Launch of Innovation Webinar - Further Details
February 10 2009 - 4:06AM
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UTEK Corporation Launches Innovation Webinar Series
Tampa, FL -- (Business Wire) - February 10, 2009 -- UTEK Corporation (NYSE
Alternext US & LSE-AIM: UTK), a leading innovation services company, is pleased
to announce the launch of a webinar series focused on enhancing corporate
innovation.
Renowned business strategist Professor Gary Hamel will present the inaugural
topic, "Innovation in Tough Times," on Tuesday, February 17th, at 1:00 PM EST.
Gary Hamel has been called the world's most influential business thinker by the
Wall Street Journal, and his latest book, The Future of Management, was
published by the Harvard Business School Press in October 2007 and was selected
by Amazon.com as the best business book of the year. Gary Hamel was a founder of
Strategos, which was acquired by UTEK in 2008.
Tim Jones, Ph.D., author of Innovating at the Edge, (published by Butterworth
Heinemann) and Managing Director of Innovaro, a division of UTEK, will discuss
the future catalysts of innovation.
Regina Lewis, Ph.D., Vice President of Consumer Insights for InterContinental
Hotels Group, will wrap up this informative webinar with her discussion on the
impact of adopting an innovation strategy and its benefits to InterContinental
Hotels.
Doug Schaedler, Chief Operating Officer of UTEK stated, "In today's challenging
economic environment, enhancing innovation capabilities and introducing exciting
new products and services into the marketplace is essential for companies.
Through this new series, we will bring to the forefront our belief that to gain
a competitive advantage, companies around the globe must become more efficient
innovators."
Space is limited and preregistration is required. Register for this webinar
online at
http://guest.cvent.com/i.aspx?4W,M3,01a9d661-e66b-4a69-a8dc-0cbd8e7f38f2.
Look for our webinar series to continue with Professor Henry Chesbrough, author
of Open Innovation at our March 19th event, featuring Professor Chesbrough's
discussion on the topic of Business Model Innovation. Complete details and
access information is available on www.utekcorp.com/webinars.asp.
About UTEK Corporation
UTEK is a leading innovation services company. UTEK's services enable clients
to become stronger innovators, rapidly source externally developed technologies,
create value from their intellectual property and gain foresight into
marketplace and technology developments that affect their business. UTEK is a
business development company. For more information about UTEK, please visit its
website at www.utekcorp.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain matters discussed in this press release are "forward-looking
statements." These forward-looking statements can generally be identified as
such because the context of the statement will include words, such as UTEK
"expects," "should," "believes," "anticipates" or words of similar import.
Similarly, statements that describe UTEK's future plans, objectives or goals are
also forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements are subject to
certain risks and uncertainties, including the financial performance of UTEK and
the valuation of UTEK's investment portfolio, which could cause actual results
to differ materially from those currently anticipated. Although UTEK believes
the expectations reflected in any forward-looking statements are based on
reasonable assumptions, it cannot give any assurance that its expectations will
be attained. Shareholders, potential investors and other readers are urged to
consider these factors carefully in evaluating any forward-looking statements.
Certain factors could cause results and conditions to differ materially from
those projected in these forward-looking statements, and some of these factors
are discussed below. These factors are not exhaustive. New factors, risks and
uncertainties may emerge from time to time that may affect the forward-looking
statements made herein. These forward-looking statements are only made as of the
date of this press release and UTEK does not undertake any obligation to
publicly update such forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events or
circumstances.
UTEK's operating results could fluctuate significantly due to a number of
factors. These factors include, levels of consulting activity, variability in
the growth rate of our business, consultant utilization rates, consultant and
project billing rates, and number of revenue-generating professionals; our
ability to expand our service offerings; that we successfully integrate the
businesses we acquire; challenging financial conditions, including those in the
credit markets, the small number of transactions and engagements that are
completed each quarter, the value of individual contracts and transactions, the
timing of the recognition and the magnitude of unrealized and realized gains and
losses of companies in its portfolio, UTEK's dependence on the performance of
its operating divisions as well as the companies in its portfolio, the
possibility that advances in technology could render the technologies it has
transferred obsolete, the loss of technology licenses by companies in its
portfolio, the degree to which it encounters competition in its markets, the
volatility of the stock market and the volatility of the valuations of the
companies it has invested in as it relates to its realized and unrealized gains
and losses, the concentration of investments in a small number of companies,
marketplace demand for innovation consulting services as well as other general
economic conditions. As a result of these and other factors, current results may
not be indicative of UTEK's future performance. For more information on UTEK and
for a more complete discussion of the risks pertaining to an investment in UTEK,
please refer to UTEK's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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| Brian Kennedy |
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