August 2009

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Welcome to CIKC

CIKC is a centre of excellence for low temperature processing and fabrication of products using new macromolecular materials systems, such as polymers, advanced liquid crystals and nanostructures, for applications in computer and sensing technologies, displays and communication systems. The Mission of the Centre is to provide the business and technical expertise and infrastructure to enable those with exploitable concepts to achieve commercial success.

CIKC brings together research activities in Cambridge University in molecular and macromolecular materials in the Electrical Engineering Division and the Cavendish Laboratory with the expertise of the Judge Business School, the Institute for Manufacturing (IfM) and the Centre for Business Research (CBR), to create innovative knowledge exchange activities spanning business research, training and technology exploitation.

CIKC is a new approach to exploitation of research with:

• integrated business and technical expertise based in a University to leverage world class research

• critical mass able to support pilot prototyping and production

• space for small and large companies to partner innovatively

• the flexible transition of ideas, activities and people between Universities and Industry

Combining world-class research with a strong partnership with business, CIKC is a centre of excellence in low temperature processing and fabrication of products via the use of new materials. The Mission of the Centre is to provide the business and technical expertise and infrastructure to enable those with exploitable concepts to achieve commercial success.

Contents: 2 About CIKC

3 Technology

7 Facilities

10 Training

14 Commercialisation

16 Organisation

17 Project Portfolio 18 Small Grants 19 Work with CIKC 20 CIKC Partners

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About Integrated Knowledge Centres EPSRC are providing £7m over five years to fund the Cambridge Integrated Knowledge Centre (CIKC). The aim of the initiative is to provide an environment that supports knowledge exploitation in order to increase the economic impact of EPSRC research and postgraduate training. IKCs bring a completely new dimension through the provision of funding to service and develop the knowledge transfer interface with business, strongly tied to a programme of

pre-competitive collaborative research and postgraduate training.

Funding profile £6.95m EPSRC support over 5 years.

£2m Cambridge University commitment

£4-5m commercial activities and business partnerships related to CIKC.

£3-4m Other sponsors (e.g. RDAs, trade bodies, Government Departments, Funding Councils)

CIKC Activities The CIKC programme has four main components

• Technology: supporting seven technology development projects.

• Commercialisation: Four projects working to understand the industry and innovation context, technology management challenges and the policy and regulatory environment.

• Business & training: providing the skills and tools to understand the application of science and technology to the marketplace.

• Outreach: Disseminating CIKC learnings

Technology Programmes - Scoping Projects (Tech & Business) - Prototype Development projects

Business & Training - Business Dev Projects - Student Training - Specialist training

Consultancy

Project Specific Activities

Generic Underpinning Activities

Commercialisation -Partnering, Business de-risking, Case studies - Policy Studies

Outreach - Networking (Cambridge, UK, International) - Outreach Events

CIKC Support - Communications - Web - Marketing - Administration - Metrics

roadmapping

Management and organisation

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Technology CIKC has identified the following three core technology themes:

– Plastic (opto-)electronics: flexible displays/electronics and distributed electronics on rigid substrates at a “low” temperature budget

– Augmented or additive processing on active substrates (e.g. liquid crystal on silicon devices, LCOS)

– Complementary actions such as photovoltaic or energy storage/batteries

The development of molecular and macromolecular based components is likely to meet a very large range of commercial applications. The use of these new materials has been particularly apparent in display applications, for example LCOS devices are now becoming the main contenders in the emerging microdisplays industry. Polymer

semiconductors, compatible with low-temperature solution-based processing, offer the potential of integrating electronic, optical and photonic devices into flexible, low-cost plastic substrates, enabling a range of innovative products.

The penetration of soft materials into the electronics and photonics markets has only just begun, and with a market estimate measured in $10s of billion, the UK must capitalize on its strength in the basic science. CIKC provides an exciting opportunity to ensure that pioneering and world-leading research within the UK can be exploited, and that UK industry can remain at the cutting edge of this rapidly evolving field.

