Award nominee Dr Alexandra Tickle, commercialisation manager at Otago Innovation. PHOTO: PETER MCINTOSHHelping to negotiate a $14million investment in a University of Otago research project has earned a backroom manager unexpected public recognition. Dr Alexandra Tickle, the commercialisation manager at Otago Innovation, has been named as a finalist in the Commercialisation Professional section of the KiwiNet Research Commercialisation Awards. While the $14million in investment Amaroq attracted as a start-up company is by far and away a record for Otago Innovation, the firm has managed 131 projects, with varying degrees of success. ‘‘Once you have a deal completed that deal might not be converted into money, and it is a long incubation time.

Source: Otago Daily Times August 01, 2021 16:39 UTC