2007 Report

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Research and Innovation ServicesNews Highlights

Bath ventures win ‘elevator pitches’June 2006Start-up ventures from SETsquared Centres including Bath’s Innovation Centres presented to prospective investors. Ten of the ventures took part in an ‘Elevator Pitch’ competition – first prize was awarded to ScreenLearning.com and second prize to Visual Information. The ventures came from the Bath and Swindon Innovation Centres respectively.

Workshop attracts Bioengineers from San Diego September 2006Bath hosted a Stem Cells & Bioengineering workshop which brought scientists and clinicians from the SETsquared partnership universities of Bath, Bristol, Southampton and Surrey, together with researchers from the Universities of California San Diego and California Irvine.

IP Group September 2006The University of Bath entered into a long-term partnership with the IP Group, an intellectual property commercialisation company which will assist the university to identify and facilitate the formation of spin-out companies and licensing opportunities with an initial investment fund of £5 million.

Lord Sainsbury at SETsquared Investor Showcase October 2006Over 150 Investors gathered at the Institute of Civil Engineers in London to see funding presentations from new technology and university spin-out companies. The SETsquared Partnership event was hosted by Professor Glynis Breakwell, Vice Chancellor of the University of Bath and the keynote speech was given by Lord Sainsbury.

Welcome to

Research and Innovation Services

“Welcome to this year’s annual report for the University of Bath’s

Research and Innovation Services department. Much has been

achieved this year, including the recent notable success of the

University’s exclusive licensing agreement with the Oxford-based

firm, Prosonix. The agreement will make a new particle engineer-

ing technology commercially available for the first time and is the

result of tremendous effort and teamwork from colleagues in the

Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, and my department’s

Technology Transfer and Legal Services teams.

Elevator Pitch winners with judges

and sponsors

(left to right) Francis Carpenter, Lord Sainsbury,Prof Glynis Breakwell and Dr Malcolm Cross at the SETsquared Investor Event

Dr Malcolm CrossDirector of Research and Innovation Services

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BANTER Business Plan Winner March 2007James Jardella won this year’s student business plan competition, organised by the Students’ Union and BANTER, the undergraduate enterprise society. James Jardella, a second year Mechanical Engineering student, won the competition for his venture which offers gap year students charity work placements in developing countries. James also received an Enterprise Bursary funded from the Careers Service Enterprise Education Venture Fund.

To stimulate and fund more successes like the Prosonix agree-

ment, this year the University entered into a long-term partner-

ship with the IP Group. The IP Group is an intellectual property

commercialisation company which will assist in identifying and

facilitating the formation of spin-out companies and licensing

opportunities with an initial investment fund of £5 million. These

funds add to our financial muscle and are there to back new

business creation opportunities with the investment they need.

Collaboration has also been a major theme this year. Our

Research Support and Development teams has worked with colleagues,

both on campus and through the SETsquared partnership, to identify

research opportunities, assist with funding applications and with project

management. Meanwhile we have been proactively reaching out to

industrial partners to establish Commercial Collaboration opportunities.

Undoubtedly it is the taste of these early successes combined

with the promise of much more to come in the future that keeps the

Research and Innovation Services team motivated and focused on our

goals ahead.”

KTP National Managers’ Conference November 2006The University of Bath was selected by the KTP National Forum to host the Knowledge Transfer Partnership National Managers’ Conference 2006 at the Assembly Rooms in Bath. The conference attracted 143 delegates from 74 Universities and 9 public sector organisations.

SETsquared Seeks Wireless Opportunities December 2006The SETsquared partnership organised a workshop to identify wireless collaborative research opportunities which involved Bath academics from the departments of Computer Science and Electronic and Electrical Engineering, along with other SETsquared Partnership academics and delegates from the Universities of California San Diego and California Irvine.

Prosonix Licence Deal February 2007A new particle engineering technology developed in the Department of Pharmacy & Pharmacology was made commercially available thanks to an exclusive agreement between the University of Bath and the Oxford-based firm Prosonix Limited.

James Jardella offers charity work in Bolivia

David Cockayne, Head of Knowledge Transfer Partnership and Consultancy Services

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… and with Institutions

Funded by the DTI’s Science Bridges programme, the SETsquared partnership and Universities of California San Diego and California Irvine collaborated to run a workshop on Stem Cells and Bioengineering, held in Bath. Jenni Solbe, from Research and Innovation Services worked with the academics across the participating institutions to put together an exciting programme which included sessions on regeneration of neural, vascular and musculoskeletal tissues, as well as underpinning technologies such as stem cells, biomaterials and bioreactors. Following on from the workshop, collaborative research relationships have been developed and six research projects have been awarded UK/US research ‘pump priming’ grants of £20,000 each.

• Spinal cord repair -- Julian Chaudhuri, Marianne Ellis, Lisa Flanagan (UCI)

• A Novel Strategy to Prevascularize Engineered Bone for Reconstructive Applications in Regenerative Medicine -- Andrew Putnam (UCI), Richard Oreffo (Southampton), Julian Chaudhuri, Marianne Ellis

Research Support & Development Research Support and Development teams are informed by academic priorities and work in partnership with colleagues to identify research opportunities, provide support in applying for funding and support with project management. The team’s Research and Innovation Managers work in the areas of Engineering & Physical Sciences, Life Sciences, Health, and Humanities & Social Sciences.

Supporting Major BidsA new Sino-UK academic collaboration provides over £200,000 funding to encourage China to adopt more environ-mentally-friendly policies and cut its rapidly growing green-house gas emissions.

Dr Wang lead the collaboration with Professor Raj Aggarwal, head of the Electrical Power & Energy Systems Group at the University of Bath, one of the UK’s leading university-based groups specialising in electric power engineering research. Research and Innovation Services’ Jon Hunt had a significant input into preparing the final proposal to the EPSRC.

The collaboration has been set up because China’s exploding economy is creating one of the world’s biggest environmental threats. If its growth remains uncontrolled, the amount of car-bon dioxide emissions it produces will negate any cuts made by other countries.

The UK founder members include representatives from seven universities . Chinese members include the leading engineer-ing research universities in China, and representatives from the country’s two largest electric power research institutes, the China EPRI and the NARI Group.

“Interact 4, the new network, will act as a bridge between the power industries in the two countries and will focus on fast-tracking policy decisions to make China less of a polluting country,” said Dr Haifeng Wang.

Working with Researchers Vanessa Cuthill, Research and Innovation Manager has been working with the next generation of researchers seeking their first postdoctoral awards. Monica Guillen-Royo and Jessie Wu (Social & Policy Sciences), and Wen-Chuan Lin (Education) have all secured coveted post doctoral fellowships, to develop their research ideas, publish in journals, and disseminate their research through international conferences and other, non-academic events.

Mid-career researchers Dr Sarah Riley (Psychology) and Dr Ana Dinerstein (Social & Policy Sciences), have been actively supported by Vanessa throughout the planning of their research projects resulting in valuable external funding being awarded. Ana’s project, part of the ESRC’s programme on Non-Governmental Public Action, was funded to research the broad range of formal and informal groups concerned with poverty reduction and social transformation. Sarah’s project on social identity and political participation in dance culture is of broad appeal since a quarter of a million people in the UK attend a dance culture event each week.

Senior researchers have been active in seeking funding for a whole range of projects and dissemination activities, and Vanessa has been working closely with them to identify suitable funders, collaborators, and also to project manage the application process. Recent successes include funding to support Professor Bill Brooks.

Life Sciences: Building Relationships with Business Research and Innovation Services hosted a conference on Drug Discovery which attracted industry speakers from AstraZeneca, Elli Lilly and Novartis. This followed its successful Tissue Regeneration conference earlier in the year. These events build relationships between the university and business, providing companies with an opportunity to showcase their programmes and current areas of interest, and academics with the opportunity to present emerging areas of research.

Professor Bill Brooks,European Studies & Modern Languages

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… and with Institutions

Funded by the DTI’s Science Bridges programme, the SETsquared partnership and Universities of California San Diego and California Irvine collaborated to run a workshop on Stem Cells and Bioengineering, held in Bath. Jenni Solbe, from Research and Innovation Services worked with the academics across the participating institutions to put together an exciting programme which included sessions on regeneration of neural, vascular and musculoskeletal tissues, as well as underpinning technologies such as stem cells, biomaterials and bioreactors. Following on from the workshop, collaborative research relationships have been developed and six research projects have been awarded UK/US research ‘pump priming’ grants of £20,000 each.

• Spinal cord repair -- Julian Chaudhuri, Marianne Ellis, Lisa Flanagan (UCI)

• A Novel Strategy to Prevascularize Engineered Bone for Reconstructive Applications in Regenerative Medicine -- Andrew Putnam (UCI), Richard Oreffo (Southampton), Julian Chaudhuri, Marianne Ellis

• Scale up of Cartilage tissue engineering – Anthony Hollander (Bristol), Bo Su (Bristol), Robert Sah (UCSD), Julian Chaudhuri (Bath), Marianne Ellis (Bath)

• Microarray Platform to Optimise the Combinatorial Microenvironments for Controlling ESC Growth and Differentiation – Shu Chien (UCSD), Melanie Welham (Bath), Tracy Melvin (Southampton)

• Systems biology of endothelial cells and stem cells – Paolo Maddedu (Bristol), Emanueli Costanza (Bristol), Mark Mercola (Burnham/UCSD), Shankar Subramanian (UCSD)

• Dielectrophoresis-A potential biomarker for stem cells – Fatima Labeed (Surrey), Mike Hughes (Surrey), Richard Oreffo (Southampton), Peter Donovan (UCI), Abraham Lee (UCI), Lisa Flanagan (UCI)

‘Pump priming’ grants awarded

Research Support Unit:Record Year

In the University’s last financial year over 700 applications to external research funders, totaling £112 million, were dealt with by the Research Support Unit. 370 awards were accepted by RSU in the same period, amounting to over £29 million of research funding (compared with £21 million received in the previous year). The size of grants varies from small travel grants of a few hundred pounds to major projects worth millions, some involving collaboration with other universities and industry. In addition, the Department of Mechanical Engineering was awarded a £7.3 million EPSRC Innovative Manufacturing Research Centre (IMRC) grant in June 2006, to continue work started with an earlier successful IMRC award. The University’s total portfolio of research grants stood at £87 million in July 2006.’

EventsIn January this year the Research Support Unit hosted an UKRO day event to introduce FP7. Andrew Smith, who is the South West European Adviser for the UK Research Office (UKRO) gave a morning presentation on the overview and key programmes within FP7. This was followed by an afternoon surgery session. The event attracted 64 attendees.

Professor Julian ChaudhuriChemical Engineering

Sino – UK Bid to examine environmentally sustainable power

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Commercial Collaboration The University works extensively with commercial partners in collaborative research activities on projects supported by industry and by the UK Government and the EU. The commercial collaboration team provides contract and project management support for projects ranging from identifying funding, developing bids and consultancy opportunities through to Knowledge Transfer Partnerships.

TRiBECA takes second KTP Award-winning communications agency, TRiBECA specialises in knowledge based services that help to motivate, inform and train its blue-chip and government organisation clients.

TRiBECA had already identified eLearning as a key part of its strategy as a result of their first KTP programme in marketing. This second KTP programme focused on developing a new eLearning service based around market analysis and building on best practice from education and industry.

During the KTP programme, the company was able to grow its established customer base by adding new services and products. The company gained expertise in the field of eLearning and information communication technologies (ICT). This new expertise was quickly transferred into many of the company’s services and products, improving their existing portfolio of knowledge products and deepening the range of services offered to their clients.

Business RoadshowResearch and Innovation Services has been ‘on the road’ during the last year actively expanding our research, business and public sector contacts through events, networks and exhibitions.

KTP Regional Seminar, Bath

May 2006

Presentations on KTP programmes provided valuable experience to Associates. The

conference shared best practice and provided an excellent event for those in the KTP

community to network.

Silicon South West:

Bath, Bristol & Swindon

The Silicon South West Network has been established

to promote the electronics sector in the South West, across the UK and in key

markets around the world.

Farnborough Airshow, July 2006

The Research and Innovation Services team was joined by

academics at this leading aerospace show

CBI Innovation & Collaboration, Airbus Bristol,

October 06

Professor Gary Hawley presented with Qinetiq.

