The forum is funded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), to help technology transfer offices of universities, institutions, research councils and government-funded laboratories find the management they need to commercialise new technologies and create spin-out businesses. At the same time, UKIF will provide business people, who wish to create spin-outs, access to this technology.
The organisation has been set up by Ian Tracey, of STFC’s Innovations team, and Gerald Law who is responsible for several successful spin-out companies. UKIF has two other research councils, the Natural Environment Research Council and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, ten of the UK’s leading universities, and a number of knowledge transfer networks, science parks and funding bodies, as members.
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