Gerald Law

Chief Executive · Innovation DB

Gerald has a background in Management Consultancy and academia. A London Business School alumnus with a Doctorate from Oxford University, he has experience of several start-ups and their exits, with considerable experience in building company executive boards, which has led him now to sit on VC investment committees, among other roles. In 2010, he founded Innovation DB. Developed under contract from the UK MOD, IDB has now created an AI-enhanced data gathering system, that identifies, captures and describes emerging technologies, drawn from around 20,000 academic institutions. This provides an unparalleled dataset of research with real-world applications, that includes all biotech and pharma-related tech transfer activity to be found globally.

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Speaking history

BioFIT

10 December 2026 Marseille, France “Academia taking equity in start-ups: What are the key considerations? / Proof-of-concept and de-risking: Stories of impactful research partnerships”

MEDigIT

2 December 2026 Strasbourg, France

Topics this speaker covers

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Sectors

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