Praxis, the UK’s first national training programme aimed at technology transfer professionals working in universities, research institutions and industry, has been awarded £355,000 from the Department of Trade and Industry to expand itself into a self-sustaining organisation, ready to meet the market demand for an increased number and range of courses.
Praxis, the UK’s first national training programme aimed at technology transfer professionals working in universities, research institutions and industry, has been awarded £355,000 from the Department of Trade and Industry to expand itself into a self-sustaining organisation, ready to meet the market demand for an increased number and range of courses.
The grant was the result of an open competition Praxis won along with UNICO and AURIL, the established technology transfer membership organisations in the UK.
Praxis, the newest of the three winning organisations, was set up in 2002 to address the rapidly increasing need for professional expertise in this high-growth sector.
A Bank of England report published last year found that there are over 1200 technology transfer professionals in the UK, but a lack of resources for training them. A collaboration between David Secher of Cambridge University and Lita Nelsen of MIT in the USA originally led to the idea for Praxis. With financial support from the Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI) and the willingness of volunteer teachers and Programme Committee to give up their time, Praxis has run four highly successful courses in its first year.
Professor Alison Richard, vice-chancellor at the University of Cambridge, said:
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