Robin Wilson is Lead Technologist for High Value Manufacturing at the Technology Strategy Board

1. Additive Manufacturing /
3D Printing
Enabled by Design-athon
Friday 2nd November 2012
Ravensbourne College
Robin Wilson
Lead Technologist
High Value Manufacturing
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2. Our 5 Strategic Focus Areas
• Accelerating the journey - concept to
commercialisation
• Connecting the innovation landscape
• Turning Government action into
business opportunity
• Investing in theme areas based on
global potential
• Continuously improving
organisational capability
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3. Investing in priority areas based on potential
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4. UK Manufacturing in Context
• Global market worth £6.3 trillion
• UK in top 10 world manufacturers
• GVA of £130 bn (10% UK GVA)
• World #2 Aerospace
[Manufacturing GVA by Country
United Nations Statistics Division,
• 2 of top 6 Pharma’ companies UK Value Added by Country, US$bn, 2010]
based
• Half of UK Exports
• Resurgent auto industry – 84%
exported
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5. High Value Manufacturing
High value manufacturing is the application of leading-edge technical
knowledge and expertise to the creation of products, production processes,
and associated services which have strong potential to bring sustainable
growth and high economic value to the UK. Activities may stretch from R&D
at one end to recycling at the other.
Such potential is characterised by a combination of high R&D intensity and high growth
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6. Cross-Cutting Strategic Themes
22 National Competences under these
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7. National Competences for Manufacturing
Landscape study
identifies:-
5 Strategic themes
&
22 Competences
HVM Strategy
builds competence
in selected areas
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8. Technology Readiness Level
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9. Investment Criteria
We will make our decisions to invest based on:
• sector attractiveness
– large global market
– growth
– UK R&D intensity
• the 22 national competencies
• technology readiness (TRL)
• additionality (the potential for the Technology Strategy Board
investment to make a difference
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10. The Toolset
Range of Tools with different objectives / characteristics
Collaborative
Smart R&D
Launchpad
Innovation Innovation and Entrepreneur
Vouchers Knowledge Centres Missions

11. Knowledge Transfer Networks (KTN)
https://connect.innovateuk.org/web/guest/networks
See _Connect site for full list of
KTNs and other networking
groups supported by TSB

12. Collaborative Research & Development (CR&D)
A tool to support technically challenging innovation projects:
• Funding is won on a competitive basis, for projects that start and finish
• Thematic competitions for projects which normally last 2 or 3 years
• Open to all UK companies, or UK division of multi-nationals
• R&D done in UK, benefits must accrue in the UK (and beyond)
• Must be collaborative, ie: 2 or more partners signed up for the project
• Matched funding: 50/50 for large companies, 60% grant for SMEs
• Allows some sub-contracting to enable smaller companies to participate
• Application process, usually 2-stage, needs planning and preparation
• Independent, external assessors evaluate and score each application
• Funding is grant, not loan, so projects are monitored for the duration

13. Collaborative Research & Development (CR&D)
 New CR&D competition for Additive
Manufacturing / 3D Printing launched
here, today!
 Theme: Inspiring new design freedoms
 We are looking for young, creative
design talent to pioneer new ways to
exploit this technology, set up new
businesses and get the best out of it.
 This means you!

14. Inspiring Design Freedoms in AM / 3DP
Main Features of the competition:
Menu of 6 topics in scope
•Design freedoms
•Application development and demonstrators
•Pre and post processing
•End to end system integration
•Supply & distribution chains
•Business model development and demonstration
£7m funding available, some is ring-fenced for small
companies doing small projects.
Call-back days for knowledge sharing across the running
projects on non-competitive themes like design guidelines, supply
chain priorities, material standards and future skills requirements

15. Inspiring Design Freedoms in AM / 3DP
Opens 3 December (registration etc)
Briefing event 11 December (London)
Morning:
•Scope and project details
•How to apply
Afternoon
•Consortium building
•2-minute pitch “We offer, we need, would like to meet ...”
•Networking opportunities – explore new partnering ideas
•Identifying what are the most useful call-back day themes

16. Links
Technology Strategy Board www.innovateuk.org
_Connect https://connect.innovateuk.org/
See https://connect.innovateuk.org/web/additive-manufacturing
Robin Wilson robin.wilson@tsb.gov.uk

17. Questions?
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