Building a Design Centre KTN

RUnUP Conference

Monday 9th February 2009

Design Centre for the North Knowledge Transfer Network

Gordon Ollivere Chief Executive, RTC NorthMichael Dowson Director Design Network NorthTerry McStea Technology Foresight SpecialistSylvia Veenhoff Technology Foresight Specialist

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Contracting Partners

A unique alliance between two intermediaries with effective links into industry & academia

RTC combines effective management of public projects with high penetration of industry.

KH provides managed access to complex HE skills and coordinates inter-university activityCfDR at Northumbria - Leading Design School with international reputation for over 50 years

DLab at Teesside - highly innovative R&D resource for product and service innovation

RCID at Newcastle - Multidisciplinary consultancy focused on prototyping for engineering firms

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UNIVERSITIES

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RTC North (Accountable body)

Supplier Forum

Interface with Academia

University Specialists

Industry Specialists

Business Forum

Interface with Industry

Opportunities5-10 design projects pa in

key strategic areas economy

Univ. Projects

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Industry Projects

NEPA +DD

Knowledge House (HEI broker)

KTN HubCore team of

full-time design experts

Executive Steering BoardIndustrial Chairman

Universities of Newcastle, Northumbria, Teesside

Project partners

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AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

The Project Aim will be to establish a regional Knowledge Transfer Network for Design to promote the North East nationally and internationally as a centre for world class design capability.

Specific objectives will include ….

1. Recruitment of highly qualified internal core team

2. Engagement of external networks of design experts

3. Selection and delivery of key strategic design projects

4. Efficient project management and monitoring functions

5. Recommendations for long term sustainability

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AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

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To increase the contribution of design (in all its forms) to the to the wealth of the region

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Task 1:

“Set-up and resource development”

– Establishing highly visible access to the Design KTN

Task 2: “Animation and Project Definition”- Strategic road-mapping- Developing collaborative potential- Selection of core projects

Task 3: “Core Design Products”

- Delivery of exemplar projects - Exploitation of project results (IPR) - Evaluation of project outputs

Task 4: “Strengthening Performance” - Dissemination of best practice - Raising organisational capacity - Developing skills and knowledge - Improving local support structures

6 Months 24 Months 6 Months

Foresight Actions

Long Term Strategy

Task 5: “Programme Marketing and Management”- PR and Marketing - Promoting a regional design culture- Project Management and Performance Monitoring

Our methodology

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Innovation Connectors

1. Technology partnerships to concentrate facilities and encourage innovation between government, universities and industry … - Hubs based in deprived areas to create deep local impact

2. Regeneration themes based on:- traditional industrial strengths such as energy and chemicals

- new industrial specialisations such as bioscience and software- softer enabling skills such as design to add value

3. A strategy and implementation policy to produce dramatic change in the region within a generation.

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Newcastle Science City

Energy Centres

Sunderland Software City

Wilton

Teesside Digital City

Netpark at Sedgefield

Energy Centres

North East England

Innovation Connectors

Design Centre for the North (RTC)

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Wilton Centre (Chemicals)The most significant new materials related research,

development and innovation cluster in Europe

In the last five years, the decline of R&D previously associated with the chemicals industry on Teesside has been reversed and Wilton is now the largest private research concentration in Europe

Major investments currently being implemented include:

- The National Industrial Technology Facility

- The hub of the National Nano-Particulates Network

Regeneration of an industrial sector that has

existed

in the region but which had gone into decline

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Teesside Digital City

Partnership between the University of Teesside and individual businesses

- Developing research, facilities and business in respect of new media, particularly games and animated film

- Developing new facilities for business in central Middlesbrough

- Furthering the development of the innovative cluster of related businesses already established in this area

Establishment of a new industry based on

excellence within the universities

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Design Centre North

Recruitment of highly qualified internal core team Engagement of external networks of design experts Selection and delivery of key strategic design projects International collaboration and networking Foresight and capacity building for long term sustainability

Development of softer enabling skills to move North

East business and industry up the value chain

Specialist building to be completed in 2010. RTC North contracted to establish a Design Knowledge Transfer Network to promote the region as a centre for world class design. Objectives include ….

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Design Centre for the North

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DCN Floor-plan

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Confidence in the future

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The Wider National Agenda