Tom Hockaday, Technology Transfer Innovation, discusses questions surrounding TTO's and why they should be fully funded as an important central service.
The introduction of impact as a measure of university research excellence in the UK government’s 2014 Research Excellence Framework (Ref) has changed the way universities in the UK think and talk about technology transfer. There is now far more emphasis on the impact of university activities on the outside world and less on the potential income to the university and others from these activities.
To many people involved in technology transfer this is not a change. We have known for…
