Notes · reflections from advisory practice
Selected reflections on responsible AI, innovation translation and ecosystem impact.
Short, occasional pieces — drawn from advisory work and longer-form thinking originally published on LinkedIn. Not a blog. A small set of notes that explain how Meriva Impact thinks about technology, products, markets and adoption.
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Five years at the forefront of innovation
A personal reflection on five years leading new mobility technologies at Connected Places Catapult — what worked, what was hard, and what carries forward into the next chapter.
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Innovation funding is not the same as market adoption
Why funded trials do not automatically become adopted products — and why SMEs, funders, Tier 1 suppliers and end customers need a stronger bridge between innovation outputs and real-world adoption.
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Responsible AI needs translation, not just principles.
Why principles documents alone don't move adoption — and what translation between research, product and end-user actually involves in practice.
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From research to impact: pull-through matters more than push.
Why "demonstrated" is not the same as "adopted," and how to design a research programme so that industry pull-through is built in from the start.
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Adapted from longer-form posts originally published on LinkedIn. Edited and lightly expanded for the website.
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