The Royce: Capitalising on the investment

罗伊斯公司在技术准备水平（TRLs 1-5）范围内工作。该研究所以曼彻斯特大学为中心，在谢菲尔德、利兹、利物浦、剑桥、牛津和伦敦帝国理工学院等六所合作大学以及英国原子能管理局和国家核实验室发表过演讲。该项目旨在通过一个由业务和研发经理组成的分布式团队，对Royce的原始投资进行资本化。该资源将通过促进一系列活动，包括社区参与、设施使用和行业培训，推动参与和影响。该项目将为合作伙伴提供资源，以建立社区驱动的网络，以确保Royce能够了解、响应并服务这些社区的需求。作为各自核心领域的领导者，合作伙伴可以通过标准的研究资助和工业资助机制，充分利用罗伊斯的设施进行世界级的研究。然而，Royce的成立是为了通过促进新的合作水平来改变研究格局，从而将Royce的利益远远超出资本投资的接受者。要做到这一点，需要一种协调的方法，从个别学者对特定工具的所有权转向综合“研究供应链”的概念。这些将把提供原型材料、设备和系统所需的必要建模、制造、测试、分析和演示设施联系在一起。这种集成的“研究供应链”方法非常适合以挑战为导向的投资，旨在在英国提供有针对性的研究成果。要使这种办法在实践中发挥作用，就需要有专门的工作人员，他们能够把有关社区聚集在一起，确定应该优先考虑的机会和将这些设施联系起来所需的机制。在更注重问题的层面上，其目的是为罗伊斯建立一个明确的“前门”，使工业合作伙伴，从中小型企业（sme）到大公司，通过直接参与一个项目接一个项目的基础上与研究所接触，以解决具体问题。这也是罗伊斯的野心，帮助开发新一代的高技能的研究人员在先进的材料。为了补充我们现有的博士/CDT培训计划，我们在这里重点支持行业采用新材料、新技术、新方法和分析/建模技术。我们计划与专业机构和其他合作伙伴合作，举办一系列培训活动、研讨会、沙坑、意识会议和讲座，以确保英国工业界能够评估、试用并熟练掌握新兴技术和方法。

The Royce works across the range of technology readiness levels (TRLs 1-5). With its hub at The University of Manchester, the Institute has spokes at six partner universities of Sheffield, Leeds, Liverpool, Cambridge, Oxford and Imperial College London, as well as at the UK Atomic Energy Authority and National Nuclear Laboratory. This project aims to capitalise on the original Royce investment through a distributed team of business and research development managers. This resource will drive participation and impact by facilitating a range of activities including community engagement, facilities access and industry training. This project will provide Partners with the resources to establish community-driven networks to ensure that the Royce is aware of, responds to, and serves the needs of these communities.As leaders in their respective core areas, Partners are well placed to exploit their Royce facilities for world-class research through standard research grant and industrial funding mechanisms. The Royce was however established to change the research landscape by fostering new levels of collaboration so as to spread the benefits of the Royce far beyond the recipients of the capital investment. To do this a coordinated approach is required to move away from the ownership of specific kit by individual academics to the concept of integrated 'research supply chains'. These will link together the necessary modelling, fabrication, testing, analysis, and demonstration facilities needed to deliver prototype materials, devices and systems. This integrated 'research supply chain' approach is well suited to challenge-led investments aimed at delivering targeted research outcomes in the UK. For this approach to work in practice, dedicated staff are required who are able to bring together the relevant communities to identify opportunities that should be prioritised and the mechanisms required to link together these facilities. At a more problem-focused level, the intention is to establish a clear 'front door' to Royce to enable industrial partners, ranging from Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) to large corporations, to engage with the Institute through direct engagement on a project-by-project basis to solve specific problems. It is also the Royce's ambition to help develop a new generation of highly skilled researchers in advanced materials. To complement our existing plans for PhD/CDT training, here we focus on supporting industry with uptake of new materials, technologies, methods and analysis/modelling techniques. Working with professional bodies and other partners, we plan to set up a series of training activities, workshops, sandpits, awareness meetings and lectures to ensure that UK industry can assess, try out and become proficient in emerging techniques and methods.