Out of the Box Thinking for Technology Transfer | Kirsten Leute | TEDxTucsonSalon

Kirsten Leute, Senior Vice President for University Relations at Osage University Partners (OUP), a venture capital fund that invests in startups out of academic institutions. At OUP, she is responsible for the relationships with the more than 90 academic institutions that are partnered with the fund, engaging potential new partner institutions, and enhancing and creating value-add programs for the partnered academic institutions.

Kirsten is an experienced technology transfer professional, spending 19 years in technology transfer at Stanford University and the German Cancer Research Center. Prior to joining OUP, she was Associate Director at Stanford’s Office of Technology Licensing. Over her career at Stanford, she managed portfolios of inventions in most technology areas, but concentrated in biotechnology.

Kirsten has also been actively involved in technology transfer outside her daily work. She is a former two-time board member for the Association of University Technology Managers and speaks frequently on university technology transfer. Eighteen of experience in university technology transfer. Most of the experience is at Stanford University, but also spent one year at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg, Germany.

Specialties: Licensing between universities and industry This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx