Philip Ternouth, Associate Director, CIHE
Philip Ternouth has extensive experience in both Industry and in Knowledge Transfer in the HE sector, having run KT activities from 1995 to 2001 in Manchester University and acted as a KTP advisor for a number of years. He acts as Associate Director for Research and Knowledge Transfer for the Council for Industry and Higher Education. He has worked as an associate with CIHE since 2002.
He has concentrated on the development of a better understanding of the detail of interactions between universities and business through a number of research, teaching, and consulting activities. These have included a series of publications for CIHE from 2002 and onward. Most recently he has collaborated as PI for CIHE with the Centre For Business Research, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, on work on the mechanisms, interactions and incentives through which business absorbs and develops innovations based on knowledge transfer relationships with Higher Education (published as Universities, Business Links and Knowledge Exchange). He project managed, acted as UK PI on, and has recently completed for publication an international research project on the same topics which has compared these issues between the UK, US Canada and Japan which was presented at a Kauffman Foundation funded international seminar at UCSD La Jolla in March 2009 convened for the purpose. This work has been published in University Business Interaction, a Comparative Study Of Mechanisms And Incentives In Four Developed Countries.
He has extensive experience and remains active as a board member of technology based start up companies. He has acts as a member of the AHRC Peer Review College specialising in KT projects and the EPSRC Better Exploitation Strategic Advisory Team. He has undertaken a number of consultancy assignments in the UK and overseas for research institutions to assist in developing their knowledge transfer agenda. These have included leading the development and delivery of a substantial short course curriculum in Knowledge Transfer for the whole university system in South Africa. He has recently undertaken an evaluation of the African Knowledge Transfer Partnership program in Kenya, Uganda and Ghana for the British Council. He is currently undertaking for CIHE an investigation sponsored by RCUK into the impact of knowledge transfer from university research to business innovation and the ways in which this might be enhanced.
He has a first degree in Natural Sciences holds professional and postgraduate qualifications in marketing (from MMU) and is a member of the Institute of Directors.