The NCUB has launched the fifth edition of its 'State of the Relationship' report. It is an annual assessment of the health of the partnerships between business, higher education institutions, UK government, devolved administrations, and their agencies. The report was launched against the background of major changes in the landscape including the creation of UKRI and the launch of the UK's Industrial Strategy, which puts high expectations on universities and business to deliver against the 2.4% R&D target.

PraxisAuril members have helped to inform our response to the KEF consultation launched by HEFCE's Technical Advisory Group. Since 2015 we have worked with HEFCE to understand better the characteristics of good and effective practice in KE and support whole heartedly the work of the McMillan Group on which some of our members sit. We welcome the KEF as a next step in this work and will continue to engage fully to represent our members’ views as expert KE practitioners working across the UK's university sector. 

PraxisAuril Patron, Dr David Secher, will address the 2017 Conference for Presidents/Vice-Presidents and Technology Transfer Officers of Universities and Research Institutions which will be held in Osaka, Japan, this week.

Spinouts UK has released its quarterly report on the

The Treasury released its response to the consultation 'Financing Growth in Innovative Firms' to coincide with the Chancellor's Budget speech this week.

The National Centre for Universities and Business (NCUB) has launched the beta version of its online brokering tool konfer. 

Innovate UK has announced an extra £30 million of funding for Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs), which connect UK businesses with an academic or research organisation and qualified graduate to work on innovation projects. This is welcome recognition of a long-standing knowledge exchange mechanism that currently benefits 630 graduates and post-doctoral researchers in a wide range of R&D and entrepreneurial roles, in businesses across industry sectors and of all sizes. 

A new report from the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) 'How much is too much? Cross-subsidies from teaching to research in British universities' (HEPI Report 100) qhich is published today considers the scale and sustainability of university cross-subsidies and calls on Philip Hammond to boost research funding in the forthcoming Budget.