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP) is a statutory body dedicated to building a vibrant innovation and technology ecosystem to connect stakeholders, nurture technology talents, facilitate collaboration, and catalyse innovations to deliver social and economic benefits to Hong Kong and the region.
Established in May 2001, HKSTP has been driving the development of Hong Kong into a regional hub for innovation and growth in several focused clusters including Electronics, Information and Communications Technology, Green Technology, Biomedical Technology, Material and Precision Engineering. We enable science and technology companies to nurture ideas, innovate and grow, supported by our R&D facilities, infrastructure, and market-led laboratories and technical centres with professional support services. We also offer value added services and comprehensive incubation programmes for technology start-ups to accelerate their growth. Technology businesses benefit from our specialised services and infrastructure at Science Park for applied research and product development; enterprises can find creative design support at InnoCentre; while skill-intensive businesses are served by our three industrial estates at Tai Po, Tseung Kwan O and Yuen Long.
26 April 2017 (Web) - Tour of the Shenzhen Technological Ecosystem
UV2017HK Speakers Dinner - 22 April 2017 (by invitation only)
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Coller Institute of Venture at Tel Aviv University 
Universities used to own the Creation, Transfer and Use of knowledge, but these traditional roles are now de-monopolized. 
Our message to university leaders and policy-makers, further elaborated in the recent issue of Coller Venture Review is to be aware of the various threats and opportunities, particularly when it comes to the evolving role of universities within the evolving venture ecosystem. Don’t think business is as usual – seek new models for research, teaching and service. A plan of no action will lead to an inevitable demise. Business as usual now means no business at all in the future. Better you lead the change, than let the change lead you.
