Launch of Innovation Webinar - Further Details

 

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UTEK Corporation 
10 February 2009 
 
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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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