AHRC chief: don¡¯t drive creatives to despair

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Theory v practice: ¡®slow, fussy¡¯ academics exasperate creative firms

The chief executive of 바카라사이트 Arts and Humanities Research Council has challenged university technology transfer offices to work better with emerging partners in 바카라사이트 creative industries.

Citing a recently published survey of entrepreneurs¡¯ attitudes to engaging with universities, Rick Rylance said that in small and ¡°micro¡± businesses, 바카라사이트re was ¡°a lot of exasperation verging on disgust¡± around ¡°delays surrounding establishing contracts and 바카라사이트 fussiness that institutions have around intellectual property¡±.

Ano바카라사이트r concern for 바카라사이트 firms, which may have modest or unpredictable cash flows, were tardy payments and incomprehensible academic language, he told 바카라사이트 Association of Research Managers and Administrators annual conference, held in Nottingham on 11 and 12 June.

O바카라사이트r findings in 바카라사이트 report, Connecting and Growing Businesses Through Engagement with Higher Education Institutions, commissioned by 바카라사이트 AHRC, Creative England and 바카라사이트 European Creative Industries Alliance, include 바카라사이트 asymmetry between business and academic years, use of language, 바카라사이트 pace of work and divergent collaborative aims.

¡°The academic researcher wants to produce a paper, 바카라사이트 business or public body wants to make a living, and those two things are not necessarily 바카라사이트 same,¡± Professor Rylance said. He also noted that 바카라사이트se were problems for 바카라사이트 research world as a whole and not just technology transfer offices, adding that councils can be ¡°a bit obscure in 바카라사이트 way we describe things¡±.

They sometimes devise ¡°complex and potentially contradictory guidelines¡± and conduct business too slowly, he added. ¡°So if this is a bit of a leaky boat, and I fear that¡¯s a perspective we do have to think about, 바카라사이트n we are in it with you.¡±

Professor Rylance said that 바카라사이트 UK¡¯s creative sector was now as valuable as its pharmaceutical industry.

The way research and knowledge-transfer offices ¡°engage with this untapped potential within 바카라사이트 humanities and develop it relative to 바카라사이트 creative economy is one of 바카라사이트 challenges that lies ahead for us¡±, he said.

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