Knowledge Transfer Account - University of Glasgow

格拉斯哥的KTA将由3个工作包组成：1.营销和关系建立我们将提升EPSRC资助的活动的知名度，通过与潜在行业合作伙伴的创新沙坑捆绑创新和知识产权，通过工业明星商会评估知识产权，并通过英国各地的合作活动和研讨会系列促进学术界和业界之间的更紧密互动。这些新机制将使研究人员和市场之间建立联系，并将与大学以外的其他人建立新的伙伴关系，特别是那些具有互补产品开发技能的人。营销工作方案的中心主题是改善沟通，既涉及机会，促进参与，但同样重要的是，机会中的沟通，建立关系，确保在每个阶段最有效和高效地应用资源和专业知识。我们认为，让能够在研究基础和公司参与者之间有效沟通的人员参与至关重要，特别是在早期阶段。因此，我们将聘请具有相关技术背景的技术翻译，他们将向本地/国家/国际组织推广大学的纳米技术能力。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。上面概述的方法旨在创建涉及研究人员和外部各方的富有成效的网络。2.筹资机制：科协还将为人员、技术和市场的短期支助提供资金。它将资助学者，因为KT主张买断学术时间，专注于KT活动。它还将通过临时首席执行官方案支持创业管理，通过专注于市场评估、客户识别和早期业务规划为衍生过程增加价值。我们还建议实施技术开发奖学金，这将为一名技术开发人员提供资金，该技术开发人员将确保技术以与业务规划相同的速度发展。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，达到这一阶段的技术将有资格获得将设立的产品开发/技术集成基金的支持，并认识到关键机会在于通过结合跨学科的技术来创造解决问题的方案。这笔资金将用于支持这一整合，并开发我们认为具有真正商业潜力的项目。资金还将支持对研究结果的验证、初级市场评估和市场反馈，大大加快寻找具有商业可行性的产品/项目的过程。我们还将为企业创建技术发展券计划，让企业在英国中小企业和大学之间建立新的关系，为中小企业提供本来负担不起的设施。这将是确保双向KT的关键手段，公司将带来与大学共同开发的商机。学者们发现，与产业界接触的实际障碍之一是，无法获得资金访问企业，以推广它们的研究。通过提供少量资金，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：我们将为学术人员提供企业培训、点对点和KT支持培训，并与为PGR和研究人员社区资助的Roberts提供的补充培训相结合，并将为行业提供CPD模块，以增强他们对研究引领的创新的吸收能力。

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.