Knowledge Transfer Network presentation, Unlocking Innovation, BBSP, South Gloucestershire Council, Low Carbon South West, 25/03/2015

1. Thank you
ktn-uk.org @KTNUK
Derek Pedley
Carbon Management Lead
derek.pedley@ktn-uk.org
Funding Opportunities from Innovate UK

2. The UK’s Innovation Agency
The UK’s Innovation Network
The Knowledge Transfer Network supports this by:
• Linking organisations & exchanging knowledge
• Providing access to funding
• Promoting exemplars
• Informing policy
• 160 staff
• 60,000 members in 17 communities
FREE!
Innovate UK: mission is to stimulate innovation & drive
economic growth
Vision is for the UK to be a global leader in innovation.
Innovate UK & the Knowledge Transfer Network

3. Collaborative
R&DSmart
Launchpad
Innovation and
Knowledge
Centres
Entrepreneur
Missions
Toolset

4. I
Address the energy ‘trilemma” of:
• low carbon
• security of supply
• affordability
Funded by Innovate UK, DECC and EPSRC
Energy Catalyst
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5. I
Explore and evaluate the technical potential of an early-
stage idea or concept
Scope:
• new technologies
• enhancement or alternative applications of existing
technologies
• development of components, sub-systems or systems
• integrated whole system approaches
• enabling technologies for the energy system
Energy Catalyst – Early Stage Award
Technical Feasibility
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Technology areas that are in Scope:
• carbon abatement
• renewable energy
• nuclear fission
• hydrogen and fuel cells
• energy networks and system integration
• demand-side technologies
• enabling technologies and processes
Energy Catalyst – Early Stage Award
Technical Feasibility
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7. I
Key features:
• duration – up to12 months
• project costs - £50k - £300k
• funding:
70% for small/micro
60% for medium
50% for larger
• must be led by an SME or by a research organisation
collaborating with a business
Energy Catalyst – Early Stage Award
Technical Feasibility
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Key Date:
• deadline for applications – 29 April 2015
Energy Catalyst – Early Stage Award
Technical Feasibility
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9. I
Supports the development of new industrial biotechnology
products and processes
Funded by Innovate UK, BBSRC and EPSRC
Industrial Biotechnology Catalyst
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Scope:
• Production of fine and speciality chemicals and natural
products
• Production of commodity chemicals
• Production of peptides and proteins
• Production of liquid and gaseous biofuels (not
feedstock that can be used for human or animal food)
Industrial Biotechnology Catalyst
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11. I
Key features:
• projects that explore/evaluate the commercial potential
of an early-stage innovative idea
• duration – up to12 months
• project costs – up to £250k
• funding:
70% for small/micro
60% for medium
50% for larger
Industrial Biotechnology Catalyst – Early Stage
Feasibility Studies
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Key features:
• Business or academic-led and can involve single
business or a collaboration
Key Date:
• deadline for applications – 20 May 2015
Industrial Biotechnology Catalyst – Early Stage
Feasibility Studies
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Key features:
• projects that demonstrate the performance and
reliability of a new or modified process in industrially
comparable or commercial-scale equipment
• duration – up to12 months
• project costs – up to £1m
• Funding: 70% for small/micro
60% for medium
50% for larger
Industrial Biotechnology Catalyst – Late Stage
Pre-experimental Feasibility Studies
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Key features:
• Business-led and can involve single business or a
collaboration between businesses and research
organisations
Key Date:
• deadline for applications – 20 May 2015
Industrial Biotechnology Catalyst – Late Stage
Pre-experimental Feasibility Studies
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Scope:
• Fuel switching with lower carbon substitutes
• Carbon capture and storage in power generation and
energy-intensive industries
Funded by Innovate UK and NERC
Cleaner, More Efficient Conventional Fuels
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Key features:
• duration – up to12 months
• project costs – from £100k to £150k
• Funding: 70% for small/micro
60% for medium
50% for larger
• Single SME or working collaboratively with other companies or research
organisations
• Deadline for applications – 10 June 2015
Cleaner, More Efficient Conventional Fuels –
Feasibility Studies
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Key features:
• duration – up to 3 Years
• project costs – from £250k to £1.5m
• Funding: 70% for small/micro
60% for medium
50% for larger
• Business-led and must include an SME in consortium
• Deadline for expressions of interest – 15 April 2015
Cleaner, More Efficient Conventional Fuels –
Collaborative R&D
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Key Features:
Technology development contracts for projects that will:
• provide a step change in the capital cost and/or
efficiency/performance over current technology
• deliver a highly reliable PTO via high quality engineering
and technology risk management
• fit into the overall cost of energy
Power Take Off (PTO) Systems for the Wve
Energy Sector - SBRI
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Key Features:
• information webinar – 31 March 2015
• deadline for applications - 28 May 2015
• funded by the Scottish Government
• £7m available for competition which will have 4 stages
with applicants able to apply for one or more stages
• http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/
search_view.aspx?ID=MAR203890
Power Take Off (PTO) Systems for the Wve
Energy Sector - SBRI
ktn-uk.org @KTNUK

