'The Next Steps for UK Research and Innovation' will bring key government policymakers together with business sectors that rely on research and stakeholders from universities to discuss the future of research and innovation policy in the UK. The event is hosted by Westminster Business and Higher Education Forum.
Professor Phil Gray, who is also co-chair of University Design Industry Partnership (UDIP), is a featured speaker on making university and industry collaboration work. Questions to be covered include:
- What are the key barriers to collaboration between universities and businesses?
- In what ways should the legal framework for intellectual property rights be reformed to encourage collaboration?
- Are Catapult Centres likely to achieve their aims of improving commercialisation of UK research?
- How can HEIs outside the traditional ‘research-intensive’ universities develop better links with private businesses?
Phil Gray is a founder director of BDI member Quadro Design Associates, a visiting professor of new product design and development at Middlesex University and a Design Associate at the Design Council. He helped to set up one of the first university consultancy companies in the UK at Loughborough in the early 1970s, and gave Apple’s Senior VP Design Jony Ive his first job.
Co-chaired by Dr Julian Huppert MP (vice-chair of the all-party parliamentary engineering group) and Baroness Perry of Southwark, a member of the House of Lords science and technology committee, the CPD-certified event follows the Government’s Innovation and Research Strategy, released in December 2011, and comes ahead of the release of Professor Sir Tim Wilson's ongoing Review of University-Business Collaboration.
For further information, visit www.westminsterbusinessforum.co.uk
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