innovate uk – emerging technologies seminar: knowledge transfer network
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Ian OsborneMarch 2017
Connecting people to drive innovation
• Find expertise
• Find markets
• Find funding and finance
• Find ideas to fuel growth
The Future. Faster.
As Innovate UK’s network partner, KTN combines in-depth expertise in all sectors with the ability to cross boundaries. Connecting with KTN can lead to potential partners, horizon-expanding events, and innovation insights relevant to your needs.
We help business to grow the economy and improve people’s lives by capturing maximum value from innovative ideas, scientific research and creativity.
How it works
• Expert advice & insights
• Events & introductions
• Communities of practice
Projects
Cross sector projects on current topics help drive innovation.
Case study
Anacail and University of Glasgow
Case study
Airstoc Drone Photography
Value created
£1 grant > 12.5 investment multiplier
£50 project value at 5 years
Growth for the UK Economy
Design FoundationsDeveloping great ideas
Innovation: “The successful exploitation of new ideas”
How do you generate better ideas?…
…Early-stage design thinking
Focus on the right challenge
Technology is more successfully marketed when we focus on the benefits it offers to the user.
It’s not just about understanding the needs that people describe, it’s about delivering to meet “an imaginativeunderstanding of their needs.”*
*Project Sappho, SPRU, University of Sussex
• £3 million investment in early-stage design projects
• Next round opens 8th May
The Design Foundations grant
to help businesses
understand people’s motivations and behaviour
to help businesses
You can do
more than
ever!
But I just want to do the regular stuff more easily!
tackle the right problems
to help businesses
generate and quickly validate new ideas
to help businesses
communicate their ideas for buy-in and investment
Dialog – a wearable for chronic conditions, Arterfact Design
► Robust ideas
► Roadmaps/plans/canvas
► Investment pitch
► Improved capability
► New processes/structures
Which means you can create…
In summary…
• £3m investment in early-stage design projects across 2017
2 further competitive funding rounds opening 8 May and 14 August
• Open sector scope – any sector, any tech, any industry
Applications are invited from individual, UK registered businesses
• For projects of up to a maximum value of £100,000
Up to 70% total project costs can be used to sub-contract design
50-70% funding rate depending on size of businesses
• Design of physical or digital products, services or business models
Thank you
Ian Osborne
Head of Complex Systems
@ianfosborne
Web www.ktn-uk.org
Ed Hobson
Design Lead
Web Designfoundations.org
LinkedIn Design Foundations at KTN
Twitter #designfoundations
@dredhobson
The Future. Faster.