Blog: KE Matters

The Life Cycle of a PraxisUnico Consultation Response

10 Mar 2015

Anyone working in the technology transfer and knowledge exchange sector will have noticed that reviews and consultations crop up with relative frequency.

The Future of Technology and Innovation Centres - Event Report

3 Mar 2015

Sue O'Hare, Chair of PraxisUnico, attended this Inside Government event on Feb 24th, and shares the following insights. 

Book Review - Adam Jolly, "Working with Universities"

25 Feb 2015

In "Working with Universities", Adam Jolly has produced a very accessible and comprehensive "How To" guide.

Among other esteemed colleagues, Innovate UK’s Dr Debbie Buckley-Golder, HEFCE's Alice Frost, NCUB’s David Docherty, Scottish Enterprise’s Bill Corr and PraxisUnico's former chairman Douglas Robertson contributed to the contents and the resulting book is broad in scope yet thorough in detail.

BIS Report: Reaping the benefits of public/ private collaboration

17 Feb 2015

Mike King, an economist based at the National Physical Laboratory (one the UK’s leading PSREs), who has also worked for BIS, gives his view on the recent BIS report: Estimating the effect of UK direct public support for innovation.

The 2015 Impact Awards for KEC professionals are now open for entries!

16 Feb 2015

PraxisUnico and the Research Councils are working together to deliver a joint Impact Awards competition, which will facilitate the sharing of best practice and acknowledge and celebrate the excellent contribution that Knowledge Exchange and Commercialisation (KEC) professionals make towards enabling impact from investments in research, skills and infrastructures in the UK and abroad.

SETsquared TTOs design new ‘Team Approach to Tech Transfer’

5 Feb 2015

Sean Fielding, Director of Research and Knowledge Transfer at Exeter University and PraxisUnico committee member, highlights how university TTOs are working with SETsquared on the iCURe project.