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Catapult Centres Review

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  • Wednesday, 05 November 2014
  • 00:5 - 00:5
  • Duration: 1 hr 5 mins
  • Publication date: 06 Nov 2014
  • Location: IETTV_Room, IETTV_Venue, London, United Kingdom
  • Part of event Innovate UK 2014

About the session

This presentation is a review of the UK's Catapult Centres. It discusses: the 2010 Report on Technology Innovation Centres (Catapults); what is a Catapult Centre?; science base vs. science translation; a 2014 review; seven Catapults; and nine recommendations.

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    Hermann Hauser

    Amadeus Capital Partners Ltd., Serial Entrepreneur

    Dr. Hermann Hauser CBE has wide experience in developing and financing companies in the information technology sector. He co-founded a number of high-tech companies including Acorn Computers which spun out ARM, E-trade UK, Virata and Cambridge Network. Subsequently Hermann became vice president of research at Olivetti. During his tenure at Olivetti, he established a global network of research laboratories. Since leaving Olivetti, Hermann has founded over 20 technology companies. In 1997, he co-founded Amadeus Capital Partners. At Amadeus he invested in CSR, Solexa, Icera, Xmos and Cambridge Broadband. Hermann is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Institute of Physics and of the Royal Academy of Engineering and an Honorary Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. In 2001 he was awarded an Honorary CBE for innovative service to the UK enterprise sector. In 2004 he was made a member of the Governments Council for Science and Technology and in 2013 he was made a Distinguished Fellow of BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT. Hermann Hauser has honorary doctorates from the Universities of Loughborough, Bath, Anglia Ruskin and The University of Strathclyde.
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