07
March
2017
Dr Paul Atherton becomes Fellow of the Centre for Entrepreneurs
Dr Paul Atherton announced as a Fellow for the Centre for Entrepreneurs. The Centre for Entrepreneurs promotes the role of entrepreneurs in creating economic growth and social well-being. It is home to national enterprise campaign, StartUp Britain. The Centre is an independent non-profit think tank founded and chaired by Sunday Times columnist and serial entrepreneur Luke Johnson... Read More
21
February
2017
Dr Paul Atherton joins UCLB as Non Executive Director
Dr Paul Atherton joined the board of UCL Business in February as a Non Executive Director. UCL Business a wholly-owned subsidiary of University College London, UCLB was formed to help industry and business make the most of UCL innovations. Through licensing technologies & innovations, creating shared-risk joint-venture businesses, and utilising UCL’s specialist Subsidiaries, UCLB promotes and... Read More
13
February
2016
Beyond the first business: includes a case study on Dr Paul Atherton
Coutts and the Centre for Entrepreneurs have partnered to explore the dynamics of serial entrepreneurship in the UK, and to provide a guide for aspiring entrepreneurs interested in starting their second, third, fourth or even tenth venture. In doing so, we asked successful entrepreneurs about the secrets and pitfalls of serial entrepreneurship, raising the following... Read More
26
August
2014
Creating Wealth from Advanced Engineering
Creating Wealth from Advanced Engineering was the Euspen keynote speech in Dubrovnik in 2013 and subsequently given at the Japanese Embassy and at the Exeter university “inspiring science” series in slightly different forms. Please here to see the full presentation. Here are some photos from this presentation at the Japanese Embassy.
22
August
2012
An Accidental Entrepreneur
First given to Masters in Management and Executive MBS students at thenLondon Business School in 2012. This talk is about my life journey as an entrepreneur from PhD studies thro academic life, founding a start up and through to exit, and my subsequent activities as a serial entrepreneur, with some reflections on building technology businesses... Read More
06
September
2005
Commercialising Nanotechnology
First given in 2010, looks back at the nanotechnology boom and reflects on hype, luck, optimism, realism and failure and draws lessons for all hi tech businesses. Please click here to view the presentation
11
September
1997
The Nanopositioning Book
This set of talks looks at the relationship between scientific innovation and economic activity. Who gets rich and who doesn’t and the reasons why. It looks at patents, process knowledge, luck and timing and the role of the state and venture capital. Please click here to read the full article.