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Collaborative Research & Development
The Technology Programme is one of the DTI’s business support solutions designed to stimulate innovation in the UK economy through higher levels of research and development (R&D) and knowledge transfer. The Technology Programme is made up of 2 products;
Collaborative Research & Development and
Knowledge Transfer Networks (KTNs)
Information about Knowledge Transfer Networks can be accessed through here.
The objective of Collaborative Research & Development is to assist the industry and research communities to work together on Research & Development projects in strategically important areas of science, engineering and technology, from which successful new products, processes and services can emerge. It also primes the flow of the latest knowledge and thinking from the UK’s science, engineering and technology base to business. Collaborative Research & Development projects must involve two or more collaborators, at least one of which is from industry.
The Technology Programme supports three categories of research:
- Pure or oriented basic research. This encompasses both experimental or theoretical work undertaken primarily to acquire new knowledge of the underlying foundations of phenomena and observable facts, without any particular application or use in view. Funding support will favour oriented basic research over pure basic research. By oriented basic research we mean research carried out with the expectation that it will produce a broad base of knowledge likely to form the background to the solution of recognised or expected current or future problems or possibilities.
- Applied research. This encompasses original investigation undertaken in order to acquire new knowledge directed primarily towards a specific practical aim or objective. This type of research may involve the creation of a project to take forward the results of a basic research programme.
- Experimental development. This encompasses systematic work, drawing on existing knowledge gained from research and practical experience, that is directed to producing new materials, products and devices; or to installing new processes, systems and services; or to improving substantially those already produced or installed.
For information on open competitions for Collaborative Research and Development projects click here.
Applications may be made from organisations seeking to collaborate with international partners within the Eureka network.
EUREKA is a pan-European initiative for promoting collaborative industry-led R&D in fields of advanced technology, in a network encompassing 36 countries.
The benefits for UK companies collaborating in EUREKA include access to new technologies, the sharing of costs and risks, reduced timescales, and access to new overseas markets.
Applicants considering applying to Collaborative R&D to fund their participation in a EUREKA project should contact the UK EUREKA UNIT at an early stage and the application should be copied to the EUREKA Unit to ensure formal endorsement as a Eureka project.
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