Knowledge Transfer Account - University of Sheffield

谢菲尔德大学的知识转移账户（KTA）计划是围绕两个工作包制定的：1。成功的基础——这一组成部分包括一系列干预措施，这些干预措施将提供必要的基础设施，以比以前更彻底、更快地从大学的EPSRC投资组合中挖掘和开发商业机会。它将包括一个管理和交付团队；部门顾问;概念资金;驻场设计师；创新培训;知识转移伙伴关系资金；有一定的营销和沟通能力。建筑与基础设施旗舰项目；回收、能源和环境；零售和消费品行业将成为四个旗舰项目的早期重点。这将为大学与企业合作的质量带来一个台阶的变化；提高EPSRC研究成果所产生的知识转移活动的水平；并在认识、重视和传递知识的方式上实现文化转变。旗舰项目包括：a)虚拟企业实验室（VCL）是一个示范方案，为企业合作伙伴的产品管道提供燃料；致力于合作项目，将大学研发转化为以公司为中心的研发。VCL将与那些既没有财务资源，也没有专业知识和基础设施的公司合作，这些公司既没有足够的资金，也没有足够的专业知识和基础设施，无法在产品管道中提供产品创新所需的研发。b)开发温室——商业案例的这一要素将为交付工业研究标准的协作开发项目提供专用的、灵活的、安全的实验室空间。“温室”与虚拟企业实验室携手合作，将有助于克服在学术场所进行商业工作的常见障碍。例如，承担多个项目的实验室可能会出现知识产权泄露的情况，以及需要满足工业所要求的特定质量标准的设施。c)工业研究奖学金计划是一项高级奖学金计划，旨在促进高级学术人员向工业的转移，反之亦然，该计划将寻求改变与这种流动相关的价值观念。“高级工业研究奖学金计划”将与一个平行的计划相辅相成，为早期职业学者提供资助。d)谢菲尔德大学的这一活动项目致力于使用多媒体来彻底改变EPSRC研究项目与最终用户之间的商业机会交流，并挑战学术同事看待和推广其学术成果的方式。旗舰项目最初将集中在英国国家认可的生产力/研发差距的特定部门，即建筑和基础设施；回收、能源和环境；以及零售和消费品行业，根据我们的研究优势，我们已经确定了与商业开发机会直接匹配的领域。这些已经通过与合作伙伴公司的对话进行了测试，我们一直在与他们一起开发商业案例和早期商业项目机会。这两个相互关联的工作包直接建立在大学的研究和知识转移优势之上。商业案例强调了我们的信念，即学术研究人员和最终用户之间的接触点对于有效的知识转移至关重要，而KTA的目标是加强和促进这些互动，消除潜在的障碍并解决已确定的差距。

The University of Sheffield's Knowledge Transfer Account (KTA) programme is formulated around two work packages:1. Foundations for Success - this component includes a series of interventions that will deliver the essential infrastructure required to mine and develop commercial opportunities from within the Universitys EPSRC portfolio more thoroughly and faster than has previously been possible. It will include a management and delivery team; Sector Advisors; Concept funding; a Designer in Residence; innovation training; Knowledge Transfer Partnership funds; and a marketing and communication capability.2. Flagship Projects The Construction & Infrastructure; Recycling, Energy and Environment; and Retail & Consumer Product industries will form the early foci for four Flagship Projects. These will deliver a step change in the quality of university-business engagement; drive up the level of knowledge transfer activity arising from EPSRC research outputs; and enable a culture shift in the way in which knowledge transfer is perceived, valued and delivered. The Flagship projects include:a) The Virtual Corporate Laboratory (VCL) an exemplar programme to fuel the product pipelines of corporate partners; working on collaborative programmes to convert University R into company focused D. The VCL will work with companies that do not have either the financial resources or the expertise and infrastructure to go far enough from market to fill their product pipeline with the research and development needed to deliver product innovations. b) A Development Hot-House this element of the business case will provide dedicated, flexible, secure laboratory space for collaborative exploitation projects delivered to industrial research standards. Working in tandem with the Virtual Corporate Laboratory, the Hot-House will help to overcome the common barriers associated with undertaking commercial work on academic premises, for example the perceived potential for intellectual property leakage in laboratories hosting multiple projects and the need for facilities to meet the specific quality standards required by industry.c) The Industrial Research Fellowship Scheme a high-level fellowship programme to facilitate the transfer of senior academic staff into industry and vice versa that will seek to change value perceptions associated with this type of movement. The Senior Industrial Research Fellowship Scheme will be complemented with a parallel scheme for early career academics.d) Made in Sheffield this programme of activity is devoted to the use of multimedia to revolutionise the communication of commercial opportunities from EPSRC research programmes to end-users and to challenge the way academic colleagues view and promote their research outputs beyond academia.The Flagship Projects will initially focus on particular sectors where there is a nationally recognised productivity/research and development gap for the UK, namely the Construction & Infrastructure; Recycling, Energy and Environment; and Retail & Consumer Product industries, and where we have identified a direct fit with opportunities for commercial exploitation based on our research strengths. These have been tested through dialogue with partner companies with whom we have been developing the business case and early commercial project opportunities. The two inter-related work packages build directly on the research and knowledge transfer strengths of the University. The business case places strong emphasis on our belief that the point of contact between the academic researcher and the end user is critical to effective knowledge transfer and the KTA is targeted at strengthening and facilitating these interactions, removing potential barriers and addressing identified gaps.