1. Alloca&ng
resources
for
Knowledge
Exchange:
What's
your
strategic
focus?
Dr
Dave
Bembo
Associa&on
for
University
Research
&
Industry
Links
(AURIL)
UK

2. Scope:
AURIL
A
brief
introduc&on
UK
Higher
Educa&on
Sector
Size,
shape,
research
performance
The
External
Environment
Funding
for
Research
The
Impact
Agenda
UK
KE
State
of
the
Art
in
2011
Guidance
&
Approaches
to
IP
Management

3. AURIL
Structure
Company
Limited
by
Guarantee
11
Elected
Members
form
Council;
Execu&ve
Director
and
administra&on
team.
Ins&tu&onal
membership:
Universi&es,
Public
Sector
Research
Organisa&ons,
NHS
Trust
IP
Hubs
1,600
people
on
electronic
mailbase;
1,200
people
using
AURIL
Social
network
–
‘My AURIL’ -­‐
KT
2.0
!
Plus
Twi`er,
LinkedIn
etc.
Annual
conference;
workshops
&
discussion
fora
e.g.
Directors
Cut;
guidance
and
policy
documents;
consulta&on
with
Govt
&
other
KE
stakeholders,
UUK,
CBI,
Funding
Councils
&
Research
Councils,
etc.

4. Non-­‐HE
Members
Include:
Companies
such
as
AstraZeneca,
GlaxoSmithKline
UK
Research
Councils
such
as
MRC,
BBSRC,
AHRC,
EPSRC,
ESRC
Government
Stakeholders
Solicitors
Intellectual
Property
Office
and
Patent
Agents
Accountants
Exploita&on
Organisa&ons
Business
Support
Organisa&ons
Higher
Educa&on
Funding
Councils

5. University
Sector
in
the
UK
115
universi&es
inc
‘post
1992’
(+
50
other
Higher
Educa&on
Ins&tu&ons)
Over
180,000
academic
staff
1.9
million
undergraduate
students;
578,000
postgraduates
Total
sector
income
of
£26.8
billion
[see
next
slide]
Strong
science
base:
8%
of
publica&ons
on
Web
of
Science,
12%
cita&ons,
14.4%
of
World’s
top
cited
publica&ons
....
especially
given
rela0vely
low
investment
of
circa
4%
Gross
Expenditure
HEIs
are
major
contributors
to
UK
economy
(HEFCE’s
Higher
Educa0on
–
Business
and
Community
Interac0on
Survey)
Source:
HESA,
UUK,
HEFCE,
2009-­‐11;
Evidence
2011

7. UK
HEIs,
huge
diversity
in
size
and
mission:
24
HEIs
with
income
<£20
million
22
HEIs
with
income
£20-­‐50
million
48
HEIs
with
income
£50-­‐150
million
71
HEIs
with
income
>£150
million
From
highly
ac&ve
in
research
and
KE
(e.g.
20
Russell
Group
members)
to
highly
teaching
focused
e.g.
Funding
Council
Quality
Research
QR
funding
is
part
of
Dual
Support
and
is
based
on
RAE
research
quality
*
volume
*
subject
weigh&ng.
In
Wales
alone
(10
universi&es)
QR
ranges
£139K
-­‐
£39.9
million
for
2011-­‐12
(280x)
[QR]
With
so
much
varia0on
in
research
capacity
&
quality,
clearly
KE
resources
and
priori0es
will
differ
hugely
also.

8. Evidence,
2010
The
External
Environment:
Funding
for
research
Investments
under
pressure
Budgets
under
pressure

9. Govt
CSR2010
UK
science
funding
a
10%
reduc&on
in
real
terms
Wakeham
Review
Warns
of
the
need
to
maintain
not
grow
the
volume
of
research
funded
under
Full
Economic
Costs
FEC
Focuses
on
TRAC
rates
and
Full
Economic
Costs
FEC
base
of
HE
research
ac&vi&es
;
driving
down
overheads
via
indirect
costs
rates
–
and
increasing
efficiency
Research
Equipment
Sharing
h`p://www.rcuk.ac.uk/documents/
reviews/fec/fECReviewReport.pdf
....
and
Reindexa&on
too
!!

