Francesca Brescia interviews tech transfer experts Dr Daniela Bellomo, Mr Isaac Kohlberg and oncologist Prof Gordon McVie on the key issues in the process of generating and exploiting academic inventions in the life science field.

Effects of tech transfer on local economic development; critical issues in industry-academia relationships; the need for strong intellectual property protection and comments on novel types of partnerships between researchers and the industrial/financial sector across Italy, the UK and USA are some of the themes addressed.