innovate uk – emerging technologies seminar: knowledge transfer partnerships
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Knowledge Transfer
Partnerships
Ken Frame
KTP Regional Adviser
What is KTP?
Europe’s leading knowledge transfer programme helping
businesses to improve their competitiveness, productivity and
performance through the better use of knowledge, technology
and skills that reside within the UK knowledge base.
KTP is about
knowledgetransferred, exchanged,
embedded & exploited
KTP ... A strategic business project
KTP delivers the business plan ambitions for the business through
the partnership, achieved collaboratively
KTP ... a partnership over several years
In reality, the project’s lifecycle will present challenges to be managed
and solved together.
The pre-submission co-creation phase is vital
to create the partnership and ensure mutual trust and agreed deliverables
The KTP Framework
More competitive, wealth
creating business
Well developed
‘manager of future’
New Commercial
Experience/knowledge,
Research, Teaching,
Papers, Placements etc
Transfer &
‘embedding’
of knowledge
Co-creation
Vital Knowledge
transferred
Co-creating, collaborative
partnership
University/RTO
Has it got the missing knowledge?
Can it benefit from the project?
Business
Can it afford it?
Project supports business plan?
Can it exploit project?
Can it develop Associate?
Associate
What skills are needed?
Will they be stretched?
Business has strategic needs to address(solving problems, realising opportunities)
Fundamentally, there is vital
knowledge missing
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Idea
concrete;
application
determined
Demonstrator
performs
Idea
developed
Prototype/
demo
developed
Product prepared
for (serial)
production
Product
Development
Design/Develop Develop/ProductionResearch
Product &
associated
processes
mature
KTP
Technology Readiness Level (TRL)
KTP: Technology Readiness Level
KTP Funding Partners
Impact:
• Financial;
• Embedded new capabilities.
Innovation:
• Companies to become a leader in the field, best in class;
• Develop the university’s commercial relevance.
Challenge:
• The practices of the company & the market(s) it operates within;
• The academic team to translate research into commercial capability;
• Associate’s accelerated career development with the potential to become a
‘Business Leader’ of the Future
What do we look for in a good KTP Project?
Business Benefits
Benefits to partners - 5 year average 2011-2016
• Over the past 5 years each partnerships have benefitted from an average:
• £60k increase in pre-tax profit during the lifetime of the project
• £600k per annum increase in pre-tax profit for the 3 years following completion of the project
• £650k per annum increase in exports for the 3 years following completion of the project
• Invested £300k in plant and machinery
• Invested £160k in further research and development
• Created 2 new jobs
• Trained 20 staff
• 4 new research projects initiated
• 2 papers published in refereed journals
• 2 of other articles published
Associate Benefits
Outcomes per £1M invested – 5 yr average 2011-16
Over the past 5 years for every £1m of funding invested partnerships have
returned on average:
• £700k increase in pre-tax profit during the lifetime of the project
• £8m per annum increase in pre-tax profit for the 3 years following completion
of the project
• £8m per annum increase in exports for the 3 years following completion of the
project
• Invested £3.7m in plant and machinery
• Invested £1.8m in further research and development
• Created 25 new jobs
• Trained 250 staff
Case Studies
Case Studies
KTP Aim: To develop unique sentiment-mining techniques, utilising cloud-based parallel/multi-core processing resources, to increase data-scaling across multiple data-centres, databases and processing engines.
RepKnight Limited: provide real-time cyber intelligence to keep people, companies and assets safe from internal and external threats.
Ulster University
• School of Computing & Mathematics
KTP Aim: Use data analysis technology to give motor insurance underwriters a clearer driver risk profile.
Autoline Insurance Group: offer a broad range of
insurance, mortgage and financial products to
both personal and business clients across
Northern Ireland, as well as the broader UK
market.
Queen’s University Belfast:
• The School of Electronics, Electrical
Engineering & Computer Science
Case Studies
Autoline Insurance
Projects from
12 to 36
months long
Partnership
between a UK
business & a
UK university
Acquire new
knowledge which is
firmly & sustainably
embedded in the
business
Apply any time;
high funding
approval rate
Achieve the
strategic
ambitions of the
company
Commercial career
acceleration &
potential to employ
the associate
afterwards
Funding,
structure &
ongoing
support
WIN-WIN-WIN
Benefits for all
partners
“The scheme is excellent value for money and is a great way to boost your ability to innovate” Stefan Cherry, Business Development Director, Cherry Pipes Ltd
Knowledge
exchange:
academics gain
commercial
experience
Co-creation, open
innovation and
high impact
collaboration
Thank you
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