North West University Fair - Hosted by Sci-Tech Daresbury
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North West University Fair - hosted by Sci-Tech Daresbury Tuesday April 19th 2016 08.30 - 12.00 Park Royal Hotel, Warrington INTRODUCTION Sci-Tech Daresbury was established in 2006 (formerly known as Daresbury Science and Innovation Campus) as one of the UK’s national science and innovation campuses and more recently in 2012 as a strategic Enterprise Zone. It is internationally-recognised for the world-class Location scientific facilities and expertise that is located on the site through the Science and Technology The event will take place in the Conference Venue at the Park Royal Hotel in Warrington just off Junction 10 Facilities Council’s Daresbury Laboratory of the M56. For directions please go to particularly in areas such as accelerator science, www.qhotels.co.uk/our-locations/the-park-royal/. high performance computing, modelling & simulation, big data analytics, sensors and detectors. Registration It is also home to over 100 technology companies The NW University Fair is now open for bookings. in areas such as advanced engineering, digital/ To book your place at the event please ICT technologies, biomedical technologies and click here (you will be prompted to login with services, and clean technologies. It is now widely- your NewsHub user name and password in order recognised for the business support it brings to to access the event page). the businesses to help companies accelerate their If you aren’t already a member of the Sci-Tech growth, innovate more effectively and more easily Daresbury network, click here to become a identify and establish collaborative partnerships. member and then go to the webpage for the A critical part of this is our relationships with the event to register. regional universities who we see as key partners in bringing support and expertise to technology companies in areas such as: • Student projects & placements • Student recruitment • Collaborative research & Knowledge Transfer Partnerships • Access to facilities Therefore this event is designed to help technology companies better understand the breadth of support available to them and how they can best take advantage of this. It will be done through two mechanisms: • Short session highlighting 4 company case studies through a combination of interview, expert panel and Q&A from the audience. • Exhibition enabling you to meet with representatives from 8 regional universities and Innovate UK to explore potential areas of support and collaboration AGENDA 8.30 – Registration 9.00 – Welcome and housekeeping - John Leake, Sci-Tech Daresbury 9.05 – Company case studies with expert panel Session 1 Company Representative Area of engagement Autocoding Systems Dan Cartwright – Software Student projects and placements (www.autocodingsystems.com) Development Manager JBA Consulting Rob Lamb - Director Student recruitment (www.jbaconsulting.com) Expert panel University Representative Position University of Chester Kate Daubney Director of Careers & Employability Lancaster University Pam Pickles Student Employability Manager, Faculty of Science & Technology University of Liverpool Paul Gaunt Head of Careers & Employability University of Salford Rachel Martin Employer Liaison Consultant Session 2 Company Case Studies Company Representative Area of engagement Viridor Laing Stephen Jenkinson – CEO, Collaborative research & Knowledge (www.viridor.co.uk) Viridor Laing (Greater Manchester) Transfer Partnership Radical Filtration Jason Dale – Director Access to facilities Expert panel University Representative Position University of Central Lancashire Ruth Slater Knowledge Transfer Partnership Manager Liverpool John Moores University Anthony Walker Liaison Engineer, General Engineering Research Institute University of Manchester Caroline Stanton Knowledge Exchange Manager & NW Regional KTP Manager’s representative Manchester Metropolitan University Paul Hooper Head of Enterprise & Development Innovate UK Clive Hayter Head of Smart, KTP & Innovation Vouchers 9.50 - 10.10 - Q&A session to follow up case study interviews 9.50 – Exhibition There will be exhibition stands from the following organisations: • University of Central Lancashire • University of Liverpool • Manchester Metropolitan University • University of Chester • Liverpool John Moores University • University of Salford • Lancaster University • University of Manchester • Innovate UK 12.00 – Close ROUTES TO UNIVERSITY ENGAGEMENT Continuing Professional Graduate Recruitment Development All universities are very keen to enhance the rates All the regional universities make use of their of graduate employment and offer a wide range academics and knowledge base, offering of services to prospective employers to ensure continuing professional development (CPD) that they have easy access to their graduate and other training courses which are principally cohort. Typically these services will include aimed at developing the skills and knowledge advertising of vacancies through internal student of employees. There is an extensive range of channels, recruitment fairs and direct assistance CPD courses available covering a vast range to recruiters with shortlisting and advertising. of subjects and disciplines, with the highest Aside from full time employment, universities will demand often for business skills courses offered also assist companies seeking to recruit part time by the university business schools. Courses may roles, vacation employment, or placements. be non-credit bearing, accredited by external There is a continuing demand for ‘real life’ student bodies (such as professional institutions) or by projects across a range of subjects. These could the universities themselves with credits counting be a short focussed assignment, for example towards an academic qualification. Typically, CPD development of advertising material for an arts courses tend to be delivered on an open basis (i.e. and media student or a longer term assignment anyone can attend and no prior qualifications are such as business strategy development for a required) and run for 1-3 days. Some universities MBA student. Such projects are usually at no (or now offer CPD courses as an on-line option and minimal) cost to the business and aside from many will offer to design and deliver bespoke and the valuable experience gained by the student, in-house courses to suit the needs of an individual the business can benefit from the input of fresh company or organisation. thinking and new ideas. There is also an on-going demand from universities for industry panelists and speakers to present to students in order that they can gain a first-hand insight into routes to employment and advice about future careers. Many universities also operate mentoring schemes for students and are always willing to discuss this approach with individuals wishing to become mentors. Consultancy With their vast range of academic disciplines and extensive facilities, universities are well placed to solve business problems on a consultancy basis. Such consultancy assignments can range from relatively straightforward laboratory testing and analysis through to more complex strategic advice. Consultancy projects are carried out through a commercial agreement between the business and the university and there are some grant funds available to the business e.g Innovate UK’s Innovation vouchers https://vouchers.innovateuk.org/ ROUTES TO UNIVERSITY ENGAGEMENT Research Intellectual Property Development Whereas consultancy is about applying existing Many of the research intensive universities have skills and knowledge to solve a problem, research a body of intellectual property (IP) that they is about the creation of new knowledge and actively exploit, principally through one of two there is an increasing emphasis on ensuring that routes. Licenses may be granted to businesses research is relevant to ‘real world’ issues. Research to commercially exploit university patents that projects tend to longer term, have less certain cover new products, processes and other novel outcomes and generally the academics involved in inventions. Alternatively, universities may choose the project would like use the results for scientific to exploit IP through spin out companies often papers. Universities will undertake both contract with the assistance of external investors. and collaborative research for business and in the latter case some of the costs will be met by a third How to make contact with a party usually a government funding body such as Innovate UK (www.innovateuk.org). University Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (click here) Universities are large and complex organisations commonly known as KTPs are an especially and it can be a challenge for a business to identify popular form of collaborative research and the most appropriate individual. The first point SME businesses are eligible for a grant which of contact for a business should be dedicated can cover up to 2/3 of the cost. At the heart business engagement team at the university who of the KTP scheme there is a recent graduate can then direct the enquiry to the appropriate or post graduate (known as a KTP associate) department of individual in the university. Most who works within a business, over a period of university websites have a ‘business’ page which between 6 and 36 months, on a specific new will contain all the relevant information and product development project that will ultimately contact details for businesses wishing to work improve profitability. Throughout the period, the with the university. KTP associate will