Brian McCaul, Director of Commercialisation, University of Leeds

 

Brian has been involved in knowledge transfer for the best part of 20 years – working at a wide range of universities, spanning the whole spectrum of knowledge transfer roles.  Early roles included heading-up research support units, from which he then moved into business development and following that establishing an ICT spinout institute. Along the way Brian has been a contributor to research programmes on innovation.  He is currently Director of Commercialisation at the University of Leeds, where he has overall responsibility for commercial KT activity – including all spinout, licensing and portfolio management.

Brian is a director, and past Chairman of AURIL. He is also a founder director of the Institute of Knowledge Transfer, the professional body for developing KT standards.
As a member of the Lambert Review IP Protocol ‘Inner’ Core Team, Brian was closely involved in the production of the Lambert model agreements.

Brian’s current interests lie in innovation theory, KT practice and where social media and web2.0 developments intersect – believing that knowledge transfer is potentially undergoing a radical development.  He holds the ICT brief for AURIL and the IKT and has been involved in a number of KT web tools.  Brian was a co-creator of, and now moderates, the Global Innovation Network (www.ginnn.com). Brian is a member of the JISC Business and Community Engagement Group.