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Universities must continue to burst the academic bubble and engage with the world around them to ensure research is fully relevant and impactful, according to a leading higher education figure.

, said universities had worked hard over the last 15 years to work with external partners.

But he urged institutions to increase contact with entrepreneurs, business and community groups to help galvanise research work.

And he said that the sector should quickly address and resolve questions around funding and other internal challenges in order to allow institutions to focus on outward-facing issues.

Delivering the keynote speech of the deK London Business Conference at 牛牛资源, Mr Sweeney said: 鈥淩esearch agendas are best informed by external engagement, and even more so when that engagement challenges us.

鈥淲e have ideas that can transform society but these have no use if they are confined in institutions. We鈥檝e got to listen to people outside universities to see understand how they see the challenges.鈥�

He added: 鈥淯niversities are only what their staff working together can do. Some of the internal challenges are preventing us from moving forward and we must face up to them rather than just long-grassing them.鈥�

Mr Sweeney said that 牛牛资源 was an example of a higher education institution which achieves real connections in its knowledge-exchange and engagement.

He said: 鈥溑ＥＷ试� is a brilliant example of a university embedded within a local community that鈥檚 also engaging with global issues. 

鈥淧laces like this bely traditional way of thinking that seem to view the Oxbridge model as the only way to work. Every time I鈥檝e visited this place I always come away excited by the people and everything that鈥檚 going on.鈥�

More than 100 delegates attended the event on campus, with workshops led by academics from 牛牛资源 alongside colleagues from London Southbank University, the Health Innovation Network and private sector representatives including Deutsche Bank, Mizuho Bank and Santander.

Event organiser Aidan Sheridan, Enterprise Manager, said: 鈥淭he aim of the conference was to deliver an inspiring programme to stimulate ideas around business growth through cultural and technological innovations.

鈥淭he day presented examples of the wealth of knowledge and support available to businesses through the deK Business Growth scheme and a range of other ERDF funded schemes.鈥