The launch of a new research unit to study social services in the network society. The research unit is a joint venture between the Glasgow School of Social Work and the Institute for Research & Innovation in Social Services. The presentation includes reference to a bid for funds from the Institute for Advanced Studies
Big Data for the Social Sciences - David De Roure - Jisc Digital Festival 2014Jisc
The analysis of government data, data held by business, the web, social science survey data will support new research directions and findings. Big Data is one of David Willetts’ 8 great technologies, and in order to secure the UK’s competitive advantage new investments have been made by the Economic Social Science Research Council ( ESRC) in Big Data, for example the Business Datasafe and Understanding Populations investments. In this session the benefits of the use of Big Data in social science , and the ESRCs Big Data strategy will be explained by Professor David De Roure.of the Oxford e-Research Centre and advisor to the ESRC.
Using a lens of feedback and engagement this paper discusses the relationships between people, organisations, and energy use in workplaces. It reflects on two projects that explored participatory energy practices in public and private organisations. The first, “Working with Infrastructure, Creation of Knowledge, and Energy strategy Development (WICKED)”, explored energy management practices in a range of different retail companies. The second, ‘Gooddeeds’ aimed to collaboratively create an ICT based tool and related social processes with a city municipality. The paper concludes, firstly, that energy management sits against the backdrop of competing organisational, institutional and political priorities and the core strategy of an organisation matters. Second, we need to move beyond the ‘them and us’ culture and ‘information-deficit’ approach intrinsic in the notion of dashboards and feedback to appreciate the positive contribution all can make to energy efficiency. Finally, there are still large discrepancies across organisations with regards to energy management capabilities and metering technologies. In conclusion we note that relationships and partnerships are central in moving forward.
Broadband Best Practices in Greater MinnesotaAnn Treacy
Community leaders are faced with navigating a whirlwind of dynamic technologies, policy discussions at the federal and state level, and funding through the ARRA stimulus programs as they wrestle with the the challenge of ensuring world-class broadband infrastructure and services and motivating the adoption of new technologies by businesses, institutions and citizens. This session will provide an overview of community best practices for network deployment and broadband-based economic development. By Bill Coleman for the Blandin Foundation
The launch of a new research unit to study social services in the network society. The research unit is a joint venture between the Glasgow School of Social Work and the Institute for Research & Innovation in Social Services. The presentation includes reference to a bid for funds from the Institute for Advanced Studies
Big Data for the Social Sciences - David De Roure - Jisc Digital Festival 2014Jisc
The analysis of government data, data held by business, the web, social science survey data will support new research directions and findings. Big Data is one of David Willetts’ 8 great technologies, and in order to secure the UK’s competitive advantage new investments have been made by the Economic Social Science Research Council ( ESRC) in Big Data, for example the Business Datasafe and Understanding Populations investments. In this session the benefits of the use of Big Data in social science , and the ESRCs Big Data strategy will be explained by Professor David De Roure.of the Oxford e-Research Centre and advisor to the ESRC.
Using a lens of feedback and engagement this paper discusses the relationships between people, organisations, and energy use in workplaces. It reflects on two projects that explored participatory energy practices in public and private organisations. The first, “Working with Infrastructure, Creation of Knowledge, and Energy strategy Development (WICKED)”, explored energy management practices in a range of different retail companies. The second, ‘Gooddeeds’ aimed to collaboratively create an ICT based tool and related social processes with a city municipality. The paper concludes, firstly, that energy management sits against the backdrop of competing organisational, institutional and political priorities and the core strategy of an organisation matters. Second, we need to move beyond the ‘them and us’ culture and ‘information-deficit’ approach intrinsic in the notion of dashboards and feedback to appreciate the positive contribution all can make to energy efficiency. Finally, there are still large discrepancies across organisations with regards to energy management capabilities and metering technologies. In conclusion we note that relationships and partnerships are central in moving forward.
Broadband Best Practices in Greater MinnesotaAnn Treacy
Community leaders are faced with navigating a whirlwind of dynamic technologies, policy discussions at the federal and state level, and funding through the ARRA stimulus programs as they wrestle with the the challenge of ensuring world-class broadband infrastructure and services and motivating the adoption of new technologies by businesses, institutions and citizens. This session will provide an overview of community best practices for network deployment and broadband-based economic development. By Bill Coleman for the Blandin Foundation
OKCon 2008 - Lessons from Environmental informationMuki Haklay
The presentation covers several areas of open information and access to environmental information, starting with a short overview of the background, followed by some examples of environmental information over the internet from the past 14 years, then a few examples of recent development, and a discussion of the work that we’ve been carrying out at UCL recently. Finally, there are observations on access to information in the environmental field .
