Recommendation(s): 38

Recommendation 38: We recommend to higher education institutions and their representative bodies that they examine, with representatives of industry, ways of giving firms, especially small and medium sized enterprises, easy and co-ordinated access to information about higher education services in their area.

6.3 The Government looks to HE institutions and their representative bodies to follow up this recommendation with representatives of industry, including how to make better use of existing services such as Business Links, which facilitate information on HE services. In Wales action is in hand under the aegis of the Wales Regional Technology Plan: An Innovation and Technology Strategy for Wales. Scottish Enterprise’s Technology Venture strategy works to increase the number of academic/industry links which result in the commercialisation of science and technology in Scotland; and the CONNECT Forum brings together academia, industry, commerce and the public sector to enhance the prospect of new and start up high tech companies. In Northern Ireland a joint DENI-university marketing project is mapping existing links and identifying potential opportunities for enhancing industry/university links in consultancy, research and knowledge transfer.

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