Polymer solar cell

LCOS holographic projection display Flexible displays

WDM add-drop multiplexer

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Printing for Manufacturing of Electronics (PRIME)

A self-aligned method for producing fully-downscaled printed organic FETs has been developed and this project aims to develop this as a manufacturable process for organic transistor circuit fabrication.

Partners: Plastic Logic, DuPont Teijin Films, Merck

FET performance:

• Operation below 5V

• L=200-400 nm, Overlap capacitance <0.6pF/mm

• Transition frequency fT = 1.6MHz

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• Prove manufacturability of printing process

• Assess and improve manufacturing yield and uniformity

• Assess device reliability

• Development of prototype

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High Performance Zinc Oxide Thin Film Transistors (HiPZOT) Plasma Quest Ltd have developed a novel deposition system for sputtering thin films at high rates with exceptional control of material properties and low substrate temperatures. This project aims to fabricate high mobility thin film transistors based on ZnO on plastic substrates using the Plasma Quest HiTUS system, for applications such as active matrix backplanes for OLED displays. As well as being compatible with plastic substrates, zinc oxide technology potentially offers lower cost and higher performance than amorphous silicon.

Partner: Plasma Quest

Results

• Fabrication of a new generation of TFTs using metal oxide based materials is possible at plastic-compatible temperatures. Mobility µFE 10 cm2 V-1s-1 and switching ratio >106 achieved with an amorphous indium zinc oxide (IZO) channel

• Amorphous phase is critical for stability

• HiTUS sputtering offers clear advantages for material control over rf magnetron sputtering

• Excellent optical properties observed in all films - fully transparent devices possible

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Polymer Interconnects with Environmental Stability (PIES) This project aims to determine how polymer waveguides able to operate in environmentally hostile applications can be fabricated using high resolution imprinting techniques in a low cost manner and to produce a range of optically functional multimode components suitable for direct integration with electrical circuit boards.

Partners: Dow Corning, Tyco, Avago

Successful integration of optical components into existing electronics architectures and manufacturing processes requires material capable of withstanding high-temperatures related to soldering and lamination. Siloxane polymers from Dow Corning can withstand > 250oC, can be integrated onto standard FR4 PCB and have low intrinsic optical loss.

This project is an investigation into low cost, high performance optical integration components using siloxane polymers. The aim is to take the technology to the stage where it can be readily transferred to production and to enable a wide range of low cost products based on opto-hybrids.

Polymer waveguides over copper tracks

10 card optical backplane

Polymer waveguides: 90° crossings and 90° bends

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Infrastructure and facilities CIKC has a collectively owned core of capital equipment, complementary to current facilities, to enable product development right through to pilot production. CIKC collaborative projects draw upon both physical and personnel resource across the partnership.

The CAPE laboratories and the Cavendish are well-equipped with dark-room, wet labs, communications demonstration and test equipment, general electronic component assembly and test as well as large very high quality clean-room suites, which are utilised by CIKC projects.

CIKC is currently adding to this infrastructure specific equipment sets for

1. Liquid Crystal on silicon (LCOS) device prototyping

2. Printing of organic electronic devices

3. Low temperature deposition of transparent conducting oxides on plastic substrates.

4. Fabrication of large area liquid crystal displays on plastic

We would welcome enquiries from industry and other academic institutions interested in accessing this infrastructure.

Plasma Quest HiTUS sputter system for deposition of a wide range of transparent conducting oxides on plastic substrates for flexible electronics.

Bench top coater/laminators for liquid crystals on plastic substrates for plastic display structures, plastic electronics and plastic based photovoltaics.

Suss Kadett Semi- Automatic Device Bonder allows accurate assembly for LCOS fabrication.

Litrex L120L industrial multi-nozzle Ink Jet System for process development for organic electronic circuits. The tool is currently setup for ink jet printing of gold and silver nanoparticle inks.

