Nicola McMillan leads the High Growth Spinout Programme at Scottish Enterprise. The Programme provides funding and support to help commercialise research which has the potential to make an impact globally. A core part of this programme is matching potential companies with commercial champions.

Sarah and Nicola talk about

• Why commercial champions are the ‘secret sauce’ 
• What makes an excellent commercial champion (and why it might not be what you think)
• The challenges of attracting the right people and why that is currently creating a bottleneck in the spinout process
• How all partners can work together to help fill the commercial champion pipeline  

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This podcast was a collaboration between the University of the West of Scotland, Converge and Sarah McLusky, working in partnership with Ross Tuffee and The Connect-Ed Network. The podcast team includes Orla Kelly, Adam Kosterka, Jen Black and Sarah McLusky. This season of Academic Adventures is supported by the Scottish Funding Council.