Notes on knowledge valuation and technology transfer.

Every innovation ecosystem eventually reaches the same question. Once knowledge has been created, protected and evaluated, how do we ensure it actually becomes...

Europe's innovation debate is often framed around research funding, venture capital, startup creation and technological breakthroughs. Yet beneath these...

Europe spends enormous resources generating new knowledge. Yet the next frontier in competitiveness may have less to do with producing more research and more...

For much of its history, technology transfer has been understood as a specialised function operating at the edge of the university. A small group of...

While much of Europe's innovation debate has focused on increasing investment, attracting talent and strengthening research excellence, a quieter...

Europe's innovation challenge is often framed as a question of funding, talent, or research excellence. Yet a growing body of evidence suggests a different...

For much of the past half century, Europe's universities have been judged primarily on their ability to generate knowledge. Today, a different expectation is...

For decades, the commercialization of research has been constrained by a surprisingly simple problem. Researchers, universities, investors and industry often...

The most visible moments in innovation tend to attract the greatest attention. Spin-outs celebrate investment rounds. Universities announce licensing...

When policymakers discuss innovation, attention naturally gravitates toward breakthrough technologies, high-growth startups and headline-grabbing investment...

For decades, universities, investors and policymakers have looked to technology as the primary measure of innovation progress. Increasingly, however, attention...

Across Europe, universities have invested heavily in commercialization capabilities. Yet when people within innovation ecosystems talk candidly about...

Europe's innovation debate often focuses on what enters the research pipeline. Much less attention is paid to what quietly leaves it. Between scientific...

Why the conversation about research commercialization is becoming a conversation about economic growth. Europe is not short of ambition when it comes to...

Europe's competitiveness debate increasingly revolves around a paradox. Despite possessing many of the world's leading universities and research institutions,...