Innovation & Technology
Grants
College Business Partnerships
CBP is a UK wide pilot DTI
scheme that brings together SMEs and Further Education Colleges. It involves
people recently qualified at NVQ level 4 or equivalent undertaking a year long
project as an Associate in an SME involving technology that is both relevant
and appropriate to the business. Each CBP Project is part-supported by a DTI
grant to the FE Partner with additional contributions from the company....more
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Fraday Partnerships
A Faraday Partnership brings
together a network of organisations that share a common sector or technology
interest and is aimed at promoting improved interactions between the UK science
and engineering base and industry....more
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Foresight Programme
The UK's Government-led
Foresight programme brings people, knowledge and ideas together to look ahead
and prepare for the future. Business, the science base, Government, the voluntary
sector and others work through thirteen Foresight panels to think about what
might happen in the future and what we can do about it now to increase prosperity
and enhance the quality of life for all....more
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Foresight / Link Awards
The Awards support collaborative
research projects between business and research base organisations. This provides
opportunity for new technologies to be explored with a view to enhancing competitive
success for business in current and new markets....more
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Invest to Save Budget
The Invest to Save Budget
(ISB) is a cross Government scheme jointly administered by HM Treasury and Cabinet
Office. It provides financial support to projects that bring together two or
more public service bodies in an innovative way to improve services to local
people or to reduce costs....more
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Management of Innovation
Initiative
Is a DTI sponsored programme
that aims to benefit the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industries
and ultimately their customers. It supports collaborative research into advanced
information and communication technologies, products and systems for countering
fraud, improving security and safeguarding privacy....more
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Research and Development
(R&D) Tax Credit
This programme encourages
small and medium sized firms in R&D....more
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Shell Technology Enterprise
Programme (STEP)
STEP is a national programme
designed to help SMEs and community organisations develop their potential by
making use of the skills of undergraduates, and also to encourage undergraduates
to consider a career in smaller firms....more
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TCS - Access to knowledge
TCS enables firms to take
advantage of the wealth of scientific, engineering, technological and business
management skills and knowledge available in universities and other research
and technology-based organisations (the 'knowledge base')....more
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Technology Partnership
Initiative
TPI is a government initiative
which aims to give firms in developing, industrialising and emerging countries
better access to environmental technologies and techniques widely adopted in
the UK. TPI is administered by the Joint Environmental Markets Unit (JEMU)....more
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University Challenge
The purpose of University
Challenge is to enable universities to establish seed funds, which will assist
the successful transformation of good research into good business....more
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