Ederyn Williams
Ederyn Williams (born 1946) is a retired academic and commentator on technology transfer.[1][2] He is the son of the Welsh academic, novelist and television critic Raymond Williams, and edited the second edition (1990) of his father's book 'Television: Technology and Cultural Form (first published 1974). In 1976 he was a joint author of The Social Psychology of Telecommunications, a text of social presence theory.
After seven years as a psychology Research Assistant at University College London, Cambridge University and Johns Hopkins University,[3] he joined British Telecom where he managed businesses in information technology,[3] and was briefly the head of the short-lived games company Telecomsoft in the early 1980s.[4]
From 1991 he was the Managing Director of the now-defunct Leeds Innovations Ltd.,[3] and in April 2000 he "jumped ship" and joined the University of Warwick where he founded an academic department which later became Warwick Ventures, a soi-disant technology commercialisation company. However, since February 2018, Warwick Ventures has once again re-branded itself as an academic department within the University of Warwick [5] Its activities were claimed by Williams to have been adversely affected by the Financial crisis of 2007–08.[6] In April 2010 he was awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise Promotion for his role in the development of knowledge transfer from universities to business in the UK.[5][7] He retired from Warwick Ventures in September 2011.[8]
References
- ↑ "Why British Universities Rival US in Commercial Field", The Birmingham Post, March 28, 2007.
- ↑ Peter Vermij, European universities weigh spin-offs versus licensing patents, Bioentrepreneur (Nature Publishing Group), 14 April 2005. Accessed 18 November 2015.
- 1 2 3 "Executive Profile: Ederyn Williams". Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved 20 February 2014.
- ↑ "News Desk - Beyond is brought from the cold". Popular Computing Weekly. 6–12 November 1986. p. 6. Retrieved 20 February 2014.
- 1 2 "Queen's Award for Director of Warwick Ventures". PraxisUnico. 2010-04-21. Archived from the original on 25 February 2014. Retrieved 20 February 2014.
- ↑ Richard Tyler, University spin-off activity collapses, The Daily Telegraph, 21 Dec 2009
- ↑ Cara Simpson, Warwick Ventures boss Ederyn Williams wins Queens Award, Coventry Telegraph, 23 April 2010. Accessed 18 November 2015.
- ↑ "Warwick Ventures welcomes its new CEO". Warwick University. 23 August 2011. Archived from the original on 20 February 2014. Retrieved 20 February 2014.