Editing Hermann Hauser (section)

==Career==
Hauser is probably best known for his part in setting up [[Acorn Computers]] with [[Christopher Curry (businessman)|Chris Curry]] in 1978. When [[Olivetti]] took control of Acorn in 1985<ref>{{cite web | url= http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/5852/Olivetti-buy-49-of-Acorn-Computers/  | title=Olivetti buy 49% of Acorn Computers
 | publisher=Computing History | access-date=15 April 2010}}</ref> he became vice-president for research at Olivetti, in charge of laboratories in the US and Europe. In 1986, Hauser co-founded the [[Olivetti Research Laboratory]] (ORL) in Cambridge with [[Andy Hopper]], who became the laboratory's director. Hauser's role in Acorn was portrayed by [[Edward Baker-Duly]] in the [[BBC]] drama ''[[Micro Men]]''.<ref>{{IMDb title|qid=Q4044199|title=Micro Men (TV 2009)}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00n5b92 | title=BBC Four Programmes Micro Men | publisher=BBC| access-date=15 April 2010}}</ref>

In 1988, Hauser left Olivetti to start the Active Book Company, investing £1 million of his own money.<ref>{{cite news |title=Active Book Prototype Circuit Boards – Peripheral – Computing History |url=http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/21617/Active-Book-Prototype-Circuit-Boards/ |access-date=28 January 2022 |work=computinghistory.org.uk |publisher=Computing History}}</ref> The company sought to develop a portable ARM-based microcomputer "the size of a paperback book", featuring a screen and stylus for interaction and employing a "book" metaphor known as Hyperpage.<ref name="acornuser198909">{{ cite news | url=https://archive.org/details/AcornUser086-Sep89/page/n8/mode/1up | title=Hauser's Hyperpage | work=Acorn User | last1=Atack | first1=Carol | date=September 1989 | access-date=1 November 2020 | pages=7 }}</ref> The company planned to launch its first product after Christmas 1990, featuring an approximately A5-sized reflective display, automatic recognition of printed, as opposed to cursive, characters, and employing a multipurpose chip called Hercules featuring a static, low-power ARM core. A licensing agreement had been signed with Acorn for access to that company's hardware and software technology, and the company was seeking application developers for the platform.<ref name="acornuser199008_abc">{{ cite news | url=https://archive.org/details/AcornUser097-Aug90/page/n8/mode/1up | title=Xmas Launch for Active Books | work=Acorn User | date=August 1990 | access-date=6 May 2021 | pages=7 }}</ref> The Active Book was intended to cost around $2,000, provide eight to ten hours of battery life, and was to run the [[HeliOS|Helios operating system]].<ref name="infoworld19900820_abc">{{ cite magazine | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CjwEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA5 | title=Active Book Plans to Offer Pen-Based Computer for Executives | magazine=InfoWorld | last1=Krohn | first1=Nico | date=20 August 1990 | access-date=9 April 2023 | pages=5 }}</ref> Not wanting to repeat the mistakes made by Acorn, which had kept its technology to itself, he demonstrated the Active Book to as many large companies as he could. [[AT&T Corporation]] acquired Active Book in July 1991<ref>{{cite web |title=JPMorgan Chase 2017 Annual Report |url=https://www.jpmorganchase.com/content/dam/jpmc/jpmorgan-chase-and-co/investor-relations/documents/annualreport-2017.pdf |website=jpmorganchase.com |publisher=[[JPMorgan Chase]]}}</ref>{{better source needed|date=April 2023|reason=It isn't clear how this report relates to an acquisition made in 1991.}} and incorporated it into their [[EO Personal Communicator]], which was released in April 1993.<ref>{{cite book|author=Jerry Kaplan|author-link=Jerry Kaplan|title=Startup: a Silicon Valley adventure|publisher=Penguin Books|year=1994|isbn=0-14-025731-4|location=New York}}</ref> Hauser became chief technical officer and chairman of EO Europe. Sales did not meet expectations, and AT&T's EO subsidiary folded on 29 July 1994.

