Innovation and Knowledge Transfer Can we deliver

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Innovation and Knowledge TransferCan we deliver?

• Science Council
• Brian Fender President of IKT
• BCS, London
• 7th April 2008

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Knowledge TransferIssues

• Is the burden of expectation too high?
• Large government investment in research - pay
  back requirements?
• Do we understand Knowledge Transfer?
• Knowledge transfer rather than technology
  transfer
• Do we have the people capacities and
  competencies?
• Role of the Institute of Knowledge Transfer
• Are KT or TT business models generally
  sufficiently robust? Is there sufficient access
  to the demand side?

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Technology TransferA Burden of Expectation

• Science Budget (Overall CSR increase (17.4))
• Research Councils 2.7b (07)?3.2b (2010)
• National Academies 72 (07)?88m (2010)
• Capital Funding 405m (07) ?480m (2010)
• Knowledge transfer 99m (07) ? 125m (2010)
• HEFCE 1.42b (2007-8) other HEFCs
• Wellcome Foundation 500m pa over last 5 years ?
  800m pa over next 5 years
• Business RD 14.3b in 2006 up 7 (pharma 26)
  overseas contribution to UK businesses 3.3b) UK
  government 1.1b (defence)

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Universities delivering

• Government schemes (funding).appear to have
  produced a major culture change within our
  universities, building capacity, increasing
  professionalism and making HEIs more valuable
  partners for industry
• -The Sainsbury
  Review 2007

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But governments are impatient- more direction
and initiatives

• Cross Research Council programmes
• Energy - includes the Energy Technologies
  Institute
• Living with environmental change
• Global Threats to security 113m over 3 years
  (21m to AHRC)
• Aging Life-long Health and Well-being
• Creation of high value jobs? - e.g.Techniums in
  Wales

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Technology Strategy Board100m investment in
innovation

• Phase 1
• Materials for energy
• High Value Manufacturing
• Cell therapy
• Phase 2
• Low carbon technologies
• Advanced Lighting, Lasers and Displays
• Technologies for Health
• Phase 3
• Gathering data in complex environments
• Creative industries

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Innovation White Paper (1)

• Links with the demand side
• Government departments and an Innovation
  Procurement Plan
• Supporting Business Innovation
• TSB 5 innovation platforms
• Double the number of Knowledge Transfer
  Partnerships
• Appropriate (possible sources for the funding
  innovative businesses need) finance available for
  all innovative businesses at all stages of
  growth
• Innovative Research Base
• Innovation Index (NESTA)
• Innovation Research centre

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Innovation White Paper (2)

• International Innovation
• DIUS to produce an International Strategy
• Innovative People
• Implementation of Leitch
• National Skills Academy in every major sector
• Innovation in Public Services
• NAO to conduct survey of risk
• Public Services Innovation Laboratory
• Innovative Places
• TSB and RDAs to align strategy for 180m spend

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Knowledge hierarchy

• Connectedness
• Wisdom
• Understanding principles
• Knowledge
• Understanding
  patterns
• Information
• Understanding
  relations
• Valid data
• Quality assurance
• Raw Data
• 
  
  Understanding
  

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Innovation

• Knowledge
• Skill
• Problem
• Creativity
• Benefit

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Creativity (1)

• Eureka moments
• Creativity gt problem
• Einstein - general relativity
• Fleming penicillium notatum (Florey and Chain)
• Townes et al laser
• Watson and Crick double helix
• Mandelbrot fractals
• and others

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Creativity (2)

• Knowledge transfer
• Problem gt creativity
• Examples
• Aero engines patients in intensive care
• Optoelectronics digital cameras
• Insect physiology robotic vehicles

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Knowledge Transfer in Action (2)

• Rank Prize Winner 2008 in Optoelectronics
  (Professor Peter Denyer with Dr D Renshaw, Dr M
  Lu and Professor G Wang
• VLSI Vision Ltd was founded in 1990 by Professor
  Peter Denyer to pioneer the development of CMOS
  (complementary metal oxide semiconductor) image
  sensor technology in a wide range of commercial
  applications.
• The continuing development of new camera-based
  product lines in the 1990s supported Vision's
  progress in establishing CMOS as the mainstream
  camera technology of the future.
• Vision grew to become the world's leading
  producer of cost-effective, highly integrated
  cameras and vision systems. In April 1995, the
  company became the first Scottish university
  spin-out company (Vision Group PLC) to be
  publicly listed on the UK Stock Exchange with a
  value of 25M.

