The Committee agreed on 14 December 2011 to launch a new inquiry: Bridging the “valley of death”: improving the commercialisation of research.
Terms of Reference
Bridging the “valley of death”: improving the commercialisation of research inquiry terms of reference
Oral evidence
12 September 2012
Rt Hon David Willetts MP, Minister of State for Universities and Science
5 September 2012
Tim Crocker, SME Innovation Alliance, and Dr Tim Bradshaw, Head of Enterprise and Innovation, CBI; Fergus Harradence, Deputy Director, Innovation Policy, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, Iain Gray, Chief Executive, Technology Strategy Board, and Sir John Savill, Research Councils UK
2 July 2012
Rees Ward CB, Chief Executive Officer of ADS; Professor Keith Hayward, Head of Research, Royal Aeronautical Society; Henner Wapenhans, Head of Technology Strategy, Rolls Royce; Dr Ruth Mallors, Aerospace, Aviation and Defence KTN and Sir John Chisholm, Engineering the Future
20 June 2012
Sir David Cooksey and Sir Peter Williams; David Sweeney, Director (Research, Innovation and Skills), Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), Professor Ian Haines UK Deans of Science and Professor Nick Wright, Russell Group
25 April 2012
Katie Potts, Managing Director, Herald Investment Management Ltd, Anne Glover, Co-founder and Chief Executive, Amadeus Capital Partners Ltd, Matthew Bullock, Chairman, Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge, and Chairman, UK Innovation Research Centre, University of Cambridge and Imperial College, and Stephen Welton, Chief Executive Officer, Business Growth Fund; Dr Richard Worswick, Chairman, Cobalt Light Systems, Dr Peter Dean, Independent consultant, inventor and entrepreneur, and Founder and Chairman, Cambio Ltd, and Dr Trevor Francis, Technical Director, Byotrol Technology Ltd
18 April 2012
Professor Luke Georghiou, Vice President (Research and Innovation), University of Manchester, and Professor of Science and Technology Policy and Management, Manchester Institute of Innovation Research, Manchester Business School, Dr Paul Nightingale, Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex (SPRU), and Exeter Business School, David Connell, Co-founder, TTP Ventures, and Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Business Research/ UK Innovation Research Centre, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, and Dr Douglas Robertson, Chair, PraxisUnico; Director of Research and Enterprise Services, Newcastle University
Written evidence
Bridging the “valley of death”: improving the commercialisation of research