Taiwan Innovation Exchange FLIP

要从优秀的科学中产生影响，不仅需要技术解决方案，还需要将产品和过程推向市场的机制。Iain Donnison教授致力于在世界领先的创新中心--位于台湾的工业技术研究院(ITRI)--开展这一灵活的交流计划(FLIP)项目，以增加他在创新管理和创新领导力方面的知识。Flip项目将研究解决问题的新技术开发之外的问题，并将重点放在将产品推向市场的创新机制上，从而跨越臭名昭著的“死亡之谷”，这是大学科学与其转化为成功商业机会之间存在的障碍。他的家乡机构、阿伯里斯特威斯大学和更广泛的英国生物科学界也将获得更广泛的好处。到目前为止，他的职业生涯涉及学术界和私营部门的职位，在创新越来越被认为是英国需要做得更多和更好的事情之际，Flip项目将这些专业知识聚集在一起。人们认识到，科学技术在刺激经济增长和创造就业方面发挥着重要作用。包括阿伯里斯特威斯大学在内的新的创新园区正在探索机制，通过这些机制，英国可以从其世界领先的生物科学中获得更大的经济效益。

To create impact from excellent science requires not only technical solutions but also mechanisms to bring products and processes to market. In this FLexible Interchange Programme (FLIP) project Professor Iain Donnison seeks to increase his knowledge of innovation management and innovation leadership at a world leading Centre for Innovation: the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) in Taiwan. The FLIP project will be to study beyond the development of new technologies to tackle problems and will focus on the innovative mechanisms to bring products to market and therefore span the notorious "valley of death" the barrier which exists between University science and its translated into successful business opportunities. There will also be wider benefits for his home Institution, Aberystwyth University and the wider UK bioscience community. His career to date has involved positions in academia and in the private sector and the FLIP project brings this expertise together at a time when Innovation is becoming more recognized as something that the UK needs to do more of and better. Science and technology are recognized as being important in playing a role in the stimulation of economic growth and job creation. New Innovation Campuses including at Aberystywth University are exploring mechanisms by which the UK can achieve greater economic benefits from its world leading bioscience.