ESRC Investments Conference

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ESRC Investments Conference How to Engage with
Business ESRC Knowledge Transfer 12.00pm
to 1.15pm Tuesday 17th November 2009
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Format of session

• Introduction
• Liz Thomas, Communications Manager, Centre for
  Business Relationships, Accountability,
  Sustainability and Society (BRASS)
• Prof. Tim Coles, Capacity Building Cluster in
  Sport, Leisure and Tourism, University of Exeter
• Workshop session
• Film clip Entrepreneurs in residence

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Knowledge Exchange and Impact
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Knowledge Exchange and Impact

• Knowledge exchange and impact generation firm
  Government priority for the future
• Knowledge exchange can have significant economic
  and societal impact i.e. environment, public
  health and quality of life
• Encourage high levels of engagement between
  academia and key priority sectors (public,
  private and third sectors)
• Translation and application of research into
  innovation and policy
• Need to increase knowledge exchange and
  collaboration to get research into policy and
  practice
• Make an impact

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Benefits of Knowledge Exchange

• Academic Perspective
• Gain an understanding of the needs and
  priorities of potential research users
• Inform academic research
• Increase the prospects of academic research
  being applied and generating a wider impact
• Apply evidence-based knowledge and expertise to
  important policies
• Research User Perspective
• Research-informed evidence to develop and review
  policy and practice
• Access to innovative ideas and expertise
• Add value and enhance organisational creativity,
  performance and productivity through
  collaborations and partnerships
• Gain access to collaborative funding

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Generating impact relationships

• Key factors identified for generating impact
  include
• Established relationships and networks with user
  communities
• Where appropriate, the involvement of
  intermediaries and knowledge broker as
  translators, amplifiers, network providers, etc
• Good infrastructure and management support

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Generating impact co-production

• Involving users at all stages of the research
• Well-planned user-engagement and knowledge
  exchange strategies
• Co-production of knowledge scope for
  generating higher impact
• Portfolios of research activity that build
  reputations with research users

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Knowledge Exchange and Impact Generation
Opportunities

• A life course approach

Capacity Building Clusters Business and Third
Sector
Placement Fellowship Business Public and Third
Sector Schemes
Business Engagement Opportunities
CASE Studentships
Follow-on Funding
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships
Student Internships
Additional Opportunities and Resources
Social Science Workplace Experience Programme
Collaborative Research
Seminar and Workshops
Publications and Electronic Resources
Knowledge Transfer Training and Development
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Knowledge Exchange Mechanisms Opportunities

• Seminars Workshops
• Public Policy
• Third Sector Business
• Knowledge People Exchange
• Some ESRC-run others part of national schemes
  run by government or other bodies
• Knowledge Transfer Training and Development
• Range of opportunities across academic lifecycle

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How we can help

• Knowledge Brokering
• Conduit between researchers and research users
• Knowledge transfer schemes
• Engagement seminars and training workshops during
  the year

• Networking
• Well established networks and working
  relationships with businesses, public sector and
  third sector organisations and academic
  researchers

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Thank you
For further information Visit ESRC Knowledge
Transfer Guide www.esrcsocietytoday.ac.uk/ESRCInf
oCentre/Support/knowledge_transfer ESRC
Knowledge Transfer Opportunities
http//www.esrcsocietytoday.ac.uk/ESRCInfoCentre/
KnowledgeExch/index.aspx

Contact
Fiona Armstrong (Head of Knowledge
Transfer, ESRC) fiona.armstrong_at_esrc.ac.uk
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How to Engage with Business Workshop
Session Having heard the presentations and case
studies and drawing on your own experience, what
are the key issues you need to consider when
engaging with business? You have 20 minutes to
discuss the key issues and present them in the
form of a map to the other groups. You will have
2 minutes to present your map which can be in any
format you think is best for communicating to
others e.g. mind map, table, rich picture,
diagram etc.