Sixteen UK higher education institutions are to benefit from a ?50 million investment in research projects designed to drive economic growth, the universities and science minister has said.
Principal investigators on large research projects do not have the necessary skills to foster strong relationships between the academy and business, according to a council member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
A managerial culture is growing in universities as they ¡°position themselves to align more systematically with government and industrial sectors¡±, a conference has heard.
The perception among science, technology, engineering and maths PhD students that any career outside academia is akin to failure is denying industry access to high-quality, PhD-educated employees, a leading neuroscientist has claimed.