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BUSINESS &INNOVATIONGATEWAY

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Business and innovation gateway 4Accessing supportConsultancy 6Collaborative funding 7Talent 8Technology 9New skills 10Facilities 11Sector spotlight 12Signature centres 13Case studies 14-15Contact us 17

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2 University of Kent /Business & Innovation Gateway

NURTURINGINNOVATIONBringing innovative and creative approaches to increasing business productivity and growth.

We believe that nurturing innovation is the best way to stimulatereal growth. The way we achieve this is through encouragingcollaboration between our university and businesses, whether in a local, national or multinational landscape.

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BUSINESS AND INNOVATION GATEWAY


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If you are a business, a charity, or a public sector organisation, ourworld-class expertise can help you.

We have an experienced and professional businessand innovation gateway team who understand thatdifferent businesses need different support. Theywill work with you to find the right expertise for yourorganisation.

With international expertise and cutting edgefacilities, the University of Kent is perfectlypositioned to provide innovative and creativesolutions to the business community. We aim tomake resources within our large and diverseUniversity relevant and accessible to businessesregionally, nationally and globally.

Research excellence at the University of Kentcomprises internationally renowned subjectspecialists, and is designed to produce creativeand practical solutions. Business projects benefitfrom this wealth of knowledge, through our tailoredconsultancy services, along with training, fundingand partnering opportunities.

“The University’s business andinnovation gateway team understandthe broad range of creativity andinnovation within the university to helpgrow your business. Get in touch today.”

Carole BarronDirector of Innovation & Enterprise

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ACCESSING SUPPORTCONSULTANCY

Knowledge Expertise Research

Helping you make informed decisions about which direction to grow your business.

Our subject experts are leaders in their field having real-world experience of delivering innovative solutions helpingyou achieve a range of business objectives such as:

• Increasing productivity

• Growth in sales

• Reducing costs

• Developing new products and services

“Working with the University of Kent has encouraged us to explore the uses of mathematicaland statistical sciences for engineering and manufacturing technologies. The partnershiphas not only enabled us to develop and embed an advanced statistical approach to theproduction process, but also encouraged us to take a fresh view towards fundamentalresearch.”

Edward Jukes

ACCESSING SUPPORTFUNDING

We can access collaborative funding to support your engagement with the University.

We offer a full and varied portfolio of:

Knowledge TransferPartnership (KTP)


A KTP enables businesses to improve their competitiveness by bringingin new skills and the latest academic thinking to deliver a specificstrategic project.

Innovate UK Innovate UK drives productivity and growth by supportingbusinesses to realise the potential of new technologies, developideas and make them a commercial success.

Industrial Strategy As part of the government’s vision for a modern British industrialstrategy, The University is able to access funding to promotecollaborations and partnerships with the University.


ACCESSING SUPPORTTALENT

We have talented,knowledgeable and highlymotivated studentsstudying on our degreeprogrammes, eager tofurther develop and apply their skills andknowledge within a realorganisational setting.Taught by experts, ourstudents study a widerange of industry focussedcourses which means theyare equipped with up tothe minute industry-relevant knowledge.

Student placements andinternshipsA placement or internship is a greatway for a student to get a glimpseinside a business, or a particularoccupation. It offers the companyfresh, new talent and a new way ofthinking.

Student projectsOur students provide new ideas and innovative approaches to your organisation providing costeffective and flexible resourcing for short/medium term projects.

Recruiting talentEngagement with our studentsthrough one or more of theseschemes gives you the opportunityto trial potential new recruits prior to their graduation.

Higher and DegreeApprenticeshipsDegree and Higher LevelApprenticeships are the bestcombination of on-the-job trainingand studying for a higher levelqualification. We work with you to develop tailored programmes,equipping apprentices with the skills most useful to yourorganisation.


ACCESSING SUPPORTNEW TECHNOLOGY

New technologies, processes and knowledge regularlyemerge from the University of Kent's impressiveresearch portfolio. This Intellectual Property (IP)provides opportunities for collaboration, and licensingof new technologies in fields ranging from Healthcareand Biosciences to Electronics and Engineering. Our intellectual property available for licensing islisted below.

