STFC IPS Fellowship Extension

将知识和技术从学术研究团体转移到工业中，以提振英国经济，是英国政府的优先事项。帮助这一过程的一种机制是雇用大学的创新研究员，他们与研究人员和行业合作伙伴合作，将研究成果商业化。在这项提案中，我们寻求支持扩大苏塞克斯大学STFC IPS研究员的支持范围。实现物理学研究的影响是一个巨大的挑战，特别是在STFC社区。与其他研究委员会资助的研究项目相比，STFC资助的研究项目的开始和结束时的技术准备水平(TRL)往往较低，通常不针对学术界以外的特定应用。这使得寻找和理解影响研究项目的潜在途径对学术人员来说是一个特殊的挑战，从而减少了工作产生非学术影响的可能性。这位研究员将在这一过程中与研究人员合作并为他们提供支持，通过进入物理和天文学系，这变得更加容易。该研究员还将与我们的研究和企业办公室、大学的企业小组和苏塞克斯创新中心合作开发创新和行业合作伙伴关系。对于我们的研究和与行业的合作研究项目，新的应用程序需要密切、直接地了解我们的投资组合，了解物理学商业化面临的挑战，以及专门的时间和努力探索潜在的机会。嵌入研究人员的IPS研究员在增加我们在范围和程度上的知识交流方面发挥了独特的作用，转变了我们向其他领域转移技术的能力。因此，我们有了一系列具有商业和社会影响路线图的项目组合，我们发展了许多新的产业合作伙伴关系，并从STFC研究小组产生了四项潜在的衍生业务。该研究员将尝试为苏塞克斯的STFC研究寻找新的应用领域，同时根据影响路线图推进项目。在最初的研究金期间，从非常早期的想法发展而来的四项衍生业务的发展将是一个特别的重点。

The transfer of knowledge and technology from academic research groups into industry in order to boost the UK economy is a priority for the UK government. One mechanism for helping this process is to employ Innovation Fellows, based in Universities, who work with the researchers and industry partners to commercialise research outputs. In this proposal we seek support for an extension to the support of the STFC IPS Fellow based at the University of Sussex.Realising impact from Physics research is a great challenge, particularly in the STFC community. STFC-funded research projects often begin and end at lower Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs) compared to those funded by other research councils and are not, generally, aimed at specific applications beyond academia. This makes finding and understanding potential routes to impact of a research project a particular challenge for the academic and consequently reduces the probability of non-academic impact arising from the work. The Fellow will work with, and support, researchers in this process and by being embedded in the Department of Physics and Astronomy this becomes much easier.The Fellow will also work with our Research and Enterprise office, the University's Enterprise Panel, and the Sussex Innovation Centre to develop innovations and industry partnerships.New applications for our research, and for collaborative research projects with industry, require a close, direct knowledge of our portfolio, an understanding of the challenges to commercialisation from physics, as well as dedicated time and effort to explore potential opportunities. The IPS Fellow embedded with researchers has played a unique role in increasing our knowledge exchange in both scope and extent, transforming our ability to transfer technology to and from other domains. As a consequence we have a portfolio of projects with commercial and social impact roadmaps, we have developed numerous new industrial partnerships and four potential spin-out businesses arising from STFC research groups.The Fellow will attempt to find new areas of application for STFC research at Sussex, whilst progressing projects with impact roadmaps. The development of the four spin-out businesses, developed from very early ideas during the initial Fellowship period, will be a particular focus.