The Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) stimulates innovation by linking organizations and exchanging knowledge, providing access to funding and support, and promoting exemplars. KTN has over 60,000 members and 120 staff who help build connections across industries. KTN offers monthly newsletters on specific sectors, events for collaboration and consortium building, and help finding the right funding. KTN also organizes competitions like the Manufacturing and Materials grants which provide up to £2 million for experimental development projects.

1. Funding & Connecting:
Innovate UK and
the Knowledge Transfer Network
Ben Peace (@BenPeace)
Knowledge Transfer Manager – Sustainable Manufacture

2. The Innovate UK Family

3. The Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) stimulates
innovation by:
• Linking organisations & exchanging knowledge
• Providing access to funding & support
• Promoting exemplars
• 120 staff
• 60,000 members
• Free to join

4. “I was impressed by the connections across powerful
communities which KTN staff have helped build.
This was clearly the result of people knowing what
was needed and bringing the right players
together”
Christine Tacon, Chair of the Food and Drink Engineering Forum

5. The KTN offer
• Information & News
– Monthly newsletters dedicated to specific sectors
• Events and activities
– For knowledge transfer & collaboration
– Competition briefing & consortium building events
– >10,000 delegates/year
• Partnering
– Access to strong network of industry & research partners – proactive
partnering
• Funding
– Help finding & obtaining the right funding

6. Chemistry&
Biotechnology
Food
LifeSciences
Materials
Infrastructure
Transport
EnablingTech
Complex
Systems
EmergingTech
Digital&
Creative

7. Chemistry&
Biotechnology
Food
LifeSciences
Materials
Infrastructure
Transport
EnablingTech
Complex
Systems
EmergingTech
Digital&
Creative
Design
Access to Funding & Finance
Manufacturing
European Programmes
Sustainability

9. Manufacturing & Materials grants
£15m competition – runs every 6 months
• Scope: “Innovation to enable competitiveness and growth in
manufacturing and materials”
• Manufacturing or materials innovation, rather than a product
innovation.
• Project size:
– Feasibility (£50K; 6 months)
…up to…
– Experimental development (£2m; 3 years)

10. Knowledge Transfer Partnerships

13. Factory 2050 event
28th February, Sheffield
• Demonstrations
• Funding & support
• 1-to-1 meetings with staff - HVM Catapult, Innovate UK, KTN

14. Summary
The UK’s innovation network
• Setting up collaborative partnerships; linking you to the knowledge
• Providing access to funding & support
• Linking up the innovation landscape;
• Influencing the priorities
Ben Peace - Knowledge Transfer Manager, Sustainable Manufacture
ben.peace@ktn-uk.org 07801 226431 @BenPeace
Ben Peace - Knowledge Transfer Manager, Sustainable Manufacture
ben.peace@ktn-uk.org 07801 226431 @BenPeace
www.ktn-uk.org
@KTNUK