DTI Technology Programme and e-Science Anne Trefethen Deputy Director, e-Science Core Programme.

DTI Technology Programme ande-Science

Anne TrefethenDeputy Director,

e-Science Core Programme

Cambridge

Newcastle

Edinburgh

Oxford

Glasgow

Manchester

Cardiff

Southampton

London

Belfast

DL

RAL

e-Science Centres

Act as information resource Each Centre given £1m for

industrially based projects Each provide resource for UK

Grid

• DTI investment of £11m• Resulted in

– 49 projects– 83 collaborating groups– 61 different companies involved– Over £14m industrial investment– 37 SMEs– 3 Industry collaborators provided more than £1m– Range of disciplines (IT, Engineering, Pharma,

Environmental etc)– New sectors engaged (broadcasting, defence,

banking etc)

Industry Projects

A few Examples …

G-Civil

Mission:“To build a prototype system responsible for the collection, distribution and visualisation of data collected from civil engineering sites or from infrastructure monitoring schemes”

Mott MacDonald

WJ Groundwater Ltd

Arcadis Geraghty Miller International

W H White Plc

G-Civil

• Resulted in web tool for data collection and visualisation

• Is being used by monitoring point.com

• Offered as and additional extra to their products

• Publicised in “Ground Engineering”

The GridCast ProjectGrid based Broadcast Infrastructures

To develop a baseline media grid to support a broadcaster

Manage distributed collections of stored media

Prototype security and access mechanisms

Integrate processing and technical resources

Integrate with media standards and hardware

To analyse Quality of Service issues

Analyse remote content distribution infrastructures

Analyse remote service provision

To analyse reactivity, reliability and resilience issues in a grid-based broadcast infrastructure

The GridCast Project

• Now largely complete• Schedules can be compiled and material

automatically transferred using in “trial” form.

• Just missed funding in Technology Programme call 2, have proceeded to full bid in call 3

• BBC continue to work and develop services

Telemedicine for MDT Meetings in Cancer

• Cancer Centre–Addenbrooke’s (Papworth)

• Cancer Units–Bedford–Peterborough–West Suffolk

–Harlow–Hinchingbrooke–King’s Lynn

Radiology, Cambridge, UK

Telemedicine

• Well supported by clinicians, has made a change in work practices

• Extended beyond original remit into other clinical areas

• NHS invested in project

• A clear winner for take up….

A Market for Computational Services

GreenGrid

Develop mechanisms • price quotation, • negotiation, • accounting,• payment

to support paid-for Grid services (now Web Services)

Deploy and test these mechanisms in several real-world computing markets

Negotiation Use and Payment

Users can obtain a real-time account statement via the Payment Service web interface

• Register with Payment Service

• Negotiate for use of the service and agree on terms

• Use the service..

• The service records usage, collects payment and returns the results..

• Discover a negotiable service

Computational Markets

• Another 9 months to go

• Have integrated pay-as-you go into services

• Exploitation through industrial partners (e.g NAG provided mathematical services running on utility hardware on pay-as-you go basis)

• Exploitation through national facilities…

DTI Technology Programme

DTI Programmes before the Review

high specificity to company or product low

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Trade Associations

learned societies

RTOs

geographical clusters

collaborative R&D

collaborative R&D

pre-competitive

research

pre-competitive

researchuniversity

alumni networks

university alumni

networks

university alumni

networksFaradaysLINK

TCS and STEP

ITSSMART

web based networking

Industry Forums

partneringpartneringpartnering

IUKE visitsIUKE visits

supply chainssupply chainssupply chains

Staff movesand secondments

Staff movesand secondments

DTI sectoral TT schemesDTI sectoral TT schemesThe mediaThe media

StandardsCodes of practice

NMS, HSE

StandardsCodes of practice

NMS, HSE

Design CouncilDesign Council

Living InnovationAnd ScoreboardsLiving InnovationAnd Scoreboards

Business LinksCONNECT

Business LinksCONNECT

Technologybrokers

Technologybrokers

EUREKAEUREKA

Patent Office

UK and EUTT clubs &networks

Manuf’gAdvisoryService

Manuf’gAdvisoryService

DDA andgovt research

labs

DDA andgovt research

labs

DELIVERYDELIVERY

through working with a variety of channels

IDENTIFICATION OF TECHNOLOGY PRIORITIESIDENTIFICATION OF TECHNOLOGY PRIORITIES

TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY BOARD

Technological strategic focus for each theme

NETWORKNETWORKSS inform decision making

STRATEGIC THEMES

Technology Programme after the Review

Technology Strategy and Assessment Unit

CUSTOMERS

CUSTOMERS

Funding Mechanisms1. Knowledge Transfer Networks

2. Collaborative Research and Development

£370m over six Competitions,

Two stage - open and very competitive,

Each call around 9 Technology Priority

Areas,

Two instruments

Collaborative R & D,

KTNs

Technology Programme

1. Healthcare in an Ageing Society

2. A more Secure Environment

3. An Intelligent, Connected World

4. Sustainable Production and Consumption

5. Environmentally friendly Transport Systems

6. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Supply

7. The Modern Built Environment

Strategic Key Themes

Identifying Strategic Priorities: Criteria

Business Exploitation Cross Sectoral Applications Strength of UK SET Knowledge Base Economic, Social, Quality of life,