Some of our on-going licensing deals include:Delta Biotechnology Ltd (nowNovozymes Biopharma) licensed an improved biopharmaceuticalproduction technology from theSchool of Biosciences; the firstmajor licence from the yeastexpression group for application in high yield protein manufacture. A follow up licence was securedwith US Company BioRexis Inc(subsequently acquired by Pfizer)for use in the production of itsunique transferrin tagged proteins.

Harada Industries (Europe) licensedtechnology from the School ofEngineering and Digital Arts for anovel antenna. This technology wassubsequently used in Volvo vehiclemanufacturing and was incorporatedinto the top-of-the-range XC90.

• Biotechnology and healthcare – six availabletechnologies

• Imaging: Optical Coherence Tomography – sevenavailable technologies

• Materials – two available technologies

• Cryptology and security – two available technologies


We understand howcomplex, challenging and rapidly changing the business environmenthas become, and theimportance of being able to access innovative and flexible trainingopportunities, which meet your business needs.

We offer a full and varied portfolio of training and professionaldevelopment including bespokespecialist training.

Demand for our workshops basedon academic research, delivered byexperts in their fields, has reachedglobal audiences from Canada andthe USA to Europe, Australasia andthe Far East.

Our first class training has inspireddelegates from sectors includingHealth, Business, Engineering,Education, Information Technologyand Human Resources to name justa few. Feedback is consistentlyexcellent.

ACCESSING SUPPORTNEW SKILLS

“A great day, filled to the brimwith excellent information andinspiring speakers.”

Human Resources ConferenceDelegate

“Very well organised event and the facilitators additionalknowledge and experienceshone throughout and addedto the material with furtherclinical examples.”

Assessment and Treatment of AdultFiresetters workshop attendee


ACCESSING SUPPORTFACILITIES

The University has arange of specialistfacilities available tobusinesses undertakingprojects that require extraresource.

Our facilities span laboratories,computing and specialistequipment, to seminar rooms, videotechnology and conference space.

We provide quick, safe and easyaccess to these resources,alongside our Centres, archives andcollections and can provide IT andtechnical support.


Bringing an inter-disciplinary approach to our workwe are developing real-world solutions to matchcommercial needs.

Alongside our work with individual organisations of all sizes anddisciplines, we currently focus on a number of core sector themes.

SECTOR SPOTLIGHT

“Working with the Universityof Kent has enabled us to growour training offering, allowingus to provide remote trainingwherever and whenever ourcustomers need it. Together,we have deployed acommunity driven offeringthat competitors will have a hard time replicating. This has not only given us abusiness advantage againstour competition, but also apowerful tool to help grow the community and increasethe number of Erlangprogrammers.”

Francesco CesariniErlang Solutions Ltd

• Biotechnology and molecular medicine

• Security and societal impact

• Health and social care

• Artificial intelligence

• Digital enabling technologies

• Creative industries


SIGNATURE CENTRES

The University hasrecently established twoSignature Centres toaddress growing nationaland internationalimperatives. The first is in support of the growingLife Sciences sector andthe second responds to the significant increase in cyber, security and itssocietal impact.

IBaMM – Institute forBiotechnology &Molecular MedicineLife Sciences is a growth sector not just for the UK and the newIndustrial Strategy but also for the region. The University hasestablished the Institute ofBiotechnology & MolecularMedicine (IBaMM) to act as acatalyst for growing the sector.IBaMM is focused on five coreareas:• Industrial biotechnology – nextgeneration biotherapeutics,vaccines, recombinant proteins

• Infection and drug resistance –pathogens, infectious diseaseand public health

• Cancer and age-related disease– cancer drug resistance andnovel therapeutics

• Cellular architecture anddynamics – biosensors, muscledisease, heart disease, deafness,blindness, Parkinson’s,autoimmune diseases

• Reproduction, evolution andgenomics – diagnostics andtherapeutics in reproductive and neonatal medicine.

