KE Matters Resources

This interactive talk looked at what digital health is, what its impacts are, and what they can be. It challenged the notion that digital health must be realised as big, national initiatives and that smaller scale projects are impactful. We asked the audience about their thoughts and looked at what we were doing at Lancaster University and the Health Innovation Campus, both in terms of research and in terms of collaboration. We involved one of our long-term partners, Chiptech, a leading and experienced personal assistive technology provider.

Building on the findings from the report Equity and Inclusivity in Research Funding: Barriers and Delivering Change, the University of Oxford partnered with innovation management consultancy Oxentia Ltd to convene colleagues in the wider funding ecosystem to determine and agree on how to implement solutions to transform equity and inclusivity in research funding nationally. The output of this work was a soon-to-be-published article, joint statement, and shared action plan.

During this webinar, the presenters shared their experiences embedding open knowledge exchange practices into their host institution. This occurred during a period of unprecedented change in teaching, research, and knowledge exchange practice due to the pandemic, and the ramifications were still echoing even then. Attendees learned more about the ups and downs in open knowledge and had the opportunity to consider how they might implement similar approaches in their own organisations.

Appleyard Lees partner and patent attorney Paul Beynon discussed analysis from the firm’s latest Inside Green Innovation: Progress Report, and provided insight into the state of innovation across green technologies related to energy production and storage, food production, bioplastics, and recycling technologies. Paul looked at geographic trends in these areas, identified the leading innovators worldwide, and examined how real-world policy may have influenced these trends.