Knowledge exchange and increased business-university collaboration will be the focus of this year’s Cambridge-MIT Institute’s National Competitiveness Network Summit taking place today at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre.

With more than 400 delegates the Summit is organised jointly with the Scottish Institute for Enterprise and it will bring together business leaders, policymakers and academics who will discuss knowledge exchange, university and industrial linkages and boosting competitiveness in the UK economy.

Speakers have been selected from small and large businesses, universities and regional and national government and they will share insights on models of knowledge exchange and ways of improving university-industry links.

Lord Sainsbury of Turville, Permanent Under Secretary of State for Science, Department of Trade and Industry will be the keynote speaker.

Dr Andy Cosh, Prof. Richard Lester and Prof. Alan Hughes will discuss findings from their CMI project, International Innovation in Benchmarking and the Determinants of Business Success.

Dr Steve Koonin, Chief Scientist with BP plc, and Ms Beatrice Leigh, member of the EPSRC and ex-GSK Director, will lead a session on Global Business and Knowledge Exchange.

John Chiplin, Chief Executive, ITI Life Sciences, and David Cleevely, ex Chairman of Analysys Mason Group Ltd, will lead a session on knowledge exchange with high-tech small and medium enterprises.

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