The Research and Development Society

Slide presentations for meetings in the 2008-2009 season

Ian Harvey, Chairman, Intellectual Property Institute Intellectual Property Rights – Catalyst or inhibitor to a low carbon future? (pdf)

Evening Meeting 14 October 2008

Slide presentations for meetings in the 2007-2008 season

	Sir David King, The 2008 Duncan Davies lecture: The challenges of the 21st century (pdf)	The 2008 Duncan Davies lecture 15 July 2008
	Ahmed Hashmi, Technology Vice President, BP Products for a low carbon and sustainable future (pdf)	Afternoon seminar, 15 July 2008 ‘Green R&D’: Developing products for a low-carbon and sustainable future
	Anne Chick, Director of the Sustainable Design Research Centre, Kingston University The role of design in assisting green entrepreneurship and product development (pdf)
	Dr Mike Pitts, Manager of the Sustainable Technologies Priority for Chemistry Innovation Knowledge Transfer Network Successful green product design (pdf)
	Dr Robert Trezona, Head of R&D, The Carbon Trust Accelerating Commercialisation: The Four Journeys of Low Carbon Technology (pdf)
	Karen Brooks, Special Projects Manager, SETsquared Partnership SETsquared Partnership and its Networks (pdf)	Evening Panel discussion, 1 May 2008 Using networks to improve UK R&D
	Peter Hewkin, CEO, Cambridge Network Cambridge Network (pdf)
	Tony Jones, London Biotechnology Network London Biotechnology Network (pdf)
	Mark McNally, GINNN GINNN: The Global Innovation Network (pdf)
	Dr Malcolm Parry, Surrey Research Park Networking - support for companies (pdf)
	Chris Williams, Director, UK Displays & Lighting Knowledge Transfer Network Introduction to the UK Displays & Lighting Knowledge Transfer Network (Microsoft PowerPoint)

Slide presentations for meetings in the 2006-2007 season

	Sir Robin Saxby , Chairman Emeritus of ARM and President of the IET The 18th Duncan Davies Memorial Lecture: From start up in a barn in Cambridge to global standard and beyond (pdf)	The 2007 Duncan Davies Lecture 19 June 2007
	James Robertson, Marks & Clark Academia and industry, how they (don't) work together (pdf)	Afternoon meeting, 19 June 2007 Trends and Current Issues in Intellectual Property Rights Protection
	Isabel Davies, Senior Partner, CMS Cameron McKenna LLP & Chair of the Law Society Intellectual Property Group IP Protection: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (pdf)
	Sir Tom McKillop, Chairman, Royal Bank of Scotland The 17th Duncan Davies Memorial Lecture: The Challenges of Innovation (pdf)	The Duncan Davies Memorial Lecture 23 November 2006
	John Bessant, AIM Senior Fellow and Imperial College London Dealing with discontinuity: Managing innovation beyond the steady state (pdf)	Evening Meeting 17 October 2006

Slide presentations for meetings in the 2005-2006 season

	Catherine Connolly, Economist, Strategy Unit, DTI Creativity, Design and Business Performance (pdf)	Special Interest Group meeting, Tuesday 27 June 2006 Importance of creativity and design to R&D
	Gowers Review of Intellectual Property - submission (pdf) Report of a morning seminar discussing the Government’s independent review to examine the UK’s intellectual property framework. Organised by Field Fisher Waterhouse in association with the R&D Society and Isosceles.	Special event, 5 April 2006
	Ian Harvey, Chairman, Intellectual Property Institute IP & Innovation: China and Europe - reversing roles? (pdf) Ian describes how China's IP piracy image is outdated and could prevent UK firms from taking advantage of a growing and important market. As a result of his talk, Ian was subsequently interviewed for an article in Research Fortnight's 5 July 2006 issue, "UK forms should look to China for future of IP ".	Evening Meeting 13 June 2006
	Alan Begg, The Technology Strategy Board: The Technology Strategy Board - one year on and the way forward (pdf)	Evening Meeting 21 February 2006
	Simon Davey, CEO, Scientific Generics: The missing mezzanine (pdf)	Evening Meeting 17 January 2006
	Stephen Luckhurst, Group Human Resources Director, QinetiQ: Overcoming barriers in promoting and managing change, the QinetiQ experience (pdf)	Special Interest Group meeting, 22 November 2005, HR Issues in R&D
	Anne-Marie Martin, Director of The Careers Group, University of London: Science and technology graduates: What do they want? (pdf)
	Bill Metcalf, Founder, Cambridge Strategic Management: Getting things done; A practical guide to leading & motivating R&D teams (pdf)
	Dr Elizabeth Pollitzer, Equalitec: Career Prospects after Career Break. Opening the Doors to Employment to Women Returners (pdf)
	Mike Barry, Head of Corporate Social Responsibility, Marks & Spencer: Consumers, retailers and technology: New partnerships to build trust in science (pdf)	Evening Meeting 18 October 2005

