University Commercialisation and Innovation Policy Evidence Unit

UCI Publications & Resources

This section provides access to UCI publications and other resources that may be of value to the university commercialisation and innovation community.

UCI Policy Evidence Unit articles and reports

Reports

	Spinning out Success: Demystifying UK university spinout trends, equity and investment (2024) Tomas Ulrichsen Zoi Roupakia
	Commercialising Social Science Research: Insights from the University of Cambridge on key barriers, enablers and pathways to success (2024) Tomas Ulrichsen Nicky Athanassopoulou
	Knowledge Exchange Funding Review: Insights from a review of the literature (2023) Tomas Ulrichsen Leonard Kelleher Zoi Roupakia
	Busting Myths and Moving Forward: the reality of UK university approaches to taking equity in spinouts (2022) Tomas Ulrichsen Zoi Roupakia Leonard Kelleher
	Through Crisis to Recovery: The ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on universities and their ability to drive innovation (2022) Tomas Ulrichsen Leonard Kelleher
	Innovation policy and the university system in times of crisis and recovery: What we know and what it means (2022) Background paper Leonard Kelleher Tomas Ulrichsen
	Reforming incentives for research and knowledge exchange to strengthen university spinout performance: options and implications: Insights from an expert roundtable (2022) Tomas Ulrichsen Leonard Kelleher
	Observations from a Critical Review of the First Iteration of the Knowledge Exchange Framework (2021) Zoi Roupakia Tomas Ulrichsen
	Innovating During a Crisis: The Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on How Universities Contribute to Innovation (2021) Tomas Ulrichsen
	The Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on How Universities Contribute to Innovation: UCI/NCUB launch event presentation (2021) Tomas Ulrichsen

UCI Expert Insight Papers and UCI Working Papers

Universities, Innovation and Dynamic Capabilities

Leonard Kelleher

Tomas Ulrichsen

UCI Expert Insights Paper 01:

Legal perspectives on the complexities and issues influencing the spinning out of companies from universities to commercialise IP (2023)

Mark Anderson (Managing Partner, Anderson Law LLP)

UCI Expert Insights Paper 02:

University models for a sustainable future: clarifying a complex landscape (2023)

Leonard Kelleher

Articles and opinion pieces

	Going for growth: the importance of a ‘both/and’ mindset for investing in the commercialisation of research (2022) Tomas Ulrichsen and Leonard Kelleher (published in NCUB State of the Relationship Report 2022)
	Unleashing the Potential of Partnerships to Tackle Climate Change (2021) Marla Fuchs and Tomas Ulrichsen
	Opinion Piece: Beyond the Pandemic: Put universities at the heart of an innovation-led recovery (2020) Tomas Ulrichsen
	COVID-19 and the resilience of university-business collaborations (2020) (published in NCUB State of the Relationship 2020) Tomas Ulrichsen

Other UCI-relevant articles and reports

The reports below were produced by members of the UCI Policy Evidence Unit team prior to the Unit's creation in 2020. They may be of interest to the university commercialisation and innovation community.

Higher Education Innovation Fund

The following papers were developed to provide evidence on the function and impact of the flagship Higher Education Innovation Fund managed and allocated by Research England (formerly the Higher Education Funding Council for England). HEIF provides a critical funding stream to support all aspects of knowledge exchange from English Higher Education Institutions.

	Evaluation of the effectiveness and role of HEFCE/OSI third stream funding (2009) PACEC (Barry Moore and Tomas Ulrichsen) and the University of Cambridge Centre for Business Research (Alan Hughes)
	Knowledge Exchange Performance and the Impact of HEIF in the English Higher Education Sector (2014) Tomas Ulrichsen
	Assessing the Economic Impacts of the Higher Education Innovation Fund: a Mixed-Method Quantitative Assessment (2015) Tomas Ulrichsen
	Allocating HEIF: the suitability of knowledge exchange income as a proxy for outcome performance (2016) Tomas Ulrichsen
	The Case for a Substantial Increase in HEIF Funding (2018) Tomas Ulrichsen
	The Requirement for Public Funding for University Knowledge Exchange to Deliver the 2.4% R&D Target (2019) Tomas Ulrichsen
	Assessing the impacts of student-focused knowledge exchange funding (2019) Tomas Ulrichsen
	Assessing the Gross Additional Impacts of the Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF): An update for the period 2015/16 – 2018/19 (2020) Tomas Ulrichsen

The development of place-based R&D funding in the UK

The following papers are the outputs of a 2018-19 project by the Centre for Science, Technology and Innovation Policy for UK Research and Innovation looking at how they can develop effective place-based research and innovation funding programmes to help reduce the significant spatial disparities in economic performance across the UK. The project brought together academic experts from different academic perspectives to review the latest evidence and insights, and reflect on implications for government research and innovation funding agencies.

	Innovating Places: Investing in Local Research and Innovation to Build Local Industrial Capabilities to Enhance Local Economic Benefits (2020) Overview Report Tomas Ulrichsen and Eoin O'Sullivan
	Value Chains, Systems Thinking and Science, Technology and Innovation Policy: Implications for place-based policy development in the UK (2019) Alan Hughes and Tomas Ulrichsen
	UK Research and Innovation: A Place-Based Shift? (2019) Philip McCann
	Innovation Policy and Place: A Critical Assessment (2019) Michael Kitson
	Industrial capabilities, innovation and place (2019) Michael H. Best

Knowledge Exchange Metrics and the Knowledge Exchange Framework

The following report was developed to provide inputs to the Knowledge Exchange Framework (KEF) Technical Advisory Group. It develops the clusters of Higher Education Institutions that underpins the comparative benchmarking element of the KEF.

Knowledge Exchange Clusters of English Higher Education Providers: An Update (2023)

Tomas Ulrichsen

Knowledge Exchange Framework Metrics: A Cluster Analysis of Higher Education Institutions (2018)

Tomas Ulrichsen

Measuring University-Business Links in the United States (2014)

Tomas Ulrichsen, Alan Hughes, and Barry Moore

Intellectual property commercialisation

The following report was developed to support the review of university-investor links by Mike Rees for Research England. It brings together various data sources on university spinouts and explores performance. It also reviews what we know about the key factors shaping the success of university spinouts.

Developing University Spinouts in the UK: Key trends in spinout activity, investments and investor involvement (2019)

Tomas Ulrichsen

University-industry partnership building

The following reports provide evidence on various aspects of building university-industry partnerships.

	Developing University-Industry Partnerships Fit for the Future: Key insights and issues emerging from the Oxford UIDP Summit 2019 Tomas Ulrichsen
	Building Long Term Strategic University-Industry Partnerships: Lessons and effective practices from UK and US experiences (2015) Full report Tomas Ulrichsen and Eoin O’Sullivan
	Building Long Term Strategic University-Industry Partnerships: Lessons and effective practices from UK and US experiences (2014) Summary findings Tomas Ulrichsen
	How do large companies benefit from strategic partnerships with universities? Developing and testing a novel framework Tomas Ulrichsen and Eoin O’Sullivan
	University-Industry Partnerships and Open Innovation: Key developments and experiences from the University of Cambridge (2015) Tim Minshall, Letizia Mortara and Tomas Ulrichsen
	The Nature, Location and Functioning of International Research Collaborations: A study of manufacturing research (2016) Tomas Ulrichsen and Charles Featherston