Professional summary

Nicholas is responsible for the commercialisation of research from the National Environment Research Council (NERC) sciences to industry: winning funding, project evaluation, innovation pipeline, prototyping, spin-out management and collaborations with SMEs, licensing of intellectual property, patent management and trademarking. 

He has experience in innovation leadership and management, knowledge exchange and technology transfer, commercialization, project management, negotiation and brokering. He has worked as a CEH partnership manager to the Centre for Global Eco-innovation at the University of Lancaster and as a Board member of Oxford Expressions Technology a NERC spin-out company.

Nicholas has more than 25 years’ experience of many aspects of sustainable development work in the private, public and voluntary sectors including working as Innovation Manager, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, as Commercialisation Manager, Natural Environment Research Council, as a Principal Consultant, Sustainable Development: Building Research Establishment and as a Business Innovation Manager at the University of East Anglia.