Science and Technology Group

Next Meeting: Dr Uday Phadke: How to Give Tech Businesses Scale

22 November

Building serious technology businesses with scale in the UK: Turning Rhetoric into Reality

Transforming science and technology-enabled innovation into significant commercial and social value cannot happen in a policy vacuum. Classical justifications for the role of the state have relied on ideas of market and systemic failure, both flawed in different ways.

Uday Phadke outlines a new approach based on diffusion theory, chasms, and meso-economic vectors, which makes a powerful case for state intervention ignored by mainstream economists and policy-makers.

Dr Phadke will cover the need for the Govt to protect strategic sectors of the economy, preventing the take-over of firms like ARM and also specific policies aimed at building new mittelstands, some of which can then grow into new ARM-like firms.

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Dr Uday Phadke read Engineering at Trinity College, Cambridge and then went on to do a PhD in Aero-thermodynamics at the University of Sussex. He has worked in a wide range of academic, technical, commercial and strategic roles in Europe, North America and Asia over the last three decades.

He has a deep technology background in a number of areas, including aerospace engineering, digital signal processing, remote sensing, electronics, computing & software, medical diagnostics, engineering design, media and telecommunications, financial technologies and digital media.

He has been actively involved in the building of over 100 technology firms over the last two decades, as an advisor, mentor and investor, working closely with technology transfer offices, innovation agencies, incubators and accelerators.

He has also been part of the founding team at a number of technology advisory and consulting companies since the early 1980s; since 1997 he has been Chief Executive of Cartezia, the technology business builder based in Cambridge, UK.

He was Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge from 2011 to 2016 and is now actively involved in several innovation policy development initiatives in Europe and Asia.

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2017 Programme

Dates for 2017 are as follows (all meeting are on Wednesdays, usually the 3rd one of each month):

Month	Day of Month	Speaker	Title
February	15th	Prof Martyn Thomas	Cybersecurity
March	15th	Prof Anil Seth	Machine Consciousness
April	19th	Prof Peter Wilson	Anti-Microbial Resistance.
May	16th,	Dr Giles Yeo	Are your genes to blame if your jeans don't fit?
June	21st	Prof Stephen Devereux	CAR(T)s, BiTes, checkpoints and weaponised antibodies.
September	20th	Dr Paolo Tasca	Bitcoins and the Blockchain
October	18th	Prof J A Madrigal	Stem cell therapies.
November	22nd	Dr Uday Phadke	How to give Tech Businesses Scale

2018 Programme

Dates for 2018 are as follows (usually 3rd Wed of each month):

Month	Day of Month	Speaker	Title
February	21st	James Luke	Artificial Intelligence
March	14th	Paul Newman TO BE CONFIRMED	Autonomous Vehicles
April	25th	David Howey TO BE CONFIRMED	Energy Storage
May	23rd
June	20th	Dr Michael Radcliffe	Allergies
September	11th
October	24th
November	28th