- Robin Daniels
Dr Robin Daniels is
CEO of NRP Enterprise Ltd, the commercial facing unit of the UK's Norwich Research Park ( [http://www.nrp.org.uk] ) - Europe's largest single-site life science cluster. He was described by The Times newspaper in August 2006 as "one of the UK’s leading experts on innovation and technology enterprise".Previously he was Chief Operating Officer of the Centre for Scientific Enterprise Ltd, a joint venture between
London Business School , where he was also a member of staff, andUniversity College London . During this time he was also architect and director of the Chevening Technology Enterprise Scholarship or CTES Programme. CTES is a technology commercialisation programme involving 16 UK universities and (by 2005) has generated around £50m of economic value for the UK. CSEL and CTES are both cited as national best practice by the aDepartment of Trade and Industry report [http://www.dti.gov.uk/innovationreport/innovation-report-full.pdf] .Previously Daniels was Director of the Manufacturing Leaders Programme at
Cambridge University following operational and general management posts in the automotive and material handling sectors.Daniels is also a co-founder and executive director of three start-up businesses; Magnicap Ltd ( [http://www.magnicap.com] ), a packaging consultancy, Redbite Ltd, a
Cambridge -basedRFID technology business and Opelon Ltd (* [http://www.opelon.com/ Opelon Ltd] ), an international technology solutions consultancy. He is a close associate of formerFord Europe President andMaserati CEO, Martin Leach and senior consultant to Leach's business Magma Group. Daniels is a policy advisor on economic competitiveness to the Conservative Shadow Cabinet ( [http://www.conservatives.com] ) and holds BEng(Hons) and PhD degrees fromLoughborough University , completing his doctorate in record time and being named as Post-Graduate Student of the Year by theInstitute of Directors . He is a member ofWolfson College, Cambridge External links
* [http://www.cselondon.com/ Centre for Scientific Enterprise Ltd]
* [http://www.nrp.org.uk/ Norwich Research Park]
* [http://www.ctesnet.com/ CTES Programme]
* [http://www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/leaders/default.html Manufacturing Leaders Programme]
* [http://www.magmagroup.eu/ Magma Group]
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