What is Knowledge Transfer Partnerships?

Knowledge Transfer Partnerships can help you to lead rewarding and ongoing collaborations with innovative businesses who require access to your skills and expertise to help them develop.

Knowledge Transfer Partnerships can help you:

• Apply your wealth of knowledge and expertise to important business problems.
• Develop business-relevant teaching materials
• Gain a relevant and improved understanding of business requirements and operations.

How can the West of Scotland KTP Centre help me?

The West of Scotland KTP Centre promotes KTP within our partner academic institutions in conjunction with their commercialisation offices. We will work with you and your institution to understand how you can become involved in new Knowledge Transfer Partnerships and introduce you to business seeking to access your knowledge and expertise.

Our 13 years of experience allow us to bring our knowledge of over 250 projects to each new partnership. The West of Scotland KTP Centre will work with you to facilitate and assist in the development of your project and help you prepare the proposal for submission. We are there to help and support you at every step of the process. The Centre staff work hard to ensure that every partnership is a success by letting our partners concentrate on delivering the project while we do the administration.

"The West of Scotland KTP Centre provides an excellent service throughout the life of every project - from proposal preparation to completion - allowing the Academic and Industrial partners to fully focus on the key value-adding activity that is the transfer of knowledge." Kepa Mendibil, University of Strathclyde

The West of Scotland KTP Centre also supports approved Knowledge Transfer Partnerships by: advising on the recruitment of Associates; providing administrative support for Local Management Committee meetings; Associate induction and arranging KTP Seminars for Associates.

"West of Scotland KTP Centre - a cheerful, friendly, helpful and highly professional team who make KTP applications and subsequent project management so much simpler and they make a fabulous cup of coffee!" Linda Harvey, University of Strathclyde

At any one time the Centre is involved in managing upwards of 40 projects involving our partner institutions and businesses all over Scotland and across the UK.

Access our case study library where you can find out how your academic colleagues have benefited from their involvement in KTP.

To find out how the West of Scotland KTP Centre can help you to get involved in Knowledge Transfer Partnerships contact us using the enquiry form.