UK Knowledge Transfer Networks

Innovating Europe’s Future

Arnold BlackNetwork Director

Resource Efficiency KTNArnold.black@ctechinnovation.com

www.resource-efficiency.org

What are Knowledge Transfer Networks?

A way to stimulate innovation in the UK’s key technology sectors by promoting collaboration, best practice and knowledge sharing

A means of efficiently using the support mechanisms already available

A way of linking many different organisations - each playing a part in delivering the objectives

What is the Resource Efficiency KTN?• “Resource Efficiency: a concern for the use of all physical resources and materials

used in the production and use cycle, not just the energy input.”• National Conference of State Legislatures, USA

A Technology Strategy Board business support solution delivered through the Technology Programme, sitting within the Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) area

Nationwide team of knowledge transfer managers, supported by a leading-edge, web-based knowledge management platform

Launched 1st March 2006; current membership of c. 3,000, representing over 1,800 organisations

A network-of-networks

Resource Efficiency KTN is just one of a family of 24

(with a combined membership of over 12,000)

Also other KTNs in areas such asIntegrated Pollution Control KTN

• Food Processing KTN• Materials KTN• Sensor and Measurement KTN

• Chemicals KTN

• Modern Built Environment KTN

• But don’t worry sign up to our site (for free) and you’ll be able to access them all (and we can direct you where to go if you’re confused)

Research & Technology themes New technologies and processes that:

• Improve production efficiency - reduced resource consumption• Convert waste streams to new product streams - value from waste• Regenerate resources from waste streams on-site - resource recovery

Total value of Resource Efficiency KTN research projects is currently £25.0M, with ~£10.0M from industry.

Number of collaborating organisations is 120, with 80 companies seeking to directly benefit from these new technologies and processes.

Resource Efficiency KTN and National Industrial Symbiosis Programme

• RE KTN and NISP have a strategic relationship

• NISP do business to business collaborations in the area of waste management and has been quoted as an ETAP ‘exemplar project’

• RE KTN supply NISP/SISP with regional support for innovation solution to difficult waste problems

The five ‘C’s (all of which overlap and are inter-related)

– Culture

– Communication

– Change Management

– Conflict Resolution

– Costs

Culture

Communication

• It is not about the difference in the weather• It is not about the different style of building• It is not just about the heritage

• It is not about Language• It is just not about how good a

communicator you are

Change Management

Conflict Resolution

• Not all change is bad • Not all change has to be disruptive• However change is evitable, it is how you handle

it that is important

• It is not always about the stated problem• You have to be part of the solution not the

problem• You may not always be right

COSTS• The biggest issue and at the bottom of most of

the others

• You will always have to ‘control costs’, they don’t look after themselves

• You will not always ‘win’

Finally - IT’S ALL FREE

Register with the portal

Talk to the team

Use the team and the portal

Collaborate and network! www.resource-efficiency.org

Arnold BlackNetwork Director

Resource Efficiency KTNArnold.black@ctechinnovation.com