TY - JOUR T1 - A Structured Approach to Academic Technology Transfer: Lessons Learned from imec’s 101 Programme JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2017 A1 - Dimitri Schuurman A1 - Stan De Vocht A1 - Sven De Cleyn A1 - Aron-Levi Herregodts KW - academic spin-off KW - entrepreneurial action KW - entrepreneurship KW - incubation KW - research valorization KW - technology transfer AB - In this article, we describe imec’s 101 Programme for academic technology transfer and explain how it supports researchers by following a structured process in a limited amount of time and by carefully involving different stakeholders and people with relevant skills and expertise. The programme combines insights in terms of processes and of team composition from the entrepreneurship literature and puts them into practice in an internal incubation programme that is generated from the bottom-up. Based on hands-on experiences and interviews with key stakeholders in the process, we evaluate the programme and distill lessons learned. The article highlights the importance of a structured technology transfer process in the early stages of opportunity discovery and entrepreneurial action, and it offers insights on team formation for academic spin-offs. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 7 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/1095 IS - 8 U1 - imec Dimitri Schuurman is the Team Lead in User Research at imec.livinglabs and a Senior Researcher at imec – MICT – Ghent University in Belgium. He holds a PhD and a Master’s degree in Communication Sciences from Ghent University. Together with his imec colleagues, Dimitri developed a specific living lab offering targeted at entrepreneurs in which he has managed over 100 innovation projects. Dimitri is responsible for the methodology and academic valorization of these living lab projects and coordinates a dynamic team of living lab researchers. His main interests and research topics are situated in the domains of open innovation, user innovation, and innovation management. His PhD thesis was entitled Bridging the Gap between Open and User Innovation? Exploring the Value of Living Labs as a Means to Structure User Contribution and Manage Distributed Innovation. U2 - imec Stan De Vocht is the Innovation Manager at imec and was previously the Technology Transfer Manager at iMinds. Stan holds a Master of Law (LL.M.) and a Master of Intellectual Property and has been working in the technology transfer sector since his graduation in 2005. Stan has taken the initiative in the creation of the 101 programme and has helped several projects from technology to business. U3 - imec Sven De Cleyn graduated with a Master in Commercial Engineering and started his professional career at the University of Antwerp, where he conducted research on high-tech spin-offs from European universities. He joined iMinds (merged with imec since October 2016) in 2011 as Technology Transfer Manager. He is in charge of the imec.istart business acceleration program in which he supports new spin-offs and startups. The program is recognized by UBI Global as one of the leading accelerators worldwide. Today, Sven is also a part-time professor in (high-tech) entrepreneurship at the University of Antwerp. U4 - imec Aron-Levi Herregodts is a user specialist at imec.livinglabs and an affiliated researcher at imec-MICT-UGhent. He obtained master’s degrees in Communication Sciences (2013) and Complementary Business Economics (2014). As a user specialist with imec.livinglabs, his role is to translate multi-actor behaviour, needs, and wants to tangible recommendations to provide structure to the innovation process of startups, SMEs, and large organizations. His main interests include open innovation, user innovation, organizational learning, intermediary activities, and user-centric design and methodologies. He has specific interest in the configuration of intermediary learning activities based on the end user with innovation-relevant actors for distinct types of entrepreneurs and innovations. ER -