Passion, Leadership and Responsibility

Getting rid of committees, bureaucracy and individual blame

I have been involved in enterprise and innovation for quite a while. I love it, and where I have had the opportunity to think and dream and kick-start things that flourish in the future. Some things have worked, and other things have not. And, we have been so lucky to have spun out three highly successful cybersecurity companies, and each of which has come from a seed of an idea but has been built by great people.

And I am so pleased that people like Professor Mark Logan are now introducing words like enterprise and innovation back into academic approaches, as, for too long, it was all about research. Overall, research will go nowhere without adding some innovation and then some enterprise to take it to places where real people find real uses for it. In academia, there can be game-playing, and where the impact factor of a journal or the number of publications in the year can be seen as having an impact. But, the real impact happens in the real world and away from citation counts and impact…