Technology & Research Services, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland
Technology Evaluation: processes and policies
The Institution
Heriot-Watt University is a strongly science and engineering based university with a reputation for longstanding success in Knowledge Transfer from a high quality research base. Some academic units, while holding the highest level of research quality recognition in the UK for basic research, are almost 80% funded by industry.
TRS is one of the most successful KTOs in the UK . It receives many visitors from across the world and has a knowledge of KT systems in the US and elsewhere that will enable you to compare practices and develop your own expertise you when you go back to your own university.