Copyright literacy strategy workshop 23 may 2019Chris Morrison
Presentation for the first workshop of the University of Kent Copyright Literacy Strategy project. This project aims to create a strategy to increase awareness of copyright at the University, updating policy and guidance to support education, research and civic engagement.
COVID-19 and Copyright: Challenges for Higher Education, CITE Forum November ...Chris Morrison
Chris Morrison, Copyright, Licensing and Policy Manager at the University of Kent, presents the challenges for higher education associated with copyright at a time of pandemic. He discusses management of third party copyright, ownership of copyright content created in HE and proposes that community building is the key activity to creating a better learning and research environment.
Presentation: Recommendations to mainstream citizen science in policyIgnoNotermans1
Presentation on "recommendations to mainstream citizen science in policy" as part of the conference “The future of citizen science: sharing experiences from the European community” jointly organized by the EU-Citizen.Science and ACTION projects and moderated by Stickydot. You can find the recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnuHYAMR_ns
The Ethics of Copying in Libraries: Piracy, Ignorance and Civil Disobedience ...Chris Morrison
Keynote by Chris Morrison, Copyright, Licensing & Policy Manager and the University of Kent at the IVIG seminar Prague on 4 September 2019. Discusses the basis of copyright law, its relationship with plagiarism and the ways in which copying is perceived by students and staff at educational institutions. Also explores ethical and legal implications of illicit services such as Sci-Hub and upcoming changes to EU copyright law.
Online Public Consultation and Civic Engagementcherylh
Paper presented at: To blog or not blog? Government and Citizen e-Participation May 2009 - Learnings from Federal Government trials and international experiences, by Jim Macnamara, Professor of Public Communication and Director Australian Centre for Public Communication, University of Technology, Sydney. May 2009
A new copyright law is being introduced in New Zealand. The government is putting the onus on ISPs to ensure that none of their users infringes copyright. It seems that if someone is accused 3 times of breaking copyright they will have their internet access withdrawn. There is no recourse to law and internet users in NZ have been protesting against this derogation of natural law.
The term ISP has been widened to include anyone providing internet access - commercial, work, school, hospital, cafe ...
Copyright and Online Learning at a Time of Crisis: Chris Morrison and Jane Se...Chris Morrison
Chris Morrison and Jane Secker from copyrightliteracy.org presented an invited keynote talk at the BOBCATSSS 21 conference on 21 January 2021. They focus on the challenges of copyright in the digital age with a focus on education and the role of librarians and information professionals.
"The international year of light" - Joe NiemelaSEENET-MTP
The third EPS–ICTP–UNESCO–SEENET-MTP Workshop, as a part of Project “Towards the integration of the physics community in CEI countries into the ERA” on Physics Education was held in Trieste on December 11-12, 2014.
OKCon 2008 - Lessons from Environmental informationMuki Haklay
The presentation covers several areas of open information and access to environmental information, starting with a short overview of the background, followed by some examples of environmental information over the internet from the past 14 years, then a few examples of recent development, and a discussion of the work that we’ve been carrying out at UCL recently. Finally, there are observations on access to information in the environmental field .
Copyright literacy strategy workshop 23 may 2019Chris Morrison
Presentation for the first workshop of the University of Kent Copyright Literacy Strategy project. This project aims to create a strategy to increase awareness of copyright at the University, updating policy and guidance to support education, research and civic engagement.
COVID-19 and Copyright: Challenges for Higher Education, CITE Forum November ...Chris Morrison
Chris Morrison, Copyright, Licensing and Policy Manager at the University of Kent, presents the challenges for higher education associated with copyright at a time of pandemic. He discusses management of third party copyright, ownership of copyright content created in HE and proposes that community building is the key activity to creating a better learning and research environment.
Presentation: Recommendations to mainstream citizen science in policyIgnoNotermans1
Presentation on "recommendations to mainstream citizen science in policy" as part of the conference “The future of citizen science: sharing experiences from the European community” jointly organized by the EU-Citizen.Science and ACTION projects and moderated by Stickydot. You can find the recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnuHYAMR_ns
The Ethics of Copying in Libraries: Piracy, Ignorance and Civil Disobedience ...Chris Morrison
Keynote by Chris Morrison, Copyright, Licensing & Policy Manager and the University of Kent at the IVIG seminar Prague on 4 September 2019. Discusses the basis of copyright law, its relationship with plagiarism and the ways in which copying is perceived by students and staff at educational institutions. Also explores ethical and legal implications of illicit services such as Sci-Hub and upcoming changes to EU copyright law.
Online Public Consultation and Civic Engagementcherylh
Paper presented at: To blog or not blog? Government and Citizen e-Participation May 2009 - Learnings from Federal Government trials and international experiences, by Jim Macnamara, Professor of Public Communication and Director Australian Centre for Public Communication, University of Technology, Sydney. May 2009
A new copyright law is being introduced in New Zealand. The government is putting the onus on ISPs to ensure that none of their users infringes copyright. It seems that if someone is accused 3 times of breaking copyright they will have their internet access withdrawn. There is no recourse to law and internet users in NZ have been protesting against this derogation of natural law.
The term ISP has been widened to include anyone providing internet access - commercial, work, school, hospital, cafe ...
Copyright and Online Learning at a Time of Crisis: Chris Morrison and Jane Se...Chris Morrison
Chris Morrison and Jane Secker from copyrightliteracy.org presented an invited keynote talk at the BOBCATSSS 21 conference on 21 January 2021. They focus on the challenges of copyright in the digital age with a focus on education and the role of librarians and information professionals.
"The international year of light" - Joe NiemelaSEENET-MTP
The third EPS–ICTP–UNESCO–SEENET-MTP Workshop, as a part of Project “Towards the integration of the physics community in CEI countries into the ERA” on Physics Education was held in Trieste on December 11-12, 2014.
A durable and flexible display with low-power consumption, high-contrast ratio, has been a technical challenge for years. They have to be lightweight, rugged, and in some cases, conformal, wearable, rollable and unbreakable. The recent successful integration of flexible display technologies and the traditional web-based processing and/or inkjet technologies has opened up the possibility of low cost and high throughput roll-to-roll manufacturing and has shown the potential to replace the paper used today.
Decarbonising Transport by 2050 – the view from governmentDecarboN8
DecarboN8 Future Transport Fuels Webinar Series
The second of a series of webinars brought to you by DecarboN8's Future Transport Fuels research theme. Intended for academics, students, policymakers, businesses, civil society and anyone interested in the decarbonisation of transport in the UK.
Decarbonising Transport by 2050 – the view from government
Professor Phil Blythe (Newcastle University) discusses the DfT’s activities on transport decarbonisation including the Transport Decarbonisation Plan, the Science Plan and the R&D required to deliver on the net-zero target, including the challenge in the context of the coronavirus outbreak.
About the speaker:
Professor Phil Blythe CEng FIET is Chief Scientific Adviser for the Department for Transport and Professor of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) at Newcastle University. Prior to joining the Department for Transport he was Director of the Transport Operations Research Group for 13 years.
Phil’s academic focus has been the development of ITS – the use of information, communications and computing technology applied to transport. His research portfolio covers a wide range of areas where ITS has been applied to transport including: road to vehicle communications; road user charging systems; ITS for assistive mobility, smartcards and radio frequency identification (RFID), wireless / smartdust technologies, electromobility and future intelligent infrastructure.
His research is also forward-looking and attempts to bridge the technology-policy gap in terms of what technologies may evolve to meet future policy objectives or influence future policy thinking to meet the challenges.
Phil is Vice-President of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET), is a member of their Lectures Committee and supports the IET in the UK and abroad in areas such intelligent transport, connected and autonomous vehicles, electro-mobility and smart cities and on the Big Data / Internet of Things agendas. In March 2012 Phil was awarded the Reece-Hills Medal for a lifetime personal contribution to ITS.
Digital transformation in Higher Education webinar
Monday 10 September 2018
Speakers:
Kuldip Sandhu and Paul Featherstone
The link to the write up page and resources of this webinar:
https://www.apm.org.uk/news/digital-transformation-in-higher-education-webinar/
In this webinar Mike Short, the Chief Scientific Adviser at the Department for International Trade will give a welcome introduction to the importance of international collaborations and Louise Mothersole, the Horizon Europe UK National Contact Point for Mobility, will detail the Horizon Europe opportunity and the process for application for UK participants.
Slides for online briefing on the OER Rapid Innovation Call released in November 2011: http://bit.ly/rNQsW3
Bid deadline 27th January 2012. Amber Thomas, JISC.
UK e-Infrastructure: Widening Access, Increasing ParticipationNeil Chue Hong
A talk given at the ICHEC Annual Seminar by Neil Chue Hong, reflecting on the rise of Grid and Web 2.0, and how this might enable increased participation and use of computing infrastructure for e-Science and research.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
2. The Transistor and the Integrated Circuit
• First transistor invented in 1947.
• Miniaturization of the technology, in line with Moore’s Law, is
astounding – fast approaching the point whereby quantum
considerations need to be taken into account.
• Complexity of integrated circuits has increased more than a billionfold since the 1960s.
• The price of an individual transistor is now less than one millionth
of the cost in the late 1960s.
o Had the cost of automobiles fallen at the same rate, a new car
today would cost less than one pence.
3. Societal Trends for the Future
In 2012, there
were over 4 billion
YouTube
videos
streamed daily.
