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Ederyn Williams (born 1946)[month/date?] is a retired academic and commentator on technology transfer. He is the son of the Welsh academic, novelist and television critic Raymond Williams,[add Ederyn Williams, son born 1946 to page to redirect back]  and edited the second edition (1990) of his father's book 'Television: Technology and Cultural Form'' (first published 1974). [add citation] In 1976 he was a joint author of The Social Psychology of Telecommunications, a text of social presence theory.[need citation]''

After seven years as a psychology Research Assistant at University College London, Cambridge University and Johns Hopkins University, he joined British Telecom where he managed businesses in information technology, and was briefly the head of the short-lived games company Telecomsoft in the early 1980s.

From 1991 he was the Managing Director of the now-defunct Leeds Innovations Ltd., and in April 2000 he "jumped ship" [sounds bias and should be removed] and joined the University of Warwick where he founded an academic department technology transfer office which later became Warwick Ventures, a soi-disant technology commercialisation company. [add citation] He retired from Warwick Ventures in September 2011. [not chronological: move this 2011 sentence before "however, since February 2018] Its activities were claimed by Williams to have been adversely affected by the Financial crisis of 2007–08. However, since February 2018, Warwick Ventures has once again re-branded itself as an academic department within the University of Warwick [not chronological: moved after sentence  "its activities were claimed"] 

Accolades
In April 2010 he 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.

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Education
MA - University of Cambridge

PhD - University of Oxford