by Dr Sarwat Howe Why I applied for a secondment in government I’m currently working as an Intellectual Property and Commercialisation manager at the University of Salford, where I help academics turn their discoveries into much-needed products and services to …
In this blog The Royal Mint, more commonly known for making coins, discusses the journey to producing visors for the NHS. The Royal Mint announced back in April that it would be manufacturing nearly medical visors to help protect NHS staff working on the frontline amid the coronavirus pandemic.
By adopting agile methodology to their commercialisation process, Ploughshare Innovations reduced the time taken to review a coronavirus-related innovation to just two weeks. Read how Hetti Barkworth-Nanton, their new CEO, achieved this and how the lessons learned will help to shape their future commercialisation work.
The knowledge assets team is a HMT team looking to improve the value of public sector intangible assets. One area where we have taken action is our upcoming virtual events to showcase innovations which are currently being developed in teams, departments, labs and policy units across the public sector.