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Funding & Connecting:Innovate UK and
the Knowledge Transfer Network
Ben Peace (@BenPeace)
Knowledge Transfer Manager – Sustainable Manufacture
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The Innovate UK Family
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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
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“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
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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
Manufacturing
European Programmes
Sustainability
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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)
…up to…
– Experimental development (£2m; 3 years)
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Knowledge Transfer Partnerships
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Factory 2050 event28th February, Sheffield
• Demonstrations
• Funding & support
• 1-to-1 meetings with staff - HVM Catapult, Innovate UK, KTN
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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