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SUMMARY:Venture Capital - Supporting Technological Innovation - Stephen Ca
 psaskis\, MA\, PhD.
DTSTART:20140424T120000Z
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CONTACT:Elena Gonzalez
DESCRIPTION:Brief summary: Commercialization of an innovative process or p
 roduct developed in a university or corporate lab can be rewarding both fo
 r the researcher doing the work and for his/her employer but someone has t
 o judge whether it is worth commercializing and to back this with hard cas
 h. Venture capital funds (and the people who manage them) do precisely tha
 t and require\, among others\, people with expertise in the technologies i
 n which they invest. This expertise is useful both in evaluating proposals
  for funding and in supporting projects already funded.\n\nBrief bio: Step
 hen was an undergraduate and graduate student in the Department from 1979 
 to 1985\, working on the dynamics of heterogeneous catalysis with Dr C.N. 
 Kenney\, and was awarded the Danckwerts-Pergamon Prize for 1985. He subseq
 uently worked in London for an engineering consultancy and a bank. He is n
 ow a partner in a small venture capital fund management firm in Athens\, s
 pecializing in technology investments in Southeastern Europe.
LOCATION:Dept Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology\, Pembroke St\, New M
 useums Site\, Shell Building\, Lecture Theatre 1
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