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Dr. Ederyn Williams was on born September 21, 1946. Williams is an an academic, commentator, and writer whose work focuses on social presence theory and technology transfer.
Early life and education
Williams is the son of the Welsh academic and television critic Raymond Williams. Throughout his childhood, Williams was a student at the Cambridgeshire High School for Boys. He then attended his father's alma mater, Trinity College, Cambridge, and graduated with a B.A. in Natural Sciences. Williams went on to earn a DPhil in Psychology from the University of Oxford in 1971.
Career
Ederyn Williams was a research assistant in psychology at University College London, Cambridge University and Johns Hopkins University. He then joined British Telecom where he managed businesses in information technology. Dr. Williams was briefly the head of the short-lived games company, Telecomsoft, in the early 1980s.
From 1991 Williams was the Managing Director of Leeds Innovations Ltd. In April 2000, Dr. Williams joined the University of Warwick where he founded an academic department which later became Warwick Ventures Ltd, which branded itself as a technology commercialisation company. Its activities were claimed by Williams to have been adversely affected by the Financial crisis of 2007–08. In April 2010, Williams was awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise Promotion for his role in the development of knowledge transfer from universities to business in the UK. Dr. Williams retired from Warwick Ventures in September 2011.
References
- "Williams, Raymond 1921–1988 | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
- "Warwick Ventures: Technology Transfer and Commercialisation Office of The University of Warwick". warwick.ac.uk. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
- Short, John; Williams, Ederyn, Christie, Bruce (1976). The Social Psychology of Telecommunications. Williams, Ederyn,, Christie, Bruce,. London: Wiley. ISBN 0-471-01581-4.
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- "News Desk - Beyond is brought from the cold". Popular Computing Weekly. 6–12 November 1986. p. 6. Retrieved 20 February 2014.
- Richard Tyler, University spin-off activity collapses, The Daily Telegraph, 21 Dec 2009
- "Queen's Award for Director of Warwick Ventures". PraxisUnico. 21 April 2010. Archived from the original on 25 February 2014. Retrieved 20 February 2014.
- Cara Simpson, Warwick Ventures boss Ederyn Williams wins Queens Award, Coventry Telegraph, 23 April 2010. Accessed 18 November 2015.
- "Warwick Ventures welcomes its new CEO". Warwick University. 23 August 2011. Archived from the original on 20 February 2014. Retrieved 20 February 2014.
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