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The major initial infrastructure is listed in the table below. The intention is to allow access to the infrastructure through Open Access initiatives, a Small Grants programme and through collaborative R&D projects. As much of the infrastructure equipment is quite specialised, and will be set up for specific processes, it will not be possible to allow unrestricted external use of the equipment. However, access will be provided to as wide a range of uses as is practicable.

Equipment Available Functionality

SET/Suss Kadett device bonder/robotic assembly tool

Semi-automatic device assembly with pattern recognition on substrate and chip, and with UV-light curing capability

Wyko NT1100 white light interference microscope

Non-contact optical profiling using phase-shifting interferometry and white light vertical scanning interferometry. Motorised x-y stage with programmable area

stitching control, and manual z-axis control.

K&S 4126 wedge bonder

Wedge bonding with gold (12-75 µm wire diameter) or aluminium (25-75 µm

wire diameter), with 30/45 degree wire trajectory and an adjustable tail length. Air-damped bonding head with a 10-160 gram bond force range, and ultrasonic power of 1.3 Wmax and 2.0 Wmax settings. The bonding area is

95x95 mm.

Plastic display laboratory hot melt screen printer and roll coater, thermal and radiation curing systems

HiTUS system Sputter deposition of metal oxide materials from metallic targets over up to 6”

area

Litrex 120 ink jet printer Inkjet printing of metallic and semiconducting polymer inks 370x470 mm substrate size)

Yasui Seiki roll–to-roll gravure coater Coating of thin (100 nm), continuous semiconducting polymer films on flexible plastic substrates (3-6” web)

Roll-to-roll gravure/flexo printer Coating and coarse patterning of conducting polymer inks, as well as certain other printable metal inks

Automated probe station Automated testing of arrays of discrete electronic devices (system optimized for probing printed electronic devices)

UV Laser curing system Laser annealing and laser ablation of a thin polymer and metal films (laser

wavelength = 355 nm, 420-680 nm)

Organic electronics printing

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General facilities for processing of organic TFTs and photodiodes, including i-

line photolithography, solution processing under inert atmosphere, inkjet printing, zone-casting, plasma and reactive ion etching, metal evaporation and sputtering, annealing under controlled atmosphere

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General facilities for the deposition of thin film and nanostructured materials by

a range of vacuum techniques, liquid crystal processing facilities and device fabrication facilities for electronic and photonic device fabrication, including 0.5µm photolithography, e-beam lithography and deep reactive ion etching.

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Roadmapping Successful achievement of CIKC goals requires a high level of collaboration and integration across the various programme themes, projects and activities. This is particularly challenging given the complexity of both the underlying science/technology and the potential routes to commercial exploitation, together with the diversity and number of stakeholders and projects involved.

Roadmapping is being used as a framework to support strategic planning for individual projects within CIKC, as well as supporting alignment within the programme. Roadmapping techniques are widely used in industry to explore, manage and communicate the linkages between technology and research investments, product developments, business objectives and market opportunities, using a structured visual framework.

The exploratory roadmapping method provides a structured means for mapping and exploring CIKC project exploitation opportunities, in order to

• Support project strategy development at an early stage.

• Clarify exploitation paths (in particular, to identify application opportunities in the short, medium and long term).

• Identify issues of relevance to other projects to support programme alignment

• Initiate roadmapping in projects.

Exploratory workshops have been held for a number of CIKC projects using a

roadmapping template to capture participant views and guide discussion. The summary view is then used to create outline roadmaps which highlight short, medium and long term application opportunities and associated exploitation enablers and barriers

From a programme alignment perspective the key outcome from each workshop is a report summarising the commercial and exploitation issues identified, including short, medium and long term application opportunities, in a format that non-technical experts can understand and which are of relevance to the commercialisation projects

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Business & training Training Courses The educational and training component provides CIKC-funded staff and students with skills and tools to understand the challenges and opportunities in the application of science and technology to the marketplace. CIKC corporate members also have access to training and executive development programmes delivered by the Judge Business School and IfM

Executive Education CIKC can facilitate the attendance of staff from our industrial partners on the Open Programme of Executive Education run by the Judge Business School.

