Funding for collaborative projects

Mark LittlewoodSensors & Instrumentation KTN

Topics Covered

• How the KTN can help• Funding sources• Funding calls• Summary• Contact details

Sensors & Instrumentation KTN

Funding partners

Supporting partners

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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

• 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 1Science driven

• BBSRC Industrial Partnership Awardshttp://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/business/collaborative_research/industrial_partnership_awards.html

• MRC Industrial Collaboration Awardhttp://www.mrc.ac.uk/Fundingopportunities/Grants/MICA/Specification/MRC005438

• MRC Collaboration granthttp://www.mrc.ac.uk/Fundingopportunities/Grants/Collaborationgrant/index.htm

Funding Calls 2 Knowledge transfer driven

• STFC PIPSShttp://www.scitech.ac.uk/KE/FOpp/PIPSS/Contents.aspx

• Knowledge Transfer Partnershipshttp://www.ktponline.org.uk/

Funding Calls 3Market 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 multi-

disciplinary partners• Use the KTN to help

So come and talk to us about how we can help you

Contact

01223 422406

mark.littlewood@qi3.co.uk

www.sensorsktn.com

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