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Knowledge Transfer in Action (3)

• Rank Prize Winner 2008 in optoelectronics
  Professor M. V. Srinivasan
• I am interested in understanding the principles
  of visual processing in small animals, such as
  insects, that possess relatively simple nervous
  systems but nevertheless display a rich
  behavioral repertoire. My research seeks to
  elucidate principles of flight control and
  navigation, and to explore the limits of the
  "cognitive" capacities of small brains.
• An understanding of visual processing in insects
  may provide simple, novel solutions to problems
  in machine vision and artificial intelligence.
  Thus, another focus of my research is the design
  of biologically-inspired algorithms for "seeing"
  machines, and the development of autonomously
  navigating robots e.g. helicopters.

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Key elements for success in Knowledge Transfer

• Strategy
• European Union Governments Research Councils
  universities, industry
• Process
• KT organizations, KT offices, collaborative
  structures, (e.g. KTP, KTN initiatives)
  incentives (e.g. incubator space), shared good
  practice
• People
• Professionalism, training, standards role of the
  professional institute (IKT)
• Business Model and Investment
• Public vs. private funding
• Early stage, proof of concept, development,
  marketability

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Supply and Demand

• Discovery, originators of new knowledge
• Universitiesresearch institutes early stage
  business RD
• Demand, final stage development, marketing and
  sales
• Identification of need engagement with customer
• Intermediates and facilitators
• Intermediate companies business development
  investors (including incentive schemes) IP
  management promoters of collaboration and good
  practice provision of links between need
  (demand) and new knowledge i.e the problem and
  creativity

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Role of the Science Council Innovation and
Knowledge Transfer

• Encourage and stimulate knowledge transfer and
  the exchange of expertise by developing
  collective approaches to the needs of the economy
  and society
• Sets standards for scientific competence
• Emhasises the value of inter-disciplinary
  approaches
• Supports strategic approaches to knowledge
  transfer and promotes the exchange of good
  practice between disciplines
• Recognises excellence in innovation and KT
• Promotes a professional practice approach to KT
  activities as well as in science.
• Appreciates non-scientific contributions to KT

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Universities in mid 1980s

• Individually led institutes national
• Research
• Teaching Knowledge Transfer
• Teacher focused opportunistic and
  altruistic
• passive learning

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Higher Education gt2010

• strategic professional institutes global
  competition
• 
  Research
• Teaching Knowledge Transfer
• Student focused
  key strategic component
• learning outcomes
  
  increasingly professional
• impact of web 2.0

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Strategic Challenges

• How to link discovery, innovation, improvement?
  -Creativity
• High esteem
• (brand)
• Very
• important
• (links to demand)

World leading and world class research Teacher/res
earcher? researcher Building critical mass Role
of Institutes a European strength Emphasis on
Discovery
Integration and analysis scholarship KT and
Application Research into practice e.g. teaching
and learning and KT Emphasis on Improvement and
Innovation
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KT processesImportance of partnerships,
collaborations and networks
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HE Knowledge Transfer Indicators UK(old)
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HE Business and Community Engagement 2005-6 UK
(new)

• Enquiry point for SMEs gt90 (gt80)
• Bespoke courses on companies premises 85
  (60)
• Contract system for staff business
  consulting 75 (60)
• Distance learning for business 70 (50)
• Coll. Res. involving public business
  funding 595m
• Contract Research 651m
• Facilities and equipment related services 89m
• Regeneration and Development programmes 223m
• CPD and CE courses 402m
• Social/community/cultural engagements
  (charged) 15900
• Social/community/cultural engagements
  (free) 16400
• ( )2001-2 staff days

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Knowledge Transfer PeopleCore competencies

• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Management skills
• Commercial awareness
• New business development skills
• Negotiating skills
• Understanding of IP and licensing
• Discipline/industry specific knowledge
• Understanding business model options
• Personal CPD plan
• Personal library and information access strategy
  or plan
• Personal Networking
• Cf Key elements of Education programme for
  Certified Trans- national TT professionals EC
  report August 2007