Cambridge Executive Education programmes are designed for business professionals, managers, leaders, and executives who strive for professional and personal growth. A portfolio of over 20 programmes enables participants to choose courses that extend their skills and understanding to achieve personal development and career objectives. Most programmes are offered in a 2-day format and located at Cambridge University.

Others are offered over five days. Open Enrolment courses at Cambridge may be taken individually or applied to the General Management Certificate.

Of particular relevance to technology sector companies will be the course entitled Managing Innovation Strategically (October 15-16 2009 or October 14-15 2010). In this programme, you will learn why firms struggle to create and capture new value. We will share a number of concepts on how to implement innovation in an organisation and develop a set of practical tools and concepts that you can apply to your business. The programme is taught by Professor Arnoud De Meyer and Dr Kamal Munir, both leading experts in the field of innovation.

More details are available at www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/execed/

Representatives from CIKC partner companies who would like to discuss what assistance CIKC can offer your company please contact the office

IfM Courses The Institute for Manufacturing (IfM) also run a number of executive training courses, workshops and seminars on economic, management and technology issues

Many of the IfM's courses are run on an in-company basis with modules tailored to address the issues facing a particular organisation and adapted to suit the level of management. These customised training packages help managers to think through the issues and needs to be addressed and to develop appropriate solutions. They may

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involve a combination of technical, management and software training using tools and techniques developed as part of IfM research programmes in collaboration with industrial partners. Courses are led by experts from within the IfM.

For details see:http://www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/

Ignite The Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (CfEL) has been running this intense, one-week training programme for aspiring entrepreneurs and corporate innovators since 1999 with increasing success, and for the last 3 years CIKC has sponsored a number of students to attend the course.

The programme is comprised of a blend of practical teaching sessions, one-to-one and group clinics, mentors’ sessions and expert advice from leading entrepreneurs and innovators that will give you the tools, contacts and confidence to transform your idea or innovation into a successful business project or venture. The week culminates with a presentation of your refined business proposition to a panel of investors, entrepreneurs and venture heads in private and gain valuable feedback for the way forward.

The 2010 course will run from June 27-July 3 More information: http://www.cfel.jbs.cam.ac.uk/programmes/ignite/

MOTI This year over 40 PhD students from physics and engineering attended the MOTI course through CIKC.

MOTI equips students with an understanding

of how their science, engineering and technology knowledge can be transformed into commercial products and services, and the pathways by which innovations reach the market place. The course provides a basic grounding in the domains of strategy, organisation, marketing, finance and

Ignite attendee feedback: “Some of the participants called the course an entrepreneurship MBA. I think it really deserves the name.”

“Ignite not only provides me with the knowledge about entrepreneurship but also provides me with a valuable network, both which I believe are very important to my future development.”

“After Ignite, my business idea has a brighter future.”

“From the course, I have gained all the tools required to build a successful business.”

“I have been and given several courses in the world and I think this one is one of the best of all. Very well explained, amazing speakers, great social events. Difficult to improve - I think it is a world-class unique course.”

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accounting, microeconomics and commercialisation of innovation. In each area, the focus is on issues particularly relevant to managing innovation – be it in products, processes or in the strategy and direction of an organisation. Lectures take place in the evenings during Michaelmas and the early part of Lent terms. Each subject course comprises 8 hours of teaching, taught in 2 hour sessions.

Technology and Innovation Management This intensive three-day course will help managers to understand and to use the key tools and techniques needed to fully exploit technological investments and opportunities. Attendees will gain a working knowledge of how to:

• integrate technological considerations into business strategy and long-range planning processes

• understand and communicate the value of technology investments

• understand which products and components to make in-house and which to outsource

• deal with the associated collaboration issues

• manage new product development and introduction processes in the context of the innovation system

• use appropriate, process-based technology management approaches

Further details of the course are available from IfM TIM website

ISMM Module This module is on offer to CIKC postgraduate students or research staff. The two week course runs in January 2010 at Wolfson College.

