Knowledge Transfer Account - University of Glasgow

格拉斯哥的KTA将由3个工作包组成：1.营销和关系建设我们将提升EPSRC资助活动的形象，通过与潜在行业合作伙伴的创新沙坑将创新和知识产权捆绑在一起，通过工业星星商会评估知识产权，并通过英国各地的合作活动和系列研讨会促进学术界和行业之间更密切的互动。这些新的机制将使研究人员和市场之间的联系，并将建立与大学以外的其他人，特别是那些互补的产品开发技能的新的伙伴关系。营销工作包的中心主题是改善沟通，无论是关于机会，促进参与，但同样重要的是，在机会，建立关系，以确保在每个阶段最有效和高效地利用资源和专门知识。我们认为，特别是在早期阶段，让那些能够在研究基地和公司参与者之间进行有效沟通的人参与进来。因此，我们将聘请技术翻译，与相关的技术背景，谁将促进大学的纳米技术能力，以地方/国家/国际组织。这些个人和机构还将支持财团通过TSB和中介技术研究所等途径竞标额外的KT杠杆。上述办法旨在建立有研究人员和外部各方参与的富有成效的网络。2.供资机制：科索沃信托机构还将为人员、技术和市场的短期支助提供资金。它将资助学者，因为KT主张购买学术时间来专注于KT活动。它还将通过一个临时首席执行官方案支持企业管理，通过侧重于市场评估、客户识别和早期业务规划，为分拆过程增加价值。我们亦建议设立技术发展研究金，资助一名技术发展人员，确保技术的发展速度与业务计划的发展速度相同。此外，我们计划增加我们的KTP参与，并建立3个基于纳米的KTP。KTA将支持一些项目更早地达到概念验证/原型阶段，已经达到这一阶段的技术将有资格获得产品开发/技术集成基金的支持，该基金将到位，认识到关键的机会在于通过跨学科技术的结合来创建问题的解决方案。该基金将用于支持这一整合，并开发我们认为具有真实的商业潜力的项目。资金也将支持研究结果的验证，主要市场评估和市场反馈，大大加快确定商业上可行的产品/项目的过程。我们还将为公司创建一个技术开发计划，以启动英国中小企业和大学之间的新关系，为中小企业提供他们无法负担的设施。这将是确保双向KT的关键手段，公司将带来与大学共同发展的商机。学者们指出，与工业界接触的实际障碍之一是没有资金访问公司以促进他们的研究。通过提供小额资金，我们相信它将促进更多的项目，如大学的“第一步”和KTP 3。培训内容：我们将为学术人员提供企业培训;点对点和KT支持培训，与PGR和研究人员社区资助的罗伯茨的补充培训相结合，并将为行业提供CPD模块，以提高他们对研究主导创新的吸收能力。

Glasgow's KTA will be made up of 3 workpackages:1. Marketing & relationship buildingWe will raise the profile of EPSRC-funded activity, bundle innovations and IP through innovation sandpits with potential industry partners, evaluate IP through Industrial Star Chambers and facilitate closer interaction between academics and industry through collaboration events around the UK and a seminar series. These new mechanisms will enable linkages between researchers and the marketplace and will build new partnerships with others outside the University, especially those with complementary product development skills.The central theme of the marketing workpackage is to improve communications, both about opportunities, to promote engagement, but equally importantly, communication within opportunities, building relationships which will ensure the most effective and efficient application of resource and expertise at each stage.We believe that it is vitally important, particularly in the early stages, to engage people who can effectively communicate between the research base and the company participants. We will, therefore, employ Technology Translators, with relevant technology backgrounds who will promote the University's Nanotechnology capability to local/national/international organisations. These individuals and agencies will also support consortia to bid for additional KT leverage through routes such as TSB and the Intermediary Technology Institutes. The approaches outlined above are designed to create productive networks involving researchers and external parties. 2. Funding mechanisms: The KTA will also provide funding for short-term support for people, technologies and markets. It will fund academics as KT advocates buying out academic time to focus on KT activities. It will also support entrepreneurial management through an interim CEO programme to add value to the spin-out process by focusing on market assessment, customer identification and early stage business planning. We also propose to implement Technology Development Fellowships which will fund a Technology Developer who would ensure that the technology is progressed at the same rate as the business planning. In addition, we plan to increase our KTP participation and set up 3 nano-based KTPs. The KTA will support a number of projects to reach proof of concept/prototype stage much earlier and technologies that have reached this stage will be eligible for support from the Product Development/Technology Integration fund which will be put in place, recognising that the key opportunities lie in creating solutions to problems by combining technologies across disciplines. The fund will be used to support this integration and to develop the projects we believe to have real commercial potential. Funding will also support validation of research results, primary market assessment and market feedback, speeding up the process of identifying commercially viable products/projects significantly.We will also create a Technology Development Voucher scheme for companies to initiate new relationships between UK SMEs and the University, providing SMEs with access to facilities they would not otherwise be able to afford. This will be a key means of ensuring two-way KT, with companies bringing business opportunities forward for co-development with the University. One of the practical barriers identified by academics to engaging with industry is not having access to funds to visit companies to promote their research. By providing small sums of money we believe that it would facilitate many more projects such as the University's 'First Step' and KTPs3. Training: We will provide academic staff with enterprise training; peer to peer and KT support training, integrated with complementary strands of training given to PGR and researcher community funded Roberts, and will provide industry with CPD modules to enhance their absorptive capacity for research-led innovation.