Working with Academia

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Working with Academia

• Marcia Jones
• marcia.jones_at_wales.gsi.gov.uk

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Accessing Academia

• Critical resource for the benefit of Industry ?
• Fundamental to the knowledge economy ?
• How can this be maximised?

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Technology and Innovation
Academic links

• Marketing
• Key events
• Material
• Research

• Funding
• Capital
• Colloborative
• research
• Personel

• Facilitation
• Brokerage
• Technology
• Experts
• Links to
• industry

Around 20 people focused on this activity,
several projects support International Relay
Centre, CETIC, Know How
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CETIC

• Centres of Excellence for Technology and
  Industrial Collaboration
• Accreditation scheme
• All centres submitted a business plan and were
  part of a competitive bid
• Decision based on track record of technology
  transfer and ability to deliver.
• Strong focus within group on working with
  industry.
• Need to show Best in Class capability that is
  relevant to industry
• Underpinned by relevant research
• Internal structure to support this e.g contracts,
  pricing policy,

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Centre Model
The Centre is the key interface to industry,
transferring Knowledge and collaborative
research, learning is feedback into teaching
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People are fundamental to this

• Commercial Manager Technically qualified with
  industrial experience. Primary role negotiating
  and interface, project scoping
• Director - Sets the strategy, often and
  influential academic with track record of working
  with industry

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Nature of work

• Short term half a day consultancy can sometimes
  make a significant difference
• Medium term 1 to 9 months
• Long term collaborative research

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The role of Welsh Assembly Government

• Fund the Commercial office
• Typically, Commercial manager support staff
• Monitor
• Monthly numbers, annual reviews,
• Networking, training
• Facilitate/ introduce
• Signposting for business, business intermediaries
• Promote
• Events, awareness raising within WAG, national
  and international e.g. Paris air show, medica,
  CeBIT,
• Bespoke marketing for individual CETICS
• Targeted to specific companies/sectors

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ICT

• CETICs
• CAST , visualisation, 3 D volume graphics, human
  interaction
• CASIS complex data systems, FMEA,automonous
  vehicles,
• CEPE, Orange 3 G lab, Automotive test facility
• Projects
• Smart antennae
• Digital signatures
• Clear match magistrates court
• Other
• High Frequency lab Cardiff, next generation
  mobile networks
• Institute of Advanced Telecoms, secure wireless,
  adhoc networking, telematics

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Environment and Energy

• CETICS
• Renewable energy creation/growth to combustion
  ( ABC, CARM,CAMS, CREWE)
• Sustainable design and construction (
  CEREA/CRIBE)
• Waste elimination and minimisation (
  PDR,CFP,CREWE,CEREA, CARM)
• Projects
• Willow for Wales
• Growth and refining of high sugar crops
• Gas Turbine test facility
• Low energy building
• Other
• Glamorgan, Power Electronics, CAZ

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Aerospace and Automotive

• CETICs
• High performance materials development and
  testing ( Materials) including composites and Bio
  Composites ( CARM)
• Finite element analysis, CFD ( C2EC)
• Software and communications /telematics
• Combustion testing, engine development ( CREWE)
• Automotive electronics test lab Summer 06 ( CEPE)
• Other
• Power electronics
• Fuel Cells Glamorgan

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Bioscience

• CETICS
• Natural product development applied to many
  industries food, constructions, cosmetics,
  healthcare CARM/ ABC(IGER)
• Medical device development
• Wound care and monitoring
• Surface engineering ( complex fluids)
• Lab on a chip
• BioSensor development
• Aquaculture, coastal environment
• Other
• ILS, CUBRIC, PET

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Product Development

• Strong grounding in all aspects from Concept to
  marketing finished product
• National Centre for product design ( PDR)
• Manufacturing Engineering Sector ( MEC)
• Civil and computational Engineering ( C2EC)
• Centre Electronic Product Engineering ( CEPE)
• Centre Advanced Software and Intelligent Systems
  ( CASIS)
• Wolfson Magnetics
• Examples Invertek Drives

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In Summary

• Universities have the ability to contribute to a
  companys growth
• CETICs are a proven way of accessing this ability
• Technology and innovation can facilitate this in
  numerous ways
• Contacts
• Marcia 029 20368492
• Bethan 029 20368410
• bethan.sheridan-jones_at_wales.gsi.gov.uk