10. The
Impact
Agenda
Increasing
emphasis
on
demonstra&ng
the
economic,
societal
and
health
benefits
of
the
UK
research
base.
At
the
&me
of
applying
for
research
funding,
Pathways
to
Impact,
2
pages,
speculaBve.
Currently
a
secondary
funding
criterion.

11. The
Impact
Agenda
II
Assessment
of
Impact
–
part
of
assessing
research
quality
in
the
Research
Excellence
Framework,
REF
2014.
(Impacts
on
academia
less
relevant.)
Impact
forms
part
of
REF
for
the
first
&me
in
2014.
20%
of
overall
score
for
a
department/school
(may
increase
to
25+%
in
future
assessments).
[Also
Research
Outputs
65%
and
Environment
15%].
Impact
assessed
on
the
basis
of
case
studies
(not
anecdotes!)
:
I.
Quality
of
underpinning
research
is
important
II.
Contribu&on
of
the
research
to
the
impact
(causal
link)
III.
Nature
and
extent
of
the
impact
or
benefit
IV.
Independent
source
to
verify
claims?
On
average,
each
case
study
may
be
equivalent
to
8
publica&ons
in
REF!
Knowledge
Exchange
professionals
have
a
major
role
in
delivering
Impact.
The
Impact
agenda
increasingly
influences
resource
alloca&on.

12. ProTon
Annual
Survey
of
KTOs
reveals
huge
varia&on
in
size
of
staffing
complement
and
focus
of
work
No
data
on
office
size
from
UK
HE-­‐BCI
survey
–
but
very
diverse
priori&es
Research
support
and
KE/KT
roles
ozen
merge
seamlessly
Skills
overlap
considerably
–
e.g.
in
legal
knowledge,
contract
&
IPR
nego&a&on.
Collabora&ve
research
and
knowledge
transfer
funding
schemes
can
have
a
large
degree
of
overlap,
e.g.
Knowledge
Transfer
partnerships
KTPs
and
CASE
PhD
studentships
with
industry
Increasing
funding
for
transla0onal
research
in
biomedicine
(from
e.g.
Medical
Research
Council)
Follow
on
Funding
from
UK
Research
Councils,
and
now
European
RC
also
European
FP
bid
support
in
HEIs
is
generally
regarded
as
a
research
support
ac&vity,
but
usually
involves
private
sector
partners,
=
Knowledge
Exchange
Easy
to
underes&mate
the
KE
capacity
of
ins&tu&ons

13. Universi&es
react
to
changes
in
external
policy
and
other
opportuni&es
to
support
KE
–
this
affects
how
we
operate
and
priori&se
ac&vi&es
and
can
shape
our
KE
capacity
e.g.
UK
Funding
Council
KE
funding
can
be
by
alloca&on
formula
(HEFCE
HEIF)
or
may
require
a
specific
strategic
focus
(e.g.
HEFCW
I&E,
formula
+
compe&&ve,
collabora&ve
element)
Regional
government
priori&es
for
business
engagement
and
support
for
SMEs
play
a
role
in
shaping
university
KE
ac&vity
(e.g.
support
for
priority
business
sectors,
enterprise
zones)
The
availability
of
European
Structural
Funds
can
have
a
huge
influence
over
KE
ac&vi&es,
e.g.
in
Wales
total
Funding
Council
support
for
KE
in
universi&es
is
£8.2
million.
In
contrast,
there
are
individual
ERDF
R&D
projects
of
£25
million
funded
at
universi&es
and
focused
on
working
with
SMEs
(e.g.
ASTUTE
sustainable
manufacturing
engineering).
The
challenge
is
to
ensure
that
we
support
our
own
strategic
priori&es
and
exercise
selec&vity
in
reac&ng
to
external
ini&a&ves.
The
risk
is
mission
driK.

