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.
UKRI has today confirmed membership of the inaugural Research England Council, which includes PraxisAuril Board member Dr Phil Clare RTTP.
Jo Johnson addressed today’s HEFCE annual conference with a focus on UK knowledge exchange activities and annual HE-BCI data for 2015-16. HEFCE analysis of the data provides a detailed look at how the university sector is performing across a wide range of KE activities.
Spinouts UK has released its quarterly report on the UK's university spin-out landscape. The report contains summaries of new spinouts, recent exits, and recent investments with articles by a number of the projects partners. These cover a wide range of issues of concern to the university commercialisation sector.
PraxisUnico/AURIL welcome the publication of ‘Transforming UK Translation’ by The Academy of Medical Sciences, Royal Academy of Engineering, Royal Society and the Wellcome Trust; the ambition it sets out to create a ‘vibrant translation system’ and the broad definition of translation used to cover a range of outputs and activities.
HEFCE has confirmed details of the £40 million per annum HEIF 'uplift' announced as part of the government's R&D investment to support its industrial strategy. Details of additional allocations has been sent to Vice-Chancellors, noting that "the Government has provided...additional funding for HEIF, to support and incentivise high and improving performance in knowledge exchange.
UK Parliament has today published its report on the inquiry into 'Managing IP and Technology Transfer' conducted by the House of Commons Science & Technology Select Committee. PraxisUnico welcomes the Committee's report and its headline conclusion that increased investment in Research and Development (R&D) by business is crucial if university research is to be transformed into successful commercial products. Stephen Metcalfe, MP said: