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Accessing University
Projects and Funding
‘University Challenge’June 24th
Today’s agenda
Knowledge Exchange Wales
Welsh Government Support
Academic Expertise for Business
European Projects
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships
Technology Strategy Board
Knowledge ExchangeWales
The KEW network offers businesses:
• Accelerated access to university business services and R&D expertise;
• Interaction with innovative focused companies;
• Regular business themed events and workshops;
• Opportunities for collaborative R&D with international networks through Global Connect
• Pan Wales and University Collaboration
Business Innovation offers support:• 6 sectors with Innovation Specialists
– ICT, Life Sciences, Creative Industries, Energy and Environment, Manufacturing, Financial and Professional Services
• Innovation Vouchers – up to £10k twice a year!• Manufacturing and Specialist Design Support• R&D Funding Support
– Technical Feasibility– Industrial Research– Experimental Development– Exploitation
• A4B • Enterprise Europe Network
Welsh GovernmentFunding
03000 60 3000
A4B
£30m projects funded in last three years, current
A4B running till March 2013 – 3 key ways for
business to collaborate with HEIs
39 Knowledge Transfer Centres
17 Knowledge Exchange projects
34 Collaborative Industrial Research projects
£0
£5,000,000
£10,000,000
£15,000,000
£20,000,000
£25,000,000
Feasibility
Studies
CIRP KTC KEP ESDF Innovative
Actions
PPOC
Swansea A4B projects
Total A4B Projects
Knowledge Transfer Centres
Networking
Expertise Advice – scoping & evaluation
Projects
Equipment and resources – demos & use
Themed events and workshops
Other A4B projectsKnowledge Exchange Projects
Identifying needs of future collaboration through
themed sandpits
e.g. Care in Business
Collaborative Industrial Research Projects
Working on a specific R&D issue with 2 or more
Welsh companies
e.g. Simulated Design of Fracture Implants
Acuitas Medical, Rockfield Solutions, ABM Trust
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships
1 and 3 year projects
Costs between £20k and £30k
Nationwide
Priority Areas
8 Current Projects at Swansea…..
AFM platform in a controlled
environment
workstation
Benefits to Ruskinn Technology
Benefits to Swansea University
Benefits to the associate
Development of new products to launch into new markets
Additional trained AFM user Exceptional training package (CMI diploma, Prince2 project
management, 3D CAD modelling)
Associate secured sales of £37,500
New research tool Exposure to all areas of the business
KTP budget used to invest in new equipment
Papers based on the KTP work Potential future employment
To design a controlled environment workstation to incorporate an atomic force microscope and deliver the product from concept to final product to market
KTP Example
Brendan Wilson Ruskinn KTP Associate, March 2011
• Specific Calls 2010/2011– Stratified Medicines
– Regenerative medicines
– Tools and Technologies
• SBRI calls
• Technology Innovation Centres – Cell Therapy
• Knowledge Transfer Networks
Technology Strategy Board
EU Projects at Swansea
• European Regional Development Fund– Institute of Life Science– Centre for Nanohealth– Advanced Sustainable Manufacturing Technologies - Astute – Low Carbon Research Institute
• European Social Fund - ESF– Lead Wales –– Knowledge Exchange Skills Scholarships & Access to Masters– Go Wales– Software Alliance Wales– Steels Training Research and Innovations Partnership– Advance Professional Training - Biosciences
Future Funding Environment
• KTPS – reduced in number but now sponsored by MRC and more tech focused!
• FP7 – Calls open
• FP7 – Health call open in July 2011
• TSB – grant for SME innovation upto £25k
• SBRI – DALLAS – assisted living lifestyles at scale July 2011
• Research Council Case Awards
Funding environment is tight – commercial impact needed
Use Existing University projects where eligible