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Business ModelsSome risks

• Single discovery
• Knowledge of the market competition
• Investment level
• Outsourcing
• Timelines
• Right people at the right time external advice
• Regulation
• Exit strategy
• Portfolio company
• Reliance on big winner
• Focus or lack of it
• Growth strategy

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Institute of Knowledge Transfer USPs

• Individual Membership based on professional
  standards
• Peer reviewed work-place learning and CPD
• Articulation of skills and competencies required
  for professional success
• Broad definition of knowledge transfer interests
• Enables networking with and between more focused
  KT organisations
• In private and public sectors
• By organisations drawn from business/industry
  research/discovery and facilitators

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IKT Executive Committee

• Linda Baines Treasure Membership Services
• Kim Dovell Corporate Services
• Brian Fender Chair and Governance
• Philip Graham Executive Director
• Ian Harrison Membership Professional
  Standards
• Adrian Hill External Relations
• Brian McCaul Company Secretary ICT Services

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IKT Aims

• To be acknowledged as the leading independent
  body for KT practitioners
• To support recognition of skills and competencies
  of KT practitioners..
• To quality assure a comprehensive range of CPD
  courses..
• To stimulate good practice in KT..
• To raise the status of KT professionals through
  external communications.
• To define standards of professional conduct.
• To develop the case for KT by developing
  arguments and supplying evidence..
• To facilitate the creation of cross-community
  networks and collaborations.

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Approved Members by originIan Harrison
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Institute of Knowledge Transfer Themes

• Career Development
• Communications and Network Building
• Enhancing the Profession

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Professionalising Knowledge TransferCareer
Development

• Standards set through membership
• Membership and Standards Committee
• Course recognition and accreditation
• Formal qualifications aimed at KT in the broadest
  sense
• Formal qualifications with a specific KT angle
• CPD/short courses Audio/video pods
• Best practice development
• Case histories discussion/blogs awards link
  with education and training
• Mentoring system
• Based on Institute of Physics
• IKT invests in the mentoring framework, on-line
  technology and supporting brochures

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Professionalising Knowledge Transfer
Communications and Network Building

• On-line news
• KT and business news feeds from the KT community
• IKT information
• IKT blog
• Infrastructure software for bespoke IKT blog
• Introductory workshops
• Facilitating and managing the conversation
• Social networking platform
• Ginnn (Global Innovation Network)
• Conferences, workshops, social events

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Professionalising Knowledge Transfer Enhancing
the profession

• Promoting the exchange of good practice between
  different KT communities and other professional
  bodies (including those relevant to the
  development of IKT)
• Building a network of high level supporters of
  IKT
• Opinion formers geographical range connections
  to relevant KT interests
• Commissioning and reviewing articles on the
  development of the policy and practice of KT
• Exploring the intellectual underpinning of KT
• Launching a peer-reviewed, practice oriented,
  e-journal

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And

• Keen on International engagement

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Additional Slides

• Supplementary Slides follow

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CERT-TTT-M

• is based on 1st cycle OMC-CREST Recommendations,
  in particular
• To support EU-wide coordinated TT awareness and
  training activities targeting in particular the
  European research community (Rec15)
• To develop specific courses and programmes on TT
  and to ensure that they are accessible at a
  national level (Rec17)
• To promote the accreditation of TT professionals
  on a Europe-wide basis, to facilitate exchange of
  personnel and experience, and promote mobility,
  across Europe (Rec18)

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The IKT StoryWork in progress

• Launched May 2007 by
• Lord Sainsbury, Richard Lambert and David
  Eastwood at the British Library
• Executive Committee established
• Members are being recruited through the
  Membership and Standards Committee
• Office established in the Institute of Physics
  building
• Development of Membership and Web-based services

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Democratisation of IKT

• New IKT Board of 20 (3)with 11 elected by members
  and 9 (17) appointed to reflect the range of
  interests in knowledge transfer plus a chair
  elected annually (maximum 3 years) and a chair of
  the membership committee (maximum 4 years)
• Executive, Nominations and Audit Committees
• Appointed by the Board
• Executive Committee to serve formally as
  directors of the IKT company
• Approval and elections by the AGM (April 08)