The impact of Covid-19 on university ventures

Universities are large complex organisations with vast amounts of research, teaching, industrial collaboration and intellectual property (IP) commercialisation going on at any one time. As Covid-19 hit the UK and businesses scrambled to re-engineer their processes and communication to work in the new environment, we wondered how universities, would cope.
Highly effectively, it turns out. University College London (UCL), an institution of magnitude and complexity, delivered a swift and focused response to the pandemic that was impressive. This rapid…