an academic perspective on uk knowledge transfer partnerships (ktp)
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Experience from academic perspective of UK Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP) schemeTRANSCRIPT
KTP from an Academic Perspective
Maurice Mulvenna School of Computing & Mathematics
University of Ulster 26 February 2014
Sir Andrew Witty’s 2013 Review of Universities & Growth:
“Universities have an extraordinary potential to enhance economic growth. The full diversity of institutions have a role to play from local SME support and supply chain creation to primary technology leadership and breakthrough invention. Incentives should be strengthened to encourage maximum engagement from Universities in the third mission alongside Research and Education.”
Collaboration across the ‘three missions’
Teaching Research
Academic Enterprise
Academic enterprise
“To advance knowledge by achieving international excellence in our chosen areas of research and to transfer knowledge in support of economic, social and cultural development.”
University of Ulster
Academic enterprise activities
Consultancy
Innovation Vouchers (INI/EI)
Fusion (ITI)
KTP (TSB/INI)
Academic enterprise
IdeationOpportunities TechnologiesProducts &
ServicesConcepts
Where to look
Sir Andrew Witty’s 2013 Review of Universities & Growth, on KTPs:
“There are currently over 600 live partnerships and approximately 75 per cent of the partnerships involve small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).”
Challenges
SMEs
Startups
(absorptive) Capacity
Opportunities
Classical opportunities:
Pounds
Papers
PhDs
Impact
OpportunitiesEarly stage innovation:
Fail early
Leading edge access to real world data & knowledge
Support and grow innovation culture
Rich mix of company types
SummaryAccess to knowledge and data
Enrich the other ‘missions’:
Translate partnerships into research impact
Transfer real world know-how into the classroom
‘Multi-path’ knowledge and technology transfer
Thanks for listening!
@mauricemulvenna md.mulvenna at ulster.ac.uk