University Engagement

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1 August 2015 University Engagement Marko Balabanovic Innovation Director

2 A national centre to rapidly advance the UK s best digital ideas Not for profit, private limited Completely neutral company

3 Data Liquidity We help UK businesses unlock new value from sharing closed, proprietary and personal data in better and more trusted ways

4 Data from Personal data Internet of Things devices Data that has ownership and Data closed in organisations rights

5 We have engaged with 37 UK universities in our first full year of activity 24% of all of the research universities (that reported results to the REF the Research Excellent Framework in 2014, across all disciplines) 40% of all those that receive funding from the Digital Economy Theme of the EPSRC (the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council). This funding theme is very closely matched to our challenge areas. 85% of the top 20 ranked universities for computer science and informatics.

6 Coast to Capital LEP, Wired Sussex, Our three local centres are all consortia Universities of Brighton and Sussex partnerships that include universities: In Sunderland with Newcastle University, Durham University, University of Sunderland and Teesside University Sunderland Software City, North-East and In Brighton with Universities of Sussex Tees and Valley LEP, Newcastle, Durham, Brighton Sunderland and Teesside Universities In Bradford with Universities of Bradford, Huddersfield, Leeds and York. Leeds City Region LEP, York, North Yorkshire and East Riding LEP, Universities of Bradford, York, Leeds, Huddersfield, BT, Science City York, City of Bradford Council

7 Reasons to Engage Academic Work Commercialisation Funding Joint bids for collaborative R&D Visibility Showcase work Impact Effect the economy, policy, society, culture Partners & Investors Interact with companies Problems & Data Work with companies on real-world problems

8 Scales of Engagement We don t have capacity to work individually with every university We need to engage where we can make a difference We re very focussed on our challenge areas

9 Scales of Engagement National Uni Dept/Group Individual Research Councils National Orgs DE Hubs Turing Institute Uni Dept Research Group TTO Prof Postdoc PhD Masters/ Undergrad Priority: HIGH LOW

10 Activities 1 Collaborative R&D Participate in grant funding bids, H2020 & UK 2 Showcasing Show work at our centres 3 Researcher in Residence Work with us, next call opens Sept 4 Secondments & Internships 5 Mentoring & Pit Stops 6 Testbeds, Platforms & Networks Student projects - we work with PhD students across 5 CDTs and have summer interns Expertise for our open innovation activities or a chance for students to participate Participate in specific projects: IoT testbeds, CopyrightHub, Personal Data & Trust Network, etc

11 Porous Boundaries We have 500K funding from EPSRC over 3 years to bring 20 Researchers in Residence to the Digital Catapult Jointly administered with universities of Cambridge and Nottingham First researchers being selected Sept/Oct 2015 Researchers will be able to show real-world impact or work on commercialisation of their projects or work with us on our projects We have deep relationships with all the Centres for Doctoral Training within our challenge areas - developing the pools of deep skills in big data, web science and so on Specific sponsorship with 10 students per cohort Also working with the Digital Economy Network to support projects, events, training, entrepreneurship Our open innovation activities with our commercial supporters are all open to students and academics, with ongoing involvement crossing academic/startup/corporate boundaries

12 EXAMPLE ACTIVITY Spin-out Pitch-off May 2015 Part of Digital Shoreditch 10 startups commercialising university R&D from different universities Audience of investors, government agencies, academics and corporates Judges from Google, St John s Innovation Centre, TechStars

13 I wanted to let you know that following the Digital Catapult spin-out pitches, my company Crossword successfully completed our 1.5m funding round. One of the investors who participated was in the audience at the spin-out pitches and he approached me and eventually decided to invest as a direct result of my presence at the event. So, thank you for inviting me and that is hard evidence that what you do actually delivers results! Tom Ilube, CEO, Crossword Cybersecurity Plc

14 EXAMPLE ACTIVITY IoTUK Combining Universities, Accelerator, Catapults & City/Heath Testbeds

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