Tribeca filming for training

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Consultancy with Rolls Royce: building on research expertise

Rolls-Royce plc has awarded SMS Consultants in Mechanical Engineering two consultancy contracts to investigate the potential of a new non-destructive evaluation (NDE) technique, thermoson-ics, for the inspection of gas turbine engine components. This work started as an EPSRC funded research project involving Bath and Imperial College with industrial sponsorship from Rolls-Royce, Airbus, BNFL and DSTL. The research investigated the parameters that need to be controlled to make the thermosonic technique a rapid and effective means of detecting defects, such as cracks in engineering components like turbine blades, which could enable more cost-effective engine maintenance.

Rolls-Royce needed to have exhaustive tests made to ensure that the new technique was able to reliably detect any critical defects present. They have chosen SMS Consultants to perform these tests on a large number of Rolls-Royce components, making use of the thermosonic testing equipment and expertise developed during the research project. Justin Furness, Consultancy Services Manager said, “Consultancy like this provides a cost-effective solution to problems, drawing on the extensive knowledge, skills and expertise that are available at Bath.” This close consultancy collaboration between the University and Rolls Royce plc is an early success of the UK Research Centre in NDE. This type of work is a vital step towards new inspection technologies in an industrial environment.

CBI Innovation & Collaboration, Airbus Bristol,

October 06

Professor Gary Hawley presented with Qinetiq.

Winner of Winners Final,

Sports Training Village, University of Bath,

November 2006

The University of Bath hosted a three-way contest with the

Universities of Bristol and the West of England to decide which of their award-winning business ideas most deserved the title

of Winner of Winners 2006

KTP National Managers’ Conference, Assembly Rooms, Bath

November, 2006

University of Bath hosted the KTP National Managers’ Conference 2006

at the Assembly Rooms in Bath. A Civic Reception took place in the Roman Baths with the conference

dinner In the Pump Rooms.

WEAF Conference,

Winter Pavilion, Weston Super Mare

Jan 2007

Promoting the interests of local aerospace companies, particularly small and medium-size enterprises

in the South West.

Sector by Sector: Aerospace and Energy

Collaborative research with businesses requires an in-depth understanding of their sector. To address this need for information, interaction and project management, David Allen for Aerospace and Dr Miles Davis for Energy joined Research and Innovation Services this year. Funded by the South West Regional Development Agency they will bring together the University’s expertise and experience and support South West businesses.

Research and Innovation Services also markets the University with brochures, flyers, events and workshops. Other areas promoted include Sports, Electronics and Bioengineering.

Airbus A330

New Business Creation

Prosonix Licence Deal: Taking Research to MarketA new particle engineering technology developed in the Department of Pharmacy & Pharmacology is to be made commercially available thanks to an exclusive agreement between the University of Bath and the Oxford-based firm Prosonix Limited. Alison Evans, Technology Transfer Manager with Research and Innovation Services, worked closely with Dr Robert Price of Pharmacy and Pharmacology to negotiate the licence agreement with the guidance of Kerena Green and Clarissa

Bell of the Legal Services team.

The Solution, Atomisation and Crystallization by Sonication (SAX) technology, offers the potential for significant improvements to current methods of producing the particles that form the key ingredients of some medicines. For example, SAX can be used to produce particles with a uniquely spherical shape, which greatly improves the efficiency with which they are delivered to a site of therapeutic action.

These types of improvement could have significant benefits for the production of inhaled medicines, such as those used in asthma inhalers, where it is important that drug particles are rapidly absorbed from the lungs into the bloodstream.

Prosonix CEO David Hipkiss said: “We are delighted to have signed this agreement and be working in partnership with Dr Price and the University of Bath in this strategically important area.We believe the SAX technology has world-beating potential in allowing pharmaceutical companies to engineer particles ‘to order’ with the optimum crystal morphology and formulation performance.” Dr Malcolm Cross said: “The partnership with Prosonix offers a great opportunity to take a technology developed by academics at the University from the laboratory into the marketplace and adds to the growing portfolio of business opportunities we are progressing.”

Research and Innovation Services’ New Business Creation team actively promotes commercial opportunities. Working with staff and students, the team offers business support and legal guidance on opportunities to licence intellectual property to existing companies and sets up new companies.

