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Technology Transfer

BERR Business Plan Objective 2: Promote effective transfer of knowledge to improve UK innovation performance and accelerate business exploitation of science and new and existing technologies

The Bioscience Unit's Knowledge Transfer Team contributes to this objective by:

• Working with bioscience stakeholders within and outside Government at regional, national, European and international levels to shape policy and influence science and technology strategy, and to ensure that bioscience strategies across Government are joined up
• Facilitating and building technology transfer networks, and promoting calls for proposals in the areas of bioscience and healthcare under the Technology Programme to maximise industry participation and the submission of high quality proposals
• Managing a portfolio of pre-Technology Programme schemes to maximise benefit to industry through dissemination and networking activities, and using outputs to help shape future strategy and policy
• Ensuring UK lead position in stem cell research is translated into commercial success. Working with Patent Office and Department of Health to develop better understanding of intellectual property (IP) issue for stem cell commercialisation

BERR business support

BERR support - often in partnership with other government departments - has made, and continues to make, a major impact on the capability of UK business to translate world-class bioscience research into commercial success.Visit the Technology Transfer Reports page for information about the outputs and impact of key pre-Technology Programme initiatives. Please note: these schemes are closed to new applications.

See this site's Support and Funding page for information about current BERR business support mechanisms, including the £320m Technology Programme.