Hannah Burnau, the first TenU-MIT TLO Intern, writes about her trip to MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which was sponsored by TenU. The trip included meeting with the team of MIT’s Technology Licensing Office (MIT TLO), as well as with Ananay Aguilar, Head of TenU, exploring the campus and visiting the MIT Museum. A science graduate and JD candidate, Hannah shares her reflections and adds: “I hope to work in the technology transfer and patent field.”

Paul Van Dun, General Manager of KU Leuven Research & Development (LRD), will be the new president of TenU until the end of 2023. Paul takes over from Anne Lane, CEO of UCL’s technology transfer company UCLB.

Across the globe, recruitment and retention has been a hot topic, with staff being a scarce resource. As part of TenU’s efforts to exchange insight on operational issues, UCL Business hosted the first TenU Operational Symposium (TenU OS) on the recruitment and retention challenges faced by TenU members.

TenU, the collaboration of leading UK, US and mainland European technology transfer organisations, has appointed Andrew Wilkinson, CEO of the University of Manchester Innovation Factory, as its new president. Andrew takes over the role from Anne Lane, CEO of UCL’s technology transfer company UCLB.

As universities welcome their students for the new academic year, TenU looks back at last year’s successes to reflect on the future.

Ten world-leading US, UK, and EU universities today debate with leaders in national governments and funding bodies on how to harness the enormous potential of research and commercialisation for the urgent economic recovery in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

TenU is the minimalist name for an ambitious transatlantic effort that brings together ten leading university technology transfer offices (TTOs) to leverage their combined knowledge on how best to use cutting edge research outcomes to tackle global challenges.

TenU was formed to capture experiences and insight of leading technology transfer offices and share these with UK and US higher education communities and governments in order to increase the societal impact of research.