The Royal Society’s £185,000 Brian Mercer Award for Innovation was given to Dr Semali Perera to help develop nano-porous fibres technology to a stage where it has proven its commercial viability. The technology may be able to trap volatile hydrocarbons and other gases so they can be removed from the air flow. Early trials of the technology have shown that it uses less than five per cent of the energy needed by the cleaning processes currently used in industry. “It is great to have won such a prestigious award that will help us take this technology forward,” said Dr Semali Perera, who developed

Royal Society awards £185,000 to nano-porous fibre technology

Dr Malcolm Cross and Prosonix CEO David Hipkiss

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Securing Funding & Support for Commercial Opportunities Research and Innovation Services’ New Business Creation team has helped secure thousands of pounds of investment, grants and support to commercialise university research.

Dr Semali Perera, Chemical Engineering

Innovation Centres: Good Year for GraduationsThis year the University of Bath’s Innovation Centres have seen a record number of ventures graduating, with funding for expansion. Semiconductor design company SiConnect recently moved to Swindon’s Delta Business Park after spending eighteen months at the Swindon Innovation Centre. The company’s CEO Trevor Sokell said: “The Innovation Centre gave us great facilities to help get the business off the ground and the flexibility to grow during the crucial first stage of our development.” In September, SiConnect announced it had secured investment of £2.8m from existing investors Esprit Capital Partners, TTP Ventures and Dow Venture Fund.

David Tester, founder of Air Semiconductor, joined the Innovation Centre with a leading-edge idea for developing a new semiconductor, or micro-electronic component, for mobile phones. Through the Innovation Centre the company was introduced to Pond Ventures, the venture capital fund which subsequently made an investment in the company. Air Semiconductor is quick to acknowledge the role played by the Innovation Centre in the company’s success. “It provided the company with an ideal environment to get started in. In the early days it meant there were a whole set of concerns that we didn’t have to worry about. Of course the highest value was the introduction to investors,” said David.

Siconnect and Air Semiconductor join companies Exabre, Ubiquisys, and Mirifice who have also recently graduated from the Innovation Centres with funding.

IP Group: Substantial FundIn September 2006 the IP Group and the University of Bath entered into a long-term partnership to identify and facilitate the formation of spin-out companies and to invest an initial fund of £5 million in such

companies in return for equity stakes. The partnership also enables the IP Group to work on licensing opportunities across the University.

Professor Glynis Breakwell, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bath, said: “We are pleased to have signed this agreement with IP Group which has had considerable success to date in commercialising opportunities in collaboration with its university partners.Bath has a strong track record of commercialising its research and this agreement will not only provide additional expertise in this area but will also offer alternative routes to market.”

Dr Malcolm Cross said: “We have a thriving enterprise culture at the University of Bath. Working with IP Group will help to further innovation from the University of Bath’s top research into the marketplace.

“To date, two University of Bath spin-out companies have been floated on the Alternative Investment Market, and another two spin-out companies have been acquired by multinational companies.”

Alan Aubrey, Chief Executive of IP Group, commented: “We are excited to have signed this agreement with Bath which brings the total number of our academic partners in the UK to nine.”

the technology with research officer Chin Chih Tai in the Department of Chemical Engineering.

“I have been very impressed by the support that Dave Coleman has provided both in helping to secure this award, and more generally in advising on the commercial direction for our research,” said Dr Perera. “Commercialisation of this technology would not have been possible without Research and Innovation Services’ assistance in the filing of pat-ent applications that cover our developments.”

Royal Society awards £185,000 to nano-porous fibre technology

Enterprise Development FundsThe Enterprise Development Fund (EDF) has been established to provide financial support to academics at the very early stages of turning an idea into a workable proposition for a commercial or social enterprise. Projects funded so far:

• SETsquared Stem Cell project Awarded £5,000 contribution for SETsquared Stem Cell Market Analysis• Proteomics - £18,988• Ovarian Cancer Diagnostic Tool - £20k• Hydrogen Storage Device - £17,625• Novel Speaker Technology - £15k awarded for proof of concept (technical development).• Optical Waveform Synthesisor - £35,350 for proof of concept (technical development)• NAADP Analogues - Awarded additional £15,000 for continued synthesis of drug-like NAADP analogues• Development of novel lead compounds for cystic fibrosis - £18,375• Technical development of methods for detection and analysis of nitrosylation - £19,698 • Sbi - a novel anti-inflammatory agent, biology & biochemistry - £19,270

Alan Aubrey, Chief Executive, IP Group

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Enterprise Education Research and Innovation Services encourages and supports enterprise activity across the whole university providing a range of training programmes and opportunities for staff, researchers, postgraduates and undergraduates – training includes all aspects of starting and developing a new business venture.