Students join a cohort of graduate students undertaking an MPhil in Industrial Systems, Manufacture and Management run by the Centre for Technology Management at IfM. The course is action learning orientated, includes visits, external speakers and requires some out of hours study. At the end of the module students will have a practical Technology and Innovation Management toolkit which they will be able to apply to technology commercialisation activities. Students will receive a certificate of attendance for Transferable Skills requirements.

CIKC participants on the ISMM module were very enthusiastic about the module, particularly valuing the variety of speakers, mix of students and practical activities

“It was a great way to learn about technology and innovation management. I particularly enjoyed the group activities where much talking and arguments took place. It helped us as PhD students to look at what we do in research in a

different perspective.”

“I learned a lot that will be very useful for my future in research and business”

“Mixing with the ISMM Masters students was great. This enabled a 'cross-pollination' of ideas from each group.

Fresh thinking and out of the box ideas from ISMM group were honed with more practical and experienced approach from CIKC students.”

“A wonderful course, it really helped me understand concepts related to management of technology.”

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i-Teams Based on a program at MIT, this is a unique opportunity for entrepreneurial post-graduate students to work with real

inventions and build go-to-market strategies for ground-breaking technologies developed in Cambridge.

Each i-Team consists of up to 7 students from different disciplines, and will work with a nominated research project selected from several University departments guided by mentors from the local business community. The i-Team assesses the commercial prospects for the technology by discussing the technology with real target customers to identify suitable product markets and define directions for future technology development, helping to drive the use of lab research in real-world applications.

i-Projects run for about 9 weeks during term time. All the i-Teams meet as a group five times on Monday evenings at IfM during the term for lectures and progress updates and for the final presentation session. Each team has weekly meetings, and the team members also work individually. The individual work is estimated as averaging 4 hours a week.

For more information see www.iteamsonline.org

Student projects Student projects facilitate technology transfer by bringing commercial skills, primarily in strategy, marketing and business planning, to early-stage technology. This element provides opportunities for graduate students in business to use the skills gained in the classroom in a practical context through work on projects related to the commercialisation of CIKC technologies. In return, CIKC partners get access to teams of exceptionally bright and motivated students to tackle problems of real business importance.

See www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/projects or www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/studentprojects.

If you have a business problem you think could provide a basis for a project then please contact the CIKC office as soon as possible so that a potential project brief can be discussed.

Project Name Proposal Deadline Project Date

Cambridge Venture 18 Sep 2009 Nov-Dec 2009

MoTI 26 Nov 2009 Jan-Mar 2010

Global Consulting 15 Jan 2010 Mar-Apr 2010

MST 5 Feb 2010 May 2010

MBA Individual Jan 2010 Jun-Sep 2010

MET Oct 2009

ISMM Nov 2009-

Joining i-Teams is an opportunity to be part of an exciting team, learn about taking real technologies to market, strengthen your skills, and have fun

“Our team was like a small company, working together to achieve a common goal”

“i-Teams is one of the most entertaining and inspiring projects I have ever worked on. It has helped to reshape and direct my future career towards entrepreneurship”

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Commercialisation Despite successes within the Cambridge cluster and elsewhere, the UK has a long history of failing to build sizeable new global technology businesses and in microelectronics the problem is compounded by the absence of many elements of the manufacturing supply chain within the UK economy. The key challenges for the commercialisation programme are to understand the specific industry and innovation context within which CIKC operates, the technology management challenges and the policy and regulatory environment and its impacts.

The CIKC commercialisation programme has four key objectives:

• to improve the speed and effectiveness with which CIKC projects move to successful commercialisation and facilitate access to a range of commercial and funding partners

• to deliver practical, evidence-based policy recommendations to Government, EPSRC, and the University, on how the UK science base can best be exploited for the benefit of the regional and national UK economy.

