This week's guest is Orla Kelly, Knowledge Exchange and Innovation (KE&I) Collaboration Manager She is based at University of the West of Scotland but works across all 19 of Scotland's higher education institutions.

We talk about

1. What it means to have an entrepreneurial mindset
2. How she moved from academia to industry and back
3. Why it's the small things that make the biggest difference
4. Why KE&I isn't all about the sciences
5. And weighing pigs…honestly!

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