Blog: KE Matters

Conference Report 2015: Funding – beyond grants, competitions and bootstrapping

7 Jul 2015

Neil Hayes RTTP, Commercial Manager, Research & Knowledge Transfer, University of Exeter, and member of PraxisUnico Advocacy Committee reports on a this session featuring speakers Brian McCaul, Director of Innovation, Queens University Belfast; Goncalo de Vasconcelos, Co-founder and CEO, SyndicateRoom and Dr Nicola Broughton, Investment Director, Mercia Technologies

Conference Report 2015: Successful engagement with SMEs - what’s the secret?

7 Jul 2015

Gerald Law, Chief Executive of the UK Innovation Forum and Conference Committee member, reports back from the SME engagement session.

Conference Report 2015: CRM - overhyped private sector fad or innovative opportunity for HE growth and resilience?

7 Jul 2015

Sue Hatton, Head, Research Development Unit, Coventry University and member of PraxisUnico Conference Committee, reports back on this session featuring speakers Karen Race, Deputy Director of Academic Enterprise, Teesside University; James Fry, Partner, Eversheds LLP, and Carl Dempsey, Vice President, Solutions Engineering, Salesforce.

Conference Report 2015: Is Technology Transfer Working?

30 Jun 2015

Sue Ratcliffe, IP Counsel, Swansea University and PraxisUnico Conference Committee member, reports on a talk by Jane Muir RTTP, Associate Director, University of Florida and Immediate Past President AUTM (pictured).

Conference Report 2015: Soft IP

30 Jun 2015

A report from the parallel session on Soft IP delivered by Sue Ratcliffe, IP Counsel, Swansea University, and PraxisUnico Conference Committee member; Naomi Jacobs, Senior Research Associate at Lancaster University, and Mike Butler, Director of the Aston Centre for People and Organisations (ACPO), and Founder and Director of The TRANSFORMATION Project, Aston Business School.

Conference report 2015: Losing the Patent Obsession

30 Jun 2015

Sue Ratcliffe, IP Counsel, Swansea University and PraxisUnico Conference Committee member, reports on a topical session chaired by Sue Sundstrom, RTTP, Head of Technology Transfer, Bristol University and PraxisUnico Training Committee Member.