Business Innovation Forum
The Business Innovation Forum provides advice on implementation of the UK Innovation Strategy and innovation policy.
Purpose
The Business Innovation Forum (BIF) was announced in the UK Innovation Strategy: building the future by creating it to support the strategy’s implementation and help shape innovation policy.
The BIF will galvanise action from the business community through effective communications, drive implementation of the Innovation Strategy where appropriate and hold government to account to ensure that policies are embedded in a way that is most impactful for business, and identify where new policy may support innovation objectives as set out in the strategy.
Membership
Members include representatives from UK R&D intensive businesses and organisations with strong ties to innovation and business, and innovation experts.
| Member | Body |
|---|---|
| Dr Hayaatun Sillem (Chair) | Royal Academy of Engineering – CEO |
| Indro Mukerjee | Innovate UK – CEO |
| Sue Daley | techUK - Director, Technology and Innovation |
| Prof. Spencer Salter | Jaguar Land Rover –Director and Chief Technical Specialist for Engineering Research |
| Kevin Holland | Inspiromics Ltd - Director |
| Stephen Ingledew | FinTech Scotland – Executive Chairman |
| Oonagh McGill | AstraZeneca UK - Business Unit Director, Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolic |
| Tom Hebbert | Tesco - Innovation Director |
| Brian McCaul | Queen’s University, Belfast - Director of Innovation; Qubis Ltd - CEO |
| Alan Lewis | Microsoft - General Manager, UK Public Sector |
| Angela Naef, PhD | Reckitt – Chief Research & Development Officer |
| Zoe Reich | Octopus Ventures - Venture Partner |
| Richard Slater | Unilever – Chief R&D Officer |
| Prof. Mark Spearing | University of Southampton – Vice-President, Research and Enterprise |
| Dr Ilana Wisby | Oxford Quantum Circuits Ltd – CEO |