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Position

Research Associate

Affiliation

Dr Sarah Lubik

Interests

• Commercialization of advanced materials
• Radical, generic technologies
• New technology based firms and university spin-outs
• Innovation Ecosystems
• Partnerships
• Early market identification, selection and risk
• Value creation

Background

Sarah joined the Centre for Strategy and Performance in January 2011 as a research associate on the Emerging Industries Programme (EIP), looking at manufacturing strategy in innovative start-up firms. She also works with St Johns Innovation Centre as a business coach, specializing in market analysis, and project manager on the ACHIEVE More Partnership: a European Commission project endeavoring to improve European competivity in Knowledge Intensive Service (KIS) start-ups through practical tools for finance, clustering, business support and policy.

Prior to working at IfM, Sarah was the project coordinator for the Europe INNOVA project ACHIEVE, which aimed to significantly increase the number of innovative start-ups within the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) sector and improve their chances of commercial success. Since 2005 she has also been involved in the Advanced Material Commercialization research collaboration between Simon Fraser University, MIT and the University of Cambridge.

Sarah graduated with a Bachelor's Degree with honors in Business Administration from Simon Fraser University (SFU), where she was chosen as valedictorian for her class. She holds an MPhil from the University of Cambridge and recently received her PhD, "Commercializing Advanced Material Research: A Study of University Spin-outs in the UK", from the Centre for Technology Management (Cambridge).

Publications

• Maine, Lubik and Garnsey (2011) Process-based vs. product-based innovation: Value creation by nanotech ventures. Technovation doi:10.1016/j.technovation.2011.10.003
• Lubik, S., E. Garnsey, T. Minshall and K. Platts (2011). Maximizing value creation from the innovation environment: Partnership strategies from university spin-outs. R&D Management Conference. Norrköping, Sweden
• Dworschak, S., K. Platts, T. Minshall, S. Lubik and S. Lim (2011). Make-or-Buy Decisions in High-Tech Manufacturing Start-Ups. IEMS Conference. US.
• Lubik, S. and E. Garnsey (2009). From Lab to Market: Navigating the Innovation Ecosystem of Advanced Material University Spin-Outs. CINet. Brisbane, Australia.
• Lubik, S. and E. Garnsey (2009). Getting Advanced Materials to Market. DRUID-DIME Academy Winter PhD Conference. Aalborg, Denmark.
• Lubik, S. and E. Garnsey (2008). "Commercializing nanotechnology innovations from university spin-out companies." Nanotech Perceptions 4: 225-238.
• Lubik, S. (2008). The Commercialization of Advanced Materials Technologies by University Spin-outs. CTM Working Papers. Cambridge, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge.

Report: ACHIEVE More: The Results

See CTM Working papers to download any of the above working papers.