Season 12 · Episode 8
What the UK can learn from Cambridge’s tech success – Ottoline Leyser, UKRI
November 11, 202532m 28s
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Show Notes
Dame Ottoline Leyser, former chief executive of UKRI and chair of the advisory board of Innovate Cambridge, discusses the research and business success from the University of Cambridge and how that can be applied throughout the country, government plans to support a global Oxford-Cambridge tech hub and the power of local pride in growing new tech clusters.
Leyser was appointed as the head of UK Research and Innovation, the public body which directs government funding to science and technological enterprises, in 2020.
Topics
Women in techCambridgeinnovationresearchuniversity of CambridgegovernmentOxfordOxford Cambridge arcUK techtech clustersgovernment fundinginvestmentscienceSME