Profile

Sylke Thomas
SETsquared - Innovation Advisor
Science Park Centre F02
Office hours: My usual office hours are Monday and Tuesday 9.00 – 17.00 and Wednesday 9.00 – 13.15.
Overview
In her role as Innovation Advisor Sylke provides support and guidance to scale-up companies to accelerate their growth, by developing collaborative R&D partnerships with academics.
Sylke is part of the Scale-Up Programme, run by SETsquared and is responsible for establishing and managing partnerships between academics and SMEs. This includes identifying and promoting funding opportunities, highlighting the university's research strenghts and capabilities to industry and to assist researchers at the University of Exeter to engage with businesses in the SETsquared Scale-Up Programme and work closely with the SETsquared sector managers to make the University of Exeter research community aware of the research development and innovation potential of these businesses.