Re: Academic/commercial collaboration

In fact some larger companies (eg Ethicon) do use TCS, even with reduced
level of funding because of the training framework and well-focused
academic input it provides

Also today's headlines about UK university top-up fees may have obscured
the apparently significant benefit (summarised below) from the white
paper. The question is should the Knowledge Exchanges be regionally- or
domain-based? It's not hard to the benefits a national UCD Exchange
couldachieve...
Tom

from
http://www.dfes.gov.uk/highereducation/hestrategy/pdfs/higher_education_
exe
c_summ.pdf

Higher Education and Business - Exchanging and Developing Knowledge
and Skills Higher education in the UK generates over £34 billion for our
economy and supports more than half a million jobs. But less than one in
five businesses taps into universities' skills and knowledge. Universities
and colleges can play a bigger role in creating jobs and prosperity.
We will encourage this by:
* Strengthening the Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF) - worth £90m
a year in 2005-06 - to encourage especially the non research-intensive
universities to work with employers locally, regionally and nationally;
* Funding through HEIF a network of 20 Knowledge Exchanges to reward and
support HE institutions working with business;
* Building stronger partnerships between HE institutions and regional
development agencies (RDAs), with RDAs playing an increasing role
allocating HEIF;
* Helping sector skills councils forge stronger alliances between
business and relevant departments in universities and colleges

On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 09:20:39 +0000, Gilbert Cockton
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Nick
>Larger companies go for LINK funding from DTI.  This pays 50% of total
>R&D cost, and all company costs such as staff time, facilities etc.
>are factored into this, so can actually get the academic costs fully
>funded (must work with UK academic groups for LINK) and even end up
>with some real cash for the company too
>
>Cheers
>Gilbert
>
>On Sat, 18 Jan 2003, Nick
>Gassman wrote:
>
>> >(http://www.tcsonline.org.uk/) and it is not at all limited to the
subject
>> >of HCI - the aim of the scheme is technology transfer between
Universities
>> >and industry. It's also partially Government funded.
>>
>> Looks good, although it is limited to small and medium-sized
companies.

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