Taiwan Innovation Exchange FLIP

要让优秀的科学产生影响，不仅需要技术解决方案，还需要将产品和工艺推向市场的机制。在这个灵活交换计划（FLIP）项目中，Iain Donnison教授寻求在世界领先的创新中心——台湾工业技术研究院（工研院）增加他在创新管理和创新领导方面的知识。FLIP项目将研究超越新技术的发展来解决问题，并将重点放在创新机制上，将产品推向市场，从而跨越臭名昭著的“死亡之谷”，这一障碍存在于大学科学与其转化为成功的商业机会之间。他的家乡阿伯里斯特威斯大学和更广泛的英国生物科学界也将受益。到目前为止，他的职业生涯涉及学术界和私营部门的职位，FLIP项目将这些专业知识结合在一起，而创新正成为英国需要做得更多和更好的事情。科学和技术在刺激经济增长和创造就业方面发挥着重要作用。包括阿伯里斯蒂沃思大学在内的新创新校园正在探索英国从其世界领先的生物科学中获得更大经济效益的机制。

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.