Financial Times: Call for customer focus to aid R&D spin-offs

Britain’s innovation policy must shift its focus to the crucial role played by customers in stimulating and funding new high technology companies, according to Cambridge University research. In a two-year study of successful science and technology businesses in the Cambridge area, the researchers found that in all cases, solving customer problems and research and development contracts paid for by customers played a key role in their development.

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