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Simon Bond is the innovation director for Set-Squared, a partnership of universities that support early stage technology companies helping them to raise investment. He is an experienced Director of business incubation, university enterprise & research commercialisation, he specialises in business development strategies for innovation-intensive companies.
Simon discusses his background and explains how he always believed he was destined for the business world, after founding a TV station with angel money in the early 1990’s. We learn about his journey as Simon talks us through the thrill of founding, scaling and successfully exiting, and how those early lessons never left him.
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Simon Bond is the Innovation Director for SETsquared, the award-winning enterprise partnership of the universities of Bath, Bristol, Exeter, Southampton and Surrey. The Partnership has supported over 3,000 early-stage technology companies and helped them to raise over £1.8bn in investment and return over £8.6bn of economic impact to the UK economy over the last 17 years. Simon has led the multi-university organisation with dedicated teams for research commercialisation, student enterprise and business incubation since 2014. He is a member of the Board of PraxisAuril, a world-leading national professional association for public sector knowledge exchange and commercialisation practitioners.
Produced by Mark Tomlin
Podcast links:
University of Bath - “Responsible for developing high-growth businesses created by the University's students and researchers, as well as entrepreneurs from the region”.
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Interview with Simon Bond, SETsquared Partnership's Innovation Director - You Tube
Tech Spark interview: Simon Bond, Innovation Director at business incubator SETsquared Partnership “This week we’ve been talking to Simon Bond, Innovation Director at SETsquared, the business incubator for tech businesses in the South West. Through his work with SETsquared Simon helps startups across the region secure investment and realise their commercial potential as well as encouraging student enterprise”.