Innovation Launchpad Network

创新启动板网络将汇聚来自学术界的跨学科团队，促进与目标为三个主题领域(净零、医疗保健与福祉和复原力)的所有九个弹射器的接触。该网络具有广泛的地域代表性，四个母国中有三个通过首席和联合调查员网络提供代表，其所涵盖的所有三个专题领域也包括在内。我们将得到一个更广泛的指导小组的支持，他们将带来所有三个主题的进一步专业知识和在所有九个弹射器中心工作的经验。该网络将提供与未来应对全球挑战的行业需求相一致的新知识渠道，将来自学术界的跨职能团队聚集在一起，促进他们与弹射器的接触。它将确定参与机会，允许学者与弹射器中心的同事合作，促进新技术、工具和技术的成熟，并将创造的新理解传播到整个弹射器网络。这一愿景的一个关键部分将是使尚未参与弹射器研究的个人和团体之间能够进行合作。该网络在英国各地都有代表。每个网络成员都将负责瞄准各自地区的知识交流(KE)团队并与其发展牢固的关系，有效地创建一个在其地区拥有联系的网络网络。通过将KE团队纳入每个地区的大学，我们希望发现机会，并向具有潜在发现的学者发出信号，说明该网络提供的机会，并最终发现这些机会。一系列研究指出，学术界获奖者的多样性之间存在显著差距。该网络认识到，提供平等机会、重视多样性和促进包容文化对我们的成功至关重要，这意味着我们必须找到新的方法来确定、促进和满足未来的研究需求，而不是向老牌学者颁发研究金的传统方法，因为这只会加强现状。我们的电子数据交换战略旨在通过对网络参与者的培训，以及通过促进学术界和弹射器之间的新合作，积极创造这一机会，使网络在影响这方面产生重大的积极影响。

The Innovation Launchpad network will bring together cross disciplinary teams from across academia, facilitating engagement with all nine Catapults across the three thematic areas targeted (Net Zero, Healthcare & Wellbeing and Resilience). The network has a broad geographical representation, with three of the four home nations represented through the network of Principal and Co-Investigators and all three thematic areas covered by their inclusion. We will be supported by a wider Steering Panel, who will bring further expertise across all three themes and experience of working across all nine of the Catapult Centres.The network will provide a pipeline of new knowledge aligned to future industry needs that address global challenges, bringing together cross functional teams from across academia and facilitating their engagement with the Catapults. It will identify engagement opportunities to allow academics to collaborate with their colleagues in the Catapult Centres, growing the maturity of new technologies, tools & techniques, and diffuse the new understanding created across the Catapult network.A key part of this vision will be to enable collaboration between individuals and groups who are yet to engage with the Catapults. The network has representation from across the UK. Each of the network members will be charged with targeting and developing strong relationships with the knowledge exchange (KE) teams in their areas effectively creating a network of networks with connections across their region. By including the KE teams in the universities in each area we hope to spot opportunities and signpost academics with potential discoveries to the opportunities provided by the network and ultimately to the catapults.A range of studies have noted that significant gaps exist between the diversity of the award winners in academia. The Network recognises that the provision of equal opportunity, valuing diversity and promoting a culture of inclusion is vital to our success and that this means that we must find new ways of identifying, promoting and fulfilling future research needs beyond the traditional approach of awarding fellowships to established academics, which just reinforces the status quo. Our EDI strategy is designed to proactively create this opportunity for the Network to make a significant positive impact in influencing this, through the training of the participants in the network, and through fostering new collaborations between academia and the catapults.