Ederyn Williams

Ederyn Williams (born 21 September 1946) is the former head of a university department in Coventry in the United Kingdom specialising in business studies. [[]]. He is the son of the famous Professor of Drama Raymond Williams. In 1976 he was a joint author of The Social Psychology of Telecommunications, which had many similar thes as the Isaac Asimov Novel, the Naked Sun.

After seven years research at University College London, Cambridge University and Johns Hopkins University, he joined British Telecom where he managed businesses in information technology, and was the head of the games company Telecomsoft during the 1980s.

From 1991 he was the Managing Director of University of Leeds Innovations Ltd., and in April 2000 he joined the University of Warwick where he founded a department which later became Warwick Ventures, a technology commercialisation company. By 2006 Warwick Ventures had spun out more than 30 companies having secured over £8 million from the Higher Education Funding Council for England, and in that year Williams won the West Midlands Knowledge Transfer Champion Award.

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. He retired from Warwick Ventures in September 2011.