The salutary tale of a failed research grant proposal

Or the ingrained commercial snobbery and sabotaging prejudice of structurally rigged UK academic funding

In this instalment of my salutary tales exposing systemic failings of British academia (who was I kidding when I said if I had to pick one crystallising incident), my experience of a grant proposal perfectly encapsulates the antipathy and disdain ivory tower academics have for commercial organisations. Especially small companies started by their own ent…