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Funding for collaborative projects Mark Littlewood Sensors & Instrumentation KTN. Topics Covered. How the KTN can help Funding sources Funding calls Summary Contact details. Sensors & Instrumentation KTN. Managed by:. Funding partners. Supporting partners. How the KTN can help.
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Funding for collaborative projects Mark Littlewood Sensors & Instrumentation KTN
Topics Covered • How the KTN can help • Funding sources • Funding calls • Summary • Contact details
Sensors & Instrumentation KTN Managed by: Funding partners Supporting partners
How the KTN can help • Funded by the Technology Strategy Board. “.. primary aim is not the creation of knowledge - where Government separately invests over £3 billion per annum - but the translation of knowledge into innovation and new and improved products and services.”
How the KTN can help • Building partnerships • Promoting technologies • Highlight funding opportunities • Feedback to government
How the KTN can help • Facts: • Over 2,000 UK Organisations are members of the community ~ 65% market share and growing • 135 Universities are members with 650 separate Research Departments involved in sensing & instrumentation • Raised over £50m of funding for collaborative research • 75 events with over 3,000 attendees organised • Currently 65 different collaborations brokered • 531 company/organisation visits • 6 separate inputs to specific UK Government strategy
Funding Sources • National (Public sector) • Technology Strategy Board • Research councils • National (Private sector) • Wellcome Trust • Regional • RDA’s • Devolved administrations
Funding Calls 1Science driven • BBSRC Industrial Partnership Awards http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/business/collaborative_research/industrial_partnership_awards.html • MRC Industrial Collaboration Award http://www.mrc.ac.uk/Fundingopportunities/Grants/MICA/Specification/MRC005438 • MRC Collaboration grant http://www.mrc.ac.uk/Fundingopportunities/Grants/Collaborationgrant/index.htm
Funding Calls 2 Knowledge transfer driven • STFC PIPSS http://www.scitech.ac.uk/KE/FOpp/PIPSS/Contents.aspx • Knowledge Transfer Partnerships http://www.ktponline.org.uk/
Funding Calls 3Market driven • NIHR i4i Programme • Stream 1 • Feasibility studies - Basic research or innovative use of existing technology • Stream 2 • Applied research – production of a device • Stream 3a • Commercial viability study • Stream 3b • Construction of advanced prototype and business plan for commercial exploitation http://www.nihr-ccf.org.uk/site/programmes/i4i/
Summary • Funding landscape is complex • Many schemes in operation • Broaden access to schemes through multi-disciplinary partners • Use the KTN to help
Questions So come and talk to us about how we can help you Contact 01223 422406 mark.littlewood@qi3.co.uk www.sensorsktn.com