BITECIC – a Yorkshire Forward-supported Centre of Industrial Collaboration in Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering.

3 year tapered funding support 2003-6.

Business Model: Research & Development services to Industry, primarily in the Y&H region, managed externally with resource provided from within the WRUs (Sheffield, Leeds, York).

Offices at Thorpe Park, Leeds.

5 FTEs

BITECIC also works in the Objective 1 region of S Yorkshire: Key priorities are:

Targeting new and high technology business sectors Modernising existing businesses Building a world-leading learning region Providing economic opportunities for targeted communities Funding for strategic sites and urban centres Addressing financial and transport constraints to economic growth

Regional technology policies are universally supportive of our activities:

Cluster strategy: inherently multidisciplinary:

• Food & Drink

• Chemicals

• Advanced Engineering & Metals

• Digital Industries

• Bioscience

• Environmental Technologies

• Healthcare Technologies

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Academic Capabilities

Industrial Needs

•Large Multinationals•SMEs•New startups

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• Incremental improvements in cost, features or performance of a given product

• Work that guarantees some advantage over a competitor

• Work that allows a given company to reach a place where someone else already is

• Work that a company requires to be held as proprietary

• Work on platform products that provide some competitive advantage

• Work on existing, successful products or their immediate successors

• SHORTER TERM

• Overcomes basic obstacles preventing commercial application

• Understand the fundamentals of new technologies or materials

• Aimed at providing the tools, information, and data that enables development of new products

• Offers equal benefit to all

• No barriers to publication

• Has a high cost, and/or risk of failure

• Work on something no one knows how to do

• Development of industry standards or test procedures where no precedents exist

• LONGER TERM

Universities: Universities: Precompetitive ResearchPrecompetitive Research

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Technology Roadmapping: linking Industrial need with academic capabilities

Yorkshire Forward Research and Development Award for Large Companies

£18.5M scheme running for three years.

Supports large company R&D programmes with up to 50% funding.

Two calls for proposals already: next is expected during autumn 05.

No specific requirement for CIC involvement. Offers a further opportunity to develop large company industrial interaction with HEIs.

BITECIC: Regional Issues

Breadth and industry focus of regional academic science base (our suppliers).

Breadth of regional industrial base in forefront technologies (our customers).

Developing a viable business model for self sustainability at the end of RDA support period.