There are more mobile phone
connections than there are people on
the Earth.
Mobile data traffic is growing at 92%
(CAGR).
By 2010, the number of text messages
sent in one day exceeded the global
population.
In one second on the
internet, there are:
• 463 photos uploaded to
Instragram.
• 1024 calls made using
Skype.
• 3935 tweets posted on
Twitter.
• 11,574 files uploaded to
Dropbox.
• 33,330 Google searches
carried out.
• 46,330 videos watched
on YouTube.
• 52,083 posts ‘Liked’ on
Facebook.
4. W(h)ither UK Electronics?
Overcoming negative perceptions
All UK electronic companies have failed.
All electronic innovation is American.
All electronic manufacture is Chinese.
As the UK has lost every aspect of
opportunity in electronics, investing UK
taxpayer money in the field is a waste.
The ESCO report sought to refute these
misconceptions, with quantitative evidence
drawn from the UK electronic systems
community.
5. The UK Electronic Systems Community
850,000
People working on electronic
systems in UK industry
£80Bn
Contribution to the UK
economy, or 5.4% UK GDP
“At the heart of many societal
advancements are the enabling
technologies of electronic systems”
Warren East
ESCO Executive Steering Group
8. UK Universities: Excellence in Research
Excellence
1%
5%
World population
World research spending
Worldwide
UK
9%
12%
14%
World research publications
World citations
World most-cited papers
10. Gaps in the UK Innovation System?
‘Pure’ basic research
User-inspired basic research
Applied research
Experimental development
Science, Engineering & Technology Indicators
BIS (2009)
Stokes (1997)
Dasgupta and David (1994)
11. Gaps in the UK Innovation System?
Business R&D/%GDP
Value of R&D performed in the business sector
The UK trend runs contrary to our international peers or competitors.
12. The UK Innovation System
Discover
Understand
Integrate
Validate
EPSRC
Technology Strategy Board
Charities or Intermediate Bodies
Overseas Bodies
Industrial Companies
Universities
Deploy
13. The UK Innovation System
Discover
Understand
Integrate
Validate
Deploy
5
Knowledge & Technology ‘Push’
Challenge & Application ‘Pull’
EPSRC
Technology Strategy Board
Industrial Companies
14. Productive steps in our current system
Academia, industry and the public sector working together
Academia
Public Bodies
Industry
Knowledge, people &
technological capability
Facilitating knowledge,
impact & skills
Innovation, market
perspective & new products
Pathways to Impact
Targeted Support
Public engagement
Appropriate models
Long-term plans
KT secondments
Strategic discussion
Increased commitment
Staff training
Realistic IP
Consolidated evidence
Strategic R&D
People support
Realistic IP!
15. What Can We Do Together?
There are challenges to be tackled
Where does the UK electronic systems research community ‘want to go’?
What are the technologies of the future that need electronics at their
heart?
Who needs to be engaged outside of the (plastic) electronics
community for the UK to take a lead?
Support the work of the Plastic Electronics Leadership Group.
Work in partnership with the ESCO team to make the importance of
electronic systems in the UK clear to government.
Partner with EPSRC – planning for the future starts now.
17. Grant Funding: Pathways to Impact
Funding to Facilitate Potential Impacts
Since 2009, applicants can ask for project-specific, impact-related costs as
part of a grant proposal.
Applicants can ask for funding at the point of application, in order to
provide the opportunities or required skills that allow the team to promote
the potential impacts of their research.
To make use of this, applicants have to consider which impact activities or
training they might require when planning the research proposal.
All costs must be outlined and justified, as with other requests for funding.
18. Grant Funding: Pathways to Impact
Funding to Facilitate Potential Impacts
Some specific examples of activities that could be requested are:
Secondments
Increased investigator time
Training activities
Employment of specialist staff
Marketing and publicity
Workshops, seminars and networking
Public engagement
Early-stage commercialisation exploration
Evidence shows that these resources are heavily under-used by applicants!
19. Institutions: Impact Acceleration Accounts
Accessible funding for tailored impact activities
Account-based funding given to universities on the
basis of a peer-reviewed submission.
Allows institutions the flexibility to operate
tailored schemes that facilitate increased
likelihood of impact from research.
95%
Retain key benefits of KTA & KTS Schemes:
Secondments
Proofs of Concept
Follow-On Funding
Percentage of EPSRC
portfolio, by value,
covered by Impact
Acceleration Accounts.
Editor's Notes
This slide, modified from a model used by the NSF Engineering Research Centres (ERCs), makes clear that we understand that research activities are not a linear process (which is a common criticism of the Technology Readiness Level descriptors), but rather that the process of moving from fundamental knowledge to ultimate societal impact is full of feedback loops that influence the transition from knowledge – technology/discrete device – integrated system – societal application.