Why attend the Evening Seminar series?

NPL's Evening Seminars will present views from a senior industry leader on how using technology and innovation is helping them address critical challenges while bringing increased economic prosperity.

With our focus on supporting UK industry through our research, and our positioning between government, industry and academia, NPL can draw together a mix of delegates for varied discussions and collaboration potential.

Evening Seminars 2011

The next evening seminar will be:

Open Innovation in support of UK industry - Getting more from the UK Innovation Ecosystem
Thursday 22 September 2011 (6-9 pm) at the Institute of Physics (IOP), 76 Portland Place, London W1B 1NT

We are pleased to invite you to the NPL Evening Seminar series where industry leaders, government policy makers and researchers come together to discuss synergies and partnerships that will deliver effective solutions for UK plc.

Bridging the gap between innovation and commercialisation is critical to the long-term success of UK plc and key to the government's long-term strategy for growth. With a strong innovation infrastructure in the UK through Public Research Establishments and Higher Education Institutes, what challenges are really faced by an innovating industry in accessing the innovation ecosystem that governments have invested in over the years to build world-class expertise and facilities in the UK?

In the second of our Evening Seminar Series, Dr Hermann Hauser will present his views on the challenges faced by UK industry in accessing the innovation infrastructure, and what government, research institutes and industry should be doing to ensure that the UK can remain world leaders in its science and technology research and its exploitation.

Designed to stimulate debate and discussion between industry, government and researchers, NPL's Evening Seminars will present views from a senior industry leader on how using technology and innovation is helping them address critical challenges while bringing increased economic prosperity.

About the speaker:

Dr Hauser is a serial entrepreneur who recently authored 'The Current and Future Role of Technology and Innovation Centres in the UK' for government. He gained a PhD in Physics at the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge, and is probably best known for setting up Acorn with Chris Curry in 1978. When Olivetti took control of Acorn in 1985, he became Vice President for research. In 1986, Dr Hauser co-founded the Olivetti Research Laboratory (ORL) in Cambridge along with Professor Andy Hopper. In 1997 he co-founded Amadeus Capital Partners Ltd, a venture capital company, and in 1998 he co-founded Cambridge Network Ltd.

In 1998, Dr Hauser was elected to an Honorary Fellowship of Hughes Hall, Cambridge, and he was also elected to an Honorary Fellowship of King's College in 2000. In the same year he was awarded the Mountbatten Medal. Dr Hauser was awarded an Honorary CBE for 'innovative service to the UK enterprise sector' in 2001 and in 2002 he was elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. In 2005, Dr Hauser received a Lifetime Achievement Award for his work as a venture capitalist and entrepreneur. He serves on the Board of a number of high-technology companies.

Dr Hauser holds honorary doctorates from the Universities of Bath and Loughborough. He is a member of the Advisory Board on the Higher Education Innovation Fund and the UK's Council for Science and Technology.

To book a place on this seminar, please RSVP to Courtney Tuffin by Friday 16 September 2011.

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If you are interested in speaking at NPL's Evening Seminar Series on a particular topic, please email us at eveningseminar@npl.co.uk