Gaule: Please can you introduce yourself.
Hughes: I am responsible for external partnerships at the science journal Nature. I am also involved in Macmillan Science & Education’s (Nature’s parent company) science communication business which provides custom solutions for researchers, universities and R&D-intensive firms.
Gaule: What were the reasons you wanted to study the University and Industry interaction? E.g. personal and company reason?
Hughes: Journal publishers are facing some big challenges. A lot has been written about the growing mismatch between…