The document summarizes the agenda and priorities of the Technology Strategy Board in supporting innovation, open collaboration, and working with Science Cities. The Technology Strategy Board invests £1 billion over 3 years to drive the innovation climate in areas like low carbon technologies, digital economy, and life sciences. It encourages open innovation through various programs including Innovation Platforms, SBRI, collaborative R&D competitions, Knowledge Transfer Networks, and working with businesses, universities, and other organizations. Major focus areas include low carbon vehicles, digital technologies, and regenerative medicine.

1. 6th National Science Cities Summit
8th October 2009
Assembly Rooms, Bath

2. Driving Innovation
Science City Challenge on Innovation
Supporting Collaboration and Open Innovation
Iain Gray, Chief Executive
8th October 2009

3. Driving Innovation
Agenda
• Technology Strategy Board
– Who we are and what we do
– Our priorities
• Open Innovation and Collaboration
– What it is
– What we are doing to support it
• Opportunities for Technology Strategy Board
and Science Cities to work together

4. Driving Innovation
Technology Strategy Board
• business benefit
• economic growth
• quality of life
• Leadership role in UK
• National strategies
• Funding to make things happen
• Strong links with RDAs & Research
Councils

5. Driving Innovation
Our strategy

6. Driving Innovation
£1 billion investment
2008-9 2010-11 over 3 years
The innovation climate
Challenge-led innovation
Technology-inspired
innovation

7. Driving Innovation
Technology Inspired Innovation
• We build capability in the
underpinning areas that enable a
sure and effective response to
market needs
– Advanced materials,
– Bioscience,
– Electronics, photonics and electrical systems,
– Information and communication technologies,
– High value manufacturing
– Nanotechnology

8. Driving Innovation
Challenge-led innovation
• We aim to understand the needs of
the markets and support the most
innovative and competitive
responses
– Energy generation and supply
– Environmental sustainability
– Built environment
– Creative industries
– High value services
– Medicines and healthcare
– Transport

9. Driving Innovation
The Innovation Climate
• Building networks within communities with similar
skills or goals
• Supporting the exchange of knowledge at the
individual level and developing skills for the future
• Inspiring and enabling people to play their part in the
innovation economy
• Building business confidence and using successes
to engage the public
• Understanding future skill needs new and emerging
technologies

10. Driving Innovation
Building joined-up public sector
support for innovation
BIS, Treasury, DECC
ETI, DCMS, DEFRA, HO,
MoD, DoH/NHS, DfT, DCSF, EU Commission, Eureka
Carbon Trust
DCLG, DWP, DfID, DfT
BNSC, NMO And new Offices – OLS OLEV
IPO, MAS, RDA (9) + SIC
BSI
DA (3)
NDPB
Research Government NESTA
Organisations, Design Council
NPL PUK, SDC
+
7 RCs
Technology
Research Investment
Strategy
Board
Business

11. Driving Innovation
Working with the Public Sector
Funding Leverage
2007/8 = £231m 2009/10 = £534m
Research DA/RDA
Councils DA/RDA 36%
Other Government 8% 3%
Departments
7%
Technology
Technology Strategy Board
Strategy Board 56%
82%
Research
Councils
8%

12. Driving Innovation
Innovation at the heart of the recovery
- Our priorities
• Low carbon
Vehicles, Buildings, Energy, Manufacturing
• Digital economy
Ultra-fast broadband, creative media,
Plastic electronics
• Life sciences
Regenerative medicine / stem cells

13. Driving Innovation
Open Innovation means that…
Ideas should be able to flow to where they can
be most efficiently researched, developed and
commercialised, regardless of where they
originated, thereby generating maximum value
for all of the organisations involved.

14. Driving Innovation
Open Innovation – the context:
• The UK spends £25 billion+ per annum on creating new
knowledge
• No business can develop and exploit every good idea or
technology they find or originate
• Need to get the best ideas/innovations out to those who
can further develop and commercialise them
• Businesses must look beyond their own boundaries to
be and remain competitive
• Growing inter-dependency between business,
Universities and the wider Knowledge Base
• Connectivity and collaboration are key

15. Driving Innovation
All of our programmes and interventions
explicitly encourage open innovation,
collaboration and networking
• Innovation Platforms
• SBRI
• Collaborative Research and Development
• Knowledge Transfer Networks
• Knowledge Transfer Partnerships
We work with all top 10 R&D intensive companies…..and nearly half
top 100
And thousands of small businesses are engaged on our programmes
including start-ups and micros

16. Driving Innovation
Innovation Platforms
• We work with Government as they address
societal challenges to give business the future
market definition they need to be competitive
– Intelligent Transport Systems and Services
– Network Security
– Low Carbon Vehicles
– Assisted Living
– Low Impact Buildings
– Detection and Identification of Infectious Agents
– Sustainable Agri-Food Supply Chain

17. Driving Innovation
What’s next?
• Stratified Medicine
• Digital Economy
• ‘Water’
• Technology Enabled Learning
• ‘Waste’
• Sustainable Aviation
• Homeland Security
• ……?

