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Collaborative Research & Development
The Technology Programme is one of the DTI’s
business support solutions
designed to stimulate innovation in the UK economy through higher
levels of research and development (R&D) and knowledge transfer.
The Technology Programme is made up of 2 products;
Information
about Knowledge Transfer Networks can be accessed through
http://www.dti.gov.uk/ktn/
The
objective of Collaborative Research & Development is to assist the
industry and research communities to work together on Research &
Development projects in strategically important areas of science,
engineering and technology, from which successful new products,
processes and services can emerge. It also primes the flow of the
latest knowledge and thinking from the UK’s science, engineering
and technology base to business. Collaborative Research &
Development projects must involve two or more collaborators, at
least one of which is from industry.
The
Technology Programme supports three categories of research:
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Pure or
oriented basic research.
This encompasses both experimental or theoretical work
undertaken primarily to acquire new knowledge of the underlying
foundations of phenomena and observable facts, without any
particular application or use in view. Funding
support will favour oriented basic research over pure basic
research. By oriented basic research we mean research carried
out with the expectation that it will produce a broad base of
knowledge likely to form the background to the solution of
recognised or expected current or future problems or
possibilities.
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Applied
research.
This encompasses original investigation undertaken in order to
acquire new knowledge directed primarily towards a specific
practical aim or objective. This type of research may involve
the creation of a project to take
forward the results of a basic research programme.
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Experimental development.
This encompasses systematic work,
drawing on existing knowledge gained from research and practical
experience, that is directed to producing new materials,
products and devices; or to installing new processes, systems
and services; or to improving substantially those already
produced or installed.
For
information on open competitions for Collaborative Research and
Development projects
click here.
For information
on successful Collaborative Research and Development projects
click here
Applications may be made from organisations seeking to collaborate
with international partners within the
Eureka network.
EUREKA is a pan-European initiative for promoting collaborative
industry-led R&D in fields of advanced technology, in a network
encompassing 36 countries.
The benefits for UK companies collaborating in EUREKA include
access to new technologies, the sharing of costs and risks,
reduced timescales, and access to new overseas markets.
Applicants considering applying to Collaborative R&D to fund their
participation in a EUREKA project should contact the
UK EUREKA UNIT
at an early stage and the application should be copied to the
EUREKA Unit to ensure formal endorsement as a Eureka project.
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