Why should academics commercialise research?
9 Jul 2019
Speaking to a room full of engineers — academics, postgrads and PhD candidates — last week I ran through the ins and outs of why (and how) they should commercialise and communicate their research. It was my first public talk, invited as a keynote speaker to the Engineers Researcher Symposium at the University of Sheffield, to share what I’d learnt in the five years since graduating.
New RTTPs and Candidate RTTPs in Quarter 2 2019
25 Jun 2019
Although the sun is not greeting us with its presence today, there are eight new KE professionals shinning professionalism into the sector. I am pleased to introduce to you the six RTTPs and two Candidate RTTPs new to their respective ATTP groups. In the quarter that ATTP announced reaching 500 global RTTPs, this cohort of 10 individuals is part of this iconic milestone. We may not be able to count on the Great British weather, but we can depend on the professionalism of these practitioners.
2019 NCUB State of the Relationship Report
19 Jun 2019
In these turbulent times the 2019 State of the Relationship Report celebrates those seeking to affect, drive and shape the future of collaboration to make the UK more productive and inclusive.
The NCUB’s annual temperature test of university-business collaboration shows those making the difference in partnerships - using ideas to simplify the innovation ecosystem, undertaking knowledge exchange of unusual topics or bringing value to a particular place or sector.
PraxisAuril Policy Newsletter JUNE 2019
5 Jun 2019
In an effort to distract us all from the European elections at the start of half-term, the Department for Education published the Augar Review last week with a focus on undergraduate students; it is, therefore, outside the regular purview of PraxisAuril’s policy desk where focus tends to be on outputs from the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and post-graduate upwards
The 49 PraxisAuril members with RTTPs
5 Jun 2019
The KT Boundary
24 May 2019
As it’s a Friday afternoon before a bank holiday in the UK I wanted to muse about the future and the distant past.
The geologists amongst you will be familiar with the KT Boundary - between the Cretaceous and the Tertiary periods. Below the boundary layer, there’s loads of evidence of animal life. Above the boundary - nothing. It is generally agreed that this was caused by the huge meteorite which changed the environment and wiped out most life forms on Earth 65 million years ago. Since we work in what is sometimes called Knowledge Transfer I get particularly sensitive when people talk about a KT Boundary and I wondered that as the environment around us changes that we might be in our own KT boundary moment today?