CBE CEng FICE FCGI. Accomplished university leader, strategist and advocate, known for work on innovation, entrepreneurship and technology management. Professor of Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Said Business School, Oxford University. Previously Professor of Technology and Innovation Management, Imperial College London. Chairman, UK Atomic Energy Authority. Non-Executive Director, Directa Plus, the world's largest producer of pristine graphene. Non-Executive Director VenCap International plc - the venture fund-of-funds. Member UK Government Innovation Expert Group. Main interest: innovation strategy and entrepreneurship - why and how innovation happens, continually transforms the world we live in, and how it can be managed. Expertise: building relationships proactively and internationally, to connect ideas, research and solutions with substantial funding between academia, business and government.
Big science projects increase knowledge about phenomena that are fundamentally important for humankind. Projects such as CERN, ITER, the international fusion project in France, the Square...
The world urgently needs a carbon-free, safe, clean and limitless source of energy to provide cheap electricity. Fusion energy has the potential to meet this need.
Fast-growth entrepreneurial ventures are essential for prosperity and social progress. Entrepreneurs create value by seizing opportunities, assuming risks, solving problems and taking act...
Rightly lauded for its contributions to the fight against COVID-19, university-supported, science-based entrepreneurship must also be part of the vanguard of the global response to the pa...
Scientists and entrepreneurs spend their lives anticipating and creating the future. They design techniques and practices to experiment and explore new options, and adapt quickly to evide...
Universities are remarkably robust. The average age of the top 20 European universities is 345 years. They are not only resilient in the face of profound historic changes; they are indisp...
Universities and industry have a lot to learn from one another – and partnerships between the two can be mutually beneficial while especially serving the university’s entrepreneurial stud...
It is well known that the World Wide Web was developed at CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, the large scientific experiment based in France and Switzerland. Less well-...
Innovation drives productivity, and productivity is what drives jobs growth and the wealth that pays for our health, education, defence and social security systems. In short, innovation r...
许多世界知名的企业家并不以其通情达理而闻名。我们的文化将某种“强势”的个性与企业成功联系在一起：不管是像《飞黄腾达》（“你被解雇了”）、《龙穴》（“我被淘汰了”）和Mad Money（“牛市赚钱；熊市赚钱；被屠宰的只有猪”）电视节目，还是商业专辑的标题The Titan, The Patriarch, Make Trouble, The Power Broker，通情达理...
Muchos de los empresarios más famosos del mundo no son conocidos por su gracia. Nuestra cultura asocia un cierto tipo de personalidad "fuerte" con el éxito empresarial: ya sean las frases...
Many of the world’s most famous entrepreneurs are not known for their grace. Our culture associates a certain type of “robust” personality with business success: whether it’s the catchphr...
Collaborations between universities and industry have given life to many blockbuster discoveries over the years. One of the latest in the news – the melanoma treatment ipilimumab, whose m...
Entrepreneurs are not just the seed corn for future businesses and economic growth. They can also teach us what the future of work could look like.
Daniel Kahneman, the psychologist who won the Nobel Prize in Economics, credits some recent public policy successes to the application of behavioural science. He helped establish this fie...
