Inaugural Entrepreneurship Lab Talk - Dr Hermann Hauser

🔹 Topic of the Talk:
"The 4 key innovations and role of EU companies in global competition."
Entrepreneurship, innovation and how can EU companies obtain an advantage in comparison to the US and China and “4 key innovations” (AI and ML, Smart Contracts and Blockchain, Synthetic Biology, and Quantum Computing) - how do they work and their impact on the world.
🔹 About the speaker:
Dr Hermann Hauser, KBE (KC alumni and Honorary Fellow) is a successful entrepreneur and venture capitalist and one of the key figures behind establishing the Cambridge Cluster (Silicon Fen). He is currently serving as a venture partner at Amadeus Capital Partners, which he co-founded in 1997. Hermann has founded or co-founded companies in a wide range of technology sectors. These include Acorn Computers, where he helped spin out ARM - arguably the most successful company that came out of the University.
Other notable mentions include Active Book Company, Virata, Net Products, NetChannel and Cambridge Network. He was a founder director of IQ (Bio), IXI Limited, Vocalis, SynGenix, Advanced Displays Limited, acquired by Cambridge Display Technology, Electronic Share Information Limited, E*Trade UK and has invested in and supported many other start-ups - including Graphcore, HealX, Base4, FiveAI, CSR plc (LON: CSR), Solexa, Icera, and many others.
Dr Hauser kindly agreed to give the inaugural King’s Entrepreneurship Talk.
🔹 About King’s Lab and what’s next:
The Lab is a project aimed at equipping students with entrepreneurial skills and support those wishing to explore a career path in innovation, entrepreneurship and business. The year-long extracurricular programme is aimed at students from various degree paths and any subject (from undergrads to postdocs). The programme includes intense week-long residential and regular lectures, visiting mentors, entrepreneur-at-residence and more.
Emphasis is put on developing sustainable and ethical projects with a positive social and environmental impact as well as expanding entrepreneurial skills to students outside of the business school. The project is led by two King’s fellows - Kamiar Mohaddes and Thomas Roulet.
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