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SUMMARY:Venture Capital: Supporting Technological Innovation - Dr Stephen 
 Capsaskis\, MA\, PhD. 7L Capital Partners\, Principal
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CONTACT:Elena Gonzalez
DESCRIPTION:Commercialisation of an innovative process or product develope
 d in a university or corporate lab can be rewarding both for the researche
 r doing the work and for his/her employer but someone has to judge whether
  it is worth commercialising and to back this with hard cash. Venture capi
 tal funds (and the people who manage them) do precisely that and require\,
  among others\, people with expertise in the technologies in which they in
 vest. This expertise is useful both in evaluating proposals for funding an
 d in supporting projects already funded.\nStephen was an undergraduate and
  graduate student in the Department from 1979 to 1985\, working on the dyn
 amics of\nheterogeneous catalysis with Dr C.N. Kenney\, and was awarded th
 e Danckwerts-Pergamon Prize for 1985. He subsequently worked in London for
  an engineering consultancy and a bank. He is now a partner in a small ven
 ture capital fund management firm in Athens\, specialising in technology i
 nvestments in South-eastern Europe.
LOCATION:Dept Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology\, Philippa Fawcett Dr
 ive CB3 OAS (Lecture Theatre 1)
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