In 1990, Hauser was involved in spinning out [[ARM Holdings|Advanced RISC Machines (ARM)]] from Acorn.<ref>{{cite news |title=Hermann Hauser: about the Cambridge venture ecosystem, 17 September 2020 |url=https://trinityjapan.org/2020/08/31/17-sep-2020-hermann-hauser/ |work=Trinity in Japan Society |date=31 August 2020}}</ref>

In 1993, Hauser set up [[Advanced Telecommunication Modules Ltd]] with Andy Hopper. The company was acquired by Conexant Systems on 1 March 2004. He founded NetChannel Ltd in June 1996 as a holding company to begin work on marketing the NetStation. NetChannel was sold to AOL in 1996.<ref name="irishtimes lillington 2012">{{cite news | url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2012/1108/1224326306603.html | title=From little Acorn grew an angel investor with an eye for the next big thing | newspaper=[[The Irish Times]] | date=8 November 2012 | access-date=12 November 2012 | author=Lillington, Karlin|authorlink=Karlin Lillington}}</ref> He claimed in the 1990s that the networking technology used for [[AppleTalk]] was based on the (unpatented) [[Cambridge Ring (computer network)|Cambridge Ring]].<ref name="compmus">{{cite journal |url = http://www.poppyfields.net/acorn/docs/armdocs/hauser.shtml | title = Missing The Big Time|first = Wendy | last = Grossman | journal = Personal Computer World Magazine |date=May 1993 }}</ref><ref name="wired anderson 1996">{{cite news|last=Anderson|first=Christopher|title=Herman Hauser's Second Chance|url=http://yoz.com/wired/2.05/features/hauser.html|access-date=28 May 2012|newspaper=[[Wired UK]]|date=May 1996}}</ref>

In 1997 he co-founded [[Amadeus Capital Partners]] Ltd,<ref>{{cite web |title=Dr Hermann Hauser KBE – Networks of evidence and expertise for public policy |url=https://www.csap.cam.ac.uk/network/hermann-hauser/ |publisher=[[University of Cambridge]] Centre for Science and Policy}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=M Hermann Hauser Venture Partner/Co-Founder, Amadeus Capital Partners Ltd |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/person/14005943 |publisher=Bloomberg}}</ref> a [[venture capital]] company, and in 1998 he co-founded [[Cambridge Network]] with [[David Cleevely]] and [[Alec Broers]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://my.safaribooksonline.com/0130654159/ch11lev1sec11 | title=A Gentle Persuasion to Collaborate – Organizing and Building the Cambridge Network | publisher=Safari Books Online | access-date=8 January 2009 | archive-date=9 July 2009 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090709190407/http://my.safaribooksonline.com/0130654159/ch11lev1sec11 | url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 2000, [[Plastic Logic]] was founded, with Hauser as chairman.<ref>
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On 14 June 2001, the Hauser-Raspe Foundation was registered as a charity to advance education, by Hauser and his wife Pamela Raspe.

In August 2004, Amadeus Capital Partners led the Series B [[venture capital financing]] of Solexa, and Hauser joined its board of directors. Solexa developed a next-generation [[DNA sequencing]] technology which became the market leader; the company was sold to [[Illumina (company)|Illumina, Inc]] of San Diego in January 2007 for over $US600 million. In 2009, Hauser was announced as the first customer of the Illumina Personal Genome Sequencing service.<ref>{{cite news |title=Illumina delivers its first individual genome sequence to Dr. Hermann Hauser |url=https://www.news-medical.net/news/20090831/Illumina-delivers-its-first-individual-genome-sequence-to-Dr-Hermann-Hauser.aspx |work=News-Medical.net |date=31 August 2009}}</ref>

As of 2009, Hauser is the head of the East Anglia Stem Cell research network.

Hauser is a [[non-executive director]] of [[Cambridge Display Technology]], a non-executive director of [[XMOS]]<ref>{{cite web | url= http://www.xmos.com/company/team/dr-hermann-hauser | title=XMOS Dr Hermann Hauser | publisher=XMOS| access-date=15 April 2010}}</ref> Ltd and a member of the board of Red-M (Communications) Ltd. He holds honorary doctorates from the Universities of [[University of Bath|Bath]] and [[Loughborough University|Loughborough]] and from [[Anglia Ruskin University]]. He is a member of the advisory board on the Higher Education Innovation Fund, and of the UK's [[Council for Science and Technology]].

