In Innovation, Success Is Often The Best Revenge

As a highly successful and fast growing research group, we have had great impact over the years, including with three amazing spin-out companies, and two research impact case studies which were graded as world-leading. But, like many others, we have received many setbacks along the way, and have always licked our wounds, and redoubled our efforts, and most of the time we succeeded. This week, we received a bump in the road, and we must now grit our teeth, and move on. In fact, it keeps you humble, and where nothing in the world of research can be taken for granted.

In innovation, there are lots of people will tell you what you are wrong and why you just do not know x and y, and that there is no demand for what you are do. And, so, believe in your innovation and people will follow, and every bump along the way should make you stronger in your passion to succeed. Every time we faced people telling us there was no market for what we will pitching, we knew it was there, and that we had the team to take us there. Having faith in a team is often a key element of this — and a team who will not fail to take there eye of their vision, but to be agile: