Nicholas Duggan
I have worked in the field of innovation for much of my career and I delivered a large number of innovation consulting assignments across multiple sectors, for clients ranging from large corporations to ambitions challenger businesses to research organisations.
Working with universities and research institutes, I saw first-hand the impact of academic research on economic performance and social progress. I also recognised that the work my team and I were doing – to upskill early career researchers, to accelerate and de-risk opportunities and to deploy innovation tools and processes – was highly valued by both academics and commercialisation / Knowledge Exchange staff. I founded Zuas to create an increased focus for this work.
I am also a founder and former CEO of a biotech start-up company. As CEO, I led the company through successful technology development, IP protection, building out the team, raising seed funding and two subsequent equity raising rounds, to the winning of first customers. The business was subsequently acquired by a leading biotechnology company.