Project leaders: David Connell, Alan Hughes
Other Principal Investigator: Jocelyn Probert
Project dates: 2007-2009
Funding: EEDA and Newton Trust

Publications

Connell, D. (2010) Scientists are Customers too: How the SBRI can Help Research Councils drive Economic Growth, NESTA Provocation, No. 13, May 2010.

Connell, D. and Probert, J. (2010), Exploding the Myths of UK Innovation Policy: How ‘Soft Companies’ and R&D Contracts for Customers Drive the Growth of the Hi-Tech Economy, Research Commissioned on Behalf of the East of England Science and Industry Council by the East of England Development Agency; Centre for Business Research, Cambridge.

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Conference Papers

Probert, J. (2009), Presentation at the University of Adelaide, November.

Connell D. (2009) EU Workshop on Precompetitive Procurement, Brussels, October.

Connell, D. (2009) Institute for Manufacturing Annual Technology Management Conference, University of Cambridge, September 2009.

Probert, J. (2009) 'Customer-funded development contracts and the growth and sustainability of high-tech firms (revised version of paper)', SASE Annual Conference, Paris, 16-18 July 2009.

Connell, D. (2010) 'The University research treasure cave myth and the low hanging fruit', presentation to UK~IRC workshop on Universities and the Knowledge Economy, in collaboration with the Cambridge Journal of Economics, Cambridge, 28-29 June 2010.

Probert, J. (2009) 'Customer-funded development contracts and the growth and sustainability of high-tech firms', UK~IRC Research Workshop, Imperial College, London, 11-12 June.

Media Coverage

Connell, D. (2010) cited in article in The Scientist, 'Politicians have been misled by innovation myths', 2nd March 2010.

Probert, J. and Connell, D. (2010) cited in article in Financial Times, 'Call for customer focus to aid R&D spin-offs', by Clive Cookson, Science Editor, 15 Feb 2010.