• to develop a set of best practice outcome and impact metrics and an associated database to enable IKC to be a policy and practice thought leader in this area

• to make a significant contribution to the academic literature on technology commercialisation

Commercialisation Activities

Commercialisation Panel Objectives

CIKC Strategic

Objectives

Discovery, Facilitation

and Measurement

L I T E R A T U R E S U R V E Y

Best Practice Case Studies

Participant Observations

Speed & Effectiveness Metrics (Best Practice)

& Database

Management Lessons Govt Policy Lessons

Academic Literature on Technological

Commercialisation

Advancing Codified Knowledge

Fundamental Research

Targeted Research

Pre - prototype Development

Pilot Manufacturing

Transfer to Full Production

Top - level Roadmapping

Competitive Analysis

Value Chain Analysis

D I S C O V E R

E X P L O R E

S H A P E

Licence Contract Partner Spinouts

INCEPTION PHASES I and II

Commercialisation, partnering and

risk management strategies Systems

Development and Applications

Engineering

People People

Strategic Objectives

Discovery, Facilitation

and Measurement

L I T E R A T U R E S U R V E Y

Best Practice Case Studies

Participant Observations

Speed & Effectiveness Metrics (Best Practice)

& Database

Management Lessons Govt Policy Lessons

Academic Literature on Technological

Commercialisation

Advancing Codified Knowledge

Fundamental Research

Targeted Research

Pre - prototype Development

Pilot Manufacturing

Transfer to Full Production

Top ;level Roadmapping

Competitive Analysis

Value Chain Analysis

D I S C O V E R

E X P L O R E

S H A P E

Licence Contract Partner Spinouts

INCEPTION PHASES I and II

Commercialisation Laboratory Research Activities

KEY: Emerging Commercialisation opportunities

Commercialisation Laboratory Research Activities

KEY: Emerging Commercialisation opportunities

Commercialisation, partnering and

risk management strategies Systems

Development and Applications

Engineering

People People

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Regulation of Molecular and Macromolecular Materials Laure Dodin from IfM has been exploring the regulatory regimes for nanomaterials in the EU, US and Japan as part of the IKCCL project.

Nanotechnology has been earmarked by the UK, the US and the Japanese governments as a strategic sector for their economy. But the development of a regulatory framework for this technology, rendered necessary by the rapid expansion of nanotechnology R&D as well as the handling and commercialisation of nanoproducts, is difficult as this new technology presents risks still largely unknown.

The regulators from all three countries have adopted a similar regulatory strategy to deal with the situation: prioritising the reduction of scientific uncertainty over the creation of new regulations, they have developed a cradle-to-grave approach which permits taking into account the possible hazards posed by nanomaterials at each stage of their life cycle.

However, the investigation of possible regulatory options solely at the domestic level is insufficient and national regulators are also involved in an international collaboration.

Laure’s notes on the regulatory regimes in each region and a comparison of the different approaches they have adopted can be accessed on our Camtools site.

The Economics of Uncertainty in Technology Development Niyazi Oztoprak and Stefan Scholtes of the Judge Business School have developed a spreadsheet teaching case based around one of the CIKC technology projects.

The magnitude of the future value of new and potentially disruptive technologies is highly uncertain, driven by technological, commercial and political risks and opportunities. A solid understanding and effective communication of these uncertainties and their effects on development plans is paramount for an efficient allocation of effort and funds and the design of effective development strategies. The teaching case guides the student through a range of increasingly sophisticated valuation methodologies with improved incorporation of value uncertainty using a dataset comprising 20,000 scenarios for the change of the projected launch value of a product as the development unfolds.

Teaching and solution spreadsheets as well as a teaching note can be downloaded at http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/~ss248/ikc

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Organisation The Management Committee is the main CIKC decision-making body. It reviews projects against milestones and determines the distribution of money and resources between the different tasks.