20. • Resource constraints
• For minerals, metals etc. impacts of exploitation are
increasingly a constraint
• For biotic resources constraints include competing
resource uses, carrying capacity, and impacts of
exploitation
• Materials security
• Risk of supply interruption/non-availability for specific
materials, including many used in clean-tech/hi-tech
applications
• EU list of critical raw materials
• Climate change
• Resource efficiency as a means to drive down embodied
carbon
Resource efficiency: main drivers

21. Scope:
Feasibility studies to explore
commercial models for a circular
economy
• Reuse
• Remanufacture
• Leasing / maintenance
Consortia should include a
business that has a relationship
with the final customer and can
enable the return on products.

22. Projects should be:
• 6 months
• £25-50k
Deadline: 15 April 2015
Our official group:
https://connect.innovate
uk.org/web/collaboratio
ns-circular-economy

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Non-Thematic Funding Opportunities
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Overview:
• Scheme to help businesses gain new knowledge to
innovate and grow
• Up to £5k is available to pay towards the cost of the
services of an external expert. VAT is not covered.
Innovation Vouchers
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Knowledge Suppliers:
• Universities & FE Colleges
• Research & Technology Organisations
• Technical Consultancies and Design Advisers
• Catapult Centres https://www.catapult.org.uk
• Intellectual Property Advisers
Innovation Vouchers
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Eligibility:
• Start-up, micro, small, or medium sized UK business
• Need help with something that is a real challenge for
your business – requires specialist help
• Should not have worked with your selected supplier
before
• Should not have received an innovation voucher from
Innovate UK before
Innovation Vouchers
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Application:
• Awarded every 3 months – 22 April 2015
• Apply online https://vouchers.innovateuk.org
• Eligible applications entered into a draw and the
winners chosen at random
• 100 vouchers awarded each round
Innovation Vouchers
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Overview:
• Funding for SMEs to engage in R&D projects from
which new products, processes and services can
emerge
• Three types of grant are available
• Proof of market
• Proof of Concept
• Development of Prototype
• Batch assessments every 2 months – 26 March 2015
Smart
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Proof of Market:
• Duration – up to 9 months
• Maximum grant - £25k
• Funding proportion – up to 60% of total project costs
• To assess commercial viability
• Market research
• Market testing and competitor analysis
• Intellectual property position
• Initial planning to take project to commercialisation
Smart
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Proof of Concept:
• Duration – up to 18 months
• Maximum grant - £100k
• Funding proportion – up to 60% of total project costs
• To assess technical feasibility and commercial
potential
• Initial feasibility
• Basic prototyping
• Specialist testing
• Intellectual property protection
• Investigation of production and assembly options
Smart
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Prototype Development:
• Duration – up to 2 years
• Maximum grant - £250k
• Funding proportion – up to 35% of total project costs for
medium enterprises and 45% for small & micro
enterprises
• To develop a technologically innovative product,
process or service
• Small demonstrators
• Intellectual property protection
• Trials and testing
• Market testing
• Product design work
Smart
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For Open and Forthcoming Competitions go to
https://interact.innovateuk.org/
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• Webinars and events
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Understanding &
promoting
• Advice & guidance
• Signposting
• Priority theme guidance
• Partnering events
• Review of funding applications
• Quantifying impacts
• “Horizons” tool
• Sector-specific reports
Project eligibility
Partnering
Proposal development
Strategy development

34. Thank you
Any questions?
derek.pedley@ktn-uk.org