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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.


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