Contact Details

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Position

Senior Lecturer in Technology Management

Affiliation

Dr Tim Minshall

Academic Interests

• Technology Enterprise
• Funding of technology enterprises
• University technology transfer
• Open innovation

Further information on these research areas can be found at the Technology Enterprise Group website. Resources relating to teaching programmes in these subject areas can be found at the Centre for Technology Management Teaching Resources website.

Background

Tim Minshall joined the Centre for Technology Management in October 2002 as a University Lecturer in Technology Management. He is a member of the Board of St John's Innovation Centre.

Before joining the Centre, he was a Project Manager and Board Member at St John's Innovation Centre Ltd where he worked on a series of projects to support industry / academic collaboration focused around new technology ventures. Two of his main projects were support for the setting up and early management of the University of Cambridge Entrepreneurship Centre (now Cambridge Enterprise and the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning) and the management of the 'Developing Entrepreneurs' project.  This project led to the formation of the 'Enterprise Link' networking group for new technology ventures, the production of the 'Cambridge Technopole Report', the formation of the Cambridge Technopole Group, and the publication of the 'Funding Technology' report series.

Prior to working at St John's Innovation Centre, he worked as a teacher, consultant, plant engineer and freelance writer in the UK, Australia and Japan.  He has B.Eng. from Aston University and a PhD from Cambridge University Engineering Department.

He is currently an External Examiner for MBA programmes at the Imperial College Business School, and a Visiting Fellow at Doshisha University Institute for Technology, Enterprise and Competitiveness in Japan.

He is actively involved in outreach activities to raise awareness of engineering among primary and secondary schoolchildren.  Resources relating to this topic can be found at the What Engineers Do blog, and a video of a talk Tim delivered at the 2012 TEDxGranta conference gives an overview of the key challenges in getting children to take more of an interest in engineering.

Publications

Report

How to implement open innovation: lessons from studying large multinational companies (September 2009)

This report may be downloaded (free).

For a complete listing of Tim Minshall's publications follow this link to the Department of Engineering publications database