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NEWS
Upcoming Vacancy on PraxisAuril Board
As part of our regular rotation schedule, a Directorship on the PraxisAuril Board will become available on 1 January 2022. Applications are invited from PraxisAuril members for appointment to the Board for a 4-year term.
PraxisAuril is a world-leading professional association for KE. It has robust governance and business systems, processes and practices in place to ensure the organisation is both aligned with its strategic mission and fully sustainable, financially and in terms of human resource.
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BLOG
What does it take to run successful KTP partnerships?
Rob Walker, Head of Business Engagement at University of Essex shares his 5 key tips
At Essex, we’re number one in the UK for the number of active Innovate UK funded Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs) with 40 currently up and running, worth over £10m.
We topped the table for the first time in October 2021, but this has been the culmination of several years of hard work from many across the University including our academics, Business Engagement team and other professional service teams.
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NEWS
Winners of the PraxisAuril KE Awards 2021 Announced
Winners of this year’s PraxisAuril KE Awards have been announced across six categories, recognising the achievements in knowledge exchange of both individuals and teams across the UK and internationally. The Awards were once again sponsored by UKRI, the UK’s research and innovation funding body.
The online awards ceremony held on 18th November 2021 was hosted by PraxisAuril Chair, Iain Thomas (Cambridge Enterprise); CEO, Maxine Ficarra; Founder & Patron, David Secher and UKRI’s Director of Commercialisation, Tony Soteriou.
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NEWS
Digging the Data
Report on IP-related and commercialisation activities in England 2019-2020
Research England has released a report detailing IP-related and commercialisation activities submitted as part of the HE-BCI survey for the academic year 2019/20. A similar report was published in 2020 (commenting on 2018/19 data) and this report provides an update and considers the possible effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on the HE sector.
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Blog
Accelerating SHAPE Commercialisation
Guest Blog by Chris Fellingham, Licensing and Ventures Manager, Oxford University Innovation
As SHAPE (Social science, Humanities and the Arts for People and the Economy) commercialisation emerges, technology transfer offices will need to rethink how they approach commercialisation and move towards an entrepreneur rather than IP focused approach.
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TRAINING
Research Contracts Training Dates 2022
Become skilled at reviewing, setting up and managing research contracts
New 2022 dates for our Research Contracts training course have been release for both March and September 2022. We're excited to again be delivering this course face-to-face at Burleigh Court, Loughborough. Take a look at the course outline and book your place for the new year here.
