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The Technology Programme Priority areas for this competition were announced on 18th October 2005. The Autumn 2005 competition formally opens on 24th November and is supported by a series of Regional Information Days.
Background
£60m AUTUMN CALL FOR UK INNOVATORS
£63million will be available to UK businesses this autumn to help drive forward innovation and create prosperity for the UK economy though the latest round of the Government’s £370million Technology Programme.
Businesses are being urged to exploit emerging technologies, taking ideas out of the lab, into the market place and onto the balance sheet, to ensure UK competitiveness in the growing global economy.
The £63million will be for collaborative research and development projects in six priority areasidentified as key in progressing the UK’s science and innovation base and moving the UK towards its target of helping increase R&D intensity in the UK (as a percentage of GDP) to reach 2.5% by around 2014.
The competition for collaborative research and development projects will formally open on 24 November with a launch event in London. Supporting this will be a series of regional information days being held across the UK and run with the support of the regional development agencies and devolved administrations.
The events will be an opportunity for delegates to learn more about the technologies and hear about the range of support from the Programme, regions and networks. Speakers will also help them understand the competition requirements and the application process.
The current round is part of the bi-annual competition underpinned by the Government’s three-year investment to stimulate collaborative research and development and champion the UK’s position as a centre for excellence for scientific innovation. Support for the competition is also being provided by the Research Councils.
The Autumn 2005 technology priority areas are:
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Science and Innovation Minister, Lord Sainsbury said "Focusing on leading edge and emerging technologies is key to ensuring that the UK maintains a strong base on which to build our future science and innovation capability.
"Pinpointing funding to help new ideas flourish will strengthen the transition of exciting projects from the drawing board to the market place. With more than £300m committed by Government we are working towards our aim of increasing the UK's R&D intensity to 2.5% by 2014."
Each regional information day will specifically focus on one of the six autumn priority areas and will include case studies and presentations from former competition winners. The information days will be held in:
| Edinburgh, 28th November with Scottish Executive - focus on energy |
| York, 30th November with Yorkshire Forward - focus on waste minimisation/resource efficiency |
| Manchester, 1st December with NWDA - focus on data and content storage, management, retrieval and analysis |
| London, 5th December with EMDA – focus on design of electrical and electronic control power systems |
| London, 8th December with Invest NI – focus on materials modelling |
| London, 9th December with SEEDA & LDA – focus on regenerative medicine |
NOTES TO EDITORS
| 1. Further information about the Technology Programme,details of the Autumn 2005 competition, information days and how to apply can be accessed here. |
| 2. The competition is open to business and academic collaborators, including universities, other higher educational (or research) institutions, their spin-off companies and other research bodies. |
| 3. More information on each of the technologies can be found here. |
| 4. Admission to the events is free and aimed at decision makers or technology managers in business or academic institutions. |
| 5. A national Technology Strategy & supporting funding Programme was one of therecommendations from the Innovation Report, December 2003, and its role was strengthened in the Government's 10-Year Science & Innovation Investment Framework, July 2004 with the aim of helping increase R&D intensity in the UK (R&D as percentage of GDP) to reach 2.5% by around 2014. |
| 6. The Technology Programme currently has funds of £200 million per year over the period of 2005 to 2008.Since 2004 we have announced around £245m to fund collaborative R&D and knowledge transfer networks. This announcement brings the total to over £300m. |
| 7. In November 2004, the Prime Minister and Secretary of State launched theDepartment’s 5-Year Programme ‘Creating Wealth from Knowledge’ with a new focus on science, innovation and technology. |
| 8. The Government also today announced the successful migration of 19 Faraday Partnerships over to the new business support product, Knowledge Transfer Networks (KTN). The new Knowledge Transfer Networks will build on the Faraday model and aim to extend the benefits of networking to a wider range of businesses. |
| 9. Information on Knowledge Transfer Networks can be found at here. The DTI support of over £30m over the next three years is supplemented by £2.2m from Defra and DH for relevant networks. The full list of Knowledge Transfer Networks is: |
A further four Knowledge Transfer Networks are under consideration in Cyber Security and Biometrics, Modern Built Environment, Electronics and Imaging.
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