STFC IPS Fellowship Extension

将学术研究团体的知识和技术转移到工业领域，以促进英国经济发展，是英国政府的优先事项。帮助这一进程的一个机制是雇用设在大学的创新研究员，他们与研究人员和行业伙伴合作，将研究成果商业化。在这项提案中，我们寻求支持，以扩大对苏塞克斯大学STFC IPS研究员的支持。实现物理研究的影响是一个巨大的挑战，特别是在STFC社区。与其他研究委员会资助的研究项目相比，STFC资助的研究项目通常开始和结束于较低的技术准备水平（TRL），并且通常不针对学术界以外的特定应用。这使得寻找和理解研究项目影响的潜在途径成为学术界的一项特殊挑战，从而降低了工作产生非学术影响的可能性。研究员将与研究人员一起工作，并支持研究人员在这一过程中，通过嵌入物理和天文学系，这变得更加容易。研究员还将与我们的研究和企业办公室，大学的企业小组和苏塞克斯创新中心合作，以发展创新和行业合作伙伴关系。我们的研究的新应用，以及与行业的合作研究项目，需要密切的，直接了解我们的产品组合，了解物理商业化的挑战，以及专门的时间和精力来探索潜在的机会。IPS研究员与研究人员一起在扩大我们的知识交流范围和程度方面发挥了独特的作用，改变了我们向其他领域转让技术的能力。因此，我们有一系列具有商业和社会影响力的项目，我们已经开发了许多新的工业合作伙伴关系和四个来自STFC研究小组的潜在衍生业务。研究员将尝试为Sussex的STFC研究寻找新的应用领域，同时推进具有影响力的项目。四个衍生企业的发展，从最初的奖学金期间非常早期的想法发展，将是一个特别的重点。

The transfer of knowledge and technology from academic research groups into industry in order to boost the UK economy is a priority for the UK government. One mechanism for helping this process is to employ Innovation Fellows, based in Universities, who work with the researchers and industry partners to commercialise research outputs. In this proposal we seek support for an extension to the support of the STFC IPS Fellow based at the University of Sussex.Realising impact from Physics research is a great challenge, particularly in the STFC community. STFC-funded research projects often begin and end at lower Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs) compared to those funded by other research councils and are not, generally, aimed at specific applications beyond academia. This makes finding and understanding potential routes to impact of a research project a particular challenge for the academic and consequently reduces the probability of non-academic impact arising from the work. The Fellow will work with, and support, researchers in this process and by being embedded in the Department of Physics and Astronomy this becomes much easier.The Fellow will also work with our Research and Enterprise office, the University's Enterprise Panel, and the Sussex Innovation Centre to develop innovations and industry partnerships.New applications for our research, and for collaborative research projects with industry, require a close, direct knowledge of our portfolio, an understanding of the challenges to commercialisation from physics, as well as dedicated time and effort to explore potential opportunities. The IPS Fellow embedded with researchers has played a unique role in increasing our knowledge exchange in both scope and extent, transforming our ability to transfer technology to and from other domains. As a consequence we have a portfolio of projects with commercial and social impact roadmaps, we have developed numerous new industrial partnerships and four potential spin-out businesses arising from STFC research groups.The Fellow will attempt to find new areas of application for STFC research at Sussex, whilst progressing projects with impact roadmaps. The development of the four spin-out businesses, developed from very early ideas during the initial Fellowship period, will be a particular focus.