The People Centric Approach to Economic Development
Research universities can have a large and important contribution to economic development and particularly the growth of technology clusters. Policy makers want to accelerate cluster development. The question is: what is the mechanism by which Science leads to Growth? Stephen Allott has developed 'The People Centric Approach' during his 3 year project as a Visitor in the Cambridge University Computer Laboratory. The People Centric Approach will deliver a better result for policy makers than their current 'Idea Centric Approach'.
Articles
>Britain Forty Years On - Funding Technology -
David Gill, Tim Minshall, Craig Pickering and Martin Rigby, published by the University of Cambridge Institute for Manufacturing
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Page 53 of the article starts: "In a recent paper delivered as the 2006 Cambridge University Hughes Hall City Lecture , Stephen Allott drew on both his own experience and US research to criticise government policy on innovation, especially business-university co-operation. Analysing the Lambert Review′s self-understanding of its task, Mr Allott noted the extent to which recent British policy makers have relied on a ‘linear model’ or ‘idea centric’ approach to commercialising technology, especially university research. The people-centric approach to the innovation process “ starts with a customer problem, uses a PhD and the PhD’s training to solve that problem” and thereby creates value ...”
>Differing views on how to pick a winner – Financial Times
14 November 2006 Differing views on how to pick a winner
>Research will help business compete – The Irish Times
9 November 2006 Research will help business compete
>Letter to the editor - Financial Times.
In response to “It pays to transfer” – 25 September
2 October 2006 - Letter to the editor
>From Science to Growth
6 March 2006 – the Hughes Hall Cambridge University 2006 City Lecture by Stephen Allott, Executive Chairman of Trinamo.
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Links and Research
> Universities challenged – Peter Day, Presenter, BBC Radio 4 and BBC World Service
March 2005, BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4816236.stm
> Transfers prove costly – The Times Higher Education Supplement
15 September 2006 http://www.thes.co.uk/
> Science in the Service of the Nation State
Spring 2005
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> Understanding technology transfer – Report prepared by Apax Partners with the help of the Economist Intelligence Unit.
2005, Apax Partners Ltd
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> Customer-focused technology transfer: – Evidence from the London Technology Network and Cambridge Computer Lab Ring -
Technology Enterprise Group Seminar – Summary Notes
21 September 2004
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> The Technology Enterprise Group (TEG)
http://www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/ctm/teg
>> Why spin-outs are a bad investment
- Interactions, the Journal of the Institute of Physics, May 2006 http://members.iop.org/interactions.html
> Science world needs people power, Allott
- The Cambridge Evening News
10 March 2006 www.cambridge-news.co.uk