August 2006
PPARC KITE Club - Technology and Industry News – August 2006
This month’s issue of Technology and Industry News focuses on forthcoming events.
1. Have you heard of KTP?
2. EGEE’06 conference business track – 25th & 26th September
3. Research Facilities Workshop – 11th September
4. Defence & Aerospace Workshop – 19th October
5. Healthcare SIG – dental technology meeting – 31st October
6. Can you help? – a technology request
1 Have you heard about KTP?
PPARC is keen to encourage further applications to the Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) scheme which now has over a thousand such partnerships in place at any time. Knowledge Transfer Partnerships enable Higher Education Institutions to apply their wealth of knowledge and expertise to important business problems. At the heart of each KTP is a relationship between a company and academic researchers applying their expertise to a project that is central to the development of the company. In the process, researchers are able to enhance the business relevance of their teaching and research. The KTP fits best where the company has a nearer market aim than in PIPSS and the company is prepared to invest in a product outcome.
Each KTP is managed by a team involving senior research staff and the company and a recently qualified graduate or postdoctoral researcher recruited as the KTP Associate.
The aims of each Knowledge Transfer Partnership are to:
Enhance the business relevance of the research institute’s work
· Improve the competitiveness of the company
· Enhance the career prospects of a graduate or postdoctoral researcher
For further information, visit http://www.pparc.ac.uk/In/Sc/collaboration.asp, http://www.ktponline.org.uk/ or contact any of the Innovation Advisory Service team.
2 EGEE’06 conference business track - 25th & 26th September 2006
The EGEE’06 conference invites you to its first innovative Business Track aiming to create closer alliances between Research & Industry. Make your way to the EGEE’06 Business Track to get to grips with Grid and understand the financial incentives for businesses to consider Grid as an option for the future. Choose from sessions offering a variety of topics: an Introduction to EGEE and Business, Grid Business models, Global Grid versus Corporate Grid, Grids & SMEs, Grid in Automotive, Finance and Bio sectors, Data Management and Security and Grid and Public Administration. A feedback session on the second day will report recommendations, next steps and conclusions.
Speakers from HP, Atos Origin, GS1 and more will consider real-case scenarios and workable solutions for today’s innovative enterprise. A representative from the European Commission will give a perspective on the EC’s strategy for the future on Grids & Business and an Asian Federation member within EGEE-II will offer a perspective on what is going on in Grid globally. Relating Grid & Research with Grid & industry is the key to the success of EGEE.
For more information on the EGEE’06 conference, please go to www.eu-egee.org/egee06, where you may register, or contact Alex Efimov.
3 Research Facilities workshop – 11th September 2006
The first event integrating industry’s varied interests in scientific research facilities such as CERN, ESO, ESA and their component experiments will be held at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory on 11th September by the Research Facilities Special Interest Group of the Sensors Knowledge Transfer Network. About 200 people, mostly from industry, are already registered.
This event will be an opportunity for us to showcase technology opportunities and requirements to industry, and for companies to tell us about their technology offerings and requirements. Facilities or individual experiments are now invited to register interest in attending, exhibiting, or in running a 1-hour parallel session to develop industrial interest in any of the following areas:
· Collaborative technology development, supply of goods and services for future facilities
· Opportunities for Knowledge Transfer in technology domains of interest to industry
· Access opportunities whereby industry may use facilities under contract
Future facilities such as ELT, SKA, Aurora, Darwin, ILC, XFEL are particularly encouraged to participate.
Registration is now open at http://www.qi3.co.uk/events/event.asp?EventID=137. For further information please contact David Rafe.
4 KITE Club Defence and Aerospace Industry Workshop – 19th October 2006
Following the success of the first KITE Club Defence and Aerospace SIG meeting in March, we shall be holding a larger scale workshop in October. The objective is to engage further with industry in this sector for collaborative development. The defence and aerospace sector also presents numerous opportunities for ‘spin-in’ of technology for the PPARC programme. There have been a number of recent PIPSS and Joint Grant Scheme awards in areas which apply PPARC-funded research to homeland security and these will be presented.
Registration is now open at http://www.qi3.co.uk/events/event.asp?EventID=136 and please contact Glyn White or Chris Appleyard if you would like to exhibit posters.
5 KITE Club Healthcare SIG – dental technology meeting – 31st October 2006
This meeting will seek to introduce PPARC imaging and image analysis technologies to medical researchers working in the dental sciences. There are three elements to this type of research – in vitro imaging at the laboratory bench, in vivo imaging in the clinical setting and image processing. PPARC already has activity in these areas, but these have not yet been fully applied to dental research.
If you have technology that would be of interest to medical researchers, see the programme and register at http://www.pparc.ac.uk/In/SIG311006.asp or contact Mark Littlewood for further information.
6 Can you help? A Technology Request
A company has asked us for ideas in two areas:
· Measurement of impurities in Tritium gas. To do this mass spectrometry is required. However, isobaric overlaps mean that high resolutions (>2500 to fully separate T from H3+) are required. Traditionally this has been done by magnetic sector mass spectrometry.
· We wish to remove all (100%) solvent from an HPLC output. Traditional methods such as nebulisation and membrane desolvation do not get to the very low (<1ppm) levels of solvent removal that we require. We would be interested in any novel technology that could help in this application.
Please contact Mark Littlewood if you think you can help this company.
Contacts:
KITE Club Innovation Advisors and CERN UK Technology Transfer Officer. Nathan Hill: email: nathan.hill@qi3.co.uk Tel: 01223 422405. Also Mark Littlewood mark.littlewood@qi3.co.uk, Glyn White glyn.white@qi3.co.uk, Alex Efimov alex.efimov@qi3.co.uk and David Rafe david.rafe@qi3.co.uk. For enquiries about the Sensors Knowledge Transfer Network Advanced Instrumentation and Research Facilities Special Interest Groups, please call 01223 422406. Registration for events is available via www.qi3.co.uk/events