Mark Hosey

West Central Scotland

R&D

These guys don't have a clue!
The vast majority of students enter university with only a vague idea about what they will work as after they've got their degree. Most of them choose their course because they have some vague interest in the subject. When the course is at an end most seek employment but a few, they guys with a real interest in their subject, go on to a post graduate course which perhaps requires some research, i.e. Ph.d's and the like. The vast majority of these have little interest in business, their interest lies in developing the technology, not a business. What the government would be better doing is matching up business graduates with technology graduates who together can form business partnerships. It is naive. no daft, to assume that those with inovative ideas are capable of developing a business in exactly the same way that it's completely bonkers to expect a business graduate to invent and develop a new kind of nuclear reactor, or what ever.
Why is it that everyone assumes their area of expertise is so important that everybody else has to learn it? You don't! You just have to enable the right combination of people to get together, those with the tech know how, those with the business savvy, those with the contacts and those with the money! And universities can only supply two out of four.