Hauser was commissioned by the [[Department for Business, Innovation and Skills]] to write a report on technology and innovation in the UK.<ref name="russellgroup 2010">{{cite news|url=http://www.russellgroup.ac.uk/russell-group-latest-news/121-2010/4163-hermann-hausers-recommendations-to-government-on-innovation/ |title=Hermann Hauser's recommendations to government on innovation |date=2 April 2010 |access-date=10 April 2012 |publisher=[[Russell Group]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120410005902/http://www.russellgroup.ac.uk/russell-group-latest-news/121-2010/4163-hermann-hausers-recommendations-to-government-on-innovation/ |archive-date=10 April 2012 }}</ref><ref name="bis.gov.uk 2010">{{cite web|url=http://www.bis.gov.uk/assets/biscore/innovation/docs/10-843-role-of-technology-innovation-centres-hauser-review |title=The Current and Future Role of Technology and Innovation Centres in the UK |date=25 March 2010 |access-date=10 April 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120126024520/http://www.bis.gov.uk/assets/biscore/innovation/docs/10-843-role-of-technology-innovation-centres-hauser-review |archive-date=26 January 2012 }}</ref> Publication of the report in 2010 led to the establishment of [[Catapult centres]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/662509/Catapult_Review_-_Publishable_Version_of_EY_Report__1_.pdf|title=Catapult Network Review|author1=Ernst & Young|author-link1=Ernst & Young|date=17 November 2017|website=GOV.UK|access-date=2 December 2017}}</ref> with £200 million of government funding.<ref name="telegraph 2011">{{cite news | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8499528/WIREDs-top-100-the-top-20.html | title=WIRED's top 100: the top 20 | work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|location=London | date=6 May 2011 | access-date=10 April 2012}}</ref>

He was co-founder of ARM Holdings, the Cambridge-based microchip manufacturer that was bought in 2016 by Japan's SoftBank.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Times|first=The Sunday|title=Rich List 2020: profiles 802-900=, featuring Daniel Craig and Adele|newspaper=[[The Times]]|url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/article/rich-list-2020-profiles-802-900-featuring-daniel-craig-and-adele-z5qvqsq6x|access-date=2020-08-05|issn=0140-0460}}</ref>

Since 2015, he is actively supporting Austrian start-ups and technology companies. In particular, he has invested in 2017 in the MEMS-speaker start-up "USound"<ref>[http://www.analog-eetimes.com/news/hermann-hauser-invests-mems-speaker-startup-0 Hermann Hauser invests in MEMS speaker startup] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218064757/http://www.analog-eetimes.com/news/hermann-hauser-invests-mems-speaker-startup-0 |date=18 February 2017 }}, 26 January 2017, EE Times, Retrieved 17 February 2017</ref><ref>[http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/micro-speaker-developer-usound-secures-12-million-euro-for-market-entry-610807005.html Micro Speaker Developer USound Secures 12 Million Euro for Market Entry]. 16 January 2017. PR Newswire. Retrieved 16 January 2017</ref> and in eyeson,<ref>[http://derstandard.at/2000057936084/Milliardaer-Hermann-Hauser-steigt-bei-Softwareschmiede-VisoCon-ein/ Milliardär Hermann Hauser steigt bei steirischer Visocon ein], 19 May 2017, Der Standard, Retrieved 24 August 2017</ref> a cloud based [[Unified Communications]] solution nominated by [[Gartner Inc.]] as ''Cool Vendor in Unified Communications, 2017''.<ref>[https://www.gartner.com/doc/3706737 Cool Vendors in Unified Communications, 2017], 11 May 2017, [[Gartner Inc.]] Retrieved 23 August 2017</ref><ref>[https://www.commstrader.com/news/industry/visocon-named-2017-cool-vendor-gartner/ eyeson: VisoCon Named a 2017 Cool Vendor by Gartner] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170825234043/https://www.commstrader.com/news/industry/visocon-named-2017-cool-vendor-gartner/ |date=25 August 2017 }}, 31 July 2017, CommsTrader. Retrieved 25 August 2017</ref>

In 2022, he invested in the Munich based quantum computing startup planqc, a spin-off from the renowned Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, and joined the advisory board.<ref>{{cite news |title=Hermann Hauser: about the Cambridge venture ecosystem, 17 September 2020 |url=https://sifted.eu/articles/hermann-hauser-planqc-quantum-computing-news |date=4 September 2024}}</ref>