Transport KTN Guide to Technology Strategy Board competitions,

1. Transport KTN’s Guide
Technology Strategy Board’s
Competition process
Rob Furlong
Transport KTN
Transport Knowledge Transfer Network
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2. The Transport KTN Team
• Neil Ridley : Director
• Tessa Darley : Knowledge Manager
• Adrian Waddams : Marine Specialist
• Jim Lupton : Rail Specialist
• Rob Furlong : Business Development
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3. Applicants’ Journey
Competition EOI Full Competition Applicants
Opens Deadline Stage Closes informed
Expression of Review Project
Launch Period Full stage Assessment
Interest initiation
Minimum 4 weeks 6 weeks 2 weeks 7 weeks 4 weeks
19 weeks
Timeline of a Technology Strategy Board Competition
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4. The Launch
Competition EOI Full Competition Applicants
Opens Deadline Stage Closes informed
Expression Review Project
Launch Period Full stage Assessment
of Interest initiation
Minimum 4 weeks 6 weeks 2 weeks 7 weeks 4 weeks
14th Jan 2013
Transport KTN
information and
Consortia Building
• Technology Strategy Board formal announcement
• Competition Scope released
• Transport KTN Supporting activities
• Vessel efficiency interest group
• Think of projects – talk to existing contacts, network
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5. Fast Track
• Single stage application
• Fast-Track to account for up to 10% of the budget
• Projects will last 6 to 12 months
• Total costs for each project will be between £200K to
£500K
• Each project to include a small or micro business
• Business led consortia of at least two partners
• Applicants submit a full-stage application form at EOI
stage
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6. Collaborative R&D
• Two stage application
• Projects expected to last between 12 and 36 months
• Project costs typically range from £250K to £3m
• Business-led consortia of at least two partners
• Funding levels
– Small and micro business can expect to be 60% funded
– Large companies expected at 50%
– At least 70% of the total eligible project costs to be
commercial organisations, max 30% to research participants
– No one partner to receive more than 70% of the eligible costs
• Evidence of effective collaboration
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7. The Expression of Interest
Competition EOI Full Competition Applicants
Opens Deadline Stage Closes informed
Expression Review Project
Launch Period Full stage Assessment
of Interest initiation
Minimum 4 weeks 6 weeks 2 weeks 7 weeks 4 weeks
Register Information Optional
14th Jan 2013 your Day EOI review 27th Feb 2013 noon
interest deadline
• Short 6 week period
• Applicants need to register their interest by 20th Feb noon
– On the TSB competition page for this competition
– To enable the downloading of the application form
– To upload completed EOI form
– Download the full guidance to applicants – definitive guide
• Technology Strategy Board information day 22nd January
• Decide if fast track or full stage project submission – form to complete
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8. Competition EOI Full Competition Applicants
Opens Deadline Stage Closes informed
Expression Review Project
Launch Period Full stage Assessment
of Interest initiation
Minimum 4 6 weeks 2 7 weeks 4 weeks
weeks weeks
27th Feb 2013 noon
Expression of Interest
• Transport KTN Support
• It is very important for you to consider the following
– Only the downloaded form can be used
– Each field has only a certain space allocated to it
• Use it wisely, but as comprehensive as possible
• Incomplete fields upon submission risk the application being rejected
– If question is “Quantify” answer is a number
– The importance of the gateway question
• Need to show that a clear majority of the project’s objectives and
activities are aligned with the specific competition.
– Read the scope document carefully
• If in doubt, contact the competition hotline
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9. Competition EOI Full Competition Applicants
Opens Deadline Stage Closes informed
Expression Review Project
Launch Period Full stage Assessment
of Interest initiation
Minimum 4 6 weeks 2 7 weeks 4 weeks
weeks weeks
27th Feb 2013 noon
Expression of Interest
• What is innovative about your project ?
– both commercially and scientifically?
• Commercialisation and exploitation at the end of the grant.
• Optional Expression process – strongly recommend
– Valuable feedback on submission within 3 working days
• This is confined to the scope of the submission and whether the form as
seen appears to address the required questions
• This DOES NOT pre-empt of forecast the recommendations of the
independent panel
– Use the service as many times as needed
– Normally service closes 1 week before EOI deadline.
