Skip to content...

Funding for Innovation 2: TSB, EPSRC and European funding

Wednesday 18 March 2009 at 16:00pm

Event Summary

Funding business research and development is often prohibitively expensive. This event addressed schemes that provide research and development funding to small to medium-sized enterprises that we have not covered at previous workshops and have submission deadlines approaching this spring.

Sian Brereton from the Technology Strategy Board talked about the current funding calls, including the Creative Industries competition.

Funding

Funding oppotunities discussed at this workshop:

Event Detail and Schedule

4.00 – Registration & Coffee

4.20 - Jamie Henderson (Manager, Innovation Portal)
Jamie provided an overview of the Innovation Portal and how it can help your company to foster links with our academic partners. The Innovation Portal is often regarded as a first port of call for businesses that want assistance from the universities. Jamie also highlighted the Portal’s small grants scheme which can provide a grant of up to £5,000 to companies wishing to innovate.

Download Jamie Henderson's presentation [PowerPoint Presentation - 1.4 MB].

4.30 - Sian Brereton, Lead Specialist Creative Industries, Technology Strategy Board
Sian provided an insight into forthcoming TSB competitions for funding and specifically the one relating to the Creative Industries: Accessing and Commercialising Content in a Digitally Networked World.

This competition is looking for proposals to develop applications that can be deployed across the digital content sector to extend market opportunities and promote the commercial exploitation of IP for content creators and rights holders. The competition is likely to be particularly relevant to businesses and practitioners in the following sectors: Advertising, computer games, content creators, digital content distribution, digital/new media, film, TV and radio, ICT and comms technology suppliers, music and publishing.

Calls for two other TSB competitions have been announced within Energy Generation and Supply, namely Carbon Abatement Technologies and Fuel Cells & Hydrogen Technologies. Sian also highlighted key features of each of these.

5.00 - Networking Break
Identify collaboration opportunities between industry and academics.

5.30 - Robbie Sharpe, Business Development Manager, University of Dundee
Robbie discussed the opportunities available to companies whereby they can take the lead in arranging projects with an academic partner of their choice. EPSRC funding for at least 40 3.5-year Industrial CASE PhD studentships is available.

Download Robbie's presentation

5.50 -Neil Stewart, European Funding Advisor, University of Dundee
Neil provided an overview of FP7, the EU’s main instrument for funding Research and Innovation. He covered the COOPERATION programme which includes technology areas of: Health, food, agriculture and biotechnology, Information Technology, nano-technology, materials, production, energy, environment, transport, socio-economic sciences and humanities, security and space. He also offered some advice on how to get involved in FP7 and some of the other less known programmes such as Research for SME’s and the PEOPLE programme.

Download Neil's presentation [PowerPoint Presentation - 569.5 KB] 

6.10 - Question and answer session - Funding for Innovation
An opportunity to discuss funding and have any questions answered.

6.30 - Close

Feedback

We asked the attendees of the Funding for Innovation event for their feedback. Delegates thought that the speakers were good or excellent, informative and useful, and that the event was a useful networking opportunity.

  • 100% of attendees rated the event as relevant or very relevant to their organisation.
  • 100% of attendees rated the speakers as very useful, useful or informative.
  • Two thirds of delegates thought that they would consider applying for funding discussed at the event. 

 

 

 

 

 

Coming Events

Past Events by date

March 2009 Events