Warwick University Industry Day 24 th May 2017 Dr Mark Tarplee
UK Research and Innovation our future Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) IUK 547m EPSRC 858m MRC 616m STFC 529m BBSRC 422m NERC 325m ESRC 178m AHRC 98m QR 1686m
Overview of EPSRC - where we fit in Innovation Landscape User requirements/market opportunities Discover Understand Adapt/Integrate Validate Deploy EPSRC Innovate UK and other partners Government and business Universities Catapult Centres Initiation Exploitation
Key facts
A portfolio of approaches to joint funding Access to existing EPSRC investment portfolio Partnering with academics on individual grants or clusters of research and training grants impact acceleration accounts one-off projects networks and largescale programmes Joint, cofunded calls for proposals with EPSRC Prosperity Partnerships ICASE Commitment Commitment from companies 10
Autumn Statement 2016 Innovation, applied science and research additional funding will be allocated to increase research capacity and business innovation. Once established, UKRI will award funding on the basis of national excellence and will include a substantial increase in grant funding through Innovate UK. Science and Innovation budget to rise to an extra 2bn per year by 2020/21 (representing a total increase of 4.7bn of government R&D spending in the period to 2021) Spend next year of an additional 425M Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund a new cross-disciplinary fund to support collaborations between business and the UK s science base, which will set identifiable challenges for UK researchers to tackle. The fund will be managed by Innovate UK and the research councils.
Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF) Programmes delivered by the fund will be industry-led and powered by multidisciplinary research and business-academic collaboration The Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund will: Help the UK capitalise on its strengths Support business led collaborations with coordinated research efforts Identify challenges that may well cut across boundaries of research Focus on areas with the potential to transform existing industries and create entirely new ones The fund is part of Government s long-term plan for research and innovation putting them at the heart of industrial strategy The challenge areas are being selected through a consultative evidence-based process, including engagement events that took place across the country in January 2017 and feedback via responses to the green paper.
Industrial Strategy 10 pillars Green paper includes 10 Pillars to help build the Industrial Strategy: Investing in science, research and innovation Upgrading infrastructure Improving procurement Delivering affordable energy and clean growth Driving growth across the whole country Developing skills Supporting businesses to start and grow Encouraging trade and inward investment Cultivating world-leading sectors Creating the right local institutions
Spring Budget The spring budget announced an initial investment of 270 million in 2017 to 2018. This is to kick-start the development of disruptive technologies that have the potential to transform the UK economy. First challenges announced Following engagement with experts in academia and industry, the budget announced the first wave of challenges funded through the ISCF, part of the Industrial Strategy. These include: leading the world in the development, design and manufacture of batteries that will power the next generation of electric vehicles, helping to tackle air pollution developing cutting-edge artificial intelligence and robotics systems that will operate in extreme and hazardous environments, including off-shore energy, nuclear energy, space and deep mining accelerating patient access to new drugs and treatments through developing brand new medicine manufacturing technologies, helping to improve public health
Spring Budget Investing in skills The budget also announced plans to build the pipeline of high-skilled research talent necessary for a growing and innovative economy. There will be an investment of 250 million over the next 4 years including: 90 million to provide an additional 1,000 PhD places in areas aligned with the Industrial Strategy. Around 85% will be in STEM disciplines, and 40% will directly help strengthen collaboration between business and academia through industrial partnerships 160 million to support new fellowships for early and mid-career researchers in areas aligned to the Industrial Strategy
Equipment/Facilities landscape in the UK International Facilities Mid-Range Facilities Large, National Facilities Lab
What is equipment.data? http://equipment.data.ac.uk An EPSRC initiated project to deliver a sustainable national equipment portal for the HE sector (currently a joint EPSRC/Jisc) The service provides an aggregation of all published UK HE equipment datasets making it the one stop shop for facilitating equipment collaboration discussions Efficiency, effectiveness and value for money report 2015 Professor Sir Ian Diamond Chair, UUK Efficiency Task Group This means.
that equipment.data has 44 organisations, 11,440 pieces of equipment and growing!
National Search using equipment.data Simple keyword search displays nearest equipment first (including distance) See what s available in the UK and explore today! http://equipment.data.ac.uk
Further information https://www.epsrc.ac.uk/ Calls page; https://www.epsrc.ac.uk/funding/calls/?selectedcallsstatus=open&selectedcallsstatus=futu re&pagenumber=1&resultsperpage=25&filtersortby=callclosingdate&filtersortorder=asc&d isplaylist=default Selected calls: Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Hubs in Extreme and Challenging (Hazardous) Environments; https://www.epsrc.ac.uk/funding/calls/raihubs/ Very- and Ultra-High Field NMR for the physical and life sciences; https://www.epsrc.ac.uk/funding/calls/veryandultrahighfieldnmr/ Mid-range Facility Statements of Community Need (2017); https://www.epsrc.ac.uk/funding/calls/midrangestatementsofneed2017/ Strategic Equipment Scheme - Maximising existing equipment sharing in physical sciences; https://www.epsrc.ac.uk/funding/calls/strategicequipmentscheme/
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