Slide presentations for evening meetings  2004-2005

	Professor Lord Bhattacharyya, Warwick Manufacturing Group: "The Duncan Davies Memorial Lecture: The Expanding World of Technology" Slides (1.5Mb pdf) and text of speech (pdf)	The Duncan Davies Memorial Lecture 21 June 2005
	Dr Tony Bates: "Generating Value from the National Health Service – the Innovation Trusts" (pdf)	Evening Meeting 19 April 2005
	Dr Richard Worswick, Chief Executive, LGC Group Holdings: "From government laboratory to science-based group - Managing the transformation of LGC" (pdf)	Evening Meeting 22 February 2005
	Mr Richard Bailey (TTP Strategy); ‘How to exploit a patent portfolio’ (pdf)	Special Interest Group meeting, 12 January 2005, Intellectual Property - Challenges and Opportunities. In association with the Licencing Executives Society
	Dr. Martin Sandford (Vice President Licensing Executives Society); ‘Current licensing issues’ (pdf)
	M. Fischer (German-British Chamber of Industry & Commerce); ‘German and British patent law and practice, how German company inventors are encouraged’ (pdf)
	Andrew Herbert, Managing Director,  Microsoft Research, Cambridge: "A glimpse at the future" (PowerPoint)	Evening Meeting 18 November 2004
	Professor Will Stewart: Valuing the unpriceable - Real Options as a tool for evaluating R&D (pdf)	Evening Meeting 26 October 2004

Slide presentations for evening meetings 2003-2004

• Prof. P Crane, FRS Director  Royal Botanic Gardens and Ms Kerry ten Kate, Director, Insight Investment, 20 May 2004. Slide Presentation.
• Prof. Dr. Hans de Wit, President of EIRMA, Slide Presentation 19th February 2004 on "The European Innovation Arena R, D & T Alliances and Societal Needs. Both the Slide presentation and Handout are available.
• Sir Richard Sykes Presidential Lecture 21st October 2003 - Harnessing New Technologies to Improve Health (pdf format 1.4MB)
• Alistair Keddie- slide presentation, 15th September 2003 on Innovation: Action for the Future" (pdf format, size 259KB)

Slide presentations for previous evening meetings

• GM Debate event, 17 March 2003:
  • Nigel Poole, Sekona - slide presentation (pdf,3.18 MB)
  • Sir David King, Government Chief Scientific Advisor - Slide presentation (original PowerPoint format, 267KB)
  • A write-up of the "GM Debate" event published in Issue 90 of the LES News Exchange (external link)
• Peter Fellner's slide presentation - Celltech: its evolution from the National Enterprise Board to the UK's biggest biotech company (Zipped PowerPoint format, 909KB)
• James Gardiner's slide presentation on the 15th October 2002 - Informal Investment National Business Angels Network Ltd (pdf format 63kB)
• Mike Lynch's slide presentation on the 17th September 2002 - Data to information to global domination - the development of Autonomy. (original Microsoft PowerPoint format 3MB)
• Sir Robin Saxby, Chairman ARM, slide presentation on the 21st May 2002 - The ARM Architecture: from start-up to global standard (pdf format 6.6MB)
• Claes Wilhelmsson, AstraZeneca, slide presentation on the 16th April 2002- The Successful Merger of Multinational Research Department (original Microsoft PowerPoint format 812kB)
• Professor Tim Cook, Isis Innovation, slide presentation on the 15th October 2001 - Exploitation of the Intellectual Property of Oxford University and its Chemistry Department (pdf format 420kB)

Slide presentations for previous Special Interest Group meetings

Special Interest Group meeting 19 February 2004, "What can we learn from our European Competitors?"

• Dr Christine Adams: Models of knowledge transfer in other European countries
• Mr Harald Egner: Links with the Fraunhofers – new opportunities
• Fabien Holler: France and the UK: comparisons and contrasts
• Dr Nicola Smoker: Making connections - the work of an International Technology Promoter

Special Interest Group Meeting 13th May 2003

• Peter Hiscocks:University of Cambridge "Incubation of New Ventures in Cambridge: an Opportunity and a Challenge"  (pdf format 1466KB)
• Raymond Wolfson, Leeds University, "From University of Leeds Innovations Limited to Tectran Limited(pdf format 119KB)
• Alison Fielding Tectran Ltd, "Table good Ideas to Market" (pdf format 1200KB)
• Heather Tewkesbury, Smiths Institute, "Technology Translation - The Faraday Way" (pdf format 457KB)

Special Interest Group Meeting 21 October 2003, "Continuous Innovation - Organisation and Culture "

• Prof John Bessant, Cranfield University School of Management: Maintaining long term, high involvement innovation
• Dr John Howells, IS&S: R&D Organisations that generate profitable growth
• David Percival, Director, PRTM: “Creatively” Managing Innovation - A Best Practice Approach for Generating and Managing Great Ideas

Special Interest Group Meeting 12th November 2002

• Professor Murphy, BAE Systems - Combining academic capabilities with industrial requirements in Research and Technology (pdf format 236kB).
• Dr.Willis, Oxford Innovation - R&D inter-trading and networks in an Innovation Cluster (pdf format 517kB)
• Professor Julian Birkinshaw, London Business School, Managing internal R&D Networks in Global Firms (pdf format 33kB).

Special Interest Group Meeting 18th June 2002

• Learning to walk tightropes in tornadoes - J Bessant, University of Brighton 885KB
• Innovation, 3M maintaining the momentum - Graham Jackson, 3M 1.6MB

Special Interest Group Meeting 12th February 2002

• Natural Language Searching - Jane Moores, Lexicrest 986KB
• WWW Tools for Business Intelligence,Dr. John Davies, BTexact Technologies 1.4MB