Impact and engagement

Academic proposes biomedical public-private partnerships to protect the ‘R&D ecosystem’ from commercial affairs

The University of Oxford’s technology transfer company is to help a group of Omani business leaders set up a new university in the country.

Heif review to ‘look again’ at incentives for helping small businesses, says Hefce chief

Umeå University aims to gain from its host city’s Capital of Culture status

Research areas championed by government dismissed as poor investments by technology expert

Commercialising research can do ‘far more’ for humanity than Nobel Prizes, says Mayor of London

The government will not increase the value of the higher education innovation fund, it announced today.

Ministers have commissioned a review on the possibility of expanding the Technology Strategy Board’s network of Catapult centres.

SMEs need tools as well as content to pinpoint research ‘nuggets’, says Elsevier chief

Fraunhofer UK plans to create up to four research centres in its first five years, according to the head of the country’s first centre in Glasgow

Britain needs Fraunhofer centres as well as Catapults if the ‘invention revolution’ is to materialise, asserts Tim Holt

The Treasury has funded a £15 million pilot project to establish three to four University Enterprise Zones in England.

Survey indicates need for fresh ways to measure engagement with industry

The government has given quantum technologies research a boost in the autumn statement.

Royal College of Art and Imperial partner in ‘high-impact’ hub

Report pays tribute to museums big and small

Witty recommends more collaboration, more funding and more weight for impact in REF

Impact should be given a weighting of 25 per cent at the next research excellence framework, the author of a government-commissioned review has said

Scientists need to lose their “excessive fastidiousness” to make London the scientific capital of the world, the city’s mayor Boris Johnson has said.

Academia ‘has a duty to nurture students’ fledgling businesses’, Royal Academy of Engineering panel hears

Universities should give more intellectual property over to small- and medium-sized British businesses

Allowing scientists to profit from their research would encourage entrepreneurship, says Institute of Cancer Research chairman Luke Johnson

The Catapult network of technology and innovation centres will see a “significant expansion”, the government has announced.

A £30 million investment in research and innovation campuses from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) has been unveiled.

‘Big community’ yet to be reached by prestigious programme, study finds

The government has defended its innovation policy after criticisms that the lack of a coherent strategy was harming UK business.

Cupp scheme offers lessons for sector. Elizabeth Gibney reports

The European Commission has announced plans to invest €22 billion (£19 billion) in public-private research and innovation projects over the next seven years.

Universities should play a bigger role in driving growth and should be more accessible to smaller businesses, according to a government-commissioned review.

Knowledge-transfer experts map path to market for university inventions

Rick Rylance offers academy guidance for business collaborations

Former CBI head says interaction’s the key to productivity

Sixteen UK higher education institutions are to benefit from a £50 million investment in research projects designed to drive economic growth, the universities and science minister has said.

The government’s innovation agency the Technology Strategy Board will see a £50 million boost to its budget this year, the government has announced.

A BBC scheme aims to tackle gender inequality

Publication not always relevant to business success, industry and sector figures argue

Master of Trinity says technology transfer offices can be more hindrance than help

Scotland shows reversal of trend, possibly due to stronger public funding. Elizabeth Gibney writes

A court in Germany has given a “glimmer of hope” to inventors hoping to patent human embryonic stem cell technologies in Europe.

MPs told that universities can’t always take their IP straight to the bank. Elizabeth Gibney reports

Principal investigators on large research projects do not have the necessary skills to foster strong relationships between the academy and business, according to a council member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

A managerial culture is growing in universities as they “position themselves to align more systematically with government and industrial sectors”, a conference has heard.

The perception among science, technology, engineering and maths PhD students that any career outside academia is akin to failure is denying industry access to high-quality, PhD-educated employees, a leading neuroscientist has claimed.

KTPs bring together businesses and universities for their mutual benefit

Graphene discoverer takes aim at applied bias and short-term thinking. Paul Jump reports