Achievements and Outcomes - Knowledge Transfer Partnerships

Knowledge Transfer Partnerships
The Knowledge Transfer Partnership programme has been
operating for more than 37 years, enabling UK businesses
of all sizes to take advantage of the expertise available
throughout the UK knowledge base of education and research
institutions. After all this time, the KTP programme continues
to be the leading knowledge transfer programme in Europe.
Introduction
In 2011-12 KTP supported UK business
by drawing on the expertise of more than
100 higher education institutions across
over 400 departments.
From an investment of £34m of
government funding last year, businesses
reported:
changes in anticipated annual profits
of £163m
employment of over 1,300 new staff
increases of £145m in annual exports
investments of £93m in plant and
machinery / research and development.
All of this demonstrates the ongoing
benefits to the UK of the KTP programme.
There were also some exciting changes
to KTP during 2011-12, including the
introduction of some new funders, as well
as KTP themed competition calls to help
support and complement the ongoing
activity of supporting projects defined
by business need regardless of sector or
theme. The Technology Strategy Board
provided additional funding from its
innovation programme to support eight
KTPs that were selected as a cohort
for the first themed call relating to
‘Parallel and MultiCore Processing’.
The shorter KTP scheme was also
re-opened in September 2011 for projects
with a duration of six months to 51 weeks.
The Technology Strategy Board is
continuing its strong commitment to the
KTP programme as an integral part of its
portfolio of programmes to help and
support business innovation. Once again,
I must thank our funding partners for their
continued support and commitment to
the programme and we are very pleased
to welcome aboard some new funders
which include the Medical Research
Council who are providing funding for the
core KTP programme, and the Nuclear
Decommissioning Authority who confirmed
their support for the Civil Nuclear Power
Supply Chain themed call opened at the
end of the year.
In summary, during the 2011-12 financial
year, almost £58m was committed to
new KTP partnerships in the shape of
grant support and company contributions.
At the end of the year, our portfolio
comprised 848 KTP partnerships
(792 classic and 56 shorter partnerships)
facilitating the exchange of knowledge
between the UK knowledge base and
businesses of many differing sizes and
from various sectors.
Iain Gray, Chief Executive
Technology Strategy Board
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