Environmental Benefits Cross-government Collaboration (e.g.

healthcare, energy) Spill-over Benefits, Failure of Market Scope of Effectiveness for Government

Intervention

Succeeding through Innovation

Stimulate R&D - between UK-based firms,

- between UK-based firms and the science base.

So as to increase: number of collaborations and business investment in R&D, awareness of benefit of R&D, dissemination of R&D outputs, high value-added wealth creation from new and improved

products and services.

Technology Programme - Objectives

Collaborative Research & Development

Objective;

“to improve the UK’s innovation performance by increasing the breadth and depth of collaborative research and development between the UK science, engineering and technology base and UK based businesses.”

Collaborative Research & Development

Grant-based products - from three categories each with two types:

Basic Research - Far from market projects, Applied Research - Middle market projects, Exploitation Development - Nearer to market projects.

All involving 2+ collaborators:-

Science to Business – S2B Business to Business – B2B

Funding for Collaborative R & D

75% for Basic Research projects,

50% for Applied Research projects,

25% for near market or Exploitation projects.

Business to Business projects (50%, 40%, 25%),

And:-

Typical projects £2m - £5m but no minimums,

Attractive to have by-in from other Stakeholders,

Duration - 6 months to 5 years,

Can be used to fund EUREKA projects,

All with consideration to state aid rules.

Technology Priorities for the April 2004 Call

Bio-processing, Advanced (Composite) Materials and Structures, Inter-Enterprise Computing, Sensors and Control Systems, Renewable Energy Technologies, Electronics and Displays Technologies, Technologies for Environmentally Friendly

Transport.

Timetable - November 2004 Competition

1 Apr1 Mar1 Feb1 Jan1 Dec 1 May 1 June

1 July

4 weeks Assess

10 weeks Outline Open

8 weeks Full Open

8 weeks Full Assess

29 Nov Call

Opens

7 March End-assess

7 Feb Call

closes

27 June End-assess

3 May Close Full

31 Jan Pre Reg

Technology Number Number Number Project GrantPriority @Outline @Full recomd Costs Sought

props £m £mEFT 65 26 12 34.9 16.7IE Computing 63 15 7 19.8 10.1Elect&Displays 27 14 8 8.4 4.0Bio-Processes 13 8 2 5.1 4.0Materials 50 20 12 12.1 5.5Sensors 113 21 12 13.0 6.4Energy 69 26 17 24.7 9.3

Total 400 130 70 118 56 

Initial outcome of the April 04 Call (C R&D)

Provisi

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Provisi

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Initial outcome of the April 04 Competition

April 2004 Competition Full Stage technical Assessment –

outcome:-

400 Applications/Proposals,

130 taken to full stage,

70 are recommended for negotiation towards support.

 Comprises:-

425 bids from 304 separate organisations,

36 separate HEIs,

6 Government Departments or Agencies and

262 separate private sector organisations. Provisi

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Provisi

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Successes in Technology Programme

• e-Science applications fell into IEC part of the programme.

• Following universities that host e-Science centres are involved in the IEC successful projects

• Southampton• Cambridge• Oxford• Newcastle• UCL• Reading• Cardiff• Belfast• White Rose (York, Leeds, Sheffield)• Edinburgh

IEC ProjectsIntegrated Products and Services (IPAS)

Project lead: Rolls-Royce plcTotal project size: £2.5m (subject to contract)

A Generic Infrastructure for Medical Informatics (GIMI)Project lead: Oxford UniversityTotal project size: £3.5M (subject to contract)

Large scale computer simulation of physical properties of materialsProject lead: AccelrysTotal project size: £1.5M (subject to contract)

Applying Web Services to environmental forecast information in priority case studies

Project lead: Met OfficeTotal project size: £2.2M (subject to contract)

Healthcare@Home: Patient-Centred Grid based e-HealthcareProject lead: IBMTotal project size: £1.3M (subject to contract)

CRISP ( Commercial R3 IEC Service Provision)Project lead: BTTotal project size: £3.0M (subject to contract)

BROADENProject lead: Rolls-Royce plcTotal project size: £3.98M (subject to contract)

+ 2 Knowledge Transfer Networks (KTN) – IECNet, and GridUK