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…