SUPA KT

Presentation to the SUPA International Advisory Board

April 2012

SUPA KT

1 Review 20112 Strategy 2012

Strategic Aim of SUPA KT

“..to increase engagement between SUPA and industrial

partners for financial and economic benefit”

The Team

Addressing the Strategic Goals

• Deliver specific industry programmes (by SUPA KT team)

• Investigate and inform research groups of relevant industrial market information and un-met needs

• Encourage and enable increased collaborative research activities with industrial partners – TSB, FP7, KTP

• Facilitate or support direct commercialisation activity (spin out, licensing, Fraunhofer, Innovation Centre, Innovation Centres)

“..to increase engagement between SUPA and industrial partners for financial and economic benefit”

Specific Programmes

• Delivered tailored technical programmes (“SUPA starts”)to over 30 companies and direct general support to over 80 companies from all SUPA partners

• Draft external evaluation shows £1.9m of added revenue already generated by SMEs as a consequence of project with projections of £6m

• Has created significant follow-on work – SUPA start to SUPA start plus, KTP and so on

SEEKIT/ERDF Project for Scottish SME support

£1.9m additional revenue already attributable to project

Specific Programmes

• 14 fully-funded industrial studentships with companies with Scottish R&D presence

• (in process of) placing 9 industry academic exchanges

• Has created significant follow-on work (studentship > placement > SUPA start)

INSPIRE(PaLS-related)

“Investigate and Inform”

• Review status of market, identify key companies and policies, investigate main un-met needs

• Disseminate information throughout SUPA

• Analyse findings with key research groups in SUPA

• Agree areas where a potential “Offering” can be made to industry

• Broker engagement

Market sector reviews –

“Investigate and Inform”

• Comprehensive market report produced and made available (on SUPA website)

• Met 8 companies throughout UK, as well as key government agencies

• 6 specific collaborative projects have been followed up – 3 confirmed contracts have resulted so far

• Better-informed SUPA community

Market sector reviews –

DEFENCE SENSING

“Investigate and Inform”

• Same sequence of activities carried out and report published on SUPA website

• Collaboration with SINAPSE for industrial leads

• Less engagement (than for defence sensing) by SUPA so far

• Scottish Enterprise have adopted market review

Market sector reviews –

MEDICAL IMAGING

“Investigate and Inform”

• Opportunity study carried out and disseminated

• Led to specific analysis of financial and operating models for proposed SCAPA facility

Market sector reviews –

SCAPA

“Encourage and Enable”• Increased participation in policy

formulation - eg 3 SUPA representatives at European Technology Platform workshops Photonics 21

• Disseminate information on calls specifically targeted throughout SUPA

• Actively broker collaborations and partnerships

• Through PEER, specifically target Scottish SME participation in FP7

Collaborative Research Programmes – FP7, TSB

“Encourage and Enable”• PEER (started 3 months ago), follow

up with 12 companies, three new partnerships created, 1 application, 2 in development for future call

• Now responding to advance notice from Photonics 21 of forthcoming call (May) for Biophotonics ERA-NET

• Recent TSB “Technology-inspired collaborative R&D” call – 9 bids from all Scottish Unis – 2 assisted from SUPA KT

Collaborative Research Programmes – FP7, TSB

“Facilitate and Support”• Development of Fraunhofer – identification of

industry need, maximise benefits to SUPA• Working with SUPA REF group to maximise impact

from impact statements • “Enhanced” STFC PIPPS fellowship (pending

appointment) – seeking commercial application for SUPA STFC-funded programmes

• Individual project support and development • Contributed to development and achievement of

SELEX chair at H-W• Entrepreneurial training for early-stage researchers• Support of SU2P and other complementary initiatives

A range of commercialisation and culture-change activities

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SUPA Commercial Income (£k)actual v target

SUPA TotalSUPA Target

Income to SUPA from Industry (HESA figures)

Industrial Income to SUPA – National Comparison

• Summed income over last 7 years – SUPA has 4 universities in UK top 10

• Cambridge dominates UK industrial income - Strathclyde 2nd in UK in 2010-11, overtaking Imperial College

• This is despite context of BERD in Scotland being about 45% that of UK as a whole

Business Enterprise R&D Spend (BERD)

Summary of Position

• Relatively strong commercial engagement in UK terms despite low concentration of industrial R&D spend in Scotland

• Increasing engagement with SME community with significant economic benefit resulting

• Increased effort into participation in TSB & FP7

Where We Aspire To Be

• Strong REF Impact, now and future• More commercial/entrepreneurial

culture within SUPA• More national and international

commercial engagements• Larger, sustainable, collaborative

contracts

Key Strategic Elements 2012

More national and international commercial engagements

• More resource in active marketing/relationship building in TSB and FP7

• Develop international opportunities through SU2P and SFC exchanges

Key Strategic Elements 2012

Larger, more sustainable engagements

Build on to strengths – eg, seek support for creation of Innovation Centre – working with largest companies in Scotland as well as supply chain and end users.