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10. Competition EOI Full Competition Applicants
Opens Deadline Stage Closes informed
Expression Review Project
Launch Period Full stage Assessment
of Interest initiation
Minimum 4 6 weeks 2 7 weeks 4 weeks
weeks weeks
27th Feb 2013 noon
Applications must be
• Submitted before the deadline, normally noon
– 12:01 submission will automatically be rejected without exception
– We strongly advise to submit your EOI before the EOI deadline
• Be business-led
• Involve two or more collaboration partners located in the UK
– Be based on work conducted in the UK
• Address specific requirements of the competition
• A missing consortia partner – still submit an EOI !
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11. The Review Period
Competition EOI Full Competition Applicants
Opens Deadline Stage Closes informed
Expression Review Project
Launch Period Full stage Assessment
of Interest initiation
Minimum 4 weeks 6 weeks 2 7 weeks 4 weeks
weeks
• Independent reviewers
– The Technology Strategy Board preserves reviewers
anonymity, and the Transport KTN do not know who the
reviews are.
• Reviewers sign confidentiality agreements
• Gateway Question - If the review panel consider that the
answer to this question is not adequate
– then your application will not pass the EOI stage.
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12. Competition EOI Full Competition Applicants
Opens Deadline Stage Closes informed
Expression Review Project
Launch Period Full stage Assessment
of Interest initiation
Minimum 4 6 weeks 2 7 weeks 4 weeks
weeks weeks
EOI Review stage
• Submissions assessed by several reviewers
– The business proposition
– Project details
– Funding and added value
• Independent panel meeting held to
– Discuss all EOI applications
– Agree Ranked list for Fast Track and EOI submissions
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13. EOI Decision
Competition EOI Full
Opens Deadline Stage
Fast Track
Expression Review
Launch Period Invitation to full stage
of Interest
Minimum 4 weeks 6 weeks 2 Unsuccessful
weeks
• Fast track
– The TSB will allocate their fast track funding to the highest
ranked project, then the next project, and so on.
– This process is continued until all of the funding is allocated to
projects.
– Once the funding is allocated, subsequent projects will not be
funded.
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14. EOI Decision
Competition EOI Full
Opens Deadline Stage
Fast Tract
Expression Review
Launch Period Invitation to full stage
of Interest
Minimum 4 weeks 6 weeks 2 Unsuccessful
weeks
• Invitation to Full stage
– TSB will invite the highest ranking applications to submit a full
stage application, in strict order.
– Usually this would be in the region of 200% of the indicative
funding allocation.
• Unsuccessful applications
– Once indicative 200% is reached, subsequent projects will inform
the project that the submission has not been successful.
– Contact the Transport KTN
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15. Full Stage
Competition EOI Full Competition Applicants
Opens Deadline Stage Closes informed
Expression Review Project
Launch Period Full stage Assessment
of Interest initiation
Minimum 4 weeks 6 weeks 2 weeks 7 weeks 4 weeks
14th Jan 2013 1st May 2013
Register Compulsory
your information
interest Day
• Consortia invited back to submit a full submission
• TSB will run a compulsory briefing day, to which at least one delegate
from the consortia must attend
• Applications can only be on the forms provided online
• Annexes can be submitted & Illustrations and graphics can be included
• Submitted before the deadline, normally noon
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16. Assessment
Competition EOI Full Competition Applicants
Opens Deadline Stage Closes informed
Expression Review Project
Launch Period Full stage Assessment
Assessment
of Interest initiation
Minimum 4 weeks 6 weeks 2 weeks 7 weeks 4 weeks
• Independent reviewers as EOI stage
• Once again, the importance of the Gateway Question
• Individual applications reviewed by several assessors
• Independent review panel
• Submissions ranked
– Top projects funded in ranked order
– Once the funding is allocated, subsequent projects will not be
funded.
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17. Project initiation
Competition EOI Full Competition Applicants
Opens Deadline Stage Closes informed
Expression Review Project
Launch Period Full stage Assessment
of Interest initiation
Minimum 4 weeks 6 weeks 2 weeks 7 weeks 4 weeks
• Offer letter to be returned with two months
• Collaboration Agreement signed by all participants by the third
month
• Project to commence within six months of the acceptance of offer
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18. Transport KTN – here to assist
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