18. Driving Innovation
Low Carbon Vehicles
Innovation Platform
Leadership, Influence and Engagement
– Specified the challenge
• Worked with Government (DFT BIS), business, regions and research community to
define challenge to ultimately deliver commercial solutions
– Established the links
• brokered relationships and built the community
– Focused resource
• CR&D projects and vehicle demonstrators, mix and match skills, funding and facilities,
social science and user monitoring
– Leveraged funding
• £250m joint Government/business funding over next 5 years
– Accelerated the route to market
• Demonstration projects more focused on nearer commercialisation or fleet procurement
initiatives

19. Driving Innovation
SBRI
• Using government procurement to drive innovation.
• Enables public sector organisations to procure new
technologies faster and with managed risk.
• Provides paid contracts for the critical stage of
product development
• Relaunched 2009
– 13 Government Departments engaged
– Major interest from other public sector bodies
– 20 competitions
– 750 applications
– 270 contracts (>60% new companies)

20. Driving Innovation
Collaborative R&D competitions
• Encourages business R&D in specific technology areas
• Business and research communities work together
• Projects aim to deliver successful new technologies and
products/services
• Currently working with 1500+ businesses (60% SMEs)
and with 80+ Universities across the UK
= a portfolio of over £1bn of R&D activity

21. Driving Innovation
Competitions – Autumn 2009
High Value Manufacturing – Supplementary
Feasibility Studies:
•Technology Inspired – 6 themes
•Digital Britain – 4 themes
•Regenerative Medicine – Therapeutics
Regenerative Medicine – Value Systems
High Value Chemicals

22. Driving Innovation
Competitions – those coming up include…
Crop Protection
Fuel Cells & Hydrogen Technologies
Marine Energy
Informed Logistics
Assisted Living
Digital Britain – Test Bed Projects (£10M)
Technology Inspired CR&D
Plastic Electronics
Detection and Identification of Infectious Agents
Agri-Foods – Pesticides

23. Driving Innovation
Knowledge Transfer Networks
• National networks in a specific technology or
business application area
• Funded by the Technology Strategy Board
• Bringing together business, Universities, research
organisations and other specialist agencies…
• … to stimulate innovation through the
exchange of knowledge and expertise.
14 KTNs
Over 57,000 KTN members - and growing
43,000 from business, 50%SMEs
14,000 from other organisations

24. Driving Innovation
New KTN structure now largely in place
Materials Medicines & healthcare
Biosciences Energy Generation & Supply
Electronics, Sensors, Photonics Ground Transportation
ICT Environmental Sustainability
Chemistry Modern Built Environment
Industrial Mathematics Creative Industries
Nanotechnology Financial Services
Aerospace & Defence

25. Driving Innovation
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships
• High calibre, recently-qualified individuals placed into
businesses to work on innovation projects
• Brings new expertise and real practical and commercial
benefits to companies
• Provides business experience for graduates
Currently 900+ KTPs - 75% with SMEs
122 Universities/Research Base partners
Aim - to double the number and roll-out new ‘shorter-KTPs’

26. Driving Innovation
Working with Science Cities
• Keen to strengthen our links and improve
communication
• Understand your priorities, what you are doing
and where we can work together
• Shared agenda – many opportunities to work
together
• Welcome active Science City engagement in our
programmes and activities

27. Bristol Science City
Priority Areas:
ICT/Digital
Creative Industries
Low Carbon and Environmental
Technologies
Advanced Manufacturing
Aerospace
Major businesses - Airbus, Rolls Royce, HP Labs – large CR&D projects
Four leading Universities - Bath, Bath Spa, Bristol, UWE - all involved in TSB
projects; together currently running 30+ KTPs
SWRDA – working closely on a range of TSB programmes, Innovation Platforms,
KTPs, building links with KTNs, promoting SBRI opportunities etc
SPark – £300m science park in Bristol comes on stream in 2010 – keen to ensure
businesses are aware and have access to TSB programmes and support

