The importance of people and partnership in university-business links

HEFCE welcomes the statement of the UK’s expert knowledge exchange practitioner bodies on universities’ principles and practices in managing their intellectual assets (Note 1).
The statement, by PraxisUnico and the Association for University Research and Industry Links (AURIL), highlights the fact that universities’ main contributions to economic growth, business innovation and technology transfer flow through people. Universities are full of innovators and entrepreneurs, in the form of academic staff, researchers and students. More...