July 2006
PPARC KITE Club - Technology and Industry News – July 2006
This month’s issue of Technology and Industry News focuses on forthcoming events.
1. Farnborough International Air Show - 17th & 19th July
2. Photon06: Industry Technology Programme - 6th September
3. Research Facilities Workshop – 11th September
4. Defence & Aerospace Workshop – 19th October
5. Can you help? – a technology request
1 Farnborough International Air Show 17th & 19th July 2006
Two events are being held at this year’s Farnborough Air Show to promote the application of space technologies in other sectors:
• “Business Opportunity from Space – a commercial morning with ESA” on 17th July from 11:00-12:30 is jointly organised by the ESA Technology Transfer Programme the ESA Business Incubation initiative, and the ISS Commercialisation Division of the European Space Agency.
• ‘An International Future for Space’ on 19th July from 10:15-12:15 is jointly organised by PPARC and UKISC and features talks by Lord Sainsbury, UK Minister for Space, Michael Griffin, Administrator NASA, Jean-Jacques Dordain, Director General ESA and Nathan Hill on behalf of PPARC and BNSC partners.
2 Photon06: Industry Technology Programme, Manchester, 6th September 2006
Optoelectronics is an all-pervasive enabling technology that can be applied to a vast number of markets and the importance to the UK economy has been reinforced by the recent establishment of the Photonics Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN). The business & innovation programme will be useful for large companies searching for new markets and product-enhancing technologies and for small and medium sized enterprises seeking to develop and expand their businesses. The programme will cover issues related to new start ups and other business-critical themes: IP, legal issues, patents, funding, international collaboration, knowledge transfer and effective networks.
Places are limited and people from industrial and academic backgrounds with commercial, partnership or business interests in the fields of optics and photonics will get priority. To book please fill in online registration form http://www.photon06.org/industry_technology.htm. For further information please e-mail dipali.chauhan@iop.org
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.
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 Ravi Rathod or 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 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, Ravi Rathod ravi.rathod@qi3.co.uk and David Rafe david.rafe@qi3.co.uk. For enquiries about the Basic Technology Research Programme, please call 01223 422407. 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
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