Funding and connecting: Innovate UK and the Knowledge Transfer Network, Ben Peace

Funding & Connecting:Innovate UK and

the Knowledge Transfer Network

Ben Peace (@BenPeace)

Knowledge Transfer Manager – Sustainable Manufacture

The Innovate UK Family

The Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) stimulates

innovation by:

• Linking organisations & exchanging knowledge

• Providing access to funding & support

• Promoting exemplars

• 120 staff

• 60,000 members

• Free to join

“I was impressed by the connections across powerful

communities which KTN staff have helped build.

This was clearly the result of people knowing what

was needed and bringing the right players

together”

Christine Tacon, Chair of the Food and Drink Engineering Forum

The KTN offer• Information & News

– Monthly newsletters dedicated to specific sectors

• Events and activities

– For knowledge transfer & collaboration

– Competition briefing & consortium building events

– >10,000 delegates/year

• Partnering

– Access to strong network of industry & research partners – proactive

partnering

• Funding

– Help finding & obtaining the right funding

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Access to Funding & Finance

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European Programmes

Sustainability

Manufacturing & Materials grants£15m competition – runs every 6 months

• Scope: “Innovation to enable competitiveness and growth in

manufacturing and materials”

• Manufacturing or materials innovation, rather than a product

innovation.

• Project size:

– Feasibility (£50K; 6 months)

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– Experimental development (£2m; 3 years)

Knowledge Transfer Partnerships

Factory 2050 event28th February, Sheffield

• Demonstrations

• Funding & support

• 1-to-1 meetings with staff - HVM Catapult, Innovate UK, KTN

SummaryThe UK’s innovation network

• Setting up collaborative partnerships; linking you to the knowledge

• Providing access to funding & support

• Linking up the innovation landscape;

• Influencing the priorities

Ben Peace - Knowledge Transfer Manager, Sustainable Manufacture

[email protected] 07801 226431 @BenPeace

Ben Peace - Knowledge Transfer Manager, Sustainable Manufacture

[email protected] 07801 226431 @BenPeace

www.ktn-uk.org

@KTNUK