The four KT panels assess proposals for funding, make recommendations to the Management Committee and review ongoing research activity.

An Independent Advisory Board, including external members from industry, other universities and government, advises CIKC on strategy and policy.

The goal of the CIKC is to ensure that the progress of innovation through to commercialisation is facilitated. Our companion goal is to capture the process via which this occurs and also to identify the metrics appropriate to assess such actions.

CIKC Independent Advisory Board Chair Chris Williams

Management Committee Chair Prof I White

IP Panel

Technology Panel Prof Bill Milne

Business & Training Panel Prof Shai Vyakarnam

Commercialisation Panel Prof Arnoud De Meyer

Outreach Panel

CIKC Director Mr Chris Rider

Programme Manager Dr Mark Leadbeater

Administrator Mrs Maggie Tanner

Industry Academia

EPSRC Customer UK plc

Technology Technology

Commercial - isation

Commercial - isation

Outreach Outreach Business & Training

Business & Training

Outputs Reports, reportable evidence Projects

EPSRC Government

Proposal Proposal

Strategic Framework: Mission, Strategy, Tactics

Strategic Framework: Mission, Strategy, Tactics

Metrics Document: Metrics, measurands

Metrics Document: Metrics, measurands

Call for Proposals

EPSRC KT Strategy

Warry Report

Oversight

Intents

Actions

Outcomes

Lambert Review

Science & innovation investment framework 2004 - 2014

Foresight Commission

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Project Portfolio Project Investigators Department Budget Partners 3PV Greenham, Sirringhaus, Friend, Ferrari Physics, Elec Eng £668k Carbon Trust

Development of process technology for the manufacture of organic photovoltaic devices by printing onto flexible substrates

HiPZOT Flewitt, Milne, Robertson Elec Eng £492k CAPE, Plasma Quest, 3T

Low temperature deposition of transparent conductors and TFTs on flexible substrate

PASSBACK Crossland Elec Eng £303k CAPE

LCOS devices for phase-only holography for applications in video projection and telecommunications

PIES Penty Elec Eng £224k Dow Corning, Avago

Environmentally stable low cost polymer interconnects for photonic communications

PLACORD Crossland, Davey, Dyadyusha Elec Eng £397k Advex, Dow Corning

Large area colour displays suing Smectic liquid crystal on plastic substrates

PRIME Sirringhaus, Friend Physics £628k Plastic Logic, Merck, DuPont Teijin Films

Development of scalable printing-based manufacturing processes for polymer transistor circuits

ROOT Sirringhaus Physics £340k Hitachi

Understanding the causes of operational degradation in organic TFTs

ACET Probert IfM £81k

Roadmaps for MMM technology with workshops on specification applications.

COIN Minshall IfM £47k Unilever

Assessment of the operational capabilities and skills required to implement an open innovation strategy

DEVA Holweg JBS £104k BT, Nissan

Develop value chain evaluation methodology and a decision support tool for rapidly evolving markets and technology.

FTB Cosh CBR £100k NESTA, EEDA, NW Brown

Models of alternative funding routes to commercial success for early stage technology breakthrough businesses

IKCCL DeMeyer/Hughes/Gregory JBS/CBR/IfM £469k

Codify existing knowledge of the factors affecting commercialization processes and the policy context. Review and develop best practice evaluation methodology and metrics linked to knowledge exchange and commercialization

BUSINESS & TRAINING: Support for MOTI, Ignite, i-teams, TIM and Executive education programmes (£107k)

OUTREACH: Seminars, networking Events, publicity, dissemination (£79k)

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Small grants

To ensure some new, disruptive and challenging exploration of ideas is encouraged (within a balanced and focused portfolio) a proportion of CIKC funds (approximately 10%) have been reserved for radical thinking or exceptional ideas, a concept strongly backed by CIKC industrial partners and the Advisory Board. The intent is to use this funding stream to broaden the range of CIKC partners particularly those in other academic institutions, by making available access to CIKC infrastructure and facilities.