14. Current
State
of
the
Art
in
UK
university
Knowledge
Exchange
-­‐
some
examples

15. 2011
update
to
IP
Guide
for
UniversiBes
UK
Intellectual
Property
Office
Universi&es
UK
AURIL
PraxisUnico
Available
at:
h`p://www.ipo.gov.uk/about/
press/press-­‐release/press-­‐
release-­‐2011/press-­‐
release-­‐20110519.htm

16. Managing
Intellectual
Property
for
HEIs
–
in
2011
Original
2003
Guide
–
more
of
a
how
to
guide
or
‘recipe
book’
for
IP
assessment
and
protec&on.
2011
Guide
–
encourages
HEIs
to
consider
their
strategic
focus
and
formulate
&
adopt
IP
policies
which
support
this.
One
size
doesn’t
fit
all.
Staff
resources
for
KE
should
be
configured
to
match
strategic
and
opera&onal
priori&es...
and
budgets!
“The
issue
is
not
simply
one
of
protec&on
in
order
to
encourage
commercial
investment.
University
researchers
require
con&nuing
access
to
the
results
of
their
research
for
use
in
future
(research)
projects
and
teaching.
(These
may
be
more
important
than
IP
exploita&on
income.)
Effec&ve
IP
management
is
required
to
ensure
that
this
is
the
case…….
Nego&a&ons
and
agreements
therefore
need
to
be
structured
so
that
future
needs
of
the
university
can
be
accommodated.”

17. “There
is
undoubted
poten0al
for
universi0es
to
generate
surpluses
from
the
IP
management
func0on,
although
there
is
a
need
for
realism
over
the
scale
of
returns.”
Knowledge
Exchange
policies
and
their
intersec0on
with
other
university
policies,
e.g.:
Human
resources
(IP
ownership;
sharing
of
revenues
on
successful
exploita0on)
IP
generated
by
students
-­‐
balancing
clean
IP
posi0on
versus
duty
of
care
The
2011
Guide
is
intended
to
provoke
debate
within
ins&tu&ons
in
order
to
allow
HEIs
to
make
be`er
informed
judgements
about
how
they
manage
IP
and
how
they
expect
to
benefit
from
this
ac&vity.

18. Easy
Access
IP
University
of
Glasgow
with
University
of
Bristol
&
King’s
College
London
Partnership
established
March
2011
with
£80,000
from
UK
Intellectual
Property
Office
One
page
licence
agreements,
freely
accessible
online,
non-­‐exclusive
or
exclusive,
royalty-­‐free
with
the
obliga&on
to
report
on
exploita&on
Managed
as
a
knowledge
exchange
offering,
alongside
technology
transfer
Recognises
the
wider
benefits
of
increasing
the
volume
of
university
IPRs
in
evalua&on
and
use
in
industry
(Impact
agenda)
and
that
IP
exploita&on
has
a
greater
value
to
universi&es
than
simply
income
genera&on
h`p://www.gla.ac.uk/businessandindustry/easyaccessip/

19. Fusion
IP
Working
with
an
external
technology
transfer
partner

20. Fusion
IP
owns
the
rights
to
100%
of
university-­‐owned
research
generated
at
The
University
of
Sheffield
and
Cardiff
University.
No
affect
on
contract
research
or
ac&vi&es
where
there
is
a
contractual
obliga&on
to
a
funder.
Important
to
promote
this
accurately!
Universi&es
are
shareholders
in
Fusion
IP.
Exclusive
10
year
agreements
to
access
new
IP
generated
by
research.
Integra&on
&
co-­‐loca&on
with
university
technology
transfer
teams.
Very
credible
and
professional
team
–
important
for
confidence
in
investors
&
venture
capitalists
which
may
have
been
reluctant
to
work
with
a
university.
(A
lesson
originally
learned
from
UK
University
Challenge
awards).
Ringfenced
investment
fund
of
up
to
£20
million
but
has
a`racted
more
in
co-­‐investment.
Very
effec&ve
partnering
and
synergy,
adding
a
new
dimension
to
university
tech
transfer
and
also
very
efficient
in
sharing
resources
and
bringing
in
new
exper&se.

21. In
summary...
UK
Higher
Educa&on
sector
is
significant
in
size,
hugely
diverse
and
economically
important.
Many
ins&tu&ons
generate
a
huge
volume
of
new
knowledge
and
intellectual
property,
others
are
focused
on
student
educa&on.
Their
individual
approaches
to
KE
reflects
this.
The
UK
sector
has
reacted
to
Government
requirements
to
demonstrate
the
value
(Impact)
of
its
research.
The
current
economic
condi&ons
are
further
influencing
this.
New
models
of
KE
available
to
the
UK
sector
reflect
the
environment.
Consider
the
benefits
of
pu•ng
IP
to
use
in
private
sector
versus
genera&ng
revenue,
also
outsourcing
of
KE
exper&se,
resource
pooling
and
shared
services.