The Technology Strategy Board, along with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), Invest Northern Ireland, the Scottish Funding Council and the Welsh Government, are to invest jointly up to £2.3m to establish Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs) to improve the competitiveness, resilience and responsiveness of…
TSB: Multi-million competition on enhancing agri-food production systems through engineering solutions
The Technology Strategy Board is planning to launch a multi-million competition, which will fund business-led, collaborative R&D projects in the general area of ‘engineering solutions for agrifood production systems, from primary production to the food processing and manufacturing environment’. This…
ESRC Funding: Evaluating the Business Impact of Social Science: A Study of Knowledge Transfer Partnerships in the Private Sector
The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) has issued an invitation for tenders for an evaluation of the business impact of social science: a study of knowledge transfer partnerships in the private sector. The small scale study will evaluate the…
RAEng Enterprise Fellowships – Call for Applications Announced
The Royal Academy of Engineering’s Enterprise Fellowship scheme is now open for applications. Enterprise Fellowships provide funding and support to entrepreneurial engineering researchers, working at a UK University, to enable them to develop the commercial potential of their research. The…
TSB and AHRC: Developing novel approaches to multi-disciplinary software development
The Technology Strategy Board and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) are to invest up to £1m in feasibility studies to stimulate the development of new multi-disciplinary approaches to software development. We are looking to fund projects that seek…