NERC IAA - The University of Manchester

凭借强大的机构承诺和有效的KE基础设施，曼彻斯特大学实现了高水平的知识交流，成功交付了NERC IAA试点阶段。这种经验基础使我们能够进一步发展我们的优先事项，并专注于将显著增强NERC资助研究影响的机会。该大学认为，为了最好地实现IAA的目标，它应该发展利用其nerc资助的所有研究的能力，在这些研究中出现了可利用的知识和技术，并确定了利用的机会或需求。为了为大学的努力提供重点，已经确定了关键研究机构和研究优势，这些研究机构和研究优势为英国面临的关键挑战提供了重大贡献的潜力，并且/或者为支持业务增长的前沿技术提供了贡献的潜力，包括：道尔顿核研究所是该大学核研究的焦点；涵盖范围从核聚变到材料性能，从地质处置到社会影响。在研究所内，放射性废物和退役研究中心进行研究，支持发展有效、长期处理和贮存放射性废物的办法。RCRD的活动利用了大学内许多小组的专业知识，特别是放射化学研究中心（研究环境放射性和放射性废物特性）、材料性能中心（研究废物容器性能）、建模和模拟中心（研究材料性能的预测能力）以及威廉姆森研究中心（研究微生物和地质知识和调查）。大气科学中心研究对流层和平流层下层对气候变化和空气质量至关重要的过程。作为英国大学中最大的团队之一，我们与全球领先的大气科学机构有着广泛的合作关系。盆地研究和石油地球科学组整合了沉积盆地系统的各个方面，从源到汇，从微观到宏观尺度。项目包括结构、沉积学和地貌研究，涵盖基础和石油地球科学，主要研究方案得到石油工业的支持。我们的计划提出了一系列的教育措施，使教育绩效逐步改变，以确保我们在NERC研究涵盖的领域内实现大学在这一领域的战略目标：“通过确保及时有效地向相关外部合作伙伴提供研究和专业知识/诀窍，以最大限度地提高大学的经济和社会影响，以确保影响；反过来，通过与这些合作伙伴的互动，告知并加强研究活动。”我们建议的活动旨在：-在商业和学术界之间建立早期联系和战略联盟，作为扩展合作的基线-弥合支持早期商业化的差距，这些想法有可能带来大量的进一步投资-扩展参与大学的文化和技能特别关注那些通常不从事开发的研究人员-传播和捕捉NERC研究的成功影响。该计划将在大学对商业参与和知识交流的支持结构逐步改变的背景下实施。该大学已被公认为通过其子公司UMI3在商业化方面处于领先地位，并与企业建立了强大的战略研究关系。IAA的活动将帮助我们实现到2020年将这一活动水平提高两倍的既定目标。

The University of Manchester achieves a high level of knowledge exchange by virtue of strong institutional commitment and an effective KE infrastructure that successfully delivered the NERC IAA Pilot Phase I. This base of experience allows us to further develop our priorities and focus on opportunities that will significantly enhance the impact of NERC funded research.The University believes that to best deliver the aims of the IAA, it should develop the capability to exploit all of its NERC-funded research where exploitable knowledge and technologies emerge, and where opportunities or demand for exploitation are identified. To provide focus for the University's efforts, key Research Institutes and research strengths have been identified that offer the potential for significant contribution to key challenges faced by the UK and / or which offer potential for contribution to the leading-edge technologies that will underpin business growth, including:The Dalton Nuclear Institute is the focal point for the University's nuclear research, covering areas ranging from fusion to materials performance and from geological disposal to societal impact. Within the Institute, the Research Centre for Radwaste and Decommissioning (RCRD) undertakes research that supports the development of effective, long-term treatment and storage solutions for radioactive waste materials. Activities of the RCRD draw on expertise from many groups within the University, especially the Centre for Radiochemistry Research for environmental radioactivity and radwaste characterisation, the Materials Performance Centre for determination of the performance of waste containers, the Modelling and Simulation Centre for a predictive capacity of materials performance, and the Williamson Research Centre for microbiological and geological understanding and investigation. The Centre for Atmospheric Science studies processes important to climate change and air quality within the troposphere and lower stratosphere. As one of the largest groups in UK universities, there are extensive collaborative links with leading atmospheric sciences bodies worldwide. The Basin Studies and Petroleum Geoscience group incorporates all aspects of the sedimentary basin system, from source to sink and from micro- to macro-scales. Projects integrate structural, sedimentological and geomorphic studies and span the fundamental and petroleum geosciences, with major research programmes supported by the petroleum industry. Our plan proposes a range of KE measures enabling a step change in KE performance to ensure that we fulfill the University's strategic objective in this area in the domains covered by NERC research:'To maximise the University's economic and social impact, by ensuring research and expertise/know-how are delivered in a timely and effective manner to relevant external partners so as to ensure that impact, and in turn to inform and strengthen research activity by means of interaction with those partners.' The activities we propose will aim to: - Develop early stage contact and strategic alignment between business and academics as a baseline for extended collaboration- Bridge the gap in support for early stage commercialisation of ideas with potential to lead to significant further investment - Extend the culture and skills for engagement in the University, with a particular focus on researchers who do not normally engage in exploitation- Disseminate and capture successful impact from NERC research The plan will be implemented against a background of step change in the University's support structure for Business Engagement and Knowledge Exchange. The University is already recognised as being in the leading group for commercialisation through its subsidiary UMI3, and for a strong portfolio of strategic research relationships with business. The IAA activity will help us to achieve our published aim of trebling the level of this activity by 2020.