Transcript Welcome To The Sensors & Instrumentation Knowledge

Funding for
collaborative projects
Mark Littlewood
Sensors & Instrumentation
KTN
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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
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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 1
Science driven
• BBSRC Industrial Partnership Awards
http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/business/collaborative_research/industrial_partnership_awar
ds.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 3
Market 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 multidisciplinary partners
• Use the KTN to help
Questions
So come and talk to us
about how we can help
you
Contact
01223 422406
[email protected]
www.sensorsktn.com