Knowledge Transfer Account - The University of Manchester

曼彻斯特大学的EPSRC KTA专注于对英国及其行业面临的挑战做出重大贡献的研究的开发。曼彻斯特KTA创建了一个灵活的支持机制组合，使所有研究人员能够成功地参与开发。这些机制包括：联合视野扫描，专注于帮助研究人员和用户探索技术/问题领域，并制定新的策略来解决这些问题;借调计划，让大学和用户机构之间的双向借调，以确定开发机会，或将研究发展为商业开发;概念开发和可行性研究奖，支持研究人员为特定领域的研究应用建立证据基础，使公司能够评估其价值;知识转让研究员计划，该计划雇用研究人员全职为一系列公司从事基于研究的即时解决问题的工作;可许可技术开发奖，该计划支持技术开发到用户能够获得许可的程度;知识转移伙伴关系，一个久经考验和值得信赖的计划，使用户能够将基于研究的知识应用于产品/工艺开发。KTA还将专注于CPD的发展，其中特定技术领域的大师班将使用户能够制定利用它的策略。

The University of Manchester's EPSRC KTA focuses on the exploiation of that research which has a significant contribution to make to the challenges faced by the UK and its industries. The Manchester KTA creates a portfolio of flexible support mechanisms that enable all researchers to successfully engage in exploitation. These mechanisms include: joint horizon-scanning which focuses on helping researchers and users to explore technology/problem domains and develop novel strategies to solve them; a Secondment Scheme which enables two way secondments between the University and user organisations to identify exploitation opportunities, or to develop research towards commercial exploitation; Awards for Concept Development and Feasibility Studies, which support researchers in developing an evidence base for the application of research in a particular field, so that companies are able to evaluate its value; a Knowledge Transfer Fellows Scheme, which employs researchers full time to work on immediate research-based problem-solving for a range of companies; and Awards for the Development of Licensable Technology, which support the development of technology to a point at which a user is able to licence it; Knowledge Transfer Partnerships, a tried and trusted scheme enabling users to apply research-based knowledge to product/process development. The KTA will also focus on the development of CPD where Masterclasses on a given technology domain will enable users to develop strategies to exploit it.