NERC IAA - The University of Manchester

曼彻斯特大学凭借强大的机构承诺和有效的知识基础设施实现了高水平的知识交流，成功地交付了NERC IAA试验第一阶段。这一经验基础使我们能够进一步发展我们的优先事项，并将重点放在将显著增强NERC资助的研究的影响的机会上。曼彻斯特大学认为，为了最好地实现IAA的目标，它应该发展能力，在出现可利用的知识和技术、发现机会或开发需求的地方利用其所有NERC资助的研究。为突出大学的工作重点，已确定了有潜力对英国面临的关键挑战作出重大贡献和/或有潜力为支撑业务增长的前沿技术做出贡献的关键研究机构和研究优势，包括：道尔顿核研究所是该大学核研究的中心，涵盖从聚变到材料性能以及从地质处置到社会影响的各种领域。在该研究所内，放射性废物和退役研究中心(RCRD)开展研究，支持开发有效的、长期的放射性废物材料处理和储存解决方案。研究与发展中心的活动利用了大学内许多小组的专门知识，特别是环境放射性和放射性废物特征的放射化学研究中心、确定废物容器性能的材料性能中心、材料性能预测能力的建模和模拟中心以及微生物学和地质学了解和调查的威廉姆森研究中心。大气科学中心研究对流层和平流层低层内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体之一，与世界各地领先的大气科学机构有着广泛的合作联系。盆地研究和石油地球科学小组涵盖了沉积盆地系统的方方面面，从源到沉，从微观到宏观。这些项目综合了构造、沉积学和地貌学研究，跨越了基础科学和石油地球科学，并有石油工业支持的主要研究方案。我们的计划提出了一系列KE措施，使KE业绩逐步改变，以确保我们在NERC研究覆盖的领域实现大学在这一领域的战略目标：“通过确保研究和专业知识/技术以及时和有效的方式提供给相关外部合作伙伴，确保这种影响，进而通过与这些合作伙伴的互动，告知和加强研究活动，最大化大学的经济和社会影响。”我们建议的活动将旨在：-发展商界和学术界之间的早期联系和战略协调，作为扩大合作的基线-弥合对有潜力导致重大进一步投资的想法的早期商业化的支持差距-扩大大学参与的文化和技能，特别关注通常不从事开发的研究人员-传播并获取NERC研究的成功影响该计划将在大学商业参与和知识交流支持结构逐步改变的背景下实施。该大学已经通过其子公司UMI3被公认为是商业化的领先者，并凭借与商业的强大战略研究关系组合。IAA的活动将帮助我们实现已公布的目标，即到2020年将这项活动的水平提高两倍。

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.