The University of Bath hosted a three-way contest with the Universities of Bristol and the West of England to decide which of their award-winning business ideas most deserved the title of Winner of Winners 2006. The competition was sponsored by Knowledge West, a consortium of six local Universities and Business Link. Together with sponsorship from the three universities they offered a top prize of £10,000 for the brightest business idea.

All three universities run individual business plan competitions to encourage a spirit of enterprise among their students, alumni and staff. Six of the best and brightest ideas competed for the top title.

The six teams’ ideas ranged from an efficient, secure alternative to home delivery for online shoppers, to a counselling and advice information portal for students in the South West. After the

Consultancy training for academicsIn a series of four seminars, Justin Furness from Research and Innovation Services along with Simon Inger from Staff Development and Professor Gary Hawley, provided training for academic colleagues in consultancy working. Subjects discussed were: intellectual property rights, risk and liability. The seminar encouraged staff to consider whether they have skills or knowledge that could be the basis of consultancy. The seminar also provided a briefing on the support available from Research and Innovation Services for Consultancy, particularly on practical skills such as negotiation and client relationships.

Student enterprise conference BANTER and the Students’ Union organised their second national student enterprise conference - following on from the success of Student Enterprise ‘05. There was a full programme of speakers, workshops and enterprise activities followed by an evening reception at the Roman Baths. The enterprise activity in the Student’s Union has exposed 100s of students in Bath and across the country to enterprise and entrepreneurial workshops, seminars, conferences as well as introduced many to a network of business mentors and investors.

Norway trip to develop the Student Business Plan CompetitionWith support from Research and Innovation Services and the Enterprise Education Venture Fund two students from the Bath Entrepreneur’s society, BANTER travelled to Norway to attend a conference that will help develop the University’s Student Business Plan Competition in the future.

Bokani Tshidzu and Adam Gundry with Siobain Hone, Student Enterprise Co-Ordinator in the Students’ Union, travelled to the MIT $100K Global Start-up Workshop, where they picked up tips on how the Business Plan Competition, for 2007/2008 can be developed.

UniversityChallenge

winner of winners

competition

Bokani Tshidzu and Adam Gundry with Siobain Hone, Student Enterprise Co-Ordinator in the Students’ Union

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BANTER business plan competitionBANTER and the Students’ Union organised a business plan competition for all Bath undergraduates, postgradu-ates and alumni. The competition was organised over three rounds with business seminars and networking sessions available throughout the competition. This year’s winner James Jardella, a second year mechanical engi-neering student and previous recipient of the enterprise bursary, won the 2007 Student Business Plan Competition for his social enterprise which allows gap year students priced-out of ‘package holiday’ volunteer placements to do charity work in a developing country

entrants had presented their ideas, the judging panel awarded the prize to Sensagest Ltd, University of Bristol. They have a unique state-of-the-art nurse call system that can be operated by people with minimal hand movement. The device will be connected to a small wearable computer which will relay an alert to a pager carried by a nurse or care worker. The device will be programmable to enable easier communication and control other devices near the bedside.

Student enterprise bursaries£30,000 has been provided by Research and innovation Services from the Enterprise Education Venture Fund to the Careers Service which has funded 22 students enterprise bursaries. The purpose of the bursaries is to develop the employability and entrepreneurial skills of students. This year’s business plan competition winner had previously received a bursary to support his social enterprise idea, which will provide advice on volunteering overseas during gap years.

Enterprise Sabbaticals Professor Laurie Peters has been funded by the Enterprise Education Venture Fund for his sabbatical post in Atlas Genetics the recent University of Bath spin-out. Dr Fossey a research fellow in Chemistry has been funded through the Enterprise Development Fund, his current research looks at novel markets for cancer research.

University of BathResearch Income

Research Councils £17.1

EU Govt & Other £4.2

UK Based Charities £2.3

UK Government & Other £1.9

UK Industry £1.4

Total: £26.9

This year’s top industrial partnersand collaborators

Knowledge West’s Fern Urquart, and winner Ian Anderson with competition judge Peter Mcarthy.

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