SoCyETAL – Institute ofAdvanced Studies inCyber Security andConflictSoCyETAL is a centre of excellencecontributing world leading research,innovation, and education on issuesof security and conflict in a modern,digital society. Leveraging Kent’sstrengths and creativity intechnological, social andbehavioural research to promoteand inform collaborative and

multidisciplinary approaches to societally relevant complexquestions, in partnership withexternal collaborators, user groupsand stakeholders.

SoCyETAL brings togetherresearchers and scholars across a wide range of disciplines toaddress the pressing transnationalproblems of cybersecurity,cybercrime, and a general lack of, or lack of trust in, security, andturmoil affecting societies at alllevels.

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CASE STUDYDOVER HARBOUR BOARD

In 2016 the University and Dover Harbour Board embarked on a twoyear Knowledge TransferPartnership to improvetraffic flow at the Port of Dover’s Eastern Docks which, upon itscompletion, was awardedthe highest possible ratingfrom Innovate UK.

The project used data modellingand simulation software to help thePort operate more effectively. Thework focused on several strands,most notably improving how the Port

predicts likely traffic volumes toensure it has enough staff on handto process vehicles through the portand so minimise the risk of queuesforming in and around Dover.

By improving its use of data fromvarious sources, such as live trafficdata on the motorways and pasttraffic levels at similar times, itdrastically reduced the use ofTraffic Assessment Project (TAP)that sees freight traffic held outsideDover by a series of traffic lights.

This has not only reduced theimpact that freight traffic has onDover and its residents, but it alsomeans one of the UK’s key import-

export hubs is able to ensure goodscan move into the UK, or over toEurope, more efficiently.

The traffic simulation model is now also used to help predict therequirement of the French borderauthorities operating in Dover toensure traffic through the port iskept moving at all stages.

These successes saw the projectawarded a grade of ‘Outstanding’by the KTP Grading Panel. Only10% of KTP projects achieve thisgrade, underlining the impact theproject has had.

University of Kent /Business & Innovation Gateway


In 2010, the DefenceScience and TechnologyLaboratory (Dstl) beganworking with theUniversity of Kent toestablish how its mainresearch areas couldrespond to key scienceand technological needs of the defence industries.The University workedclosely with Dstl to movetoward a strategicallymanaged relationship,and develop a sharedunderstanding of priorityscience and technologyareas.

CASE STUDYDSTL

Developing close links with Dstl’sprogramme areas, domains and itsCentre for Defence Enterprise (theMoD’s gateway to the outsideworld), led to Kent successfullysecuring over £500k in projectfunding to support research andenterprise collaborations by the end of 2012.

The relationship has continued to develop, spanning Science andSocial Science faculties, to solveproblems in communications,counter-terrorism, system security,psychology and human behaviour,logistics and power sources. Latestresearch in the Materials arenaincludes battery building anddesign, and improving theperformance and characteristics of energy storage.

Kent’s leading research in socialpsychology and sports studies is contributing to the HumanCapabilities arena with ‘BrainEndurance Training’ to increasesoldier resistance to cognitivefatigue.

Ground-breaking research from the University’s Centre for CyberSecurity is focusing on assuredremote access to the cloud; RFID and body worn antennas;biometrics including facialexpressions and linking toneuroscience and cognitivesystems. Multi-disciplinary projectcollaborations are underway withthe School of Engineering andDigital Arts; and academicfellowships are in place with theSchool of Psychology, School of

Engineering and Digital Arts, theSchool of Physical Sciences and the University’s Business School.

“Universities benefit from our experts as lecturers or in supervisory roles, and Dstl benefits with access tospecialist facilities, researchand expertise. Kent has a richvein of hitherto untappedexpertise in key science andtechnology areas that can helpaddress Dstl’s requirements.The partnership has providedthe opportunity to exploremutual areas of interest, and we very much lookforward to strengthening the relationship.”

Jim WilsonDstl


We are a locally rooted, extensivelyengaged, regional University with globalconnections through research partnerships,our alumni and academic connections.

We are driving innovation building the future.

For advice contact our business and innovationgateway team:

T: +44 (0)1227 827376E: [email protected]/business

CONTACT US

Kent Innovation & Enterprise, University of Kent, Rothford, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7LRT: +44 (0)1227 827376 E: [email protected] www.kent.ac.uk

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