This independent review undertaken by Canadian consultants McIvorStones for Research England, explores opportunities and challenges for scale-up and launch of digital spinouts across England’s HE landscape, including those with low spinout rates from traditional STEM and life-science disciplines. The aim of ‘Invention to Impact: Exploring the Knowledge Exchange pathways of digital technologies’ is to raise awareness of the diverse modes of commercialisation and entrepreneurship in tech sector specific domains which closely align with four of the five technologies identified as critical to the UK in the UK Science and Technology Framework – AI, Future Telecommunications, Semiconductors and Quantum Technologies.
The review was published on 22 November 2023.
