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#51: Saara Inkinen - The Future of Tech Transfer in a Post-Pandemic World

October 22, 2021 • Christian Soschner • Season 2 • Episode 20

Tech Transfer describes the process to bring scientific inventions from the discovery stage into companies for translational and clinical R&D.

To gain more insights into this area, I invited a tech transfer expert from the LSG2G Community to this conversation.

Speaker in this Episode is Saara Inkinen, Nordic Catalyst.

Dr. Inkinen is a technology transfer and innovation management specialist based in Vienna, Austria. She originally came from Finland and had her first position in the chemical industry already in 2000.

For more details on Dr. Inkinen’s education and professional experience, please have a look at her LinkedIn profile.

The Company - Nordic Catalyst

Nordic Catalyst is a technology transfer and innovation management company founded by Dr. Saara Inkinen in 2018. Nordic Catalyst is located in Austria, and it works with an international client base consisting of both research organizations and companies.

Questions we discuss in the show:

What is Tech Transfer?
Why is it necessary to bring ideas from universities into startups and companies?
Is tech transfer biotech and pharma different from other tech areas?
What challenges solve tech transfer?
How has the environment changed with the pandemic?
And much more…

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