Knowledge Transfer Account - The University of Manchester

曼彻斯特大学的EPSRC KTA专注于该研究的开发，该研究对英国及其工业面临的挑战做出了重大贡献。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从事开发。这些机制包括：联合水平扫描，重点是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，允许大学和用户组织之间的双向借调，以确定开发机会，或开展商业开发的研究；概念发展和可行性研究奖，支持研究人员为研究在特定领域的应用开发证据基础，以便公司能够评估其价值；知识转移研究员计划（Knowledge Transfer Fellows Scheme），聘用全职研究人员，为多家公司即时解决基于研究的问题；以及可许可技术发展奖励，支持技术发展到用户能够许可的程度；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还将专注于持续专业进修的发展，其中某一特定技术领域的大师课程将使用户能够制定利用该技术的策略。

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.