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IAA Funding

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Subject to further funding from EPSRC, the next funding call for the Follow on Fund, Knowledge Transfer Fellowships and Partnership Development Awards will be announced in the Easter Term 2015, for projects to start on or after 1st October 2015.

Early stage commercialisation

Support for the very early stages of turning research outputs into a commercial proposition.

Technology Roadmapping

The Institute of Manufacturing has established a programme for teaching TRM tools which provide a powerful approach to articulating future research developments and candidate commercial exploitation routes in a way that enrols stakeholders, and builds commitment.

Funds are available within the EPSRC IAA for research groups to access road-mapping. Interested academics and researchers should contact [email protected] for more information.

Follow-on-Fund (incorporating PhD Plus)

The Follow on Fund is designed to support the early stage development of technology to make the idea more attractive for commercial investment. The fund is open to develop ideas which have arisen from EPSRC funded research, which may be either research grants or studentships.

Further information on the Follow on Fund

Strategic engagement with business

Partnership Development Awards

Partnership Development Awards are available to pump-prime collaborations with industry partners. The fund is open to research projects within EPSRC remit which will kick-start collaborations with companies who have significant potential to become future business partners for the University.

Further information on Partnership Development Awards

Flexible support for secondments and placements

Knowledge Transfer Fellowships

Funds are available to support 3-10 month Knowledge Transfer Fellowships. Each Fellowship will transfer knowledge and expertise linked to EPSRC research between the University and a partner organisation. The Fellowship will fund a researcher or member of academic staff to undertake a placement within a business or other partner organisation. Fellowships are also open to company employees to spend time working in a University department to facilitate knowledge transfer.

Further information on Knowledge Transfer Fellowships

Industrial Postgraduate Placements

Funding is available for postgraduate student industrial placements linked to EPSRC research.

Placements can be undertaken at any point during a Masters or Doctoral level qualification with a company based in the UK. Placements with small/medium size companies and those in the Cambridge cluster are particularly welcomed but others are not excluded.

For further information on postgraduate industrial placements please contact [email protected]