Innovate UK: Knowledge Transfer Partnerships
Summary
The Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) scheme helps businesses to innovate and grow. It does this by linking them with a university and a graduate to work on a specific project.
Each KTP is a three-way partnership between a business, an academic institution and a graduate. The academic institution employs the recently-qualified graduate who works at the company. The graduate, known as the ‘associate’, brings new skills and knowledge to the business.
A KTP can last between 6 months and 3 years depending
Federation of Small Businesses Newsletter 20th November
The latest FSB Newsletter is now available, issues addressed in this week’s edition include:
Do you dream of being your own boss?
Forthcoming events at Hull Central Library
Want to meet some of the city region’s brightest stars?
How to grow your Business with Social Media
Rotherham Hospice business breakfast wake up call
Sheffield councillors pitch in to promote Small Business Saturday
South Yorkshire Police urge businesses to join forces in a new crime-fighting superpower.
Beware seasonal van theft
Forty-two per cent in Yorkshire say they’d prefer to be self
Cyber Security Innovation Vouchers
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport with Innovate UK is funding a special strand of Innovation Vouchers to help UK businesses get expert advice in protecting their business from cyber crime which could help them to achieve certification under the Cyber Essentials scheme. The scheme is open to Start ups, micro and SME’s.
You can get an Innovation Voucher worth up to £5,000 to pay for an external expert. This expert will give you advice on cyber security for your business
Funding Opportunities in IT,Digital And Media
Innovate UK have a number of exciting funding opportunities for the IT, Digital and Media sector.
Cross-platform production in digital media
This competition aims to support projects that address convergence in digital media technologies. It covers film, television, online video, animation and video games, and includes pre- production, production and post- production processes, particularly for visual effects technologies.
View here for more details.
Intelligent data insights
Innovate UK is offering 6 businesses up to £35,000 (excluding VAT) each to encourage innovation in artificial intelligence, data
How Innovate UK Can Help Solve Your Business Problems
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Innovate UK is the UK’s innovation agency
Working with people, companies and partner organisations to find and drive the science and technology innovations that will grow the UK economy. Providing a range of funding opportunities for your business.
Working to:
determine which science and technology developments will drive future economic growth
meet UK innovators with great ideas in the fields we’re focused on
fund the strongest opportunities
connect innovators with the right partners they need to succeed
help our innovators launch, build and grow successful businesses
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UK-China project partnerships: apply for business funding
UK businesses are invited to partner with Chinese ones on projects that meet challenges in energy, healthcare, urbanisation and agri-food.
Innovate UK, Research Councils UK and the Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST) for the People’s Republic of China are to invest up to £16 million in collaborative research and development projects that propose commercial solutions to critical challenges affecting socio-economic growth and development of China.
UK and Chinese businesses are invited to join forces to apply for a share of the money for projects in
Export Opportunities Await Your Business
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dbqja-aBEIs
A World of opportunities await you. There are over 1000 export opportunities available on the Exporting Is Great web site, could there be one for your business? Can you export floor coverings to Australia,supply water pumps to Switzerland or supply o-rings to Japan.
Visit exporting is great and see what opportunities await your business.
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LEADER FUNDING PROGRAMME
Northern Lincolnshire LEADER Programme will be launching on 16th November 2015.
Leader Launch Event
What is LEADER?
LEADER is part of the Rural Development Programme for England (RDPE). LEADER uses local knowledge to promote a joined-up ‘bottom up’ community-led delivery of RDP grants. In England this is being delivered by Local Action Groups (LAGs) and it targets rural areas with specific needs and priorities.
How local action groups work
The LEADER Funding Programme is aimed farmers, foresters, businesses and community groups within rural North and
Federation of Small Businesses Newsletter 13th November
This week’s edition which contains all the business news, resources, some great free events, business achievements, burning issues and things to watch out for in the future… everything you need to know about what’s happening in the enterprise world, all in one place.
This week’s edition includes:
Business in the Spotlight is back!
‘The Telephone Assassin’ in live webinar
Shaping the future of your business
SheffEX – Sheffield’s business event
How to grow your Business with Social Media
Rotherham Hospice business breakfast wake up call
UK City Of
£4million Video Games Prototype Fund to support UK video games development
A new £4 million fund to help boost the UK’s growing video games industry has been launched by Government.
Aimed at helping smaller companies get concepts off the drawing board and into production, the fund will provide additional support to the sector which has already given the world global blockbusters like Tomb Raider, Little Big Planet, Runescape, Monument Valley and Batman: Arkham Knight.
Over the four years from 2015 to 2019, the Video Games Prototype Fund will offer grants of up to