Dr. Adam J. Bock is Lecturer in Entrepreneurship at the University of Edinburgh Business School. His research focuses on early-stage, high-technology ventures, including university spin-outs, and narrative aspects of entrepreneurial behavior. Dr. Bock current lectures on both general entrepreneurship and green entrepreneurship courses at Edinburgh.

He is the co-Founder of two medical device companies spun-out of university research programs, and the Founding CEO of a third. One of those companies, Nerites Corporation (Madison, WI, USA) was recently acquired for US$20 million. Virtual Incision Corporation recently received Series A funding, and Stratatech, Inc. is currently in Phase IIb clinical trials, having raised more than $15 million in venture and research funds. Dr. Bock has served as a non-executive director as well as provided advisory consulting for early stage technology firms. He facilitated approximately US$10 million of direct and indirect angel investment while serving as Manager of Early Stage Research, LLC (Madison, WI, USA). ESR supported three angel networks and approximately 75 active angel investors.

Dr. Bock is the co-author of "Inventing Entrepreneurs" (Prentice Hall 2008), which describes the experiential journeys of academic entrepreneurs commercializing their own innovations. He is also the co-author of an e-learning course produced by Epigeum, "Entrepreneurship in the Research Context." In addition to various scholarly publications, Dr. Bock is the co-author of a forthcoming book from Cambridge University Press, "Models of Opportunity: How entrepreneurs design organizations to achieve the unexpected."

In addition to his duties at the University of Edinburgh, Dr. Bock is on the Advisory Forum for the Scottish Institute for Enterprise. He also teaches entrepreneurial finance and business plan development for DesignLondon, the joint venture between Imperial College London and the Royal College of Art. He is the Scholar in Residence at the University of Edinburgh BioQuarter, supporting and studying the development of a life science ecosystem.

Dr. Bock currently lives in Edinburgh with his wife (Dr. Lynn Hyland) and children. He earned his doctoral degree from Imperial College London. He has an MBA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA), a BA in Quantitative Economics from Stanford University (USA) and a BSc in Aeronautical Engineering from Stanford University (USA).

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