Photo: Miguel Fernández Castro, EmTech Spain o Technology Review en Español

Tim Harper is a serial entrepreneur and investor in emerging technologies. A former engineer with the European Space Agency’s R&D centre (ESTEC) in Nordwijk, the Netherlands.

Tim has, in the course of his career:

• Launched the first atomic force microscope to ever fly in space in order to analyse comet dust
• Developed novel forms of superconducting X-ray detectors for astronomical missions
• Founded Cientifica, the worlds most respected nanotechnology information and forecasting company
• Written and commented on technology since 1998, moving from print publications through email newsletters to blogs and has gained several thousand followers on Twitter
• Co-founded Nanosight and brought an entirely new scientific instrument to market and profitability
• Organised the worlds first nanotechnology investing conference in Seville in 1999 and ran the successful World Nanoeconomic Congress on four continents
• Founded the European NanoBusiness Association in 2001
• Given hundreds of keynote and invited talks on nanotechnology and investment strategies throughout the world
• Advised governments on technology strategy ranging from Singapore to Saudi Arabia, and from the European Commission to the World Economic Forum
• Lived and ran businesses in the UK, Netherlands, United States and Spain
• Advised on and participated in technology investment and acquisitions totalling over a billion Euros in Singapore, India, Europe and the United States