Research opportunities for industry

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Research opportunities for industry

• Dr Olena Doran
• Institute Research Coordinator
• olena.doran_at_uwe.ac.uk

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UK funding
Charities/Societies/Other
Research Councils
Royal Society
Genesis Faraday
Wellcome Trust
NIHR
BBSRC
EPSRC
MRC
NERC
International funding
British Council
EU
Direct contacts
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BBSRC Industry interchange programme
http//www.bbsrc.ac.uk/business/people_information
/industry_interchange.html

• Supports the flow of researchers between the
  science base and industry.
• Value up to 50, 000
• Contribution from the industrial/academic partner
  is required
• Application deadline 13 October 2009

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BBSRC Industrial partnership award
http//www.bbsrc.ac.uk/business/collaborative_rese
arch/ industrial_partnership_awards.html

• Supports science-led responsive mode grants
• 10 industrial contribution is required (in cash)
• Application deadline any time

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BBSRC Strategical Partnership and Technology Clubs
http//www.bbsrc.ac.uk/business/collaborative_rese
arch/industry_clubs/

• Supports research that underpins the needs of
  industry
• Bring together academic and industrial
  communities with an interest in a specific area
• Joint funds from Industry and the Research Council

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BBSRC LINK
http//www.bbsrc.ac.uk/business/collaborative_rese
arch/link/

• Collaborative research with at least one company
  and one science-base partner
• Projects with SMEs are particularly favoured
• Government support up to 50 of total costs
• Benefits for company
• Financial support for the project
• Closer relationship with the science base
• Possibility of recruiting appropriately trained
  staff at the end of the project

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Genesis Faraday Partnership
http//www.genesis-faraday.org/faraday-partnership
s.asp

• Supports interaction between the research
  community and industry in the area of animal
  health and animal breeding
• CASE studentships (two rounds per year). Includes
  BBSRC CASE.
• SPARK awards (two rounds per year)

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EPSRC opportunities
http//www.epsrc.ac.uk/

• Funding for
• collaborative research projects
• commercialising research
• training and secondments
• strategic partnerships
• knowledge transfer

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EPSRC Follow-on Fund
http//www.epsrc.ac.uk/ResearchFunding/Opportuniti
es/KT/FollowOnFund.htm

• Supports the very early stage of turning research
  outputs into a commercial proposition
• Duration up to 12 months
• Deadlines 27 August (two rounds per year)

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EPSRC Industrial CASE
http//www.epsrc.ac.uk/PostgraduateTraining/Indust
rialCASE/

• Led by Industrial Partner
• Can be allocated to KTN and regional development
  agencies
• Duration 3.5 years (includes 3 months industrial
  placement)
• Values 22,000
• Deadlines annually (usually in May)

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NERC Partnership Research Grants
http//www.nerc.ac.uk/using/schemes/partnershipgra
nts.asp

• Support collaborative research activities between
  academic researchers and public or private sector
  partners
• 25 partners contribution is required
• Values minimum 25 K
• Duration up to 3 years
• Deadlines two rounds per year (1 July and 1
  December)

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Industry Fellowship Scheme
http//royalsociety.org/funding.asp?id1125

• Funded by the Royal Society, BBSRC, EPSRC, NERC,
  Rolls-Royce plc and Astra Zeneca
• Duration up to 2 years
• Value salary cost 2,000 consumables per year
• Deadline two rounds per year (October and March)

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MRC Industry collaboration
http//www.mrc.ac.uk/Fundingopportunities/Grants/M
ICA/

• Small exchange award up to 6 months (50k)
• Joint fellowship up to 3 years (1 salary)
• Research project or network 1-3 years (60-500k
  50 contribution from Industry is expected)

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Wellcome Trust Technology Transfer Funding
http//www.wellcome.ac.uk/Funding/Technology-trans
fer/

• Translation
  Awards
• Response-mode funding designed to bridge the
  funding gap in the commercialisation of new
  technologies in the biomedical area
• Includes salaries, equipment, material, travel
• Deadline 14 August 2009

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Wellcome TrustTechnology Transfer Funding

• Seeding Drug
  Discovery
• Five-year, 91 million initiative
• Aim to develop drug-like, small molecules that
  will be the springboard for further research and
  development by the biotechnology and
  pharmaceutical industry in areas of unmet medical
  need
• Deadline 9 Nov. 2009, 21 May 2010

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International Collaboration

• MSc/PhD students placement
• EU schemes (research projects and exchange)
• Direct collaboration with overseas Industry and
  Academy

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EU loans for SMEs
http//ec.europa.eu/enterprise/sme/funding_en.htm

• fewer than 250 employees
• a turnover of less than 50m and/or
• a balance sheet total of less than 43m

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Your Europe Business portal
http//ec.europa.eu/youreurope/

• information and access to online government
  services for companies looking to do business in
  another EU country
• includes rights, obligations and administrative
  procedures related to business life events

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British Council
http//www.britishcouncil.org/new/

• International Research Projects with Industry
• International Networking
• International Workshops
• International Researchers/students exchange
  (including industrial placement