Many universities now have Entrepreneur-in-Residence programs to help along nascent startups or aspiring academic founders. Experienced startup executives join these programs for various reasons and perform a variety of responsibilities to shepherd these early-stage opportunities. During this webinar, we spoke with three current EIRs: • Don Manfredi – University of Michigan • Julie Schoenfeld –…
Bryn Rees (CU Boulder), Case Cortese (Caltech), and Mike Psarouthakis (University of Michigan) joined us for a discussion on university venture funds, where academic institutions are investing capital into the startups forming based on intellectual property from their institutions. First, Bryn provided a landscape analysis he conducted on existing university venture funds. This landscape was…
In early 2022, OUP hosted a webinar on EIR/MIR Programs at Universities. Due to the overwhelming interest in the topic, we wanted to highlight two additional programs to offer perspectives from other universities. We spoke with Case Cortese, Director for Innovation, New Ventures & Entrepreneurship, to discuss Caltech’s entrepreneur-in-residence (EIR) program, and Mark VanderZyl, Associate…