Proposals will be considered for small scale, short collaborative projects including (i) feasibility studies to allow radical ideas to

be explored to build a case that could then be brought forward for further funding or to seek external grant aid with support from one or more partner.

(ii) grants for the use of CIKC infrastructure, facilities or services

(iii) access for IKC researchers to equipment or services at other institutes

(iv) requests from an industry partner for solution to a specific problem.

Applicants should seek to supplement the budget with support from other agencies, such as EEDA or TSB (for example £15k would be the maximum matching funding required for a proof-of-concept grant), and from industry. In the case of collaboration with industry, the intellectual property terms will be in line with the University’s IP policy and a collaboration agreement (based on the Lambert model) will be negotiated.

Proposals will be reviewed by the relevant KT panel based on the following criteria:

• relevance to the CIKC remit

• potential business impact,

o involvement of and support from industrial partners

o potential benefit to technology commercialisation process

• technical quality

• evidence of the need for support by CIKC and cost effectiveness of the use of CIKC

The intention is to have a rapid turnaround of proposals.

The initial funding round included projects with both other academic institutions: Professor Ajoy Kar of Heriot Watt University, Professor Arokia Nathan of UCL, as well as industry partners: DuPont Teijin Films, Datalase, Nokia, Nano ePrint, DreamGlass and Toshiba.

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Ways to work with CIKC Industrial partners can interact with CIKC in a variety of ways:

• Small grants fund - Small scale (£20k) projects e.g. feasibility studies and collaborative projects with external partners seeking access to CIKC infrastructure, facilities or services

• Collaborative R&D projects.

• Participation in commercialisation research projects

• Student projects

• Training opportunities

• Panel membership (by invitation)

• CIKC Outreach Events – roadmapping workshops, etc

CIKC Cambridge Network

M GregoryD ProbertR Phaal F LiveseyL MortaraY ShiL DodinJ ShawcrossT MinshallY Zhang

Centre for Technology ManagementCentre for Economics and PolicyCentre for International ManufacturingMET

Electronics Devices and Materials Photonics Research Electronics Power and Energy Conversion

A HughesD ConnellA CoshA MinaA BullockS SharpeI MilnerI HahneS Moore

Department of ChemistryW HuckS ElliotP Guildford

I H WhiteW I MilneW CrosslandG AmaratungaR PentyH ColesJ Robertson A FerrariA FlewittN CollingsA DyadyushaA Jeziorska-ChapmanT DaveyG PriviteraZ Zhang

A De MeyerJ RundeB NuttallS ScholtesL AbelnJ SwanS Vyakarnam Y MyintF BycroftS BarakatM HolwegA FigueredoN Oztoprak

Optoelectronics GroupMicroelectronics Group

R FriendH SirringhausN GreenhamR ChakalovE LimM CaironiE GiliR di Pietro

Electrical Engineering Division

CIKC www.cikc.org.uk

Partner Organisations CIKC has received strong industrial support from partners with complementary expertise and is also forming a close relationship with the knowledge transfer network in Photonics and Plastic Electronics and other UK Centres of Excellence, Welsh Centre for Printing and Coating (Swansea), The Organic Materials

Innovation Centre (Manchester) and the Printable Electronic Technology Centre (PETEC) (Sedgfield).

Currently 25 companies are involved in CIKC producing £4.4m of matching funding, surpassing the 5-year target.

Contact CIKC For more information please contact Mark Leadbeater or Maggie Tanner in the CIKC Office

CIKC Electrical Engineering Division University of Cambridge 9 JJ Thomson Avenue Cambridge CB3 0FA

Telephone +44 (0)1223 748370 Fax: +44 (0)1223 748342 email: mll35@cam.ac.uk Web site www.cikc.org.uk Intranet: camtools.caret.cam.ac.uk