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The Future. Faster
Ajay Kapadia, Knowledge Transfer NetworkHow the KTN can assist the Polymer Community
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We connect you
• Find markets • Find solutions • Find funding
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KTN’s missionKnowledge transfer
The Knowledge Transfer Network brings together businesses, entrepreneurs, academics and funders to develop new products, processes and services
We help business to grow the economy and improve people’s lives by capturing maximum value from innovative ideas, scientific research and creativity
Industry
Funders
Research
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Why we connect you
“We deliver UK economic growth”
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How we connect youKnowledge Transfer in practice
• Expertise, advice, introductions • Events • Innovation insights
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ProjectsWe work across sectors on the latest hot topics
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KTN’s support for AnacailAstrophysics Department University of Glasgow spin out
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Early stage investment support for AirstocAerial drone photography
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Value from KTN
>£50.00projectvalueatfiveyears
>£12.50Investmentmul>plier
£1.00grant
Results from 2116 respondents to KTN stakeholder survey October 2015!
How can I help your business?!
• Signposting companies to public funding (Innovate UK, EU, MoD, ESA, ….) opportunities
• Signposting companies to private funding opportunities • Putting companies in touch with private organisation who offer services in public
funding project application, administration and management • Putting companies in touch with potential partners (RTOs, SMEs, Academia) from
the network who may have technology that can help companies • During visits, offering a view on the technology being presented and making
suggestions based on knowledge and experience gained from working in the industry
• After learning about your needs, keeping an eye out for anything that may be of interest to the company and similarly (with their permission) making others aware of the company’s offering/services
How can I help your business (Cont’d)!
• If the company and others in the network identify similar needs, putting together groups/workshops/reports to address common issues to benefit the community as a whole
• Giving company access and helping them find the correct expert from 130 Knowledge Transfer Managers in different disciplines, at least one of whom should be able to answer the innovation enquiry or will know someone in their network who can
• Posting technology request on KTN noticeboard (anonymously if required) • Organizing scoping workshops for Innovate UK Competitions • Carrying out market or technology reviews for public bodies • Pushing technology from the research base to industry when both are ready • Independent in all of the above, not aligned to any organization, industry sector,
material or process • All services offered to UK based organisations free of charge
Polymers on _Connect!
https://connect.innovateuk.org/web/polymers!
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Innovate UK manufacturing and materials Competition Round 2
— £15M of funding — Key dates:
— Competition opens 21 November 2016. — Briefing events for applicants
— London - 23 November 2016 or via webinar — Glasgow - Thursday 24 November 2016 — Belfast - Monday 28 November 2016 — Swansea - Thursday 1 December 2016 — Darlington - Wednesday 7 December 2016
— Registration deadline Noon on 18 January 2017 — Application deadline Noon on 25 January 2017
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/funding-competition-manufacturing-and-materials-round-2
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Innovate UK Funding competition: emerging & enabling technologies round 1
— £15M of funding — Key dates:
— Competition opens 3 October 2016. — Briefing events for applicants all finished now but you can watch the
webinar from the London Event. — Registration deadline Noon on 30 November 2016 — Application deadline Noon on 7 December
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/funding-competition-emerging-enabling-technologies
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Funding competition: Aerospace Technology Institute R&T programme
— £3.8bn joint government and industry investment until 2020 — Key points:
— Open competition — Proposal must demonstrate industry/end user pull — Roadmaps and strategies published — Contact ATI to discuss your proposal: [email protected] — Website: http://www.ati.org.uk
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Advanced Propulsion Centre Funding
— Includes funding for Materials not just propulsion — £1 Bn joint Industry and Government Funding — Regular Open Competitions — Last one was: APC6: Accelerating the Drive to Low Carbon
Propulsion closed on the 28th September 2016 — Dedicated SME Support: Technology Developer Accelerator
Programme — Web: http://www.apcuk.co.uk
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HVM Catapult Centres and other RTOs
— Submitting proposals for funding (UK, EU, PV) — The HVM-C REACH programme offers SMEs:
— Access to initial complimentary assessment of processes and materials options — Up to five days funded support for SMEs to address opportunities for improvement/
capability enhancement, cost savings or new product de-risking — Potential additional funded days of support — Introductions to other companies and involvement on collaborative funding
programme — For more information, please contact [email protected] — Web: http://nccuk.com
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Local Enterprise Partnerships and Devolved Assemblies
— LEPs have replaced RDAsin England for local funding — Have a local regeneration/economic agenda — Can fund capital as well as revenue — There are regular open and targeted calls for funding — Get on their radar - someone will come and visit for free — Web:
— https://www.lepnetwork.net — http://gov.wales/?lang=en — https://www.scottish-enterprise.com — http://www.investni.com
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Centre for Defence Enterprise funding competitions
— How UK Defence R&D is funded — Two types of competitions:
— Continuous enduring competition — Themed competition
— Lots of help with the application process — MoD has Network Groups set up – e.g. Materials and Structures Science and
Technology Centre (MAST STC) to develop communities around themes — Web:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/centre-for-defence-enterprise-funding-competitions
Clean Skies!
• Too many calls to go through all of them
• Total Budget: 4 Bn Euros • Last call deadline 05/10/16 • Highly prescriptive process • Usually higher TRL than most
collaborative R&D programmes For full details of future calls: Web: http://www.cleansky.eu
ITD Leaders!
Horizon 2020!
• Too many calls to go through all of them • Most non metallic related topics in NMBP: Nanotechnologies,
Advanced Materials, Biotechnology and Advanced Manufacturing and Processing
• Dedicated SME Instrument • Calls now published: • http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/
funding/reference_docs.html#h2020-work-programmes-2016-17 • http://www.zabala.es/wp-content/uploads/2015/docs/
ZABALA_HORIZON2020_CALENDAR_2015-2016-2017.pdf
Opportunities for Polymers in Composites!
UK Composites Strategy – Composites Leadership Forum!
Opportunities for Polymers in Composites!
• Processing Composites is not all that different to processing Polymers/Plastics (i.e. you need a mould, you squirt the polymer into it, apply heat and pressure, demould, finish, join etc…)
• The matrix materials used (especially for thermoplastic composites) are very similar
• There are huge opportunities in Composites identified by the Composites Leadership Forum and others
• Then what is stopping the Polymers industry from taking advantage of this opportunity? is it technical, awareness, supply chain, training, ….)
• What can the KTN do to address the gap? and could this be an opportunity for the polymers industry to supply cheaper composite parts into automotive than the traditional composites supply chains
Thank you
Ajay Kapadia!Knowledge Transfer Manager – Advanced [email protected]!+44 7964 566380!
Sally Beken!Knowledge Transfer Manager - Polymers; Plastics & [email protected]!+44 7964 554659!
