The Big Experiment

Ever wondered how technology start-ups, well, start-up? For most founder entrepreneurs, it is the biggest experiment they'll ever run. Like most experiments, the result isn't known beforehand and it often doesn't work first time. On a bigger scale, how do big tech companies turn innovative science into profit?

Mark Davison interviews founder scientists, executives, investors, communicators, and others in the technology start-up and corporate science ecosystems.

Learn how great ideas turned into thriving businesses (or not) from those who made it happen (or didn't). Get business tips, lessons learned, and life lessons straight from the people who know.

Inspiring, disastrous, funny: hear what life in a science-driven company is really like.

Straight-talking, no nonsense, but conversational style. All technical content is explained for the non-specialist - you don't need a PhD or fluency in jargon and technobabble.

Host

Mark Davison

CEO at Grant Instruments, cryopreservation specialists and one of the world's leading scientific equipment brands and research technology innovators. Awarded LDC Top 50 Most Ambitious CEOs 2023. Former lab scientist gone commercial - a "Sell Biologist". Responsible for a global business and 70 staff in three locations. We design and manufacture precision laboratory instruments that stand the test of time.

Awarded LDC Top 50 Most Ambitious Business Leaders 2023, supported by The Times, which celebrates entrepreneurs growing the UK’s most successful and fast-growing medium-sized firms. Shortlisted for CEO of the Year, Cambridge Independent Science & Technology Awards 2023.