28. Driving Innovation
Science City Example - KTP
• The University of Bristol
• Meningitis Research Foundation
• To enhance and apply detailed knowledge about
survivors of meningitis, to increase the ability to
support and campaign effectively on behalf of those
affected.
• Department of Health (50%)
Economic & Social Research Council (25%)
Technology Strategy Board (25%)
• Grant amount: £93,577.00

29. Birmingham
Science City
The Technology Strategy
Board is working
closely with Advantage West
Midlands to support a
number of projects across Birmingham Science
City’s key technology themes:
Advanced Materials
Digital Media & ICT
Energy
Medical Technology & Healthcare
Transport Technologies

30. Driving Innovation
Science City Example - KTP
• The University of Birmingham
• Rapide Communication Limited
• To develop a methodology and tool-set for
automated sentiment analysis for 'Voice of
Customer' feedback and reviews, by using
Natural Language Processing based
approaches.
• 100 % funded £85,140.00

31. Manchester Science City – areas for possible
collaboration include:
Transport technologies – intelligent transport systems
Housing – Low Impact Buildings
Energy and Low Carbon agenda
Health/Life Sciences – Assisted Living
Digital and creative media
High Value Manufacturing – sustainable aviation, advanced
materials

32. Driving Innovation
Science City Example - KTP
• The University of Manchester
• Bradford & Airedale Teaching Primary Care Trust
• To develop and embed a strategic operations
planning process involving the development of
innovative supporting tools.
• Department of Health (50%)
Economic & Social Research Council (25%)
Technology Strategy Board (25%)
• Grant amount: £61,486.00

33. Driving Innovation
Science City Example – Low Carbon Vehicle
Innovation Platform
EVADINE – Electric Vehicle Accelerated Development in the North East
Project Value £10,751,686
Funding Value maximum of £5,375,843
ONE will be funding £1,500,000 of this
Number of Vehicles 36
Location North East
Consortia Members Nissan Smith Electric Vehicles
Liberty Electric Cars AVID Vehicles
Newcastle University

34. Driving Innovation
Science City Example - KTP
• The University of Newcastle
• Safinah Limited
• To improve the safety of ships by optimising
structural design in conjunction with coating
application to prevent corrosion and meet the
requirements of the new IMO SOLAS regulation
MSC.215(82) on ballast tank coatings.
• One North East (50%)
Technology Strategy Board (50%)
• Grant Amount £126,630.00

35. Critical
Pharmaceuticals
BioCity, Nottingham
BioCity – one of Europe’s largest bioscience incubators – started 5 yrs ago
Collaboration between emda, University of Nottingham, Nottingham Trent
University
Now has 60 companies employing some 500+ people
Critical Pharmaceuticals – part of a consortium recently awarded £414,000
by Technology Strategy Board in an open CR&D competition to translate a
proof of concept of a highly innovative translational medicine technology into
a robust production process

36. Driving Innovation
Science City Example - KTP
• The University of Nottingham
• WRC Group plc
• To develop a portable and non-intrusive
monitoring system to determine efficiency of
induction motors operating in large plants using
motor plate data and vibration measurements.
• 100% funded £82,803.00

37. Driving Innovation
Science City Example – CR&D
• The University of York
• York Green Chemistry Centre of Excellence and
the York Liquid Crystal Group
• New method of recycling PVA from liquid crystal
displays

38. Driving Innovation
Specific areas for collaboration
• Innovation Platforms – be involved, pilot things and act as test-
beds for new ideas and approaches
• SBRI – promote SBRI opportunities to local businesses and work
with us to develop new competitions relevant to your area
• CR&D - promote CR&D competitions, and help us shape new ones
• KTPs – work with us to raise awareness and increase the numbers
of KTPs in key sectors
• KTNs - build links with KTNs relevant to your area and encourage
businesses to engage
• Talk to us and involve us in those things you are doing

39. Driving Innovation
SUMMARY
• Technology Strategy Board have come a long way
in a short time
• In 2008-09 we invested in:
– Around 1600 companies through collaborative R & D
– Memberships of KTNs grew 45%
• We adjusted our priorities to support recovery
• Forging partnerships, and working with Science
Cities means our investments work harder
• We will continue to help businesses put innovation
at the heart of the recovery

40. Driving Innovation
www.innovateuk.org
e: iain.gray@tsb.gov.uk
tw: iain_gray

41. 6th National Science Cities Summit
8th October 2009
Assembly Rooms, Bath