Are Patents the Beating Heart of your Boardroom?

By Ian Harvey, Chief Executive Officer of BTG plc and Chairman of the Government's Intellectual Property Advisory Committee

Ian Harvey is the CEO of BTG, a global technology commercialisation company. He is also Chairman of both the Intellectual Property Institute and the DTI's Intellectual Property Advisory Committee. He joined BTG in 1985 as Chief Executive having spent 10 years with Vickers and Laporte Industries and seven years with the World Bank. Between 1988 and 1993 he served as a member of the Prime Minister's Advisory Council on Science and Technology.

Ian is a Fellow of Nottingham University (1994), and a Member of the Advisory Panel for Science and Technology Policy Research of Sussex University (SPRU) since 1989. He has an MA in Mechanical Sciences from Cambridge University and an MBA from Harvard University.